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'''''"Dirty Old Town"''''' is a 1989 song by David Byrne from the album Rei Momo.
{{Infobox album
| name      = Rei Momo
| type      = studio
| artist    = [[David Byrne]]
| cover      = Rei Momo.jpg
| alt        =
| released  = 3 October 1989
| recorded  =
| venue      =
| studio    =
| genre      = Latin music, worldbeat
| length    = 63:37
| label      = [[Luaka Bop]], [[Sire Records|Sire]]
| producer  = David Byrne and [[Steve Lillywhite]]
| prev_title = [[The Last Emperor (album)|The Last Emperor]]
| prev_year  = 1987
| next_title = [[The Forest]]
| next_year  = 1991
}}
'''''Rei Momo''''' is the debut solo album by [[David Byrne]] and  second overall studio album (after the 1981 collaborative album ''[[My Life in the Bush of Ghosts]]''), released on 3 October 1989. The album consists of diverse Latin music styles from Cuba (rumba, mozambique, mambo, chachachá, bolero), the Dominican Republic (merengue), Puerto Rico (bomba), Colombia (cumbia, mapeyé) and Brazil (samba, pagode). The album is mostly sung in English and features guest appearances by [[Kirsty MacColl]], [[Willie Colón]] and [[Celia Cruz]], among others.
 
==Release and promotion==
The album was co-released by [[Luaka Bop]] and [[Sire Records|Sire]] on 3 October 1989. Initially, the album included three more tracks on the cassette tape than the LP: "Loco de Amor", "Good and Evil", and "Office Cowboy". All songs are present on the compact disc. David Byrne performed "Dirty Old Town" and "Loco de Amor" on ''Saturday Night Live'''s Thanksgiving show in 1989.
 
==Reception==
 
The album was well-received by critics. In a retrospective review for ''The Guardian'', Alexis Petridis wrote "Byrne’s first post-Talking-Heads solo album is a cut above [the multitude of late 80s pop albums dabbling in world music] and an underrated joy".
 
==Track listing==
All tracks composed by David Byrne; except where indicated.
{{tracklist
| writer(s) = yes
| title1 = Independence Day
| length1 = 5:45
| note1 = feat. [[Kirsty MacColl]]
| title2 = [[Make Believe Mambo]]
| length2 = 5:23
| note2 = feat. Kirsty MacColl & Willie Colón
| title3 = The Call of the Wild
| writer3 = Byrne, Johnny Pacheco
| length3 = 4:55
| title4 = Dirty Old Town
| length4 = 4:12
| title5 = The Rose Tattoo
| writer5 = Byrne & Willie Colón
| length5 = 3:50
| title6 = Loco de Amor
| writer6 = Byrne, Pacheco
| note6 = feat. [[Celia Cruz]]
| length6 = 3:51
| title7 = The Dream Police
| length7 = 3:00
| note7 = feat. Kirsty MacColl
| title8 = Don't Want to Be Part of Your World
| length8 = 4:55
| note8 = feat. Kirsty MacColl
| title9 = Marching Through the Wilderness
| note9 = feat. Milton Cardona
| writer9 = Byrne & Pacheco
| length9 = 4:30
| title10 = Good and Evil
| length10 = 4:35
| title11 = Lie to Me
| length11 = 3:40
| note11 = feat. Kirsty MacColl
| title12 = Office Cowboy
| note12 = feat. Herbert Vianna
| writer12 = Byrne & Arto Lindsay
| length12 = 3:40
| title13 = Women vs Men
| length13 = 4:06
| title14 = Carnival Eyes
| length14 = 4:04
| note14 = feat. Milton Cardona
| title15 = I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong
| length15 = 3:11
}}
 
==Release history==
{|class="wikitable"
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
|rowspan="4"|Worldwide
|rowspan="3"|1989
|rowspan="4"|[[Luaka Bop]]/[[Sire Records|Sire]]
|CD
|rowspan="2"|25990
|-
|LP
|-
|Cassette tape
|4-25990
|-
|1995
|CD
|7599-25990-2
|}
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