fellow talking heads afficionados

for those who dont keep up with it too often since
there isnt ever that much news about them anyways:

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Talking Heads boxset details
Posted Tuesday, 9 September, 2003 by francey
Talking Heads will release Once in a Lifetime, a fifty-four-track career-spanning box set, on November 11th. The three discs feature album tracks and previously unreleased material, as well as an expanded DVD version of the band's 1988 video anthology Storytelling Giant.

Once in a Lifetime track listing (tracks previously unreleased on CD/DVD in bold):

Disc One:

Sugar on My Tongue
Love -- Building On Fire
I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
Don't Worry About the Government
Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Version)
New Feeling (Alternate Version)
Pulled Up
Psycho Killer
Warning Sign
Artists Only
Tentative Decisions
No Compassion
Stay Hungry
I'm Not In Love
The Book I Read
Thank You for Sending Me An Angel
Found a Job
A Clean Break (Live)
Take Me to the River
The Big Country
Heaven

Disc Two:

I Zimbra
Cities (Alternate Version)
Life During Wartime
Air
Memories Can't Wait
Drugs (Alternate Version)
Once in a Lifetime
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Listening Wind
Houses in Motion
Crosseyed and Painless
Burning Down the House
Making Flippy Floppy
Girlfriend Is Better
Slippery People
Swamp
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Disc Three:

And She Was
Stay Up Late
Creatures of Love
The Lady Don't Mind
Road to Nowhere
Wild Wild Life
Love for Sale
People Like Us
Puzzlin' Evidence
City of Dreams
Blind
Mr. Jones
The Democratic Circus
(Nothing but) Flowers
In Asking Land (Alternate Take)
Sax and Violins
Lifetime Piling Up

Storytelling Giant DVD:

Once in a Lifetime
Wild Wild Life
Stay Up Late
Blind
Crosseyed and Painless
Burning Down the House
And She Was
Sax and Violins
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
The Lady Don't Mind
Love for Sale
(Nothing But) Flowers
Road to Nowhere

Here is the press release with the details (and a different release date).
Here's a Rolling Stone article about THE Talking Heads and their upcoming boxset.


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info from francey's site
nice to see a new box set.
i dont remember what is on the name of this band is talking heads
which on tape only, but i see a clean break on the list which
i believe is one of the tracks from the tape.
and i m pretty excited about the story telling giant portion.
i saw a vhs tape of it at a video rental place.
they of course refused to sell it to me but
whatever. i think i saw it on ld. just one of the many useless things
i need to add to my pack rattish pile.
so there you go.

"77" is one of the best records ever. I'm not much of a fan of anything after "More Songs about Buildings and Food," but I love those first two albums.

Difficult one to judge........

I'm sure most hardcore TH fans, would perhaps be dissapointed by the title "Once in a lifetime"" as the GH package........ PROBABLY, most HC fans hark the days of Psycho Killer/Drugs....

Not me though, Psyicho Killer is my fave TH track, closely folowed by OIAL, great band no doubt, though perhaps the lead singer took his cues from other top s5tars, particularly evident in his solo work (not a bad thing)............

Wont be getting it imediately, but my be a nice package to get later.

Sounds cool, will definitely pick it up when it comes out. As for a faborite tune, I would have to say Once in a Lifetime just edges out Burning Down the House for me. I think I will go watch Stop Making Sense again now as I haven't watched that dvd in a while.

hello there mr bash.
hope you are doing fine.
but anyways.
i ve always thought all of the heads tunes were great.
but if i had to pick a couple i d say
some of my favorite selections would be memories cant wait and heaven.
if there was one thing about the heads that was great it was
that they were always evolving their music to something different,
a trade thats lost upon todays acts that make recordings of the
same type of music over and over again.
if you were to compare 77 with fear of music or naked or speaking in tongues
you would come out with different styles tones and experiences.
just a dumb thing i always thought was interesting about them.

I must concur Mr. Hero, every album they seem to change up the style and sound of their music. One of the most truly innovative groups in music past or present. On a side note, I hope that all is going well for you Mr. Hero, and you are lucky I won't be around when SVC comes out as my Hugo would lay the smack down on anyone you could pick.

Great band!! my favorite song by them is This must be the place. I picked up sand in the vaseline when it came out, but ive never bought a full album.

Which one is their best?

everything is doing quite well sir,
and youre welcome to stop by any time.
because if my memory serves correctly my hugo whooped on
your hugo almost as badly as my zangeif trounced your zangeif
;D
but mr Jake,
alot of people regard stop making sense one of the talking heads
best albeit live, and then again alot of people consider it one
of the best live shows of all time as well. if you find stop making
sense on dvd you ll see what i mean. its a great production really.
like ive mentioned in here already.
they had such a big range of work that its kind of hard to put a
one over the other unless you happen to like one style of music over
the other imo.
but stop making sense is a mix of a few popular older titles plus things from
speaking in tongues and remain in light.
both pretty well received albums toward the end of the groups career before
david split with the rest of the members.
my favorite live album is the name of this band is talking heads that showed up
on tape and lp. no cd though