TALKING HEADS - Selected Vinyl LP Albums Gallery and Discography

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums.

The New Wave musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, avant-garde, pop, funk, world music and art rock. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances.

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Label & Catalogno Band/Performers - Album Title Year Country
SIRE 200 880
Talking Heads Fear of Music 12" Vinyl LP

TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
Fear of Music was the third album by Talking Heads, released in 1979. It peaked at #21 in the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and singles "Life During Wartime " made #80 on the Pop Singles chart, and "I Zimbra" made #28 on the Club Play Singles chart.

The song "I Zimbra" was adapted from the poem "Gadji beri bimba" by Dadaist poet Hugo Ball.

 

1979  

SIRE 2C 070 63.108

TALKING HEADS FEAR OF MUSIC FRANCE 12" LP VINYL

TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music (French Edition) 1979 France

EMI 1C 064 24 0352 TALKING HEADS LITTLE CREATURES 12" LP VINYL

 

TALKING HEADS - Little Creatures

Little Creatures is the sixth album by Talking Heads, released in 1985. The album examined themes of Americana and incorporated elements of country music, with many songs featuring the steel guitar. It was voted as the best album of the year (1985) in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.

The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

1985  
Fly / Sire Records 1-2565
TALKING HEADS NAKED FOC Gatefold 12" LP VINYL

TALKING HEADS - Naked FOC Gatefold Cover

"Naked" is the eighth studio album by Talking Heads, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music). It was their last studio album, with the band dissolving after the album's release and finally announcing their breakup in 1991.

1988  

SIRE 92-3883

Talking Heads Speaking Tongues 12" VINYL LP

 

 

 

TALKING HEADS - Speaking Tongues

Speaking in Tongues (rendered on the album cover as SP EAK IN GI N TO NGU ES) is the fifth studio album by the band Talking Heads, released in 1983.

The album was a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's first (and only) American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House", which was accompanied by a promotional video. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated a live album of the same name. (The concert film and live album's title comes from the repeated phrase "Stop making sense!" during the song Girlfriend is Better.) In addition, the album crossed over to the dance charts, peaking at number two for six weeks.

David Byrne did the cover for the general release of the album. Artist Robert Rauschenberg won a Grammy Award for his work on the limited-edition LP version. This album featured a clear vinyl disc in clear plastic packaging along with three clear plastic discs printed with similar collages in three different colors. Original cassette copies of the album have special extended versions of "Making Flippy Floppy", "Girlfriend Is Better", "Slippery People", "I Get Wild/Wild Gravity" and "Moon Rocks".

1983  
EMI 1C 064-24 0243
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense 12" Vinyl LP

TALKING HEADS - Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense (1984) is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live on stage. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for being the first made entirely using digital audio techniques. The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "Girlfriend is Better": "As we get older and stop making sense...". The film has been hailed by Leonard Maltin as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made.

1983  

EMI LP-EU-3511 EU-3511

TALKING HEADS TRUE STORIES 12" LP VINYL

TALKING HEADS - True Stories Philippines 1986 Philippines

EMI 2406121

 

TALKING HEADS - True Stories

"True Stories" is the seventh album released by Talking Heads in 1986; it was released at the same time as the David Byrne film of the same name, True Stories.

1986 Italy
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