Studio Albums
TALKING HEADS: 77
Talking Heads' first album has as its title the year of its release, 1977. After two years playing in concert halls and alternative rock bars, the band was contracted by the small company Sire, dependant of Warner Brothers, to publish its first album (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD
In the creation of this record Brian Eno played a decisive role. It is said that Eno knew the band during the 1977 tour. Chris Frantz saw Eno in the crowd, and invited him to the dressing room. There he met John Cale, who was also invited, and John said 'I want them for me, queer!' (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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FEAR OF MUSIC
In May of 1979 the band records its third album, with the help of Brian Eno for the second time. 'Fear Of Music' is the title of this album, and it is taken after a mental disease consisting in a phobia to music (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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REMAIN IN LIGHT
When the Fear Of Music tour ended, the band took some holidays to work on individual projects. David went to a California desert to work with Brian Eno in My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, a project where they investigated on ethnyc rhythms (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES
June of 1983 is the release date of Speaking In Tongues, the fifth studio album of the band. It soon was the best-selling record of the group. In this album we can find two of the most famous songs (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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LITTLE CREATURES
Certainly not one of the strongest albums of Talking Heads, although it is the most accesible one. No more dark songs here like in the previous albums, this a pop album that although a bit week contains some of the most known songs by the band (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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TRUE STORIES
If you have seen the movie, you'll love this album that contains songs from the movie played by Talking Heads. Warning! This is not the soundtrack of the movie, it is a Talking Heads album.Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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NAKED
After the involvement with regional American music and the pop song form on the previous two albums, Talking Heads decided to try something different. In response to America's increased isolationism, the group thought it might be inspirational to work in another country with an international group of musicians (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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Live Albums
THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS
This is a double LP with live recordings from Talking Heads. Unfortunately there has never been a CD release for this double album, and it can only be found on vynil and cassette (...)STOP MAKING SENSE
Acclaimed by the fans as probably the best Talking Heads live album, even as the best album, Stop Making Sense is at the same time a CD and a video which can be found in DVD and VHS (...)Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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Compilations & Boxsets
TALKING HEADS BRICK
8-disk boxset containing remastered versions of all their studio albums with bonus tracks and surround DVD-A mix. (...)Order at Amazon (USA)
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3X1 BOX SET VOL 1
This boxset contains 3 CDs in their original jewelcases: 'Fear Of Music', 'Remain In Light' and 'Speaking In Tongues'. All three discs feature their original artwork...Listen to samples / buy (USA)
3X1 BOX SET VOL 2
This boxset contains 3 CDs in their original jewelcases: 'Little Creatures', 'True Stories' and 'Naked'. All three discs feature their original artwork...Listen to samples / buy (USA)
ONCE IN A LIFETIME - BEST OF
This 1992 compilation contains 14 tracks, which are supposed to be 'the best of' Talking Heads: Psycho Killer, Take me to the river, Once in a lifetime, Burning down the house, etc...Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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SAND IN THE VASELINE - POPULAR FAVORITES
If you are looking for an extensive Talking Heads compilation, I would recomend this. It contains 33 tracks from nearly every Talking Heads album, with a total duration of 139 minutes. It includes five previously unreleased tracks...Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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12x12 ORIGINAL REMIXES
Released in 1999, it contains -you guessed it- 12 remixes of the most popular Talking Heads songs. Quite interesting and fun indeed...Listen to samples / buy (USA)
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Talking Heads Videos
STOP MAKING SENSE (VHS)
A guaranteed cure for anyone's blues, it's a celebration of music that never grows old, fueled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the geeky supernova that is David Byrne (...)More info / buy (USA)
STORYTELLING GIANT (VHS)
This collection gathers a decade's worth of the band's groundbreaking music videos and connects them with random, spontaneous footage of real people talking. These unrehearsed moments share the same quirky feel of David Byrne's film 'True Stories', which is also where the videos for 'Wild Wild Life' and 'Love For Sale' are taken from (...)More info / buy (USA)
STOP MAKING SENSE (DVD)
Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind (...)More info / buy (USA)
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