Audio CD review:
Talking Heads - Talking Heads

Talking Heads - Talking Heads

Band: Talking Heads Title: Talking Heads Rating: Release Date: 2005-10-04 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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: Love - Building on Fire 13: I Wish You Wouldn't Say That 14: Psycho Killer 15: I Feel It in My Heart 16: Sugar on My Tongue 17: Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town 18: New Feeling 19: Tentative Decisions 20: Happy Day 21: Who Is It? 22: No Compassion 23: The Book I Read 24: Don't Worry About the Government 25: First Week/Last Week...Carefree 26: Psycho Killer 27: Pulled Up 28: Psycho Killer 29: Thank You for Sending Me an Angel 30: With Our Love 31: The Good Thing 32: Warning Sign 33: The Girls Want to Be with the Girls 34: Found a Job 35: Artists Only 36: I'm Not in Love 37: Stay Hungry 38: Take Me to the River - Talking Heads, Green, Al 39: The Big Country 40: Stay Hungry 41: I'm Not in Love 42: The Big Country 43: Thank You for Sending Me an Angel 44: Thank You for Sending Me an Angel 45: With Our Love 46: The Good Thing 47: Warning Sign 48: The Girls Want to Be with the Girls 49: Found a Job 50: Artists Only 51: I'm Not in Love 52: Stay Hungry 53: Take Me to the River - Talking Heads, Green, Al 54: The Big Country 55: Warning Sign 56: I Zimbra 57: Mind 58: Paper 59: Cities 60: Life During Wartime 61: Memories Can't Wait 62: Air 63: Heaven 64: Animals 65: Electric Guitar 66: Drugs 67: Dancing for Money 68: Life During Wartime 69: Cities 70: I Zimbra 71: Mind 72: Paper 73: Cities 74: Life During Wartime 75: Memories Can't Wait 76: Air 77: Heaven 78: Animals 79: Electric Guitar 80: Drugs 81: Cities 82: I Zimbra 83: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) 84: Crosseyed and Painless 85: The Great Curve 86: Once in a Lifetime 87: Houses in Motion 88: Seen and Not Seen 89: Listening Wind 90: The Overload 91: Fela's Riff 92: Unison 93: Double Groove 94: Right Start 95: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) 96: Crosseyed and Painless 97: The Great Curve 98: Once in a Lifetime 99: Houses in Motion 100: Seen and Not Seen 101: Listening Wind 102: The Overload 103: Crosseyed and Painless 104: Once in a Lifetime 105: Burning Down the House 106: Making Flippy Floppy 107: Girlfriend Is Better 108: Slippery People 109: I Get Wild/Wild Gravity 110: Swamp 111: Moon Rocks 112: Pull Up the Roots 113: This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) 114: Two Note Swivel 115: Burning Down the House 116: Burning Down the House 117: This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) 118: And She Was 119: Give Me Back My Name 120: Creatures of Love 121: The Lady Don't Mind 122: Perfect World 123: Stay Up Late 124: Walk It Down 125: Television Man 126: Road to Nowhere 127: Road to Nowhere 128: And She Was 129: Television Man 130: Love for Sale 131: Puzzlin' Evidence 132: Hey Now 133: Papa Legba 134: Wild Wild Life 135: Radio Head 136: Dream Operator 137: People Like Us 138: City of Dreams 139: Wild Wild Life 140: Papa Legba 141: Radio Head 142: Blind 143: Mr. Jones 144: Totally Nude 145: Ruby Dear 146: (Nothing But) Flowers 147: The Democratic Circus 148: The Facts of Life 149: Mommy Daddy You and I 150: Big Daddy 151: Bill 152: Cool Water 153: Sax and Violins

BEWARE! DUAL DISC FORMAT IS A JOKE! WASTE OF MONEY EVEN FOR BIG FANS! Aside from the musical content, which is excellent, this package could not have been more poorly manufactured. I was very excited to finally see these titles get remastered. First, you get a easy to crack plastic outer box. No booklet is included other than the individual CD liner notes. When I purchase a box as expensive as this, I expect excellent quality packaging, as well as audio fidelity. This set does not deliver. On a normal tray-style CD player, these discs function fine. In slot load drives however, simply inserting these discs can damage your player. The dual-disc format is just too wide. It can jam the motors, or get caught in the slot and not come out. If you attempt to rip these for MP3's, get ready for disaster. It can take forever, if they rip at all. Lot's of errors and skips. Computers just don't like these, especially Macintosh's. These actually caused my G4 iBook to fail to recognize the disc drive, and then they could not be ejected. It took me two hours to get the disc out of the computer! Read all the other peoples bad reviews on this if you don't believe me. As for the bonus content, it's nice, but nothing special. Most have a few demo's and alternate versions on the CD audio side, and throw away 5. 1 audio mixes and a couple videos on the DVD side. All in all there really isn't that much content on DVD sides. Rhino could have easily made these as normal CD's, and thrown in a single bonus DVD disc for all the content contained on the flipside's in this entire box. Instead, they chose the unreliable, easily scratched/smudged, dual-disc format. I suggest you wait until this gets reissued again before purchasing these albums again. Go with the cheaper, non-remastered versions that really don't sound that bad. The price on this box isn't exactly that great either. You really are getting scr*wed by the man on this one. Shame on Rhino for this huge error. They know how a good box set should be made, and this isn't the way. Talking Heads Rock If you're a fan this collection rocks. The ultimate collection, all lyrics and cover art included. Talking Heads Review Shopping online for this seemed easier than shopping locally for something we were unfamiiliar with. This was a Christmas present for our son-in-law. The item arrived quickly, in great condition at a reasonable price. Fantastic! We had to purchase online because we were unable to find it in stores. My husband loves the Heads and has been waiting to receive this album for a long time. The husband is extremely happy to have it! He says there are a few little strange quirks in the backgrounds of some of the recordings, but overall is very pleased. . Great Music.......lousy packaging Great music, but lousy packaging. It's pretty simple. I owned all of their albums, so I wanted CD versions of them. I had read some of the reviews talking about the inferior packaging, but figured how bad could it be? So, I got this box set, and here are my issues with it: 1) You have no clue which CD is in which case. The sides of the jewel cases are blank white, so you need to start pulling them out of the cheap plastic box to find the one you want. 2) Three of the jewel cases were broken at the hinges, so the covers pop off. 3) One of the cases was cracked all along the bottom of the front. The quality of the music is great, some nice bonus tracks, and some great extras, like music videos, but. . . they could have made it even better with good packaging. You can see a complete list of all Talking Heads discography, or go back to the Talking Heads tabs