Here Lies Love (feat Florence Welch) (5:50)
Every Drop Of Rain (feat Candie Payne & St Vincent) (5:34)
You'll Be Taken Care Of (feat Tori Amos) (3:16)
The Rose Of Tacloban (feat Martha Wainwright) (2:34)
A Perfect Hand (feat Steve Earle) (5:01)
Eleven Days (feat Cyndi Lauper) (2:45)
When She Passed By (feat Allison Moorer) (3:51)
Walk Like A Woman (feat Charmaine Clamor) (3:59)
Don't You Agree? (feat Roisin Murphy) (3:22)
Pretty Face (feat Camille) (3:23)
Ladies In Blue (feat Theresa Andersson) (4:10)
Dancing Together (feat Sharon Jones) (3:53)
How Are You? (feat Nellie McKay) (2:45)
Men Will Do Anything (feat Alice Russell) (4:08)
The Whole Man (feat Kate Pierson) (4:16)
Never So Big (feat Sia) (4:01)
Please Don't (feat Santigold) (3:59)
American Troglodyte (4:07)
Solano Avenue (feat Nicole Atkins) (3:56)
Order 1081 (feat Natalie Merchant) (5:49)
Seven Years (feat David Byrne & Shara Worden) (5:39)
Why Don't You Love Me? (feat Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper) (3:55)
Review: Talk about epitomising the concept album concept. Released on 5th April 2010, Here Lies Love sees the somewhat unlikely partnership of Talking Heads legend David Byrne and UK big beat DJ and producer Fatboy Slim focus their efforts on retelling the tale of Imelda Marcos, former-First Lady of the Philippines, as told with no less than 22 guest vocalists. These include Cyndi Lauper, Tori Amos, Martha Wainwright, Natalie Merchant, Sia, Santigold, St Vincent, Florence Welch, and Charmaine Clamor. An impressive list to say the least, just two male voices appear - Steve Earle and Byrne himself - with the record primarily comprising what the latter once described as "clubby dance music". Certainly at the softer, more disco-derived end of that spectrum, the result of all these ingredients is a potent brew of song and story, exploring ideas around power dynamics and drivers, and one of few releases this century worthy of a full stage adaptation, which followed in 2013.
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