Editing Talking Heads (section)

===1981–1991: Commercial peak and breakup===
{{main|Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)|Little Creatures|True Stories (Talking Heads album)|Naked (Talking Heads album)}}
After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went on a recording hiatus, and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released the live album ''[[The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads]]'', toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno,<ref>Simon Reynolds. ''Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984''. Penguin Books (2005) pp. 169–170.</ref> who went on to produce albums with [[U2]].<ref name=eno_credits />

1983 saw the release of ''[[Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)|Speaking in Tongues]]'', a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "[[Burning Down the House]]".<ref>{{cite web|last=DeGagne|first=Mike|title=Burning Down the House – Talking Heads – Song Review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/burning-down-the-house-mt0011948974|work=Allmusic|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref> Once again, a striking video was inescapable, owing to its heavy rotation on MTV.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnston|first=Maura|author-link=Maura Johnston |title=Sick Of It All (16) Battles Talking Heads (8) As SOTC's March Madness Takes A Trip To CBGB|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/03/new_york_musician_tournament_talking_heads_sick_of_it_all.php|work=[[Village Voice]]|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref> The following tour was documented in [[Jonathan Demme]]'s ''[[Stop Making Sense]]'', which generated another [[Stop Making Sense (album)|live album of the same name]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Light|first=Alan|title=All-TIME 100 Albums|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/slide/stop-making-sense/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=January 25, 2010|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref> The tour in support of ''Speaking in Tongues'' was their last.<ref name=philly_milward>{{cite web|last=Milward|first=John|title=The Many Faces And Artistic Endeavors Of The Talking Heads David Byrne And His Mates In The Band Are Keeping Busy – Together, With 'Naked', And On Their Own.|url=http://articles.philly.com/1988-04-14/entertainment/26253138_1_videos-heads-david-byrne|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140425033500/http://articles.philly.com/1988-04-14/entertainment/26253138_1_videos-heads-david-byrne|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 25, 2014|work=[[Philly.com]]|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref>

{{quote box|align=left|width=25em|quote=I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house… love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.|source = —[[David Byrne]], interviewing himself in ''[[Stop Making Sense]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Harvey|first=Eric|title=David Byrne: Live From Austin TX|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10783-live-from-austin-tx/|work=[[Pitchfork Media]]|access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>}}
Three more albums followed: 1985's ''[[Little Creatures (album)|Little Creatures]]'' (which featured the hit singles "[[And She Was]]" and "[[Road to Nowhere]]"),<ref>{{cite web|title=Little Creatures – Talking Heads|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/little-creatures-mw0000191997/awards|work=Allmusic|access-date=April 27, 2014}}</ref> 1986's ''[[True Stories (Talking Heads album)|True Stories]]'' (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's [[True Stories (film)|musical comedy film]], in which the band also appeared),<ref name=nytimes_true_stories>{{cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|title=True Stories (1986) DAVID BYRNE IN 'TRUE STORIES'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D05E0DF153AF937A35753C1A960948260|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 27, 2014}}</ref> and 1988's ''[[Naked (Talking Heads album)|Naked]]''. ''Little Creatures'' offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|title=Little Creatures|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/little-creatures-mw0000191997|work=Allmusic|access-date=April 27, 2014}}</ref> Similar in genre, ''True Stories'' hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "[[Wild Wild Life]]", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head".<ref>{{cite web|last=Hastings|first=Michael|title=Talking Heads – True Stories|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/true-stories-mw0000192119|work=Allmusic|access-date=April 27, 2014}}</ref> ''Naked'' explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on ''Remain in Light''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|title=Talking Heads get 'Naked'|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19880320&id=tKldAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VV0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1938,5020831|newspaper=[[Observer-Reporter]]|date=March 20, 1988}}</ref> During that time, the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after ''Naked'', the band went on "hiatus".<ref name=allmusic_bio /> In 1987, Talking Heads released a book by David Byrne, ''What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs'', with [[HarperCollins]] that contained artwork by some of the top New York visual artists of the decade.

[[File:Tina weymouth tom tom club.png|alt=|thumb|upright=0.8|Tina Weymouth and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project [[Tom Tom Club]].]]
In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded.<ref name=allmusic_bio /> Frantz said he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the ''Los Angeles Times'', and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave."<ref>Boehm, Mike (September 10, 1992). "x-Heads Say They Got Byrned: Split Still Miffs Frantz, Weymouth, Even Though Tom Tom Club Keeps Them Busy". ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> Their final release was "Sax and Violins", an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to [[Wim Wenders]]' ''[[Until the end of the World]]''. Byrne continued his solo career, releasing ''[[Rei Momo]]'' in 1989 and [[The Forest (album)|''The Forest'']] in 1991.<ref name=allmusic_byrne_bio /> This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (''[[Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom]]'' and ''[[Dark Sneak Love Action]]'')<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|title=Tom Tom Club {{!}} Biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-tom-club-mn0000611929/biography|work=Allmusic|access-date=April 27, 2014}}</ref> and Harrison (''[[Casual Gods]]'' and ''[[Walk on Water (Jerry Harrison album)|Walk on Water]]''), who toured together in 1990.<ref>{{cite news|last=Christensen|first=Thor|title=Harrison starts to find own voice|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19900522&id=fiohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5H4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137,8383973|newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]]|date=May 22, 1990|access-date=January 12, 2016|archive-date=May 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504184239/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19900522&id=fiohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5H4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7137,8383973|url-status=dead}}</ref>