Talking Heads : Only Pick One (Album)

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i've got 'stop making sense' and it's one of my fave things, but where *do* you start after that? not 'true stories' i'm sure you'll agree.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Although it is argued by many that Remain in Light is their apex (and I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that), I consider More Songs About Building and Food my fave.

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

As I've said before:
'77 > Fear Of Music > Speaking In Tongues > Remain In Light > Little Creatures > More Songs About Buildings And Food.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno - i used to be so sure 77>RIL>more songs>fear of music, but now i dont even know. you really cant go wrong with any of those first four. i would suggest getting 77 and one other, so you can get both their clipped pop stuff, and also their weird-eno-sonics-pop stuff.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Remain in Light

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear Of Music.

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I second More Songs ...

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

third it

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Remain in Light>More Songs>Fear of Music>Speaking in Tongues>77. They're all good , though.

― Not That Chuck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tongues.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

4thed, mostly

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music, er, seconded.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs!

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously - just take MSaBaF, FoM, and RIL, close your eyes, and shuffle em up a bit and pick one. youre sure to be pleased.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sand in the Vaseline is a bit of a winner - a good deal more interesting than just the "hits".

― Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs About Buildings And Food > Remain In Light > Speaking In Tongues > Fear Of Music > Naked > '77 > Little Creatures > True Stories

Also, don't forget that they're FINALLY releasing The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads on CD this month.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ah yeah ive got sand in the vaseline too.
and little creatures. dont like that last one.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs < /bandwagon but this was my first by them, got it from my cousin Greg who didn't want it, then he wanted it back but fuck that, go wash a hat you mississippi-ass nativeamerican-giver> (actually he was cool, he was on the football team and helped to protect me when I was a freshman) (still didn't give him the record back though)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to Little Creatures for the first time in many years the other day - I don't think it's dated well.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The! Name! Of! This! Band! Is! Talking! Heads!
With extra tracks! Out this month FINALLY!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw David Byrne at Womad, and he blew me away, really. I was expecting (as were some of my friends who left before he came on) some kind of po-faced avant-garde self-parody of a performance.

Instead he came on to Road To Nowhere, did all the TH stuff - brilliantly - and danced around not unlike Charles Chaplin would have done in the 60s. "Love => Building On Fire" and "Once in a Lifetime" were incredible. Even "And She Was" was a winner. The whole festival crowd was amazed, by all accounts.

I have fallen in love with him again.

― Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs, because Ive never shaked my ass so hard to a record

― Andu, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The first four are all great. The one you're listening to at the moment is the best. So, get them all.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've probably said this all over ILM by now but I think Naked is FAR underrated. It's got nothing on the first four, true, but it's still a wonderful record for sure.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, truth be told my guess is naked has held up at least as well as little creatures

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

FIRST TOM TOM CLUB RECORD!>More Songs>Fear of Music>Remain in Light>Speaking in Tounges>77

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs...

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Franz Ferinand

― karelia, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ferdinand, even.

― high noon, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music

LDW
This ain't no party
This ain't no disco
This ain't no foolin around
No time for dancin
Or lovey dovey
I ain't got time for that now

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

That's cool that he's playing "Love=>Building on Fire"

My fav is RiL, followed by More Songs...

Also: second the first Tom Tom Club

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Remain in Light and More Songs in a dead tie, followed closely by '77 and Speaking in Tongues.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Remain in Light, More Songs, '77, Fear, The Name of this Band. I don't even like Speaking in Tongues: heresy?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

but... but... it has "Swamp"!

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

More than most bands, there really is no conventional wisdom with which Talking Heads record was best, is there?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

More than most bands, but I think Remain in Light is cited most often.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even like Speaking in Tongues: heresy?

Also, it has "This Must be The Place." So I'm sorry, but yes. Heresy.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like "This Must Be the Place," but that's about it for that album, "Swamp" included.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I haven't listened to it in 10 years at least.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Damnit you guys. Now I have to stay up late making a Talking Heads mix for work tomorrow.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Being well rested vs. having a good mix to listen to the next day

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that what 6-disc changers and shuffle-play were made for? Oh, wait, WORK.

X-post: Before age 40, good mix. After age 40, rest. (Said the 40-year-old.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking In Tongues almost redeems the "The 80s Are Here!" production. Almost.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Remain in Light" is the only one I like. David Byrne's voice, ecch. Ditto his "ideas." They should have just been an instrumental party band like the JBs or someone.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Remain In Light

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

fear of music, followed very quickly by remain in light.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music by a mile, just for Life During Wartime.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear Of Music

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

'Remain in Light' because "The Great Curve" is my favorite Talking Head's song. "Listening Wind" probably cuts more to today than it did in 1980. I've thought about that song quite a bit in the past few years.

The first four are great.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of Music

This album is on my personal top five albums, even though Talking Heads are not even in my top twenty bands. But for 'I Zimbra,' it would be a perfect album.

― Matthew Masich (Truman Capote), Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

More Songs > 77 > Fear > Peach of Immortality's "Talking Heads 77" (an early effort by TLASILA's Tom Smith, really cool) > Remain

― Kali Gitesh, Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

so some weeks back i post to ask which the best heads lp is,
and lots reccomend 'more songs...' which i would never have bought
in a million years (the title put me off...).

but i bought it anyway on yr say so, and i can honestly say it's the best 'old' album i've heard for years + years.

so thanx all, and to those who said 'fear of music' - you're wrong, cause ive heard that aswell!

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

for a while i thought it was Fear of Music. and for a while after that i thought it was 77. but i have since realised that it is More Songs... i really don't ever tire of listening to it.

― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 9 August 2008 05:48 (seventeen years ago)

i listened to More Songs About Buildings and Food for the first ever 48 hours ago...

― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 August 2008 05:54 (seventeen years ago)

(time)

― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 August 2008 05:55 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

i mean.. Best Band Ever right?

― piscesx, Sunday, 12 June 2011 05:23 (fourteen years ago)

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup

― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 12 June 2011 05:35 (fourteen years ago)

Yus.

― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Sunday, 12 June 2011 12:00 (fourteen years ago)

The only thing I tend to listen to is the expanded "Name Of This Band Is..." So freakin' great...

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 12 June 2011 12:25 (fourteen years ago)

Why am I not listening to that right now?!

― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Sunday, 12 June 2011 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

talking heads is one of my favourite bands but i don't think i like any of their albums all the way through. go figure.

― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 12 June 2011 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

we've never done a proper TH albums poll, have we? would it be a too predictable RIL landslide?

― how to turn your swag on 3D (some dude), Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:34 (fourteen years ago)

Lots of More Songs and FOM partisans though.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:36 (fourteen years ago)

Right now it would be remain in light but I just finally got a good copy on vinyl so i'm just getting into it for the first time. Born under punches is something else wow

― brodie to the max (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

yeah those are my faves, i think i'd just be afraid of being bummed by a RIL victory (xpost)

― how to turn your swag on 3D (some dude), Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

You don't like remain in light? I'm digging it, though if still vote fear of music.

― brodie to the max (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:31 (fourteen years ago)

Still prefer bush of ghosts to remain in light. That and the tom tom club record might be the best two talking heads records!

― brodie to the max (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

i made a Talking Heads studio albums poll thread, so i'll save my comments for there (where i ranked Remain 3rd favorite fwiw)

― how to turn your swag on 3D (some dude), Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

well, shit, if i can have only one:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SyAofCJCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

and if i can have another, it's stop making sense

― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

duh-buh

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SyAofCJCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

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