The reason I'm posting this is thanks to musical associate MZ. When I posted the Talking Heads set from the US Festival, he said he had a better sounding version, and sent it to me. Sure enough, it did sound better, so I used that one. But at the same time, he also sent me a bootleg of this concert, saying that I should listen to it if I hadn't already. I did, and I thought it was great, so I decided to post this too.
The sound quality is heads and shoulders above any other recordings of the band from this time. The reason is because it was professionally filmed due to sheer luck. It seems they were the only band to play the Kitchen, a venue for (non-musical) artists, and many public events were being filmed there at the time. Keep in mind the band only had their first public concert nine months earlier. And they still were lacking their fourth member, Jerry Harrison, who didn't join until a full year after this.
The one snag with the recording MZ sent me was that it was only half an hour long. I was going to post it anyway, due to the rarity of having such sound quality from that far back in the band's history. But then I looked on YouTube and found further videos. The timing was extremely fortunate, because it seems they were only made available to the public two weeks prior to when I'm posting this, in December 2024. I don't know why they were hidden for nearly fifty years, but better late than never. These videos were of the band's entire performance that evening!
I converted everything to mp3. Then I made some audio edits. The main one was to drastically boost the volume of lead singer David Byrne talking between songs. On the videos, one could barely hear him at all most of the time, but now he comes in clearly. He was unusually chatty back then, speaking before every song, although usually just a sentence or two. A couple of years after this, he rarely spoke at all during concerts. I also boosted the volume of the applause after every song.
Since this is so early in the band's career, many of these songs were played rarely. For instance, setlist.fm has the song "I Want to Live" only ever being played three times. And decent recordings of them are rarer still. Those include the cover songs "Sugar on My Tongue," "Love Is All Around," "1 2 3 Red Light," and "96 Tears."
So please enjoy this. And if you're really interested, watch the full video of it on YouTube.
This album is an hour and 13 minutes long.
01 talk (Talking Heads)
02 Artists Only (Talking Heads)
03 talk (Talking Heads)
04 First Week-Last Week... Carefree (Talking Heads)
05 talk (Talking Heads)
06 I'm Not in Love (Talking Heads)
07 talk (Talking Heads)
08 Love Goes to a Building on Fire (Talking Heads)
09 talk (Talking Heads)
10 Who Is It (Talking Heads)
11 talk (Talking Heads)
12 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Talking Heads)
13 talk (Talking Heads)
14 Sugar on My Tongue (Talking Heads)
15 talk (Talking Heads)
16 Warning Sign (Talking Heads)
17 talk (Talking Heads)
18 talk (Talking Heads)
19 The Girls Want to Be with the Girls (Talking Heads)
20 Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
21 talk (Talking Heads)
22 I Feel It in My Heart (Talking Heads)
23 talk (Talking Heads)
24 I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Talking Heads)
25 talk (Talking Heads)
26 Stay Hungry (Talking Heads)
27 talk (Talking Heads)
28 I Want to Live (Talking Heads)
29 talk (Talking Heads)
30 Tentative Decisions (Talking Heads)
31 talk (Talking Heads)
32 No Compassion (Talking Heads)
33 talk (Talking Heads)
34 Love Is All Around (Talking Heads)
35 talk (Talking Heads)
36 1 2 3 Red Light (Talking Heads)
37 96 Tears (Talking Heads)
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ON FILE: Talking Heads | The Kitchen
They all are in black and white, which is unfortunate for me, since I much prefer color. So I used a program to covert the best photo of the whole band into color. Since there also is low-res color film footage of the concert, I used that to make sure the colors matched what they actually looked like on that day. The only detail that isn't true is the back wall actually was a shade of blue. But it would have been too much of a pain in the rear to fix that.
In case anyone is interested, here's the full version of this photo, with greater resolution.
it's 'talking heads' there is no 'the'.
ReplyDeleteI've discussed this before. Note I just used "Talking Heads" on the cover, for people like you. But since 99.9% of the people say "The Talking Heads," that's what I like to call them too.
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