Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 2LP

RELEASES ON THE 8/11/24

Talking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed alternately threatening and goofy.

An album full of staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single-note patterns, non-rhyming, non-linear lyrics that come across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch. A voice singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying desperately to sound normal. The music was undeniably catchy, even at its most ominous, especially on Psycho Killer, Byrne's supreme statement of demented purpose.

This was the first of four consecutive masterpieces for sire. "77" is the work of a truly great American band.

Tracklist:

1. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
2. New Feeling
3. Tentative Decisions
4. Happy Day
5. Who Is It?
6. No Compassion
7. The Book I Read
8. Don't Worry About the Government
9. First Week / Last Week...Carefree
10. Psycho Killer
11. Pulled Up
12. Sugar on My Tongue
13. I Want to Live
14. Love - Building on Fire
15. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
16. Psycho Killer (Acoustic Version)
17. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Pop Version)
18. New Feeling (Alternate Pop Version)
19. Pulled Up (Alternate Pop Version)
20. Stay Hungry (1977 Version)
21. First Week / Last Week...Carefree (Acoustic Version)
22. I Feel It In My Heart
23. Psycho Killer (Alternate Version / Previously Unreleased)

About this product: this reissue is pressed on 2x transparent green vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.