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Music for "The Knee Plays"

Music for "The Knee Plays"
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Soundtrack album by David Byrne
Released May 1985
Recorded 1984 at One on One Studio and Studio Sound Recorders, North Hollywood
Length 56:53
Label ECM (Original US release)
EMI/Regal Zonophone (Original international release)
Nonesuch (2007 reissue)
Producer David Byrne
David Byrne chronology
The Catherine Wheel
(1981)The Catherine Wheel1981
Music for "The Knee Plays"
(1985)
Sounds from True Stories
(1986)Sounds from True Stories1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars link
The Knee Plays
Soundtrack album by David Byrne
Released 6 November 2007
Recorded 1983 at JAK Recording Studio, Tokyo; 1984 at One on One Studio and Studio Sound Recorders, North Hollywood
Length 79:42
Label Nonesuch Records
Producer David Byrne
David Byrne chronology
Live from Austin, Texas
(2004)Live from Austin, Texas2004
The Knee Plays
(2007)
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(2008)Everything That Happens Will Happen Today2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars 2007
The Guardian 4/5 stars 2007
Pitchfork Media 7.5/10 stars 2007

Music for "The Knee Plays" (1985) is an album by David Byrne composed for Robert Wilson's opera the CIVIL warS. The album was originally released on vinyl and a remastered and expanded CD version was released in November 2007 under the title The Knee Plays.

The Knee Plays is the title of David Byrne's remastered and expanded edition of his Music for "The Knee Plays". It is the first time the album is released on CD, and it includes eight previously unreleased bonus tracks and a DVD of the music set to a slideshow of 400 black and white photographs.

Tracks 1-12 consist of the original album. Tracks 13-20 are newly issued bonus tracks.

All compositions by David Byrne, except where indicated.


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