Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024 Remaster) (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024 Remaster) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:03 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Rock, Punk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Super Deluxe edition of the 1977 groundbreaking debut by Talking Heads, including the original album, outtakes, rarities and an 80 page hardcover book with new liner notes written by Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison. The book includes photos and images from the band’s archive and photographers from the era.The central attraction of this remastered and enriched version of the Talking Heads’ dazzling first album is a previously unreleased 1977 concert at New York City’s CBGB, played just as they were about to cut Talking Heads: 77. The band, by then a sharp, tight-knit unit, is audibly confident on their home ice as they rip through a breathless set, heavy on tracks from the soon-to-be recorded debut. Rolling through powerful versions of their first single, “Love Goes to a Building on Fire” and “Uh-Oh, Loves Comes to Town,” the band’s trademark grooves bounce and crash, highlighting its eternal challenge of recreating that live energy in a studio environment. Their brilliant debut does just that, beautifully capturing Byrne’s straining vocals, the odd lyrics, and the sudden rhythm changes—all the things that made them such a new and exotic act in 1977. A previously unreleased “alternate pop version” of “Pulled Up” from the original recording sessions has a fuller sound than the album version and is upbeat and wonderfully alive. A busier, more compact unreleased take of “Psycho Killer” is also revealing, and a rare version of the song, recorded with downtown Manhattan avant-garde cellist Arthur Russell—who nearly joined the band around the time of the debut album—is an even deeper dive into the album’s most enduring track. Despite crowded recording sessions at Sundragon Studios in Manhattan, where the band, Tony Bongiovi (owner of The Power Station studios) Lance Quinn, and Tommy Erdeyli (Tommy Ramone) all had a voice, Taking Heads’ herky jerky energy was accurately captured in crisp, well-defined sound by engineer Ed Stasium The 2024 remastering of the original album by Ted Jensen is also a success, adding dimension and depth which, to be fair, was never particularly lacking. Punky yet groove-oriented, with African and Caribbean influences, the band’s clean-cut art rock remains a singular sound. Slightly mad but hooky and easy to like, Talking Heads: 77 gave New Wave a compelling voice. – Robert Baird

Tracklist:

1-1. Talking Heads – Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (2024 Remaster) (02:49)
1-2. Talking Heads – New Feeling (2024 Remaster) (03:09)
1-3. Talking Heads – Tentative Decisions (2024 Remaster) (03:08)
1-4. Talking Heads – Happy Day (2024 Remaster) (03:55)
1-5. Talking Heads – Who is It? (2024 Remaster) (01:44)
1-6. Talking Heads – No Compassion (2024 Remaster) (04:50)
1-7. Talking Heads – The Book I Read (2024 Remaster) (04:10)
1-8. Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About the Government (2024 Remaster) (03:01)
1-9. Talking Heads – First Week/Last Week…Carefree (2024 Remaster) (03:21)
1-10. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (2024 Remaster) (04:20)
1-11. Talking Heads – Pulled Up (2024 Remaster) (04:31)
2-1. Talking Heads – Sugar on My Tongue (2024 Remaster) (02:36)
2-2. Talking Heads – I Want to Live (2024 Remaster) (03:23)
2-3. Talking Heads – Love Goes to a Building on Fire (2024 Remaster) (02:58)
2-4. Talking Heads – I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That (2024 Remaster) (02:40)
2-5. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Acoustic Version) [feat. Arthur Russell] (2024 Remaster) (04:17)
2-6. Talking Heads – Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Pop Version) (2024 Remaster) (02:55)
2-7. Talking Heads – New Feeling (Alternate Pop Version) (2024 Remaster) (03:03)
2-8. Talking Heads – Pulled Up (Alternate Pop Version) (2024 Remaster) (04:35)
2-9. Talking Heads – Stay Hungry (1977 Version) (2024 Remaster) (03:44)
2-10. Talking Heads – First Week/Last Week…Carefree (Acoustic Version) (2024 Remaster) (03:26)
2-11. Talking Heads – I Feel It in My Heart (2024 Remaster) (03:15)
2-12. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Alternate Version) (2024 Remaster) (05:02)
3-1. Talking Heads – Love Goes to a Building on Fire (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (03:46)
3-2. Talking Heads – Uh-Oh, Love Come to Town (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (03:04)
3-3. Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About the Government (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (03:06)
3-4. Talking Heads – Take Me to the River (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (05:19)
3-5. Talking Heads – The Book I Read (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (04:33)
3-6. Talking Heads – New Feeling (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (03:35)
3-7. Talking Heads – A Clean Break (Let’s Work) [Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977] (2024 Remaster) (04:57)
3-8. Talking Heads – No Compassion (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (05:21)
3-9. Talking Heads – Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (02:06)
3-10. Talking Heads – Who Is It? (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (01:56)
3-11. Talking Heads – Pulled Up (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (04:53)
3-12. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (05:54)
3-13. Talking Heads – Stay Hungry (Live at CBGB, New York, NY, 10/10/1977) (2024 Remaster) (04:41)

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