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Talking Heads' most immediately accessible album, Little Creatures eschewed the pattern of recent Heads albums, in which instrumental tracks had been worked up from riffs and grooves. The songs on Little Creatures, sounded like they'd been written as songs. Perhaps as one result, the band had been streamlined, with extra musicians used only for specific effects rather than playing along as an ensemble. Byrne, who was singing in his natural range for once, frequently was augmented with backup singers. The overall result: ear candy. Little Creatures was a pop album, and an accomplished one, by a band that knew what it was doing. True, Byrne's lyrics were still intriguingly quirky, but even his subject matter was becoming more mature. Where he had once pondered the hopes of boys and girls, he was now making observations about children. Little Creatures was, in a sense, Talking Heads lite. It was hard to think of this as the same band that produced "Psycho Killer." But for the band's expanding audience, who made this their second platinum album, that was okay. And their popularity was being accomplished with no diminution in their creativity.
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1 And She Was 3:36
2 Give Me Back My Name 3:20
3 Creatures of Love 4:12
4 The Lady Don't Mind 4:03
5 Perfect World 4:26
6 Stay up Late 3:51
7 Walk It Down 4:42
8 Television Man 6:10
9 Road to Nowhere 4:19
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