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First official vinyl release of the demo sessions recorded by the original three-piece lineup of Talking Heads (Tina Weymouth, David Byrne and Chris Frantz) for CBS/Columbia in 1975. Featuring 15 tracks across 2LPs cut at 45rpm by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound. Includes demos of "Psycho Killer", " Love --> Building On Fire", "Warning Sign" and more.

Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: 'Warning Sign' and 'Psycho Killer'.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo) 
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo) 
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo) 
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo) 
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo) 
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo) 
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo) (
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo) 
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo) 
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76) 
7" Vinyl:
1. Psycho Killer
2. Warning Sign 

CD Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo)
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo)
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo)
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo)
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
12. Psycho Killer
13. Warning Sign
14. Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia Demo)
15. Sugar On My Tongue (CBS/Columbia Demo)
16. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (CBS/Columbia Demo)
17. I Want To Live (CBS/Columbia Demo)
18. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (CBS/Columbia Demo)
19. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls (CBS/Columbia Demo)
20. Who Is It? (CBS/Columbia Demo)
21. With Our Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
22. Stay Hungry (CBS/Columbia Demo)
23. Tentative Decisions (CBS/Columbia Demo)
24. Warning Sign (CBS/Columbia Demo)
25. I'm Not In Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
26. The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia Demo)
27. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (CBS/Columbia Demo)
28. No Compassion (CBS/Columbia Demo)
29. Artists Only (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
30. 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
31. Happy Day (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
32. Don't Worry About The Government (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
33. Psycho Killer (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
34. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
35. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
36. With Our Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
37. Pablo Picasso (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
38. I'm Not In Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
39. No Compassion (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
40. New Feeling (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
41. Psycho Killer (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
42. A Clean Break (Let's Work) [Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77]
43. Sugar On My Tongue (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
44. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
45. Take Me To The River (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)

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Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: 'Warning Sign' and 'Psycho Killer'. This new collection includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional 11 demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.

TRACK LISTING

1. PSYCHO KILLER (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
2. TENTATIVE DECISIONS (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
3. NO COMPASSION (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
4. WARNING SIGN (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
5. I’M NOT IN LOVE (1976 DEMO)
6. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (1976 DEMO)
7. THE BOOK I READ (1976 DEMO)
8. I WISH YOU WOULDN’T SAY THAT (1976 DEMO)
8. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (1976 DEMO)
10. HAPPY DAY (1976 DEMO)
11. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT THE OCEAN CLUB, NEW YORK, NY, AUGUST 17, 1976)

7":
1. PSYCHO KILLER - THE ARTISTICS
2. WARNING SIGN - THE ARTISTICS

Talking Heads’ groundbreaking second album, 'More Songs About Buildings and Food'. The collection captures a pivotal moment in their evolution and marks the first of three albums produced with Brian Eno and includes a nice selection of rarities!

TRACK LISTING

More Songs About Buildings & Food Tracklisting:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL
2. WITH OUR LOVE
3. THE GOOD THING
4. WARNING SIGN
5. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS
6. FOUND A JOB
7. ARTISTS ONLY 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE
9. STAY HUNGRY
10. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
11. THE BIG COUNTRY

Rarities:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (ALTERNATE VERSION)
2. WITH OUR LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
3. FOUND A JOB (ALTERNATE VERSION)
4. THE GOOD THING (ALTERNATE VERSION)
5. WARNING SIGN (ALTERNATE VERSION)
6. ELECTRICITY (INSTRUMENTAL) 
7. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (ALTERNATE VERSION) 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
9. ARTISTS ONLY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
10. THE BIG COUNTRY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
11. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (“COUNTRY ANGEL” VERSION)

Live (3CD & 4LP Box Set Only):
1. NO COMPASSION (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
2. WARNING SIGN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
3. THE BOOK I READ (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
4. STAY HUNGRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
5. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
6. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
7. UH-OH, LOVES COMES TO TOWN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
8. WITH OUR LOVE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
9. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
10. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
11. THE GOOD THING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
12. ELECTRICITY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
13. THE BIG COUNTRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
14. NEW FEELING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
15. PULLED UP (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
16. PSYCHO KILLER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
17. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
18. FOUND A JOB (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
19. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)

Blu-Ray:

1. Original Album: Dolby Atmos Mix, 5.1 Mix, Hi-Res Stereo
2. Video: Live At Entermedia Theater, 1978 (25 Minute Promotional Film)
3. Video: Live At Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, CA, September 18th, 1978 (47 Minute Single-Camera Video)

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever changing the look and sound of popular music. “Psycho Killer.” “Take Me to the River.” “Road to Nowhere.” Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads. One of the foundational bands of New York’s downtown 1970s music scene, Talking Heads have endured as a musical and cultural force for decades. Their unique brand of transcendent, experimental rock remains a lingering influence on popular music—despite their having disbanded over thirty years ago. Now New Yorker contributor Jonathan Gould offers an authoritative, deeply researched account of a band whose sound, fame, and legacy forever connected rock music to the cultural avant-garde.

From their art school origins to the enigmatic charisma of David Byrne and the internal tensions that ultimately broke them apart, Gould tells the story of a group that emerged when rock music was still young and went on to redefine the prevailing expectations of how a band could sound, look, and act. At a time when guitar solos, lead-singer swagger, and sweaty stadium tours reigned supreme, Talking Heads were precocious, awkward, quirky, and utterly distinctive when they first appeared on the ragged stages of the East Village. Yet they would soon mature into one of the most accomplished and uncompromising recording and performing acts of their era. More than just a biography of a band, Gould masterfully captures the singular time and place that incubated and nurtured this original music: downtown New York in the 1970s, that much romanticized, little understood milieu where art, music, and commerce collided in the urban dystopia of Lower Manhattan.

What emerges is an expansive portrait of a unique cultural moment and an iconoclastic band that shifted the paradigm of popular music by burning down the house of mainstream rock.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the celebrated Talking Heads and Jonathan Demme’s concert film Stop Making Sense, the set will be re-released as a 2LP and 2CD/Blu-ray set this summer.

When it arrived in September 1984, Stop Making Sense was an artistic and commercial triumph. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles, and the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added Stop Making Sense to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance. The inspiration for Stop Making Sense came when director Jonathan Demme saw Talking Heads perform during the band’s 1983 tour for Speaking in Tongues. Afterward, he approached them with the idea of making the show into a concert film. They agreed and worked together over the next few months to finalize the details. Ultimately, Demme filmed three shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983 to create Stop Making Sense.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
A1 Psycho Killer
A2 Heaven
A3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
A4 Found A Job
A5 Slippery People
A6 Cities
B1 Burning Down The House
B2 Life During Wartime
B3 Making Flippy Floppy
B4 Swamp
C1 What A Day That Was
C2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
C3 Once In A Lifetime
C4 Big Business / I Zimbra
D1 Genius Of Love
D2 Girlfriend Is Better
D3 Take Me To The River
D4 Crosseyed And Painless

CD Tracklisting:
CD1
1 Psycho Killer
2 Heaven
3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
4 Found A Job
5 Slippery People
6 Cities
7 Burning Down The House
8 Life During Wartime
9 Making Flippy Floppy
10 Swamp
CD2
1 What A Day That Was
2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
3 Once In A Lifetime
4 Big Business / I Zimbra
5 Genius Of Love
6 Girlfriend Is Better
7 Take Me To The River
8 Crosseyed And Painless

Blu-Ray - As Above

Naked is the eighth studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1988. The album peaked at number three in the UK Albums Char and includes the singles “(Nothing But) Flowers” and “Blind”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

Originating in New York City, Talking Heads drew inspiration from funk, rock, classical minimalism, and African rock to create one of the most individual and stimulating bands to emerge from New Wave. Lead by Byrne’s whimsical, esoteric lyrics and the bands intricately layered polyrhythmic textures, Talking Heads found international fame and went on to become ranked in Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’ (2011).

Originally released in 1982, the double live LP ‘The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads’ features the original quartet in recordings from 1977 and 1979, with the second album consisting of their expanded 10 piece line up that toured with the band throughout 1980-81. The release includes the cult hits ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Life During Wartime’ and ‘Take Me To The River’.

The innovative New Wave band Talking Heads formed in 1975 comprised of David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Released in 1979 ‘Fear Of Music’ is the band’s third album. Produced by the quartet and Brian Eno it includes singles ‘Life During Wartime’, ‘I Zimbra’ and ‘Cities’.

180GM LP. Cut From Analogue Masters. Original Artwork. Embossed sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

I Zimbra 3:06
Mind 4:12
Paper 2:36
Cities 4:05
Life During Wartime 3:41
Memories Can't Wait 3:30
Air 3:33
Heaven 4:01
Animals 3:29
Electric Guitar 2:59
Drugs 5:13

The innovative New Wave band Talking Heads formed in 1975 comprised of David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Released in 1983, ‘Speaking In Tongues’ was the band’s fifth studio album and became their commercial breakthrough, featuring the track that earned them their first US top 10 hit ‘Burning Down the House’, and the classic Talking Heads tracks ‘Girlfriend Is Better’, Slippery People’ and ‘This Must Be The Place’.

STAFF COMMENTS

David says: Talking Heads couldn't be from anywhere other than NYC. An alien band from an alien land, this album has, in the mutoid disco funk of 'Slippery People', the Parliament inspired 'Burning Down The House' and everyone's favourite Talking Heads song, 'This Must Be The Place', three of the best songs ever written.

TRACK LISTING

Side A)
1 Burning Down The House
2 Making Flippy Floppy
3 Girlfriend Is Better
4 Slippery People
5 I Get Wild/Wild Gravity

Side B)
1 Swamp
2 Moon Rocks
3 Pull Up The Roots
4 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band, and hints at the directions (positive and negative) they'd take in the near future.

Here, Jonathan Lethem takes us back to the late 1970s in New York City and situates Talking Heads as one of the most remarkable and enigmatic American bands. Incorporating theory, fiction, and memoir, and placing Fear of Music alongside Fritz Lang, Edgar Allen Poe, Patti Smith, and David Foster Wallace. Lethem's book is a virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions.

Talking Heads first LP "77" introduced the New York band perfectly. A mish mash of art-punk-funk, with heavy doses of bubblegum and a splash of the Caribbean. 11 tracks which show off the bands varying influences, David Byrne's weird vocal delivery, and the constant tempo changes and twists in their style. You can hear hints of the moody side of their sound on tracks such as "New Feeling" and "Who Is It?", contrasting with the jolly funk of "Pulled Up" and "Uh Oh Love Has Come To Town" all of this is augmented by the albums standout "Psycho Killer", a brooding slice of paranoid punk that still sounds fresh today.

TRACK LISTING

Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town 2:48
New Feeling 3:09
Tentative Decisions 3:04
Happy Day 3:55
Who Is It ? 1:41
No Compassion 4:47
The Book I Read 4:06
Don't Worry About The Government 3:00
First Week / Last Week...Carefree 3:19
Psycho Killer 4:19
Pulled Up 4:29