Grown Backwards

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Grown Backwards
Studio album by David Byrne
Released	2004
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	57:46
Label	Nonesuch Records / Warner Bros. Records
Producer	David Byrne and Patrick Dillett
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
David Byrne chronology
Lead Us Not Into Temptation (music from the film "Young Adam") (2003) Grown Backwards (2004) Live from Austin, Texas (2007)

Grown Backwards is an album by David Byrne, released March 2004.

[edit] Track listing

Tracks written by David Byrne, except where noted.

1. "Glass, Concrete & Stone" – 4:13
2. "The Man Who Loved Beer" (Donald Charles Book and Kurt Wagner of Lambchop) – 2:41
3. "Au fond du temple saint" (Georges Bizet, Eugène Cormon, Michel Carré, from Les pêcheurs de perles) – duet with Rufus Wainwright – 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 di Felice, Eterea" (Giuseppe Verdi, from La Traviata) – 2:51
15. "Lazy" (Byrne / X-Press 2) – 9:35

[edit] Pop culture

Several of the tracks from this album have appeared in feature films. "Glass, Concrete and Stone" was featured in the opening of Paul Weitz's 2004 film In Good Company and in Stephen Frears' 2002 film Dirty Pretty Things. "Tiny Apocalypse" appears in Isabel Coixet's 2005 film The Secret Life of Words.

• How is possible that a film from 2002 has music from an album on it that at the time wasnt even recorded yet?

[edit] External links

• Review - Published at The Music Box, Vol. 11, #4