Talking Heads - Brick (8 DualDisk Boxset, 2005)

Talking Heads fans have been waiting a long time to have the band's eight studio albums remastered and reissued, but they may find that the long-awaited revamping of the group's catalog is somewhat problematic. Instead of being released as individual titles, all eight titles were boxed and reissued as an expensive set, Talking Heads Brick (this box retails for $149.99; individual releases are tentatively scheduled to follow, three to four months after this set's October 2005 release) – and they're not issued as CDs, they're only available as DualDiscs, a format that contains a CD on one side and a DVD on the other. Each album is presented in expanded form with a handful of bonus tracks on the CD side, with the DVD side containing the entire album, but usually not the new bonus tracks available on the CD side, in 5.1 Surround mixes and PCM stereo, plus some additional video bonus material. DualDiscs do offer more than a conventional CD, but they're thicker than CDs, which may mean that they may not play on all CD players, and almost surely won't play on any computer or car stereo – all things that will frustrate fans, but that's hardly not the only thing that will frustrate them about this brick-like set. There's the fact that while most of the group's videos are here, some, like "Once in a Lifetime," are conspicuously missing. Then, there's the packaging, which may be considerably more user-friendly than the ungainly 2003 box Once in a Lifetime, but it's designed as an all-white art object. The raised-type text of the group's song titles is pretty cool on the outside of this moulded plastic box, but each individual CD is given a white tray inlay that contains no text at all – no text on the spine indicating what album it is, no song titles on the back, which means that anybody wanting to know what the bonus tracks are on an individual discs will have to open up the booklets, which is exceptionally infuriating. Those booklets also contain an insert miniture art lithograph – replications of pictures and photos interpreting what certain Talking Heads songs mean – plus testimonials and some artwork recycled from the 2003 box, along with full lyrics, including some shots of the original lyrics. It's nice, but more complete liner notes would have been appreciated.

Tracklist:

CD1 - Talking Heads - Talking Heads- 77 (1977) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
02 - New Feeling
03 - Tentative Decisions
04 - Happy Day
05 - Who Is It
06 - No Compassion
07 - The Book I Read
08 - Don't Worry About The Government
09 - First Week,Last Week…Carefree
10 - Psycho Killer
11 - Pulled Up

Bonus tracks
12 - Love -> Building on Fire
13 - I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
14 - Psycho Killer (Acoustic)
15 - I Feel It In My Heart
16 - Sugar On My Tongue

CD2 - Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
02 - With Our Love
03 - The Good Thing
04 - Warning Sign
05 - Girls Want To Be With The Girls
06 - Found A Job
07 - Artists Only
08 - I'm Not In Love
09 - Stay Hungry
10 - Take Me To The River
11 - The Big Country

Bonus tracks
12 - Stay Hungry (1977 Version)
13 - I'm Not In Love (Alternate Version)
14 - The Big Country (Alternate Version)
15 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Country Angel Version)

CD3 - Talking Heads - Fear Of Music (1979) {2005 Remaster}

01 - I Zimbra
02 - Mind
03 - Paper
04 - Cities
05 - Life During Wartime
06 - Memories Can't Wait
07 - Air
08 - Heaven
09 - Animals
10 - Electric Guitar
11 - Drugs

Bonus tracks
12 - Dancing For Money (Unfinished Outtake)
13 - Life During Wartime (Alternate Version)
14 - Cities (Alternate Version)
15 - Mind (Alternate Version)

CD4 - Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
02 - Crosseyed And Painless
03 - The Great Curve
04 - Once In A Lifetime
05 - Houses In Motion
06 - Seen And Not Seen
07 - Listening Wind
08 - The Overload

Bonus tracks
09 - Fela's Riff (Unfinished Outtake)
10 - Unison (Unfinished Outtake)
11 - Double Groove (Unfinished Outtake)
12 - Right Start (Unfinished Outtake)

CD5 - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues (1982) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Burning Down The House
02 - Making Flippy Floppy
03 - Girlfriend Is Better
04 - Slippery People
05 - I Get Wild,Wild Gravity
06 - Swamp
07 - Moon Rocks
08 - Pull Up The Roots
09 - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Bonus tracks
10 - Two Note Swivel (Unfinished Outtake)
11 - Burning Down The House (Alternate Version)

CD6 - Talking Heads - Little Creatures (1985) {2005 Remaster}

01 - And She Was
02 - Give Me Back My Name
03 - Creatures Of Love
04 - Lady Don't Mind
05 - Perfect World
06 - Stay Up Late
07 - Walk It Down
08 - Television Man
09 - Road To Nowhere

Bonus tracks
10 - Road To Nowhere (Early Version)
11 - And She Was (Early Version)
12 - Television Man (Extended Mix)

CD7 - Talking Heads - True Stories (1986) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Love For Sale
02 - Puzzlin' Evidence
03 - Hey Now
04 - Papa Legba
05 - Wild Wild Life
06 - Radio Head
07 - Dream Operator
08 - People Like Us
09 - City Of Dreams

Bonus tracks
10 - Wild Wild Life (Extended Mix)
11 - Papa Legba (Pops Staples Vocal Version)
12 - Radio Head (Pops Staples Vocal Version)

CD8 - Talking Heads - Naked (1988) {2005 Remaster}

01 - Blind
02 - Mr. Jones
03 - Totally Nude
04 - Ruby Dear
05 - (Nothing But) Flowers
06 - The Democratic Circus
07 - The Facts Of Life
08 - Mommy Daddy You And I
09 - Big Daddy
10 - Bill
11 - Cool Water

Bonus tracks
12 - Sax And Violins

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