A24 Announces a ‘Stop Making Sense’ Tribute Album With Paramore

Paramore to feature on the recently announced tribute album for A24’s restoration of “Stop Making Sense.”

Many people were reminded last year that Stop Making Sense, the 1984 film in which Jonathan Demme caught Talking Heads onstage, is probably the best concert film of all time. For its 40th anniversary, A24 acquired the rights to Stop Making Sense and released the remastered film on IMAX screens, and all four Talking Heads reunited onstage for the first time in decades, being interviewed by Spike Lee at the Toronto International Film Festival and then making more and more appearances in support of the film. Now, there’s a Stop Making Sense tribute record in the works, and Paramore is one of the bands involved.

The band will appear on the recently announced tribute album for A24’s restoration of “Stop Making Sense.” The record will pay tribute to Talking Heads by including 16 musicians performing the band’s setlist from their 1984 live album “Stop Making Sense.”

Frontwoman Hayley Williams receives a box in the mail containing a duplicate of the jacket David Byrne wears on the album’s original artwork in a teaser trailer uploaded on both Paramore and A24’s social accounts. AJ Gibboney and Zac Farro of Paramore are recognized as directors at the end of the video.

Williams tells her bandmates, “I’ve got a tape I’d like to play you,” referring to “Stop Making Sense,” while the trailer previews Paramore’s cover of “Burning Down the House.”

The legendary concert film was acquired by A24 and re-released in theaters around the world last year to commemorate its 40th anniversary. According to the corporation, it became Imax’s highest-grossing live event, generating $640,839 and selling out 25 screens across 165 Imax sites in North America.

Jonathan Demme (“Silence of the Lambs,” “Philadelphia”) directed the 1984 film, which stars main band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, as well as Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry, and Edna Holt. The live performance was recorded over three nights in December 1983 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater and comprises some of Talking Heads’ most famous songs.

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At the time of release, no additional information on the album’s remaining 15 artists was known.

The clip is the only upload on Paramore’s Instagram account since the band deleted their social media accounts and long-running website. The action concerned fans of the band, despite the fact that Variety stated the clean-up intended to honor the end of the band’s 20-year contract with Atlantic Records.

Below is the first trailer for the tribute album.

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