<P> Bassist Tina Weymouth stated in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads that the song was created through "truly naive" experimentation with different instruments and jamming . Weymouth played guitar, guitarist Jerry Harrison played a Prophet synthesiser (including the bassline) Wally Badarou used the same synthesizer to add the stabs, and Byrne switched between guitar and another Prophet synthesizer, the latter of which he played using the pitch modulation wheel and "campy" piano glissandos . </P> <P> Pitchfork later described the song as "an aberration for the Talking Heads . It was more of an exercise in understated musical hypnosis than polyrhythmic, Kuti - quoting funk, well - compressed instead of bursting at the seams, and (in its abashed way) it was a full - blown love song . (...) With "This Must Be the Place", the band simplified their sound dramatically, condensing their sonic palette to the level of small EKG blips (having switched instruments for a lark, this was nearly all they were able to reliably deliver chops-wise) and wringing out only a few chords ." </P> <P> The song is featured in Stop Making Sense (1984), a concert film featuring Talking Heads and directed by Jonathan Demme . Throughout the Stop Making Sense version, Byrne and his bandmates perform by a standard lamp, while close - up images of various body parts are projected onto a screen behind them . As revealed on the commentary to the film, the body parts belong to Byrne and his girlfriend (later wife) Adelle Lutz who was also known as Bonnie . When the song reaches a bridge, the musicians step back and Byrne dances with the lamp, a reference to Fred Astaire's similar dance with a coat - rack in the film Royal Wedding . During the song, Weymouth is seen playing a rare Fender Swinger electric guitar, instead of her usual bass . </P> <P> The Stop Making Sense version was released as single in 1986, peaking at #100 on the UK Singles Chart . </P>

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