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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:
- 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
- Love = Building on Fire [*]
- I Wish You Wouldn't Say That [*]
- Psycho Killer [Acoustic][*]
- I Feel It in My Heart [#][*]
- Sugar on My Tongue [*]
Free Music Notes for Talking Heads: Talking Heads 77
Free Music Review: Who Is It?It's Talking Heads
Hit: 5 Stars
Hard to believe that 32 years ago Tina,David and the gang dropped this debut album that is still challanging musicians in the art pop field today. So....this being my first time really hearing it in it's whole how do I feel having been a long time fan of the Heads classic music to come? Well for something so influential on the "art pop" field...that's just the whole thing with this album. It may have come out of the world of CBGB's punk but by NO MEANS is this a "punk record". It's not exactly simple,it's not exactly loud and rocking out but it's got something huge going for it. Even at this early point,using the basic band the main focus of Talking Heads musically was the rhythm;everything from the great "island groove" of "Uh Oh,Love Comes To Town" through tunes like "Happy Day" and "The Book I Read" are just filled with lots of funk. And one thing David Byrne always understood about making a great funk tune that wasn't fake sounding was to keep the rhythms tight and simple. Interestingly enough Jerry Harrison's new-wavish keyboards (heard of course most famously on "Psycho Killer") gives this music a sound I'll call "funk-wave";no need to guess what that stands for lol. Add to that David Byrnes already awkward,detached and nervously delivered lyrics and BOOM you have a band with a totally unique sound. Tina's basslines on songs like "No Compassion" and "First Weel/Last Week..Carefree"..well pretty much everything here even bring to mind,yes a light disco flavor.But if you know that genre's influence on new-wave/punk no panicking for the discophobes please;this isn't exactly Saturday Night Fever,unless of course it was being done outside our space time continuum that is. This album all came together over several years before it even came out and the result is a band whose concepts were as rooted in the New York avante garde culture in terms of feeling but also full of great pop melodies and funky grooves. So the group really says it all for someone like me whose into all that kind of stuff. The last tune "Pulled Up" is the most rocky thing here and...well it's really not straight new wave. Talking Heads were never about playing it straight;they were a total oxymoron-a commercial mainstream band with a totally uncommercial,hip attitude. As for the bonus tracks you get to hear some more likeminded tunes that seem to extend on David Burns lyrical obsession here with buildings (you can hear plenty of that on "Don't Worry About The Government" too) and you also get the original version of "Psycho Killer".Now the story goes that the albums producer Lance Quinn originally did the song with creepy cellos and horns in the backround;was this his idea of a rock n roll Peter & The Wolf or something?Who knows,who cares but it's an interesting version-doesn't have the same impact as the one we all know and...okay maybe it's a little overdone but it sounds good. And about this sound,much has been made of the DualDisk format,a plus for me buying this but upsetting for many others. Since this was the first CD version of this I ever had (my first was a cassette) I love the format;it plays on all my CD players,all from different eras dating back to 1990 and rips on my laptop CD drive. Not only that but,on a set of older computer speakers in my BASEMENT this remastering is so terrific it literally sounds like the day it was made. You almost get the impression all the tracks were re-recordered on a new digital master rather then just remastered the sound is so alive and punchy-no issue with the loudness war here. So with no minuses there's a million pluses to enjoying this album and despite the warnings I recommend getting this version.The notes are better,you have bonus tracks and DVD footage and you also get the amazing sound even on the regular CD side!
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