The first complete artist catalog released on DualDisc! This specially packed boxed set contains all eight of Talking Heads'
studio albums, expanded and remastered as two-sided Dual Discs
featuring audiophile DVD-A sound, rare and previously unreleased
material, and video tracks. Packaging includes an outer white molded
plastic box with raised song titles, housing eight individually packaged
white jewel cases, each containing liner notes, rare photos, and
song-inspired art pieces.
Talking Heads' 30th anniversary is commemorated in typically artful style here, sonically upgrading their eight, era-defining albums via bonus-packed Dual Discs and encasing them in a molded white plastic box intricately embossed with the band's song titles. Each disc contains complete album tracks and bonus cuts remastered in High Resolution Stereo on its CD side, while the DVD programming on the flip offers up the audio tracks in expansive new 5.1 Surround Sound mixes, with all of the sonic upgrading personally supervised by Jerry Harrison. Those long overdue audio improvements alone would make it an attractive set, but fans of the band will find its wealth of bonus music (various B-sides and previously unreleased outtakes) and video (including a number of rare live clips seeing their first release here) supplements equally intriguing.
Bonus musical highlights include four rhythmically-charged, unfinished Remain in Light outtakes (including one that eventually evolved into the band's signature "Once in a Lifetime") that allow insightful glimpses into Eno's innovative production techniques on the album, alternate versions of "Cities," "Life During Wartime" and "Mind" from Fear of Music, a countrified version of "Thank You For Sending Me an Angel" from More Songs About.. and a strangely muted early version of another Heads staple, Speaking in Tongue's "Burning Down the House." An early demo of "And She Was" from Little Creatures demostrates that the whole of a glorius pop song can be the assembly of its simple parts. While the additional visual materials (especially the raw early performance clips) are a welcome addition to the Heads' canon, they're also something of a tradeoff: a few of the band's videos are conspicuously absent, including Remain in Light's "Once in a Lifetime." But overlooking a couple of the band's better known promotional moments in favor of revealing new musical treasures and vastly improved, state-of-the-art audio scarcely blunts the appeal of this rewarding career overview.
CD1-Talking Heads: 77
01 - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
02 - New Feeling
03 - Tentative Decisions
04 - Happy Day
05 - Who Is It
06 - No Compassion
07 - The Book I Read
08 - Don't Worry About The Government
09 - First Week,Last Week...Carefree
10 - Psycho Killer
11 - Pulled Up
Bonus tracks
12 - Love -> Building on Fire
13 - I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
14 - Psycho Killer (Acoustic)
15 - I Feel It In My Heart
16 - Sugar On My Tongue
CD2-More Songs About Buildings And Food
01 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
02 - With Our Love
03 - The Good Thing
04 - Warning Sign
05 - Girls Want To Be With The Girls
06 - Found A Job
07 - Artists Only
08 - I'm Not In Love
09 - Stay Hungry
10 - Take Me To The River
11 - The Big Country
Bonus tracks
12 - Stay Hungry (1977 Version)
13 - I'm Not In Love (Alternate Version)
14 - The Big Country (Alternate Version)
15 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Country Angel Version)
CD3-Fear Of Music
01 - I Zimbra
02 - Mind
03 - Paper
04 - Cities
05 - Life During Wartime
06 - Memories Can't Wait
07 - Air
08 - Heaven
09 - Animals
10 - Electric Guitar
11 - Drugs
Bonus tracks
12 - Dancing For Money (Unfinished Outtake)
13 - Life During Wartime (Alternate Version)
14 - Cities (Alternate Version)
15 - Mind (Alternate Version)
CD4-Remain In Light
01 - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
02 - Crosseyed And Painless
03 - The Great Curve
04 - Once In A Lifetime
05 - Houses In Motion
06 - Seen And Not Seen
07 - Listening Wind
08 - The Overload
Bonus tracks
09 - Fela's Riff (Unfinished Outtake)
10 - Unison (Unfinished Outtake)
11 - Double Groove (Unfinished Outtake)
12 - Right Start (Unfinished Outtake)
CD5-Speaking In Tongues
01 - Burning Down The House
02 - Making Flippy Floppy
03 - Girlfriend Is Better
04 - Slippery People
05 - I Get Wild,Wild Gravity
06 - Swamp
07 - Moon Rocks
08 - Pull Up The Roots
09 - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Bonus tracks
10 - Two Note Swivel (Unfinished Outtake)
11 - Burning Down The House (Alternate Version)
CD6-Little Creatures
01 - And She Was
02 - Give Me Back My Name
03 - Creatures Of Love
04 - Lady Don't Mind
05 - Perfect World
06 - Stay Up Late
07 - Walk It Down
08 - Television Man
09 - Road To Nowhere
Bonus tracks
10 - Road To Nowhere (Early Version)
11 - And She Was (Early Version)
12 - Television Man (Extended Mix)
CD7-True Stories
01 - Love For Sale
02 - Puzzlin' Evidence
03 - Hey Now
04 - Papa Legba
05 - Wild Wild Life
06 - Radio Head
07 - Dream Operator
08 - People Like Us
09 - City Of Dreams
Bonus tracks
10 - Wild Wild Life (Extended Mix)
11 - Papa Legba (Pops Staples Vocal Version)
12 - Radio Head (Pops Staples Vocal Version)
CD8-Naked
01 - Blind
02 - Mr. Jones
03 - Totally Nude
04 - Ruby Dear
05 - (Nothing But) Flowers
06 - The Democratic Circus
07 - The Facts Of Life
08 - Mommy Daddy You And I
09 - Big Daddy
10 - Bill
11 - Cool Water
Bonus tracks
12 - Sax And Violins
