There's a story that David Byrne decided on Talking Heads' new white funk direction after watching A Certain Ratio support them in Manchester. Whatever, Byrne used the music to smash up the mainstream.

1983's self-produced Speaking in Tongues expanded the Heads lineup with extra synthesisers and percussionists and perhaps took that period of the group as far as they could go. So many bands have copied the textured but compact funk style that it still feels fresh today.

Despite sounding so agitated that he's liable to shake himself to death, Byrne's jerky themes (tension, consumerism - "Everything looks impressive, do not be deceived") are equally enduring. The original album has been remastered with bonus tracks and media, including the video for This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).

Originally the album's sublime closer, it signposted Byrne's eventual yearning for the simplicity of their earlier incarnations, and the subsequent True Stories, Naked and Little Creatures (also reissued) subverted straighter pop.

* Download: Burning Down The House; Naive Melody