New Talking Heads Songs - Sand in the Vaseline

Sax and Violins in a heartbeat. one of their best songs post-Speaking In Tongues imho.

"lifetime piling up" in a heartbeat.

These are all pretty good, makes you think they might've had one more good album left.

I'm with Get Bent. Love that song.

wasn't "sugar on my tongue" unreleased prior to this? easily the best unreleased track on that comp.

do over

I first heard Sax and Violins on the "Until the End of the World Soundtrack" and was blown away.

The lyrics are almost the perfect distillation of David Byrne's whole lyric-writing career, working in several of his longtime obsessions (and including that Philip Larkin nod).

I too would have voted "Sugar on my Tongue."

think alfred wanted to poll the newly recorded tunes -- all of these were recorded specifically for the comp, right? sugar on my tongue was recorded in '75.

Are they newly recorded? I do remember reading in the liner notes that some lacked vocals and others were assembled from leftover parts.

oh maybe? are they "naked" outtakes or something? I thought the new tracks were begun with the idea of being for a new TH album, but when that obviously wasn't going to happen, they added 'em to the comp. could be wrong.

from wiki: "Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites is a two-disc compilation album released by Talking Heads in 1992. It contains two previously unreleased demos ("Sugar on My Tongue," "I Want to Live"), two tracks new to compact disc ("Love → Building on Fire," "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That") and three newly finished songs ("Gangster of Love," "Lifetime Piling Up" and "Popsicle"). The latter three tracks were all based on outtakes from previous sessions and had been polished and finished exclusively for release on this compilation."

"gangster of love" and "sax and violins" were the newest tracks on sand in the vaseline. both were recorded in 1991. only the former was an unreleased track, as "sax and violins" had appeared on the until the end of the world soundtrack album the previous year.

"lifetime piling up" is a naked outtake ('87) and "popsicle" a speaking in tongues outtake ('83). the two other unreleased songs on the compilation are "sugar on my tongue" and "i want to live", both demos from 1975.

oops, didn't know that the the naked and SIT outtakes had been reworked for SITV.

i think sax is the only one of these i still have

I like the weird keyboard parts in "Lifetime Piling Up" and that guitar solo before the second verse.

love the "sugar on my tongue" loop & chorus in "sugar (gimme some)". that's how you do a talking heads cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vfEwovOq4E

almost did a spit take when "sugar" came up on that trick daddy album the first time

at first i was like "who what how" and then remembered that being the first track on a greatest hits album makes a rarity less of a rarity.

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its pretty weird that lifetime piling up was an outtake from naked. I like naked but that song is better than 80% of that album.

No votes for "Gangster of Love" eh

I appreciate the discussion of these songs, it almost makes me want to listen to them again and reconsider how deeply I hate all of them. Somehow everything I adored about the first four albums seems completely absent from these songs

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ha

Perfect results- I couldn't decide between them myself (voted Lifetime, could have gone the other way on another day)