Talking Heads “'Talking Heads: 77” (Deluxe Edition)

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.

2LP :

LP1: Original Album (AAA cut from Master Tapes)

Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town

New Feeling

Tentative Decisions

Happy Day

Who Is It?

No Compassion

The Book I Read

Don’t Worry About the Government

First Week/Last Week…

Carefree

Psycho Killer

Pulled Up

LP2: Outtakes/Alternates/Rarities

Sugar on My Tongue

I Want to Live

(Love Goes To) Building On Fire

I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That

Psycho Killer (Acoustic)

Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town (Alternate Pop Version)

New Feeling (Alternate Pop Version)

Pulled Up (Alternate Pop Version) [Previously Unreleased]

Stay Hungry (1977 Version)

First Week/Last Week

Carefree (Acoustic)

I Feel It in My Heart

Psycho Killer (Alternate Version) [Previously Unreleased]