This indeed aint no Mudd Club or CBGB; by the time Talking Heads had reached this point in their career, they were way beyond those trifling spaces. Stop Making Sense found director Jonathan Demme at a bit of a low ebb after the nightmarish making of Swing Shift, and found the band finally having an actual hit record for the first time; combine both forces and this is what you get. Demme makes a great and varied film out of four nights of performances at the Pantages Theatre, and the band gives him plenty to work with. Need I say much more? It’s them at their peak, pretty much, on what actually wound up being their last tour, it’s great and you don’t need me to sell it much more. I just really want to draw attention to this other poster for the film. Normally I try and illustrate these posts with the proper original poster where I can (there’s a couple of instances where I couldn’t do so), but there was no way I couldn’t not also use this astounding creation by Ghanaian poster artist Nana Agyq. I don’t know how a bit of City of the Living Dead made it onto here, but let’s be glad that it does:
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