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Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: “Warning Sign” and “Psycho Killer.” This new collection includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional 11 demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.
This 3CD collection includes this newly discovered material alongside additional demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976 alongside the first official release of the band's demo session for CBS/Columbia Records in 1975 as well as rare live recordings of the original trio lineup in 1976 and 1977
Disc 1
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
5. I'm Not in Love (1976 Demo)
6. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (1976 Demo)
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo)
9. Love Goes to a Building on Fire (1976 Demo)
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
12. Psycho Killer
13. Warning Sign
Disc 2
14. Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia Demo)
15. Sugar on My Tongue (CBS/Columbia Demo)
16. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (CBS/Columbia Demo)
17. I Want to Live (CBS/Columbia Demo)
18. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (CBS/Columbia Demo)
19. The Girls Want to Be With the Girls (CBS/Columbia Demo)
20. Who Is It? (CBS/Columbia Demo)
21. With Our Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
22. Stay Hungry (CBS/Columbia Demo)
23. Tentative Decisions (CBS/Columbia Demo)
24. Warning Sign (CBS/Columbia Demo)
25. I'm Not in Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
26. The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia Demo)
27. Love Goes to a Building on Fire (CBS/Columbia Demo)
28. No Compassion (CBS/Columbia Demo)
Disc 3
29. Artists Only (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
30. 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
31. Happy Day (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
32. Don't Worry About the Government (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
33. Psycho Killer (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
34. Love Goes to a Building on Fire (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
35. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
36. With Our Love (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
37. Pablo Picasso (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
38. I'm Not in Love (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
39. No Compassion (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
40. New Feeling (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
41. Psycho Killer (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
42. A Clean Break (Let's Work) [Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77]
43. Sugar on My Tongue (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
44. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
45. Take Me to the River (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
