Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
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Free Music Review: Excellent live album
Hit: 5 Stars
I picked this up after reading about its rerelease in Entertainment Weekly, and I have to say this is one of the best live albums I've ever heard. The sound is crisp, clear, and gorgeous, and the songs themself represent an interesting portion of the Heads' recording career.
TH started during the New York punk boom in the mid-Seventies, and early on distinguished themselves from the more adrenaline-fueled rock of their CBGBs cohorts. They tackled odd subject matter ("Psycho Killer", which captures the paranoia of a time when The Son of Sam and other serial killers were prevelant), and brought back some of the bubblegum pop they loved (albeit in a bizarre fashion thanks to the eccentric David Byrne). Musically, they could be said to be carrying on the pop legacy of the Carpenters just as much as they might have the odd tinges of the Velvet Underground.
This album spans the years from 1977, when they were just starting their mercurial career, to 1981, when they augmented their band to include horn sections for an elaborate tour. The songs captured here reflect both periods well; I prefer the first disc, which has a sense of desperation to it missing from the more stylized tone of the second. But whatever your preference, if you are a fan of Talking Heads or indeed of the entire Punk/New Wave movement of the Seventies, you need this album. It's that damn good
Free Music Review: A much-needed blast from the past... with extras!
Hit: 5 Stars
Every music fan has one band that is special, the first band that they were really into, the one band that you had to run out and buy their new albums as soon as they were released. Well, Talking Heads was that band for me. I'm old enough that I've had to re-purchase all of my well-loved albums in the transition from vinyl to CD. For a long time I wondered why my favorite live album, "The Name of this Band..." had never been released on CD. "Stop Making Sense," the other (and more well-known) live Heads album made the transition, and it's great, but I like "Name of this Band..." much better. For years, my vinyl copy has remained in my box of records in the basement.
Imagine my surprise and excitement when I stumbled across the recent release of "Name of this Band..." on CD. When I learned about all the extra tracks that had been added, I knew I had to rush out and get it, no matter the cost.
I'm happy to report that, if you're like me and lamented the loss of "Name of this Band..." in the transition to CD, you will not be disappointed. In fact, you will be thrilled. The digital re-mastering sounds incredibly crisp and clear, and all of the extra tracks, well - it's like having a "new but old" Talking Heads live album. Well worth the years of wait.
Thanks Rhino, for taking me back to a great time in my life with my favorite band of all time.
Free Music Review: The coolest live album ever just got better!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This was one of the most eagerly, and long, awaited reissues of the digital age, with the original album inexplicably out of print for years. I had actually burned my own CD off of my old cassette version, but now that I have this glorious expanded version, I can finally hear it in all the full sonic range and clarity this music deserves - with one tiny exception (see below)!
This would have earned 5 stars in its original form, but now it is infinitely improved by the addition of TONS of extra material - classics like "The Book I Read," "The Big Country," Born Under Punches," and other early gems are now available in "live" form for the first time ever! This bonus material is not superfluous - it is of the same calibre as the originally issued performances.
Truly, this sets a new standard in how reissues should be done. The only beef I have is that for reasons I can't fathom, they chopped off the original live intro to "Crosseyed and Painless." On my cassette, there is about a one-minute mid-tempo groove that abrubtly seques into the song. Why on earth did they decide to delete that?
Well, in any case this is an astonishing document which extensively recounts the first 4-5 years of one of America's most unique bands. I recommend this album above all other Talking Heads releases, live or studio.
Free Music Review: The Heads in top form & at the peak of their career.
Hit: 5 Stars
I was heavily into the Talking Heads back in the day (when I was in high school). I would pop "Remain in Light" into my boom box and got strange reactions from my cohorts (usually "What's this s#*+?!!"). The live album not only served as a de facto greatest hits record, but the live versions presented the songs (all of them up to that point classics) in a slightly different light, not to mention that any one of the 4 sides from the set provided you with more Talking Heads (and therefore longer time in between flipping over LPs) than any of the previous studio albums. Needless to say, my LP's got heavily scratched up. So, like many of the others who have posted here, I too have eagerly awaited for this album to finally be released on CD & am not disappointed by the results. The sound quality of both the recordings & the mastering is top notch. While one might quibble about the changes made (resequencing tracks, editing intros & clapping, etc.), the addition of a number of songs previously unavailable live makes the whole package a real treat. The only way this could have been improved upon is perhaps if they had released 2 versions: a commercial release duplicating the original LP set & a box set of several CD's including the complete live sets from several of the concerts from '77 - '81, as well as maybe a bonus DVD....Free Music Review: Finally!!! Some new official material & some old fun...
Hit: 5 Stars
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads is one of my all-time favorite live records. All through high school & college it was an album I always returned to (on cassette) when I wanted something great & energetic to listen to in the studio or on the road.
But there was never a CD release. I have the vinyl for home & the tape for travel...but there was no CD version.
Now, after a long wait, Rhino has released this amazing expanded version of the classic 2 lp set. After buying my copy last night & listening to it during the olympics I had to write a review...because it's amazing. Even if they had just released the original version it would have been great, but this 2 cd set with 16 brand spanking new tracks (and three from the Promo live record) is unreal.
Even though the Heads never changed their songs much, the jammy live versions added here of Animals, Who Is It?, and Born Under Punches add so much to the original album that it makes purchasing this new release worth it and then some. If you've been craving some additional Heads stuff to add to your collection, this 2cd set is the fix...combined, the 33 traks make for a great listen, and show the gap left in music since the demise of this amazing band.
Thanks to Rhino for doing it best yet again!