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Also available with TALKING HEADS '77 on 1 cassette.

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

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

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

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).

Recording information: 1978.

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!"

What the critics say...

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..."

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
  2. With Our Love
  3. Good Thing, The
  4. Warning Sign
  5. Girls Want To Be With The Girls, The
  6. Found A Job
  7. Artists Only
  8. I'm Not In Love
  9. Stay Hungry
  10. Take Me To The River
  11. Big Country, The
Release date NZ
October 25th, 1990
Artist
Album Length (Minutes)
41:48
Label
Sire Records (USA)
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
1978
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x10
UPC
75992742528
Product ID
1534888

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