Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Love -> Building On Fire	Talking Heads	2:58	$1.29
2.	Psycho Killer	Talking Heads	4:19	$1.29
3.	Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town	Talking Heads	2:50	$1.29
4.	Take Me to the River	Talking Heads	5:00	$1.29
5.	Found a Job	Talking Heads	5:00	$1.29
6.	Life During Wartime	Talking Heads	3:41	$1.29
7.	Heaven	Talking Heads	4:01	$1.29
8.	Memories Can't Wait	Talking Heads	3:30	$1.29
9.	Once In a Lifetime	Talking Heads	4:19	$1.29
10.	Houses In Motion	Talking Heads	4:30	$1.29
11.	This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody..	Talking Heads	4:56	$1.29
12.	Girlfriend Is Better	Talking Heads	5:45	$1.29
13.	Burning Down the House	Talking Heads	4:02	$1.29
14.	Road to Nowhere	Talking Heads	4:19	$1.29
15.	And She Was	Talking Heads	3:37	$1.29
16.	Wild Wild Life	Talking Heads	3:39	$1.29
17.	Blind	Talking Heads	4:58	$1.29
18.	(Nothing But) Flowers	Talking Heads	5:31	$1.29

View More By Talking Heads

Our Review

New York’s Talking Heads were the first of the new wave/punk bands to make geekiness utterly cool. On stage, singer David Byrne looked like a science major who may have ingested an experimental concoction, resulting in body movements not unlike that of an epileptic seizure in progress. Yet somehow, the art-punk, oddball track “Psycho Killer” permeated the American pop psyche in 1977, and led the band on a trajectory that peaked shortly before they went their separate ways in 1991. Over the years, the band moved from a jerky, nervous, punk-inspired sensibility to something smoother, with funkier, global, polyrhythmic beats (Brian Eno’s production early on certainly played a hand), and, finally, to pure pop. While single-disc anthologies are difficult to cull, this collection is a pretty solid stab at choice cuts from each Talking Heads album. Best of all, it starts off with the group’s elusive first single, the brilliant and still amazing “Love -> Building on Fire.”  Early fans may feel the band’s first works are not represented deeply enough (where is “Warning Signs?” “Don’t Worry About the Government?”) but fans of their later work may have the same complaint (“Swamp” and “Stay Up Late” seem conspicuously absent). But, hey, this ain’t no box set.

.

Customer Reviews

A breath of fresh air in a stagnant decade (5 stars)
Listening to the Talking Heads over twenty years after first hearing them in a corporate record store in Escondido, California, I am struck by the freshness of this music even today. David Byrne, et al broke into the 1970's at a time when music was at an all time low with the height of disco and other sycophantic crap.

Masterpiece (5 stars)
This album is a masterpiece collection of hits known and not so well known. I Bought it the day it came out, if you have only the slightest interest in the Talking Heads this is a good album to start with.

Soundtrack to my life (5 stars)
Where ever I go I have a Talking Heads cd or my iPod close, this album proved to be all that I needed to orchestrate my life. David Byrne is clearly the most creative person to ever come out during the 80's, completely bringing out the new wave sound.

Biography

Formed: 1974 in New York, NY
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s

At the start of their career, Talking Heads were all nervous energy, detached emotion, and subdued minimalism. When they released their last album about 12 years later, the band had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop. Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits. While some of their music can...

Top Albums By Talking Heads
The Best of Ta..	Stop Making Se..	The Name of Th..	Remain In Ligh..	Talking Heads ..

Top Songs By Talking Heads
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Once In a Lifetime	The Best of Talking Heads (..	4:19	$1.29
2.	Burning Down the House	The Best of Talking Heads (..	4:02	$1.29
3.	And She Was	The Best of Talking Heads (..	3:37	$1.29
4.	Psycho Killer	The Best of Talking Heads (..	4:19	$1.29
5.	Take Me to the River	The Best of Talking Heads (..	5:00	$1.29
6.	This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody..	The Best of Talking Heads (..	4:56	$1.29
7.	Wild Wild Life	The Best of Talking Heads (..	3:39	$1.29
8.	Life During Wartime	The Best of Talking Heads (..	3:41	$1.29
9.	Road to Nowhere	The Best of Talking Heads (..	4:19	$1.29
10.	(Nothing But) Flowers	The Best of Talking Heads (..	5:31	$1.29

View More By Talking Heads

Comments