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| Artist: Talking Heads
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $24.98
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 3215
Format: Extra Tracks, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 76489
UPC: 081227648923
EAN: 0081227648923
ASIN: B0002IQML6
Release Date: August 17, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | New Feeling | | • | A Clean Break | | • | Dont Worry About The Government | | • | Pulled Up | | • | Psycho Killer | | • | Who Is It? | | • | The Book I Read | | • | The Big Country | | • | Im Not In Love | | • | The Girls Want To Be With The Girls | | • | Electricity | | • | Found A Job | | • | Mind | | • | Artists Only | | • | Stay Hungry | | • | Air | | • | Building On Fire | | • | Memories (Can't Wait) | | • | Heaven | | • | Psycho Killer | | • | Warning Sign | | • | Stay Hungry | | • | Cities | | • | I Zimbra | | • | Drugs (Electricity) | | • | Once In A Lifetime | | • | Animals | | • | House In MOtion | | • | Born Under The Punches (The Heat Goes On) | | • | Crosseyed and Painless | | • | Life During Wartime | | • | Take Me To The River | | • | The Great Curve |
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Album Description
Formed in NYC in the mid-'70s by David Byrne, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth, and ex-Modern Lover Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads soared out of their humble CBGB's beginnings to become Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and one of the most adventurous and influential bands ever. The onstage energy that propelled their rise to fame was documented in the 1982 double-LP set THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS, now available on CD for the first time. Following them through several early evolutions from '77-'81, this live gem - a 1982 Top 40 Billboard Album- is a riveting portrait of a stellar band on the rise. For its CD debut it's been expanded with over 30 minutes of rare and mostly previously unreleased bonus material.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Retail Nightmare August 1, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Retail Nightmare really is a nightmare. They never mailed my CD i ordered - and when I asked them - they said OH sorry we mailed 3 others that day and no problems with them. They said they would mail it out again which is wierd, it seems like they would be wondering where the copy they initially mailed was.
I month later - credit card charged - no CD.
 Woo hoo, finally! February 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't really add much that hasn't already been written except to reinforce that this is one toe-tapping, kinetic album. I'm glad it finally appeared after all these years.
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads February 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this CD as a gift. It came quickly and was everything I expectected.
Best talking heads album ever January 7, 2008
Best album of the early days of talking heads. An absolut must for friends of live recordings.
(4.5 stars) Definitely lives up to its heroic reputation December 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A superb double-live album made up of concert highlights from 1977 - back when they were a really raw funk-rock group - to 1980, during the huge Remain in Light tour. For collectors, this features two songs that are hard to find elsewhere: "A Clean Break (Let's Work)" and "Love a Building on Fire", two songs that rank with the best of the debut. The previously released stuff is often similar to the source material, but the energy even makes formerly drab material like "I'm Not in Love"; "The Girls Want to Be with the Girls" and "The Book I Read" sound fresh and exciting, to say nothing of the very best songs - a very funky "New Feeling" is one of the best; "Artists Only" somehow becomes creepy; "Heaven" is still gorgeous philosophy; "Mind" still has some of their best lyrics. And I actually like this version of "Psycho Killer" better than the original. It still does an almost frighteningly accurate job of portraying what I always thought a psycho would be like, but here are the key differences: the guitar buildup at the end is even louder, longer, and more intense; Tina's bass is even funkier; David's vocals are even edgier. Similarly, "Drugs" (here subtitled "Electricity") is downright frightening, rather than merely unnerving; and "The Big Country" is one of my favorite satires of the American dream. But the real surprise comes in the form of "Stay Hungry", a song I had been quite critical of in the past, but no more. It's the synthesized strings that did it for me, see: rather than sound cheesy, as most do, they add a layer of ominous suspense that the original was so lacking. Now that is how you remake a song for the stage!
So, now onto disc two. There's another "Psycho Killer" here, but it's nowhere near as good as the one on the first disc - too many ludicrous keyboard effects. Byrne doesn't sound terribly engaged to me either. There is, however, an interesting but sadly brief percussion breakdown. And a tempo change instead of the guitar buildup that features some very VU-influenced guitar playing. Much better is "Warning Sign"> I don't really like the studio version of this song, but this one is far better. For one, I like the way it starts, with the tense bass line, the freaky keyboard effects , a normal-sounding guitar solo, and vocals without all the echo and phasing found on the studio, which I think is good. And I love the synergy between the group members on this, a synergy that abruptly stopped occurring around True Stories or so. Anyway, I was all excited for another "Stay Hungry", since I like the version on disc one, but here it's just an excuse for jamming. On the other hand, "Cities" is still one of their funkiest tracks; and "I Zimbra" will always be one of the best fusions of rock and worldbeat you can get. Just to weird you out, there's a faster version of "Drugs" with, of course, nightmarish keyboards. It's... well, it's different, that's for sure. I'm not even sure if I like it or not, and I know I prefer it as the droning closer to Fear of Music. It's funky, all right, but I'm not sure if funky's the way to go about that one, you know? Still, always great when a band totally reinterprets songs live, and they make it almost unrecognizable. Points for that, at least. But "Once in a Lifetime" is a big disappointment for me. I don't like the keyboard tone they use, nor do I like Byrne's vocals. The version you hear on Remain in Light is still one of the best singles of the '70s, though. But you knew that. And why do they play that piece of crap "Animals" in the first place? I hate that song! The last few songs come from the Remain in Light tour, with its enormous band doing a pretty good job of recreating the intricate nature of that album while at the same point significantly extending the songs. Great stuff. For one, I prefer this funk freakout version of "Houses in Motion", with a bunch of gospely backup singers adding a lot of texture, to the studio version (which is still pretty cool). And the eight-and-a-half minute space-funk "Born Under Punches (the Heat Goes On)" is another favorite, because of the long, suspenseful introduction and the electric (or is it synthesized?) violin solo. They also make "Life During Wartime" work fantastically with a memorable instrumental breaks and make "Take Me to the River" funkier and trippier than you could've ever imagined it. And the gospely backup singers are perfect for this kind of song, which of course was a gospel song of sorts as performed by Al Green.
If I had to pick favorites per disc, I'd go with "Psycho Killer" for disc one and "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" for disc two. This pretty much covers all the bases, and there are only a couple letdowns, so this is the best possible introduction you can get for the group's early years. It's not the only early Talking Heads album you'll ever need, though. No way.
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