More Songs About Buildings And Food (Super Deluxe Edition - Remastered) Talking Heads

• 2025 Remaster:
• 1 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (2025 Remaster) 02:11
• 2 With Our Love (2025 Remaster) 03:30
• 3 The Good Thing (2025 Remaster) 03:02
• 4 Warning Sign (2025 Remaster) 03:53
• 5 The Girls Want to Be with the Girls (2025 Remaster) 02:37
• 6 Found a Job (2025 Remaster) 04:59
• 7 Artists Only (2025 Remaster) 03:34
• 8 I'm Not in Love (2025 Remaster) 04:33
• 9 Stay Hungry (2025 Remaster) 02:39
• 10 Take Me to the River (2025 Remaster) 05:02
• 11 The Big Country (2025 Remaster) 05:33
• 12 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 02:08
• 13 With Our Love (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:34
• 14 Found a Job (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:21
• 15 The Good Thing (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:02
• 16 Warning Sign (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:14
• 17 Electricity (Instrumental) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:24
• 18 The Girls Want to Be with the Girls (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] 02:38
• 19 I'm Not in Love (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:15
• 20 Artists Only (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:12
• 21 The Big Country (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:01
• 22 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel ("Country Angel" Version) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 02:13
• Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) (48kHz):
• 23 No Compassion (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:59
• 24 Warning Sign (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:21
• 25 The Book I Read (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:08
• 26 Stay Hungry (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:06
• 27 Artists Only (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:29
• 28 The Girls Want to Be with the Girls (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:18
• 29 Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 02:47
• 30 With Our Love (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:33
• 31 Love Goes to a Building on Fire (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:14
• 32 Don't Worry About the Government (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:13
• 33 The Good Thing (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:34
• 34 Electricity (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:07
• 35 The Big Country (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:07
• 36 New Feeling (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 03:07
• 37 Pulled Up (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:02
• 38 Psycho Killer (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:00
• 39 Take Me to the River (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 05:56
• 40 Found a Job (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 04:56
• 41 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Live at Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, 8/10/1978) [2025 Remaster] (48kHz) 02:23
• Total Runtime 02:40:55

Info for More Songs About Buildings And Food (Super Deluxe Edition - Remastered)

Talking Heads are continuing the celebration of their 50th anniversary with the release of a new super deluxe edition of their sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food.

Choosing former Roxy Music member and David Bowie collaborator Brian Eno to produce them, Talking Heads expanded their sound greatly for their second album released in 1978. More Songs About Buildings And Food stands amongst the Talking Heads‘ best work. The influence of producer Brian Eno stands out as he helped propel the band forwards into increasingly innovative territory. The entire album, even the minor hit, an Eno-treated cover version of Al Green’s “Take Me To The River,” sounds amazingly fresh some thirty-six years later.

The three-album release will include the remastered album, as well as 11 rarities, four of which are previously unreleased versions of album tracks. There’s also a live album, featuring a recording of the band’s August 1978 show at New York’s Entermedia Theatre.

The seeds for "More Songs About Buildings and Food" were planted in London in 1977, when the band met producer Brian Eno while touring behind their debut album. “When we went over to his flat, there was the immediacy of recognizing in his library books [and records] from our own collections,” recalls Harrison. “There was both mutual respect and a sense of shared sensibilities—all harbingers of a comfortable and successful collaboration.” Soon after, plans were made to record together.

Sessions began in March 1978, when the band traded their drafty Long Island City lofts for the Bahamas’ sunny beaches. They set up shop for several weeks at Chris Blackwell’s newly built Compass Point Studios, becoming the first band to record there.

Released in July 1978, More Songs About Buildings and Food was a top-40 hit for Talking Heads, peaking at #29 in the U.S. It contained the band’s first hit single, a cover of Al Green’s “Take Me To The River,” which also peaked at #29.

David Byrne, lead vocals, guitars, synthesized percussion
Chris Frantz, drums, percussion
Jerry Harrison, piano, organ, synthesizer, guitar, backing vocals
Tina Weymouth, bass, backing vocals
Additional musicians:
Brian Eno, synthesizers, piano, guitar, percussion, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

Please Note: This album consists of different sampling rates. See track list - behind each track you'll find the sampling rate. We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 192kHz and 48kHz.

At the start of their career, Talking Heads were all nervous energy, detached emotion, and subdued minimalism. When they released their last album about 12 years later, the band had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop. Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits. While some of their music can seem too self-consciously experimental, clever, and intellectual for its own good, at their best Talking Heads represent everything good about art-school punks.

And they were literally art-school punks. Guitarist/vocalist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, and bassist Tina Weymouth met at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early '70s; they decided to move to New York in 1974 to concentrate on making music. The next year, the band won a spot opening for the Ramones at the seminal New York punk club CBGB. In 1976, keyboardist Jerry Harrison, a former member of Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers, was added to the lineup. By 1977, the band had signed to Sire Records and released its first album, Talking Heads: 77. It received a considerable amount of acclaim for its stripped-down rock & roll, particularly Byrne's geeky, overly intellectual lyrics and uncomfortable, jerky vocals.

For their next album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food, the band worked with producer Brian Eno, recording a set of carefully constructed, arty pop songs, distinguished by extensive experimenting with combined acoustic and electronic instruments, as well as touches of surprisingly credible funk. On their next album, the Eno-produced Fear of Music, Talking Heads began to rely heavily on their rhythm section, adding flourishes of African-styled polyrhythms. This approach came to a full fruition with 1980's Remain in Light, which was again produced by Eno. Talking Heads added several sidemen, including a horn section, leaving them free to explore their dense amalgam of African percussion, funk bass and keyboards, pop songs, and electronics.

After a long tour, the band concentrated on solo projects for a couple of years. By the time of 1983's Speaking in Tongues, the band had severed its ties with Eno; the result was an album that still relied on the rhythmic innovations of Remain in Light, except within a more rigid pop-song structure. After its release, Talking Heads embarked on another extensive tour, which was captured on the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film Stop Making Sense. After releasing the straightforward pop album Little Creatures in 1985, Byrne directed his first movie, True Stories, the following year; the band's next album featured songs from the film. Two years later, Talking Heads released Naked, which marked a return to their worldbeat explorations, although it sometimes suffered from Byrne's lyrical pretensions.

After its release, Talking Heads were put on 'hiatus'; Byrne pursued some solo projects, as did Harrison, and Frantz and Weymouth continued with their side project, Tom Tom Club. In 1991, the band issued an announcement that they had broken up. Shortly thereafter, Harrison's production took off with successful albums by Live and Crash Test Dummies. In 1996, the original lineup minus Byrne reunited for the album No Talking Just Head; Byrne sued Frantz, Weymouth, and Harrison for attempting to record and perform as Talking Heads, so the trio went by the Heads. In 1999, all four worked together to promote a 15th-anniversary edition of Stop Making Sense, and they also performed at the 2002 induction ceremony for their entrance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Through the 2010s, Byrne released a number of solo and collaborative projects. Tom Tom Club continued to tour, while Harrison produced albums for the likes of No Doubt, the Von Bondies, and Hockey. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music)

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