Anniemal (Big Beat Records)
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David Byrne comes up big-time in Stop Making Sense.
Louden Up Now (Touch and Go)
Backbeat contributors reflect on the releases that helped them survive the year 2000.
Any Dick or Harry can get funky with the Tom Tom Club's first recording in eight years.
David Byrne is mad as hell at his former bandmates--and he's not going to take it anymore.

