Sorry if this has been discussed previously but I was unable to find a relevant thread with the search function. Personally, I am specifically interested in the first 5 Talking Heads studio albums.
I understand at least one of these titles, Remain In Light, has a unique target mastering but don't know how it compares to the regular unremastered stock version. Which one sounds better? Are the other targets different from the non-target versions?
If so,which ones and which sounds the best? I have been slow to discovery and appreciation of this band so please help me add nice sounding versions of these albums to my collection while developing a best Talking Heads on CD thread as a resource for others. For Speaking In Tongues, there are at least two versions and three different masterings.The original 80's mastering (nice sound, same shorter versions of tracks as the LP).A nineties 'Super Saver' version, with the extended/full length tracks (as they appeared on the original cassette version of the album), also nice sounding. The difference between this and the former is easily spotted as the track lengths are listed on the back cover (this is the 'longer' version):The DualDisc/2006 mastering.
Also the long version of the album, but the redbook suffers from over-compression. The 5.1 DVD-A side of the DualDisc is nice, though.There are also two versions of Stop Making Sense, the original, and the 1999 'Special New Edition' with additional tracks. The former sounds a tad better (IMHO more dynamic), but the latter is worth it for the extra material and sounds good as well.My go-to CD versions for the Talking Heads are the 90's (full length) Speaking In Tongues, the '99 'Special New Edition' of Stop Making Sense, and the original US Sire's for the rest.The Rhino/Sire CD of the live album 'The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads' isn't the greatest sounding (compressed), but it's all we've got. (I have a needledrop of the vinyl for this one).
For Speaking In Tongues, there are at least two versions and three different masterings.The original 80's mastering (nice sound, same shorter versions of tracks as the LP).A nineties 'Super Saver' version, with the extended/full length tracks (as they appeared on the original cassette version of the album), also nice sounding. The difference between this and the former is easily spotted as the track lengths are listed on the back cover (this is the 'longer' version):The DualDisc/2006 mastering. Also the long version of the album, but the redbook suffers from over-compression. The 5.1 DVD-A side of the DualDisc is nice, though.There are also two versions of Stop Making Sense, the original, and the 1999 'Special New Edition' with additional tracks.
The former sounds a tad better (IMHO more dynamic), but the latter is worth it for the extra material and sounds good as well.My go-to CD versions for the Talking Heads are the 90's (full length) Speaking In Tongues, the '99 'Special New Edition' of Stop Making Sense, and the original US Sire's for the rest.The Rhino/Sire CD of the live album 'The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads' isn't the greatest sounding (compressed), but it's all we've got. (I have a needledrop of the vinyl for this one). Click to expand.It makes me sad to listen to both of these live recordings. Especially with how good the Talking Heads live record sounds on vinyl, and how good the Nassau Ryko bonus tracks were.
Loudness wars aside, I feel like live albums always get brickwalled in this day and age because for some reason mastering engineers (or label executives) think that you want your ears to be ringing after listening, like they would be after an actual concert. Maybe a future HDtracks issue could fix this?
(not too hopeful as the existing Talking Heads on HDtracks is based on the awful '06 masters).
Contents.Artwork and title The front cover of the album, conceived by Byrne and executed by artist, is a of the band comprising 529 close-up photographs. The rear cover of the album shows a satellite image (taken by one of the satellites) of the United States.Concerning the album's title, bassist was quoted in a 1979 interview with magazine:When we were making this album I remembered this stupid discussion we had about titles for the last album,' Tina smirked.
'At that time I said, 'What are we gonna call an album that's just about buildings and food?' And Chris said, 'You call it more songs about buildings and food.' Frontman later claimed, however, that he gave the title to Byrne.
Release More Songs About Buildings and Food was released on July 21, 1978. It peaked at number 29 on the.
The album's sole single, a of the hit ', peaked at number 26 on the pop singles chart in 1979. The single pushed the album to status.The album was ranked at No. 4 among the top 'Albums of the Year' for 1978 by, with 'Take Me to the River' ranked at No. 16 among the year's top tracks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 382 on magazine's list of, and 384 in 2012. Air core inductor calculator software.
It was ranked the 45th best album of the 1970s by in 2006. It was ranked number 57 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the greatest albums of 1967–1987.re-released and remastered the album in 2005, on its, and labels in format, with four bonus tracks on the CD side—'Stay Hungry' (1977 version), alternate versions of 'I'm Not in Love' and 'The Big Country', and the 'Country Angel' version of 'Thank You for Sending Me an Angel'. The side includes both stereo and 5.1 surround high resolution (96 kHz/24bit) mixes, as well as a version and videos of the band performing 'Found a Job' and 'Warning Sign'. In Europe, it was released as a CD+DVDA two-disc set rather than a single DualDisc. The reissue was produced by with Talking Heads.Reception Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingA9/10Writing for (1981), critic said:Here the Heads become a quintet in an ideal producer-artist collaboration—Eno contributes/interferes just enough. Not only does his synthesized lyricism provide flow and continuity, it also makes the passive, unpretentious technological mysticism he shares with the band real in the aural world.
In fact, there is so much beautiful music (and so much funky music) on this album that I'll take no more complaints about David Byrne's voice. Every one of these eleven songs is a positive pleasure, and on every one the tension between Byrne's compulsive flights and the sinuous rock bottom of the music is the focus.Reviewing the album for 's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1970s', Nick Sylvester said:More Songs About Buildings and Food transformed the Talking Heads from a quirky CBGB spectacle to a quirky near-unanimously regarded 'it' band. New producer Brian Eno can take his due credit for the album's success, smartly tightening up the rhythm section's energy for more dance-oriented beats and a more prominent role in general, though without taking the limelight off head Head David Byrne's nervous sputters.
Byrne's own songwriting was, as the album titled suggested, in the same quotidian vein as '77, though perhaps Buildings and Food has slightly more vitriol, especially on album closer, 'The Big Country', Byrne's indictment of the South. More Songs About Buildings and Food probably could have survived as a cult album by a cult band, but what really opened up the Talking Heads for a national audience was the band's slinky cover of Al Green's famous 'Take Me to the River', which put them on the top 30 singles charts for the first time. An audio sample of 'Found a Job'Problems playing this file? See.Reviewing the album for magazine, said:Love and work, of course, is what Freud said all of us need, but on More Songs about Buildings and Food, Byrne appears able to imagine the proper equilibrium only in 'Found a Job,' wherein a bickering couple's relationship improves while collaborating on television scripts.
He sings about this improvement with considerable sarcasm, though, and elsewhere on the LP, love and logic are at loggerheads. Track listing All tracks are written by, except where noted. Side oneNo.TitleWriter(s)Length1.' Thank You for Sending Me an Angel'2:112.' With Our Love'3:303.'
The Good Thing'3:034.' Warning Sign'Byrne,3:555.' The Girls Want to Be with the Girls'2:376.' Found a Job '5:00Side twoNo.TitleWriter(s)Length1.' Artists Only'Byrne, Wayne Zieve3:342.' I'm Not in Love'4:333.' Stay Hungry'Byrne, Frantz2:394.'
The Big Country'5:302005 reissue bonus tracksNo.TitleWriter(s)Length12.' Stay Hungry' (1977 version)Byrne, Frantz3:4513.' I'm Not in Love' (alternate version)5:1514.' The Big Country' (alternate version)5:0115.' Thank You for Sending Me an Angel' ('Country Angel' version)2:12Note. – at by andPersonnel.
'The back cover is a reproduction of 'Portrait U.S.A.' , the first color photomosaic of the United States. It is made up of 569 photos taken from space by the satellite. Each photo in the mosaic is made up of four separate photos of different parts of the light spectrum: Green, Red, and two different Infra-red regions.
These light regions were chosen because they help bring out the differences in geographical forms and types of vegetation. Each image is made up of many scan lines, much like a T.V. Analog information is converted to digital information and then transmitted to various ground receiving stations. This information is then converted into a black-and-white picture corresponding to each spectral region. These can then be combined to make the color pictures that are used in this mosaic. In the version reproduced on the cover, the information from the green spectral region is printed as yellow, the red region is printed as magenta, and the infra-red region is printed as cyan. This is called a false color image.
In this version vegetation appears as turquoise, rocks and soil appear as red, yellow, brown, and towns, roads, and water appear as black. Objects as small as 33 feet are visible on the LandSAT photos if the object is in contrast to its environment. The practical applications of the LandSAT photos are many, some of which are forest-fire damage, regional planning, assessment of land use: Which crops are being grown where, mapping of ice for shipping, mapping and detection of air and water pollution, and monitoring surface mining.' Portrait U.S.A.' Is copyrighted by the, 1976.
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