Sold Date: February 18, 2014
Start Date: February 14, 2014
Final Price: $59.99 (USD)
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TALKING HEADS SPEAKING IN TONGUES RAUSCHENBERG LP

 1983 Sealed Record Album

  "Speaking In Tongues"

Sire 1-23771 / Issued in 1983

Tracks :

        Burning Down The House

        Making Flippy-Floppy

        Girlfriend Is Better

        Slippery People

        I Get Wild/Wild Gravity

        Swamp, Moon Rocks

        Pull Up The Roots

        This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Robert Rauschenberg, who recently passed, was a major figure in the art world from the early sixties on. Primarily grouped with the "Pop" art movement his work usually defied categories and description. David Byrne approached him after viewing one of his New York shows to do a cover for this album. Rauschenberg, never being conventional, decided to "re-invent" the concept of an album cover.

His package consisted of a conceptual collage piece in which the color separation layers — the cyan, magenta and yellow images that combined to make one full-color image — were, well, deconstructed. Only by rotating the LP and the separate plastic disc could one see — and then only intermittently — the three-color images included in the collage. It was a transparent explication of how the three-color process works, yet in this case, one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations.

Plastic clamshell cover has browned with age which is typical of this release.

The Limited Edition Sticker is present on the LP in the top right corner.

   Nice addition to your collection. 

 Only available to bidders within the USA.

Any questions, please ask prior to bidding.

 These are getting a little tougher to find still sealed.

If the record is STILL SEALED then I have no way of verifying the condition of the disc itself and can not guarantee its playability other than noting it is in a sealed state.