The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (2LP 180 Gram Vinyl) by Talking Heads.
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Description
Tracks:
New Feeling
A Clean Break
Don't Worry About The Government
Pulled Up
Psycho Killer
Artists Only
Stay Hungry
Air
Building On Fire
Memories (Can't Wait)
I Zimbra
Drugs (Electricity)
Houses In Motion
Life During Wartime
The Great Curve
Crosseyed And Painless
Take Me To The River
Performer Notes:
- This live album was originally released as a double LP in 1982, when the Talking Heads were still extremely active. Twenty-two years later, the bonus-laden, two-CD reissue serves as a fascinating in-concert document of the phases the band went through during its first five years. The late-'70s tracks on the first disc show the early version of the band in all its geeky glory, mixing spastic New Wave quirkiness, funk rhythms, and art-school lyrics. It's intriguing to hear the difference between some of the songs' inception and their eventual recorded versions, such as a relatively straightforward "Electricity (Drugs)," which would turn ominous and atmospheric on FEAR OF MUSIC.
- The second disc captures the expanded, early-'80s version of the band, with extra musicians and backing vocalists in tow, tackling the fugue-like art-funk masterpieces of the aforementioned album and REMAIN IN LIGHT. It's all the more impressive to hear the interlocking of the guitars, keyboards, and percussion achieved without the benefit of studio overdubbing, and David Byrne's near-manic intensity is even more focused and affecting in the live setting. Even vinyl freaks/Heads maniacs who hung on to the original LP for two decades will need to get this, if only for the wealth of indispensable bonus tracks.
Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.147) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[S]howing off not only the Heads' acerbic intelligence but their flesh-and-blood force and humor."
Spin (p.90) - "[Y]ou get to hear just about every great song they wrote before 1982 in the same place..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.127) - "[A] gem....This two-disc set captures the punk attitude, brittle R&B vamps, and quirky lyrical trips of their early years." - Grade: A
Uncut (p.130) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[T]errifically thorough....[With] a previously unreleased and mesmeric nine-minute 'Born Under Punches'."
Magnet (p.97) - "[M]uch richer than 1984's STOP MAKING SENSE, capturing the concert highlights of a and that's wilder, fiercer and more soulful onstage than on any of its studio albums."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n admirable document of the Talking Heads' in-concert evolution from jittery, lean new wave to powerhouse post-punk-funk."
Format: Vinyl (4 Disc)
Country: USA
Studio/Live: Live
Guest Artist: Nona Hendryx; Adrian Belew; Robert Palmer; Brian Eno; Bernie Worrell
Release Date: 5 November, 2013
Label: Rhino/Warner Bros.
Dimensions: 31.1 x 31.1 x 0.6 centimeters (0.45 kg)
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