Storytelling Giant

Storytelling Giant is a work composed of all ten Talking Heads videos made in the eighties.

From an advertisement for the video in Rolling Stone Magazine 30/06/88:

"The videos are connected by random, unrehearsed, spontaneous footage of real people talking. None of the people are actors, and all of them are wearing their own clothes. Many of them know nothing of the Talking Heads, and sometimes they tell stories that have nothing to do with the band's music.

Yet, somehow, their stories bring the Talking Heads' music into another place. A place of giant lizards... A place with little girls sitting on clouds. A place where everyone has enough to eat. ... And the government provides hairdressers if you can't afford one. A giant man walks into a bar. He begins to wrestle with three nuns. A man with a toupee stops them, and they begin to speak."

Tracks:

1. Once In A Lifetime
2. Wild Wild Life
3. Stay Up Late
4. Crosseyed And Painless
5. Burning Down The House
6. And She Was
7. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
8. The Lady Don't Mind
9. Love For Sale
10. Road To Nowhere

Not all Talking Heads videos are included on "Storytelling Giant".

A video for "Swamp" was cut from the Channel-4 documentary "Once in a Lifetime" and used as promotional video in Australia. Videos for "Blind", "(Nothing But) Flowers" and "Lifetime Piling Up" were recorded after the release od "Storytelling Giant".