Album · Talking Heads
Naked by Talking Heads
Naked is an album by Talking Heads, released in 1988. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 54 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “(Nothing But) Flowers”, on 35 lists with a best position of #20.
Naked, the eighth and final Talking Heads album, came out on Sire on March 15, 1988, and after the tidy new wave pop of Little Creatures and True Stories it flings the doors back open onto the world. The band produced it themselves, building the songs out of jam sessions at Studio Davout in Paris with a crowd of guest players, Johnny Marr and Kirsty MacColl among them, before the words and vocals went on back in New York.
The grooves take off from Afrobeat and Latin funk, a return to the worldbeat spirit of Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues, with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth pushing the rhythm hard and Jerry Harrison filling the corners. "(Nothing But) Flowers" and "Blind" got the airplay. Critics hailed it as a return to form at the time, though later verdicts have cooled. It went gold in the US and UK, and then the band went on hiatus; Byrne announced the split in December 1991.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Naked on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Nothing But) Flowers | 35 | #20 | – | 1988–2026 | |
| 2 | Blind | 17 | #79 | – | 1988–2014 | |
| 3 | Mr. Jones | 2 | #517 | – | 2002–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.