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David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love 2x Vinyl LP
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2x Black Vinyl LP
Catalogue Number: 075597905557
Barcode: 075597905557
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Condition Note: Brand New
Track Listing / Description
A1 Here Lies Love – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Florence Welch (Florence & The Machine)
A2 Every Drop Of Rain – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Candie Payne & St. Vincent
A3 You'll Be Taken Care Of – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Tori Amos
A4 The Rose Of Tacloban – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Martha Wainwright
A5 A Perfect Hand – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Steve Earle
B1 Eleven Days – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Cyndi Lauper
B2 When She Passed By – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Allison Moorer
B3 Walk Like A Woman – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Charmaine Clamor
B4 Don't You Agree? – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Róisín Murphy
B5 Pretty Face – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Camille
B6 Ladies In Blue – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Theresa Andersson
C1 Dancing Together – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Sharon Jones
C2 How Are You? – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Nellie McKay
C3 Men Will Do Anything – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Alice Russell
C4 The Whole Man – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Kate Pierson
C5 Never So Big – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Sia
C6 Please Don't – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Santi White [Santigold]
D1 American Troglodyte – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
D2 Solano Avenue – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Nicole Atkins
D3 Order 1081 – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Natalie Merchant
D4 Seven Years – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond)
D5 Why Don't You Love Me? – David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim's acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love receives its first-ever vinyl release to coincide with a new production opening on Broadway this summer. Here Lies Love is a double-disc song cycle – improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking – about the rise and fall of the Philippines' notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and DJ/recording artist Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B and pop. Byrne's taste in collaborators is as imaginative as it is impeccable, including Cyndi Lauper (who recounts, to lighthearted disco beats, Imelda's courtship with Ferdinand Marcos), Steve Earle (as the power-hungry Ferdinand), Dap-Kings vocalist Sharon Jones (recalling Imelda's introduction into New York society) and Natalie Merchant (as spurned Imelda confidante Estrella, anticipating the onset of martial law). Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amos and the B-52's Kate Pierson, Byrne works with rising indie rockers St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; New York chanteuses Nellie McKay and Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas Róisín Murphy and Santigold. Byrne himself appears as the voice of imperialistic America on 'American Troglodyte', a send-up that wouldn't have seemed out of places in Talking Heads' True Stories.
Here Lies Love has an effervescent disco feel, redolent of Fatboy Slim's own dance-floor anthems, with warm undercurrents of the Latin rhythms that have percolated through Byrne's recent solo work. The sunny arrangements act in counterpoint to the reality of the Marcos' increasingly repressive regime, reflecting the imagined inner life of the glamour-obsessed Imelda. Explains Byrne, "For me, the darker side of the excesses are, for the most part, a matter of record. A lot of the audience is going to come with that knowledge already. What's more of a challenge is to get inside the head of the person who was behind all of that, and understand what made them tick." Byrne offers no judgment and avoids the obvious – there is no mention of Imelda's infamous shoe collection.