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Artist: Talking HeadsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dual Disc, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
- With Our Love
- The Good Thing
- Warning Sign
- The Girls Want to Be with the Girls
- Found a Job
- Artists Only
- I'm Not in Love
- Stay Hungry
- Take Me to the River
- The Big Country
- Stay Hungry [1977 Version][#][*]
- I'm Not in Love [Alternate Version][#][*]
- The Big Country [Alternate Version][#][*]
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel ["Country Angel" Version][#][*]
Free Music Notes for Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
Free Music Review: A New Beginning For The Heads With Rhythm Outfront
Hit: 5 Stars
Physically speaking this was the same band that had thrown down Talking Heads: 77 but in terms of the music the flavor,style and additude bare only the slightest resemblence. Of course this is the beginning of the bands highly fruitful partnership with Brain Eno,a person even David Byrne (unique as he was) could never fully comprehend mentally. Along with Eno's love of...well the best word would be painting abstract sound art the band themselves were fully indulging themselves in an all out rhythmic assault here. It's not percussive but the whole concept is different;wheras the debut found a mildly quirky band really more or less exploring it's "pop legs" this one is the birth of the Talking Heads classic sound in full form-top heavy,polyrhythmic,funky and as a result very spare underneath the clutter. The first six tunes on the album pretty much don't let up-you have classics building a melody within the rhythm attack on "Thank You For Sending Me An Angel","Warning Sign" and my favorite "Found A Job".There are plenty of just out-n-out jammin' on the one happening on "The Girls Want To Be With The Girls","With Our Love" and "The Good Thing".Rick James may not have coined the phrase "punk-funk" yet but the world of...well funky rhythm rock would never be the same after this stuff! Once you get into tunes such as "Artists Only","I'm Not In Love" and "Stay Hungry" your in for music finding the Heads trying to make sense,if they truly ever can of all the rhythms around them to come up with some jerky new-wavish tunes-like the rest of it they're not structured enough to be "pop" per se but are singable anyway. Technically speaking "Take Me To The River" is the slower tune here..it creeeeeps up on you like a soulful monster but never attacks,just keeps creeping away until the end and it's a nice little change."The Big Country"....well if I read it right I can sort of relate;when I moved where we live now I found myself thinking some of the things Byrne speaks about in the lyrics.And even now I often think "you could'nt pay me to live here".I LOVE the blunt,freaky humor without any of the cynicism!The bonus tracks present some of the songs...in what sound like versions before Eno put his magic touch of echo plexes,leslie amps and various synthesized effects onto what was on the original album,. The effect...doesn't really end up being that different because the polyrhythms created by the quartet themselves often create effects not unlike echoes or mixed-up amps. A particular favorite is the very Johnny Cash-sounding version of "Thank You For Sending Me An Angel";you'd think a funky song like that would sound like a lampoon done that way but it really does work. In terms of writing and melodicism this is'nt quite as strong as the debut;that really isn't the point-the songs that are built from the rhythms & beats Eno and the Heads create here add up to a lot.But again the remaster/re-recording really brings this music a whole new life! This will not be everyone's favorite Heads album but considering how well they started,the masterpieces to come and the historical place this holds in their career.......this is just what the doctor ordered!
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