{"id":228,"date":"2006-07-18T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-07-18T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T02:22:09","slug":"talking-heads-speaking-in-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/talking-heads-speaking-in-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads &#8212; Speaking in Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1060\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060\" title=\"Talking Heads -- Speaking in Tongues\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/talkingheadsspeakingtongues.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Heads -- Speaking in Tongues\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking Heads -- Speaking in Tongues<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Talking Heads<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Speaking in Tongues<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Not sure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oooo! I forgot how good this album is. I also forgot how many legitimate hits were on &#8220;Speaking in Tongues.&#8221; I remember hearing at least three songs on the radio, &#8220;Burning Down The House&#8221;, &#8220;Girlfriend Is Better&#8221;, and &#8220;This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).&#8221; I&#8217;m probably forgetting another one or two. My favorite is the mid-tempo funky grinder &#8220;Swamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was in highschool when this record came out, and my entire family went to see the Talking Heads on this tour. And as if that isn&#8217;t cool enough, we didn&#8217;t all go together. I went with my friends, my brother with his, and my mom with a guy some people know as &#8220;Mr. Cool&#8221;, others call him &#8220;Big&#8221;, but I call  him &#8220;Dad.&#8221; Of course, I had to have a concert shirt, but the only one available was a <em>sleeveless<\/em> yellow number with the art from the album cover. Yeah, I bought it. I <em>had<\/em> the shirt, but it was just too &#8220;new wave&#8221; looking, even then, even for me, and I don&#8217;t think I ever wore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Talking Heads Title: Speaking in Tongues Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: Not sure Oooo! I forgot how good this album is. I also forgot how many legitimate hits were on &#8220;Speaking in Tongues.&#8221; I remember hearing at least three songs on the radio, &#8220;Burning Down The House&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,455],"tags":[507,547,46,1003,1033],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-t","tag-507","tag-alternative","tag-music","tag-talking-heads","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}