There's something about the Talking Heads that makes their concert movie "Stop Making Sense" seem so relevant, 15 years later.

Heralded by many upon release as the finest concert movie ever made (thanks Leonard Maltin), the 90 minute movie is director Jonathan Demme's ("Something Wild") snap shot of David Byrne and company, captured over four nights at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles in 1984.

Conceived as a stage show by Head lead singer Byrne, the concert has a definite feeling of evolution.

The show evolves from the opening song, a well lit Byrne solo performance of "Psycho Killer", all the way to the full on live band (expanded to include former P-Funk member Bernie Worrel on keyboards), five songs later.

Byrne modelled the riser-pushing stage hands on Japanese theatre, which also inspired the trademark massively oversized suit he debuted on the "Stop Making Sense" tour.

In keeping with the theatrical performance of the tour, everything on stage was painted matte black to provide more focus on the musicians. To this end, no guitar picks were allowed to be stuck to microphone stands and cups of water were strictly forbidden from the stage.

Demme took great pains to shoot "Stop Making Sense" as a concert movie. To this end, shots of the audience are kept to a minimum (to make the viewer feel like they're in the front row, according to Demme) and there's no backstage footage. Each night's performance was also filmed slightly differently to avoid shots of camera men doing their job.

The biggest surprise about "Stop Making Sense" is how un-MTV it appears. In a world of jarring videos with cuts every few seconds, Demme chose instead to keep the camera on band members for quite a long time.

As well, Demme chose to focus on band members at various times, not just during their solo. According to Byrne, this was so you could get to know them as a person. There's quite a few shots from the mixing desk that captures the entire stage and really shows the interaction and relationship between the musicians. A lot of this camera work can be credited to the director of photgraphy Jordan Cronenweth ("Blade Runner").

Of course, a concert movie review wouldn't be complete without a mention of the music. Talking Heads will always be remembered for two big songs - "Burning Down The House" and "Once In A Lifetime."

Both appear here as well as a few forgotten classics like "Girlfriend Is Better," "Heaven" and a rousing set closing version of Al Green's "Take Me To The River."

Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth's side project, The Tom Tom Club, also get an airing in the movie. The band, sans David Byrne, perform the band's well known track "Genius Of Love" Ñ best known to modern listeners as the sampled source for Mariah Carey's "Fantasy."

Overall, this movie captures the spirit of the live show quite effectively. It really lives up to the accolades.

Track Listing 1. Psycho Killer
2. Heaven
3. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
4. Found A Job
5. Slippery People
6. Burning Down The House
7. Life During Wartime
8. Making Flippy Floppy
9. Swamp
10. What Day That Was
11. Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)
12. Once In A Lifetime
13. Genius Of Love
14. Girlfriend Is Better
15. Take Me To The River
16. Cross-Eyed And Painless

Bonus Tracks
17. Cities
18/19. Big Business / I Zinga