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In Reply to: 8 Albums - pretty much all their studio albums posted by DrOctodivx on October 3, 2005 at 09:37:08:
They will be released as single DD's in Jan 06. The first 4 one week and the last 3 two weeks later.Some more info.....
"Talking Heads' Body of Work"This ain't no foolin' around," as will be obvious to anyone who sees the futuristic cube housing the complete reissue set of all eight studio albums made by proto-art-rockers Talking Heads. Due October 4 on Rhino, Talking Heads, a gleaming white plastic slipcase embossed with fragments of Heads lyrics, contains the band's catalog as encoded in the new DualDisc format, with remastered versions of the stereo albums’ CD content on one side, along with bonus audio tracks, and 5.1 surround mixes of the respective albums plus live footage and music videos as DVD content on each disc's flip side.
Andy Zax, whose archival talents have previously enriched the catalogs of bands such as Television and Echo & the Bunnymen, co-produced the reissue series with the full involvement of the original four band members: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison (who supervised the 5.1 remixes with engineer Eric 'ET' Thorngren), Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz. For fans eager to learn of the rarities seeing light for the first time in this set, Zax offers a disc-by-disc breakdown, beginning with the band's initial release. We’ll cover the first four reissues today, then finish up the rest of the batch tomorrow.
Talking Heads '77
"As bonus tracks on the CD side," Zax tells ICE," there's the remastered version of the band's first single, ‘Love Goes to a Building on Fire’ b/w ‘I Wish You Wouldn't Say That.’ Then there’s an unreleased acoustic version of their early signature tune, 'Psycho Killer,' just stunning with accompaniment from cellist [and latter-day cult figure] Arthur Russell. 'I Feel It in My Heart' is a Talking Heads '77 outtake never before issued; the song was a part of the band's early live set. Finally, there’s 'Sugar on My Tongue, ' an early demo first appearing on the Sand In The Vaseline compilation, another pre- Talking Heads '77 song." The DVD side, in addition to the surround-sound mix of the album, holds two 5.1 bonus tracks, alternate mixes created by Harrison of 'Uh Oh Love Comes to Town' and the acoustic 'Psycho Killer.' The video content includes a performance of 'I Feel It in My Heart' recorded in 1976 at the Kitchen in New York City, and 'Pulled Up' performed live in 1978 at U.C. Berkeley's Sproul Plaza."
More Songs About Buildings and Food
The band's second album features four bonus audio tracks. First up are alternate versions of 'Stay Hungry' and 'I'm Not in Love.’ "These are very intense performances with interesting sonics from the band performing in studio alongside producer/synthesist Brian Eno," says Zax. "There’s also an alternate version of 'The Big Country' and the twangy, 'Country Angel' version of 'Thank You for Sending Me an Angel' intended as a B-side, to date unreleased in North America." The disc's DVD side features two more performance videos: "Found a Job" dates from New York's Entermedia Theater in 1978, and "Warning Sign" draws again from the Sproul Plaza during the same year.
Fear of Music
The band's third album, its second with Eno recording bed tracks in Chris and Tina's loft, holds four bonus audio tracks. Zax points out "the clearly unfinished, heretofore unknown 'Dancing for Money,' just catchy as hell and great fun to listen to," featuring Byrne and Eno singing extemporaneous lyrics. Also unearthed was an alternate version with full-length ending of "Life During Wartime" (the original ended with an extended fade-out, rendering inaudible some of the song's lyrics). Zax notes "This changes the character of the song completely." Next is an outtake version of "Drugs" with King Crimson's Robert Fripp (a longtime Eno collaborator) on guitar, as is also the case with the alternate take of "Mind." The "Cities" heard here is longer than the album cut, with different lyrics; this version was previously found on the Once in a Lifetime boxed set assembled by Zax. Two band performances – "I Zimbra" and "Cities" – from 1980 episodes of Rock Pop, a German TV program, complete the DVD side.
Remain In Light
The first appearance of the expanded Talking Heads, and their final Brian Eno production, is complemented with four previously unheard bonus tracks: "Fela's Riff" (its title alluding to Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti), "Unison," "Double Groove" and "Right Start." Zax points out that "Both 'Unison' and 'Double Groove' contain the beginnings of uncompleted songs, and a guitar riff from 'Right Start' holds some of the DNA of 'Once in a Lifetime.' For anyone who's a fan of this album, this is the mother lode. And the DVD side's surround mix is especially dramatic, though anyone used to the dull sound of the initial CD reissue will be impressed [just] by the stereo mixes." Also in the DVD program are two more Rock Pop performances, "Crosseyed and Painless" and "Once in a Lifetime."
Speaking in Tongues
The CD portion of this 1982 opus is extended with two additional songs: the outtake "Two-Note Swivel" and an alternate take of the classic "Burning Down the House." Producer Andy Zax notes that the original LP release sported edited version of the songs, with the cassette and, later, CD reissues containing the full-length performances, all of which are restored on the CD program of the new DualDisc. The DVD content includes a surround-sound bonus mix of "Burning Down the House" that’s different from the original album mix, as well as two music videos, "Burning Down the House" and "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)."
Little Creatures
Early versions of "Road to Nowhere" and "And She Was" constitute two-thirds of this album’s extra material. "These are pretty cool, preliminary versions," Zax tells ICE, "just the band bashing the songs out in the privacy of the studio. They're both intriguing from that perspective. It's almost like the return of the sound of Talking Heads '77." Also featured on the CD side is an extended mix of "Television Man," as remixed by Jerry Harrison and Eric Thorngren. "This came out on 12-inch singles in foreign markets," explains Zax. "The sound is very ’80s." DVD items include videos for "Road to Nowhere" and "And She Was."
True Stories
The soundtrack to the 1986 feature film directed by David Byrne is augmented with three bonus cuts: the extended mix of "Wild, Wild Life," a bonus track on the original CD now included on the DualDisc reissue; then two outtakes, the "movie vocal" of "Papa Legba" as sung by Pops Staples, then Tito Larriva's (of the Plugz) rendition of "Radio Head." "There will probably be a Rhino Handmade two-CD edition of True Stories," Zax says, "with all of the ancillary material, both from the band's version of the record and the movie version sung by the actors, as well as the Sounds from True Stories album issued during the film's theatrical run." Special DVD material includes two videos, "Love for Sale" and "Wild, Wild Life." Additionally, Harrison created a surround-sound remix of Staples' take on "Papa Legba."
Naked
The final Talking Heads studio effort, issued in 1988 during the early years of the CD age, originally had a running time of 53 minutes. Owing to the limitations imposed on the CD content by the DualDisc format, only one bonus audio track could be included. "Sax and Violins" was done by the band for Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World during the Naked sessions. (Zax reminds fans that other songs from this period were previously released on the Sand in the Vaseline compilation.) Naked's DVD portion hosts a surround mix of "Sax and Violins," plus videos for "Sax and Violins" and "Blind."
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