Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
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Free Music Review: Absolutely Essential, an old-school Walkman classic
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the greatest live rock albums ever released, which always made me wonder: why the hell wasn't it ever released on CD? Fortunately, that omission has been corrected and then some.
I, like most of the other reviewers here, bought this on cassette in the early 80s, and listened to it over and over and over on my Walkman. Once CDs became the dominant form, it seemed like this release was just going to fade away and I started cautiously eyeballing the extra-long cassette with its extra-thin tape to allow for 40 minutes per side. I found the double-LP set in a used record store, cued up an XLII and made a safety copy.
But now not only is that no longer necessary, but the CD is almost double the length of the original set. Great remastered barebones live Talking Heads from 77, 78, 79, 80 and some other rarities. It charts the early evolution of the band from Izod-wearing art schoolies to rhythmic world beat hipsters, dropping off just before the "Stop Making Sense" period began.
The new version sounds amazing (maybe I'm just used to my muddy old dubs) and it's almost box-set-like in its set list and packaging. It's a record to make your day.
Free Music Review: Talking Heads at their best. . . and more
Hit: 5 Stars
First, this was a great, great record when released, and the new material is a treasure, alone worth the price. This record has, in my opinion, the best Talking Heads music available. It also tells a story.
This set tells the rise of the Heads, and their music from 1977-81. The Heads start as gifted artists but neophyte musicians in the 1977 material, and progress musically to be able to master their own unique form and style in later cuts. The 1977 performances are unsure and uneven; the later ones are brilliant. The second disc, which is taken from the 1980-81 tour which added guitarist Adrian Belew and vocalist Nona Hendryx, among other artists, is amazing musically, and the added cuts are a welcome addition to any Heads fan. The music from the 80-81 tour is the Heads at their absolute best.
It has taken too long for this set to come out. I own the vinyl, but went to the store and bought the disc within 2 hours of learning it had been released. I was not disappointed. Particuarly sweet is the live version of "Heaven" at the end of disc one, another bonus track.
Any Heads fan needs this disc, yesterday.
Free Music Review: An Uncanny Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Often a band is either greater in concert(King Crimson) or greater in the studio(XTC). The Talking Heads straddled that line. This collection offers two very different views of the Heads--the early club dates, and then the extended big band extravaganza, which ultimately was the pinnacle before the downward turn, which ended with the horrific "Naked" album.
This collection includes several chestnuts not often played in concert, like "Memories Can't Wait", which is very differnt from the scary studio take.
The second disc features the 1980 expanded version of the Heads, rife with crackerjack pro musicians as sidemen, most notably Adrian Belew, fresh off his tenure with David Bowie and before his debut in King Crimson. The dynamic(and tension)of this set is clear. In concert, it became clear that Belew was outclassing and wasting his time in this band, and I think that the Heads(more specifically, Byrne) felt that he drew too much attention away, and showed the consummate showman that he eventually became.
Over all, a great listen and a good document for those who missed it at the time.
Free Music Review: One of my Top 5 Live Albums
Hit: 5 Stars
As a poor college student in the early 80s I usually bought the cassettes of the new music so I could listen in home and car (and NO I didn't have a tape deck in the car; I just took my beloved Panasonic Boom Box everwhere!
I only owned TNOTBITTH on cassette for all these years....and it was about to die.
Last year I decided to copy my store-bought cassette onto a more durable blank. Sadly, it didn't work. The store-bought Cassette just wouldn't work anymore. It just jammed and would not play anymore.
So I bought TNOTBITTH on Vinyl via eBay. I got a good deal for it. I got a very nice copy in Dec. of 2004.
I made a fresh cassette and was very happy.
Then Rhino announced this CD! I LOVE THIS CD.
It's an amazing improvement and no longer the same album.
If from another company it would be called "a Deluxe Collection"!
It's amazing for the bonus tracks on DISC 1.
It's fantastic for the improvements on the 2nd half!
Tracks are now sequenced to resemble an actual concert set-list.
This IS a Superior Live Album. BUY THIS Set!
-Alan
Free Music Review: This is a Talking Heads Essential Recording
Hit: 5 Stars
Though Amazon has yet to include it in their Heads Essential list, this CD belongs there.
Like the other reviewers lauding the return of this recording to circulation, I, too, have waited long (and hard) for it to appear on CD. As I write this review, I have yet to actually sample the new version--my order is still in transit, but just having *any* version of it readily available again is wonderful.
Buying this CD is justified by "A Clean Break" (their best "rock" song, it did not appear on any studio album) and "Crosseyed and Painless" (with the funky opening and Bernie Worrell's wondrous keyboarding) alone. Everything else--including the best version of Life During Wartime the Heads did--is incredible bonus.
If memory serves, TNoTBITH originally was a kind of "greatest hits" released by Sire while TH was finishing up Tongues. Now, with all the expansion that Rhino has given it, this CD actually would serve as a great introduction to their music, as well.
Really, if you like the Talking Heads at all, this is something you must buy.