Wednesday 30 May 2007

Talking Heads - Demos (1975)

Thanks to Alex from the big country, I offer you Talking Heads with their CBS studio demos. Most of these songs were tidied up and appeared on Talking Heads : 77 (1977) and More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978). Four of the songs remained unreleased until the 1992 double cd compilation - Popular Favorites 1976 - 1992 Sand In The Vaseline. From memory the demo versions were used, so unfortunately I cannot make them available. That aside, I'm certain you'll enjoy the raw versions of the remaining songs.
The sound quality is superb.
Why not catch up with their back catalogue, newly remastered with bonus tracks and dvd. You'll pick most of them up for £6 or less (HMV online or Fopp).
Enjoy.

01 Psycho Killer *
02 Sugar On My Tongue :(
03 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel +
04 I Want To Live :(
05 I Wish You Wouldn't Say That :(
06 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls +
07 Who Is It? *
08 With Our Love +
09 Stay Hungry +
10 Tentative Decisions *
11 Warning Sign +
12 I'm Not In Love +
13 The Book I Read *
14 Love Goes To Building On Fire :(
15 No Compassion *

* alternate versions appeared on Talking Heads : 77 (1977)
+ alternate versions appeared on More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978)
:( not available for download - refer to tracks 1-4 Sand In The Vaseline (1992)

8 comments:

art58koen said...

thank you very much!
I have quite a bit of their work on my site: http://drfeelgoed.multiply.com/

Saman said...

Cheers, koen.
Thanks for the link. I'll check out your site.

Unknown said...

Great!! Amazing!! Terrific!!

Anonymous said...

Excelent recordings, a find. Thank you for posting such a treasure.

Anonymous said...

Hi - I don't know if you have these tracks, but "I wish you wouldn't say that" and "Love -> building on fire" on Sand in the Vaseline are the album versions, not from these demo sessions. But thanks for posting this regardless!

John H said...

Thanks for this. Amazing, nervy recordings. Quite a journey from here to 'I Zimbra' and 'Blind'.

Wreckless Eric said...

Er, could someone tell me how to access the music?
I can read the text, but can't figure out how to listen.

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