Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings & Food CD

This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.

The Heads' second album found them building on the twitchy "new wave" sound they established with their debut while using that approach as a springboard for new lyrical and musical innovations. The band's sonic pallette is a bit wider here; the interplay between the guitars of David Byrne and Jerry Harrison is more fully developed here, are Harrison's keyboard contributions (he was, after all, strictly a keys man in the Modern Lovers, one of the Heads' primary influences). The band displays diversity with their first recorded cover tune, Al Green's "Take Me To The River," which they redefine with an ominous, supple sensuality. While Byrne still sounds like his nerves are being stretched to the breaking point, the band is a little looser here, as on the jumpy, Velvet Underground-ish "Thank You For Sending Me an Angel." Byrne's hyper-intellectualism is in full flower on BUILDINGS, from the gender politics lesson "The Girls Want to Be With the Girls" to the New York bohemian slant of "Artists Only," whose key phrase is "you can't see it till it's finished!"

Formed in the 1970's by art school chums David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and ex-Modern Lover Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads rose out of CBGB's punk crucible and proved themselves one the most artistically adventurous and influential bands ever. This Dualdisc features the album i remastered stereo along with rare bonus audio tracks. The DVD side features the album in DVD Audio, along with bonus DVD audio and video content. The video content features "Found a Job" (live at Entermedia Theatre, 1978) and "Warning Sign" (live at Sproul Plaza, 1978.)

Also available with TALKING HEADS '77 on 1 cassette.

Recorded at Compass Point Studio, New Providence, The Bahamas in March and April 1978.

Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar, percussion); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass, background vocals); Chris Frantz (drums, percussion).

Talking Heads: Jerry Harrison (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); David Byrne (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass instrument, percussion); Tina Weymouth (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass instrument, percussion, background vocals); Chris Frantz (keyboards, drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Brian Eno (various instruments, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Brian Eno (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals).Uncut (p.82) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It stitches together reggae, proto-math-rock noodling, Devo angularity and funk into a seamless, symmetrical and bizarrely sexy package..."