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Here Lies Love (deluxe edition) [CD/DVD]
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Album: Here Lies Love (deluxe edition) [CD/DVD]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Here Lies Love
2)    Every Drop of Rain - (featuring St. Vincent/Candie Payne)
3)    You'll Be Taken Care Of
4)    Rose of Tacloban, The
5)    How Are You?
6)    Perfect Hand, A
7)    Eleven Days
8)    When She Passed By
9)    Walk Like a Woman
10)    Don't You Agree?
11)    Pretty Face
12)    Ladies in Blue
1)    Dancing Together - (featuring Sharon Jones)
2)    Men Will Do Anything
3)    Whole Man, The
4)    Never so Big - (featuring Sia)
5)    Please Don't
6)    American Troglodyte
7)    Solano Avenue
8)    Order 1081
9)    Seven Years
10)    Why Don't You Love Me? - (featuring Tori Amos)
1)    Eleven Days - (featuring Cyndi Lauper)
2)    When She Passed By - (featuring Allison Moorer)
3)    Don't You Agree? - (featuring Risn Murphy)
4)    Dancing Together - (featuring Sharon Jones)
5)    Please Don't - (featuring Santi White)
6)    Order 1081 - (featuring Natalie Merchant)
 
Album: Here Lies Love (deluxe edition) [CD/DVD]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Here Lies Love
2)    Every Drop of Rain - (featuring St. Vincent/Candie Payne)
3)    You'll Be Taken Care Of
4)    Rose of Tacloban, The
5)    How Are You?
6)    Perfect Hand, A
7)    Eleven Days
8)    When She Passed By
9)    Walk Like a Woman
10)    Don't You Agree?
11)    Pretty Face
12)    Ladies in Blue
1)    Dancing Together - (featuring Sharon Jones)
2)    Men Will Do Anything
3)    Whole Man, The
4)    Never so Big - (featuring Sia)
5)    Please Don't
6)    American Troglodyte
7)    Solano Avenue
8)    Order 1081
9)    Seven Years
10)    Why Don't You Love Me? - (featuring Tori Amos)
1)    Eleven Days - (featuring Cyndi Lauper)
2)    When She Passed By - (featuring Allison Moorer)
3)    Don't You Agree? - (featuring Risn Murphy)
4)    Dancing Together - (featuring Sharon Jones)
5)    Please Don't - (featuring Santi White)
6)    Order 1081 - (featuring Natalie Merchant)
 
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Performer Notes
  • Tributee: Imelda Marcos.
  • Personnel: David Byrne (vocals, guitar).
  • Audio Mixer: Patrick Dillett.
  • Liner Note Author: David Byrne.
  • Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Gozadera Studios, New York, NY; HMS House, Brighton, England; Kampo studios, New York, NY; Martian Engineering Studios, Cornwall, England; Miloco Studios, London, England; New Air Studios, London, England; South Hell Studio, New York, NY.
  • Photographer: David Byrne.
  • A concept album based around the lives of Imelda Marcos and her nanny Estrella Cumpas, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's (Norman Cook) Here Lies Love is primarily a great pop record featuring a bevy of name female vocalists. Grand conceptual themes aside, Byrne, Slim, and Slim cohort Tom Gandey (aka Cagedbaby) have delivered a kooky, fun, theatrical, and -- more often than not -- deliriously listenable collection of '70s and '80s club pop. Inspired by a disparate set of sources, not the least of which included his reading of Ryszard Kapuscinski's book The Emperor as well as various reports detailing the former First Lady of the Philippines' penchant for disco and club life, Byrne formulated this would-be stage production based around the notion -- as he says in the liner notes -- of the "bubble worlds of the rich and powerful" set to the popular sounds (disco, soul, Latin beats, cabaret) of Marcos' time in power. While there is no dialogue in this production, Byrne has crafted each track throughout the album to tell the story and evoke the emotional state of Marcos and her longtime nanny Cumpas' emotional state. And while the story hangs together quite well, the main impression you are left with is that Byrne and Slim have impeccable taste in female singers. Here we get British songstress Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) delivering the title prologue track, an anthemic disco-inflected number that recalls any number of Studio 54 diva hits. Similarly, Tori Amos takes on the role of Marcos' mother, Remedios, on the eerie flamenco-infused "You'll Be Taken Care Of." Along the way you get '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper, alt-country-rocker Allison Moorer, Irish soul siren Roisin Murphy, Philly punk-dance singer Santigold, Natalie Merchant, Nellie McKay, Martha Wainwright, Sharon Jones, and others. ~ Matt Collar
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Byrne sets] 22 songs to Fatboy Slim's lush and bustling dance beats..."

Entertainment Weekly (p.69) - "Marcos' story remains fascinating, especially as sung by the likes of Cyndi Lauper, St. Vincent, and Santigold." -- Grade: B

Billboard (p.32) - "[W]inning duets include Candie Payne and St. Vincent on the breezy 'Every Drop of Rain' and Byrne's emotional collaboration with My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden on 'Seven Years.'"
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