Stop Making Sense

1984 live soundtrack album by Talking Heads
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Stop Making Sense
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Stop Making Sense

Summary

Stop Making Sense is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Stop Making Sense is the creator of David Byrne[3].
  • Stop Making Sense's instance of is recorded as album[4].
  • Stop Making Sense's genre is post-punk[5].
  • Among the performers on Stop Making Sense was Talking Heads[6].
  • Stop Making Sense's record label is recorded as Sire[7].
  • Stop Making Sense's place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • Stop Making Sense is part of Talking Heads' albums in chronological order[9].
  • Stop Making Sense's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Stop Making Sense was distributed by vinyl record[11].
  • Stop Making Sense was distributed by music streaming[12].
  • Stop Making Sense's recorded at studio or venue is recorded as Hollywood Pantages Theatre[13].
  • Stop Making Sense was published on September 1984[14].
  • Stop Making Sense's tracklist is recorded as Slippery People[15].
  • Stop Making Sense's tracklist is recorded as Girlfriend Is Better[16].
  • Stop Making Sense's tracklist is recorded as Once in a Lifetime[17].
  • Stop Making Sense's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Stop Making Sense'}[18].
  • Stop Making Sense's different from is recorded as Stop Making Sense[19].
  • Stop Making Sense's different from is recorded as Stop Making Sense[20].
  • Stop Making Sense's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+9'}[21].
  • Stop Making Sense's form of creative work is recorded as live album[22].
  • Stop Making Sense's form of creative work is recorded as soundtrack album[23].
  • Stop Making Sense's recording date is recorded as December 1983[24].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[25]

  • Secondary type(s): Soundtrack, Live[26]

  • First release date: 1984-09-17[27]

  • Genre(s): ambient, electronic, latin, new wave, pop, pop rock, rock, synth-pop[28]

  • Community tags: 5+ wochen, 80s, alternative, alternative and punk, ambient, electronic, latin, live, new wave, offizielle charts, pop, pop rock, rock, synth-pop[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2b85ba4e-53bf-4473-87f5-59d0b53020ad[30]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Stop Making Sense was Talking Heads[6]. It is the creator of David Byrne[3].

Publication

Stop Making Sense was released on September 1984[14]. Its place of publication is recorded as United States[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is post-punk[5]. It is part of Talking Heads' albums in chronological order[9]. Recorded distribution format include vinyl record[11] and music streaming[12].

Why It Matters

Stop Making Sense ranks in the top 1% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . Museum of Modern Art online collection. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [25] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [26] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [27] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_stop-making-sense-q7619740_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Stop Making Sense}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/stop-making-sense-q7619740}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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