Product Description
Double album of the 1977 groundbreaking debut by Talking Heads, including the original album on LP1 and outtakes, alternatives and rarities on LP2.
Talking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed alternately threatening and goofy. An album full of staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single-note patterns, non-rhyming, non-linear lyrics that come across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch. A voice singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying desperately to sound normal. The music was undeniably catchy, even at its most ominous, especially on "Psycho Killer", Byrne's supreme statement of demented purpose.
Tracklisting
LP1: Original Album (AAA cut from Master Tapes)
- Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
- New Feeling
- Tentative Decisions
- Happy Day
- Who Is It?
- No Compassion
- The Book I Read
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- First Week/Last Week… Carefree
- Psycho Killer
- Pulled Up
LP2: Outtakes/Alternates/Rarities
- Sugar on My Tongue
- I Want to Live
- (Love Goes To) Building On Fire
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That
- Psycho Killer (Acoustic)
- Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town (Alternate Pop Version)
- New Feeling (Alternate Pop Version)
- Pulled Up (Alternate Pop Version) [Previously Unreleased]
- Stay Hungry (1977 Version)
- First Week/Last Week… Carefree (Acoustic)
- I Feel It in My Heart
- Psycho Killer (Alternate Version) [Previously Unreleased]
