5 FIVE Talking Heads LP Vinyl All VG+/NM- 77 Fear Music Speaking Food Creatures

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 This is FIVE LP's by The Talking Heads

“Talking Heads: 77” Catalog # SR 6036  Sire Records 1977  

Jacket (VG+)  There is light corner and ring wear.   A few creases. No rips or tears.  No seam splits on spine or other sides.  No writing or defacing.  Nice front image.  Comes with protective plastic sleeve.

Inner Sleeve/LP (VG+)  Custom inner sleeve: group picture on one side and lyrics on other (some spots).  Yellow label with black text and Sire logo on top.    Labels are clean and sharp. Vinyl has some surface blemishes/scuffs. Some crackling here and there.  No deep scratches.  No skips or repeats. Nice playback.     

TRACK LISTING:  (all songs are individually sound checked)

SIDE 1:                      

1.  UH-OH, Love Comes To Town   

2.  New Feeling   

3.  Tentative Decisions   

4.  Happy Day   

5.  Who Is It?   

6.  No Compassion   

SIDE 2:                      

1.  The Book I Read  

2.  Don’t Worry About The Government   

3.  First Week/Last Week…Carefree   

4.  Psycho Killer   

5.  Pulled Up  

Of interest:  Though they were the most highly touted new wave band to emerge from the CBGB's scene in New York, it was not clear at first whether Talking Heads' Lower East Side art rock approach could make the subway ride to the midtown pop mainstream successfully. The leadoff track of the debut album, Talking Heads: 77, "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town," was a pop song that emphasized the group's unlikely roots in late-'60s bubblegum, Motown, and Caribbean music. But the "Uh-Oh" gave away the group's game early, with its nervous, disconnected lyrics and David Byrne's strained voice. All pretenses of normality were abandoned by the second track, as Talking Heads finally started to sound on record the way they did downtown: the staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, the odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single-note patterns, the non-rhyming, non-linear lyrics that came across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch, and that voice, singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying desperately to sound normal. Talking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed alternately threatening and goofy. The music was undeniably catchy, even at its most ominous, especially on "Psycho Killer," Byrne's supreme statement of demented purpose. Amazingly, that song made the singles chart for a few weeks, evidence of the group's quirky appeal, but the album was not a big hit, and it remained unclear whether Talking Heads spoke only the secret language of the urban arts types or whether that could be translated into the more common tongue of hip pop culture. In any case, they had succeeded as artists, using existing elements in an unusual combination to create something new that still managed to be oddly familiar. And that made Talking Heads: 77 a landmark album.  (AllMusic)  

"More Songs About Buildings And Food" Catalog # SRK 6058  Nova/Sire Records (Portugal) 1978.

Jacket (NM-)  There is light ring wear on back. Nice corners.    No seam splits on spine or other sides.  No writing or defacing.  No rips or tears.  Nice images on front. Clear readable text on spine.  Covers till shows some of the original luster. Comes with protective plastic sleeve. (See photos for more detail)

Inner Sleeve/LP (VG+/NM-)  Plain inner sleeve. Yellow labels with Sire top logo,  Labels are clean and sharp.  Some light surface blemishes. A few crackles here and there.  No deep scratches.  No skips or repeats.  Very nice playback.

TRACK LISTING:  (all songs are individually sound checked)

 SIDE 1:   

 1.  Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

 2.  With Our Love   

 3.  The Good Thing   

 4.  Warning Signl      

 5.  The Girls Want To Be With The Girls

 6.  Found A Job   

SIDE 2:   

 1.  Artists Only   

 2.  I'm Not In Love         

 3.  Stay Hungry         

 4.  Take Me To The River        

 5.  The Big Country

Of interest:  The title of Talking Heads' second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, slyly addressed the sophomore record syndrome, in which songs not used on a first LP are mixed with hastily written new material. If the band's sound seems more conventional, the reason simply may be that one had encountered the odd song structures, staccato rhythms, strained vocals, and impressionistic lyrics once before. Another was that new co-producer Brian Eno brought a musical unity that tied the album together, especially in terms of the rhythm section, the sequencing, the pacing, and the mixing. Where Talking Heads had largely been about David Byrne's voice and words, Eno moved the emphasis to the bass-and-drums team of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz; all the songs were danceable, and there were only short breaks between them. Byrne held his own, however, and he continued to explore the eccentric, if not demented persona first heard on 77, whether he was adding to his observations on boys and girls or turning his "Psycho Killer" into an artist in "Artists Only." Through the first nine tracks,More Songs was the successor to 77, which would not have earned it landmark status or made it the commercial breakthrough it became. It was the last two songs that pushed the album over those hurdles. First there was an inspired cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River"; released as a single, it made the Top 40 and pushed the album to gold-record status. Second was the album closer, "The Big Country," Byrne's country-tinged reflection on flying over middle America; it crystallized his artist-vs.-ordinary people perspective in unusually direct and dismissive terms, turning the old Chuck Berry patriotic travelogue theme of rock & roll on its head and employing a great hook in the process.  (AllMusic) 

“Fear Of Music”  Catalog # SRK 6076   Nova/Sire Records (Portugal) 1979

Jacket (VG+)  There is some corner and ring wear.  Some scuffs and creases.   No rips or tears.  No seam splits on spine or other sides.  No writing or defacing. Legible spine.   Comes with protective plastic sleeve.

Inner Sleeve/LP (VG+/NM-)  Plain inner lyric sleeve.  Yellow label with blue Sire logo on top. Labels are sharp and clean.  Vinyl has a few surface blemishes.  Some light crackles only.   No deep scratches.  No skips or repeats.  Excellent playback.    

SIDE 1:                       

1.  I Zimbra  

2.  Mind 

3.  Paper 

4.  Cities  

5.  Life During Wartime

6.  Memories Can’t Wait  

SIDE 2:                       

1.  Air  

2.  Heaven

3.  Animals 

4.  Electric Guitar  

5.  Drugs 

Of interest:  David Byrne's lyrics on Talking Heads' Fear of Music are paralogical visions stated with almost childlike directness: he thinks that air hits him in the face, that animals want to change his life, that "someone controls electric guitar." By itself, this perspective makes Byrne's songs fascinating. But what makes Talking Heads my favorite and probably the best rock band anywhere is that they've invented an audio analog to their view from the brink: rock music that warps and suspends time.

 Fear of Music is Talking Heads' most elaborate production so far, teeming with overdubs and effects the group doesn't try to reproduce in concert. Sounds emerge out of nowhere, echoes tangle the beat, instrumental timbres form unholy alloys. For the LP's spookiest tune, "Memories Can't Wait," the mix is as murky as a film-noir interior. Byrne's vocal is echoed, reverbed, tape-reversed and dizzyingly sped up while he sings about an endless "party in my mind." In the final verse, when suddenly "Everything is very quiet," his voice slips out front, the key changes and the echoes slink away. It's hardly subtle, but it works.  (Rolling Stone Magazine)  

“Speaking In Tongues”   Catalog # 9 23883-1    Sire Records 1983

Inner Groove  STERLING         

Jacket (VG+/NM-)  There is some light corner and ring wear.  A few creases.  No rips or tears.  No seam splits on spine or other sides.  No writing or defacing. Nice images. Clear text on spine. Cover still shows some of the original luster.   Comes with protective plastic sleeve.

Inner Sleeve/LP (VG+/NM-)  Original lyric / credits inner sleeve.   Yellow label with Sire logo on top.   Labels are clean and sharp.  Vinyl has some surface blemishes/scuffs.  Some crackling here and there (nothing that kills the music)  No deep scratches.  No skips or repeats. Very nice playback.   

SIDE 1:                       

1.  Burning Down The House  

2.  Making Flippy Floppy   

3.  Girlfriend Is Better    

4.  Slippery People 

5.  I get Wild / Wild Gravity 

SIDE 2:                       

1.  Swamp  

2.  Moon Rocks  

3.  Pull Up The Roots  

4.  This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) 

Of interest: The album was a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's first (and only) American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House", which was accompanied by a promotional video. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated a live album of the same name. (The concert film and live album's title comes from the repeated phrase "Stop making sense!" during the song "Girlfriend Is Better".) In addition, the album crossed over to the dance charts, peaking at number two for six weeks.  (Wikpedia)    

“Little Creatures” Catalog # 1-25305  Sire Records 1985

Jacket (VG+/NM-)  There is light corner and ring wear.  No seam splits on spine or other sides.  No writing or defacing.   Still maintains most of its original luster.  Clear text on spine.   Comes with protective plastic sleeve.

Inner Sleeve/LP (VG+/NM-)  Custom inner picture/lyrics sleeve.   Custom Talking Heads label.  Vinyl still maintains a deep gloss finish.   Labels are clean and sharp.  A couple of stray crackles here and there. No deep scratches.  No skips or repeats. Excellent playback.     

TRACK LISTING:  (all songs are individually sound checked)

SIDE 1:

1.  And She Was    

2.  Give Me Back My Name     

3.  Creatures Of Love    

4.  The Lady Don’t Mind    

5.  Perfect World                                                       

SIDE 2:          

1.  Stay Up Late   

2.  Walk It Down   

3.  Television Man   

4.  Road To Nowhere   

 Of interest:  Little Creatures is the sixth studio album by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released in June 1985. The album examines themes of Americana and incorporates elements of country music, with many of the songs featuring steel guitar. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and is the band's biggest-selling studio album, with over two million copies sold in the US.The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine. (Wikpedia) 

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Mint (M) 

(Jacket) There will be no flaws. The jacket will be factory sealed with perfect or close to perfect corners. 

(LP) The vinyl itself should be without flaws since the jacket surrounding it has never been opened. 

Mint Minus (M-) 

(Jacket) The jacket will most likely be sealed in original shrink, but there may be some shrink missing. There may be slight wear from storage at the corners.

(LP) The vinyl itself should be without flaws since the jacket surrounding it has never been opened. 

Near Mint (NM) 

(Jacket) If the jacket is sealed there may be some minor corner damage from storage, it may have some torn shrink-wrap. The corners may show some storage wear. If not sealed the cover will show no more than very minor corner wear.  Creasing will also be minute at most.  There will be no visible ring wear. No writing, rips or tears on the cover or seams. No bubbling, water/mold stains or peeling of the cover in any way. The inside of the gate-fold will be in the same condition.  Cutout bin punches, price stickers, staples would start being listed at the NM category and would be noted accordingly as they affect the jacket itself.

(LP) You should not hear any surface noise (snaps,crackles, pops) when you play the record. There will not be any skips or repeats. The LP will retain that just opened appearance. There may be some light sleeve abrasions but they will not have any affect on the sound. There will be no warping. There will be no major surface blemishes, light or deep scratches. The label will be free of writing and stains. There should be no stand out spindle marks. 

Near Mint Minus (NM-) 

(Jacket) May or may not have shrink-wrap but the jacket itself will still be in beautiful condition. The corners will have minimal wear (no fraying). There may be minor dents and creases. Light scratches could be on the jacket, but nothing severe that defaces the artwork. Depending on age some discolor/yellowing may show, but will not be overbearing.  Ring wear should be minimal ( at the top and bottom pressure points) or non-existent...no dark, full, half, or quarter rings. No writing rips or tears. No bubbling, water stains or peeling of the cover . All inner gate-folds will be in similar condition. 

(LP) You should not hear any sustained surface noise (snaps,crackles, pops) when you play the record. There will not be any skips or repeats. There may be a few surface blemishes, or a stray light scratch that may cause a moment of crackling, but nothing prolonged, and instances of this will be few. Often this will mostly occur only at the beginning of the groove on each side where the needle dropped. There will not be any significant warping. There will be no deep scratches. There may be minor spotting or fog (bag rash), but it will not affect the sound. The label will be free of writing and stains. Minimal spindle marks only. 

Very Good Plus (VG+) 

(Jacket) May or may not have shrink wrap.  In this category it will be easier to see imperfections with the naked eye. though nothing that will detract from the overall appearance in a major way. The corners will have some wear and there may be the beginnings of fraying but not full on.  Some dents/creases or scratches may be noticeable, but nothing overly pronounced. There could be SOME noticeable discolor/yellowing on lighter parts of cover.  There may be some minor ring wear at the top and bottom, a bit more pronounced than NM-  but no full or half rings. There could be some pen marks but it would be minimal. Possibly some light bubbling.  No water/mold stains or tearing of the cover in any way. 

(LP) There may be some blemishes, maybe a few light scratches. It will not cause the record to skip or repeat. There will be no prolonged crackling or surface noise. There may be some minor warping but it will have no affect on the listening experience at all (and it will be noted in that instance). Chances are there will be some lighter spindle marks. A VG+ record will show some signs that it was played and handled by the previous owner BUT he or she took care of it. 

Very Good (VG/VG-) 

(Jacket) This jacket will have easily noticeable imperfections. The corners could show heavier wear and some fraying.  The jacket may have seam splits that may or may not have been taped. Ring wear will be noticeable to the naked eye, and may travel the length of the jacket.  There could be some writing (names, initials, notations next to songs) but no out an out defacing of the images on the cover. There could be some bubbling, some small tears on the top paper layer (again no destruction of main images)   

(LP) There will be surface blemishes, and most likely some scratches. The scratches could be feel-able as well. There could be a skip or repeat, but only one or two at most. More often the deeper scratches will cause more frequent and prolonged surface noise. Crackling may be noticed on more than just quiet parts of the play-back. There may be some warping but it will not cause the needle to jump (and will be noted if present). Chances are there will be spindle marks. A VG/VG- record will obviously have been played a good amount and possibly handled roughly by the original owner. 

(Fair/Poor) 

(Jacket) This jacket will have easily noticeable imperfections. The corners could show heavy wear and fraying.  The jacket may have seam splits on multiple sides that may or may not have been taped. Ring wear will be noticeable to the naked eye, and may travel the length of the jacket.  The vinyl may not be able to stay in the jacket without falling out.  The jacket may be severely water or mold stained. There could be dents, large scratches or rips on the cover. It could have severe, blister-like bubbling.  Sometimes it may have full cover writing with doodles and artwork defacing. The corners may be completely worn. 

(LP) A record in Fair condition can be put onto a turntable and should be playable. There will be multiple deeper and feel-able scratches that will make for significant surface noise (snaps and crackles & pops) and also cause skips and/or repeats.  Spindle marks will be present. Heavy groove wear may also be visible. Simply put a POOR condition record would have MANY issues and would be sold mostly for it's 'rare status'.

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