Grown Backwards

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Grown Backwards
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Studio album by
David Byrne
ReleasedMarch 16, 2004 (2004-03-16)
Recorded, New York City; strings recorded at Tequila Mockingbird, Austin, Texas and several other locations
GenreArt pop, chamber pop, orchestral pop, baroque pop, opera
Length57:46
LanguageEnglish, French ("Au fond du Temple Saint"), Italian ("Un Dì, Felice, Eterea")
LabelNonesuch/Warner Bros.
ProducerDavid Byrne and Patrick Dillett
David Byrne chronology
Lead Us Not into Temptation
(2003) 		Grown Backwards
(2004) 		David Byrne Live at Union Chapel
(2004)

Grown Backwards is the seventh studio album by musician David Byrne, released on March 16, 2004.

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic78/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[2]
Pitchfork Media7.6/10[3]

Grown Backwards was met with positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. This release received a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 17 reviews..[1]

In 2010, Byrne claimed in his book How Music Works it has sold 127,000 physical albums, 8,000 digital albums and 53,000 digital singles (overall 140,000 units sold of albums).[4] The album was released on vinyl for the first time on March 15, 2019.[5]

Track listing[]

All tracks written by David Byrne, except where noted.

  1. "Glass, Concrete & Stone" – 4:13
  2. "The Man Who Loved Beer" ( and Kurt Wagner of Lambchop) – 2:41
  3. "Au fond du Temple Saint" (Georges Bizet, Eugène Cormon, Michel Carré, from Les pêcheurs de perles) – 4:49
  4. "Empire" – 4:12
  5. "Tiny Apocalypse" – 4:03
  6. "She Only Sleeps" – 2:57
  7. "Dialog Box" – 3:30
  8. "The Other Side of this Life" – 4:00
  9. "Why" – 2:54
  10. "Pirates" – 3:52
  11. "Civilization" – 3:17
  12. "Astronaut" – 2:55
  13. "Glad" – 1:58
  14. "Un Dì, Felice, Eterea" (Giuseppe Verdi, from La Traviata) – 2:51
  15. "Lazy" (bonus track) (Byrne/X-Press 2) – 9:35

Bonus tracks on 2019 vinyl edition

  2. "Strange Enough" – 2:35
  3. "50212" – 3:40
  4. "Ausencia" – 3:51
  5. "Dreamworld" – 5:01
  6. "Show and Tell" – 2:41
  7. "The Bumps" – 3:25

Personnel[]

Musicians in the Hollywood Bowl
Byrne on the My Backwards Life tour with Tosca Strings

"Glass, Concrete & Stone"

Recorded at , New York City

"The Man Who Loved Beer"

  •  – viola
  •  – violin
  • Douglas Harvey – cello
  •  – violin
  •  – cello
  •  – violin

Recorded at , New York City

"Au Fond du Temple Saint"

"Empire"

Recorded , New York City

"Tiny Apocalypse"

Recorded at , Glasgow

"She Only Sleeps"

  • David Byrne – vocals, electric guitar
  •  – percussion
  •  – sequencing
  •  – keyboards
  •  – bass guitar

Recorded at , London Produced by Morcheeba Productions

"Dialog Box"

  •  – trombone
  • David Byrne – vocals, electric guitars
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar
  • John Mills – baritone sax
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • Steve Williams – drum kit

Recorded at Avatar, New York City, horns recorded at , Austin, Texas

"The Other Side of This Life"

  • Elaine Barber – harp
  • David Byrne – vocals, semi-nylon guitar
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion, samples, kitchen implements
  • The Tosca Strings
  • Steve Williams – drum kit, cowbell

Recorded at Avatar, New York City

"Why"

  • David Byrne – vocals, electric guitar, programming
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • Jon Spurney – keyboards
  • The Tosca Strings
  • Kenny Wollesen – drum kit

Drums recorded at , New York City

"Pirates"

  • Jon Blondell – trombone
  • David Byrne – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Paul Frazier – bass
  • John Mills – baritone sax
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • The Tosca Strings
  • Kenny Wollesen – drum kit

Drums recorded at Skyline, New York City, horns recorded at Congress House Studio

"Civilization"

Drums recorded at Skyline, New York City

"Astronaut"

  • David Byrne – vocals, electric guitar
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar
  • Pamelia Kurstin – theremin
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • Steve Williams – percussion

"Glad"

  • Jon Blondell – trombone
  • David Byrne – vocals, nylon-string guitar
  • Paul Frazier – bass
  • John Mills – clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • The Tosca Strings
  • Steve Williams – spaghetti percussion

Horns recorded at Congress House Studio

"Un di Felice, Eterea"

  • David Byrne – vocals
  •  – viola
  •  – violin
  •  – violin
  •  – viola
  • Philip Myers – French horn
  •  – clarinet
  •  – violin
  • John Patitucci – bass guitar
  •  – cellos
  •  – cellos
  •  – Rhodes
  •  – oboe, English horn
  •  – violin

Recorded at Sound on Sound, New York City

"Lazy"

  • David Byrne – vocals, electric guitar, keyboards, drum programming
  • Patrick Dillett – background vocals
  • Paul Frazier – bass
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • The Tosca Strings
  • Steve Williams – drum triggers

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Grown Backwards by David Byrne". Metacritic. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  2. ^ link
  3. ^ link
  4. ^ Byrne, David (May 2, 2017). How Music Works (2nd ed.). Crown/Archetype. p. 251. ISBN 978-0804188944.
  5. ^ "David Byrne's Nonesuch Debut Album, "Grown Backwards," to Get First Vinyl Release with Six Bonus Tracks, March 15". Nonesuch Records. Retrieved February 13, 2019.

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