Talking Heads - The Big Country (alternate version)

[downrodeo2112]

this sounds like it could be off their first album without eno and I think its better, I think eno is a genius though

[weaseldragon]

This is a beautiful (non-Eno) recording, but I don't understand the commenter who loved Talking Heads before Stop Making Sense, but says that Eno ruined the band. Eno produced (and performed on) three of the five studio albums BEFORE Stop Making Sense:

1978 Songs About Buildings and Food

1979 Fear of Music

1980 Remain in Light

[MrMonsterstiffy]

I was a rabid fan until stop making sense. Byrnes ego got it the way. Eno ruined this band.

[SirHatchporch]

I actually prefer this version to the final album version.

[newfuckingwave]

this sounds like the core of the song they had before working with eno

[VirginiaPatriot]

Byrne's voice is like a screeching catterwalling of cats. I haven't heard a good album out of him since the Heads did "Stop Making Sense" Uninspired, boring, repetitious this was.

[koldfushen]

Virginia.....

This was written and recorded about 7 years prior to Stop Making Sense. I like this early stuff because it shows them really struggling to find the style that you like from SMS.

[VirginiaPatriot]

I stand corrected on the sequence. I never heard it before. But I stand behind what I said about nothing good from them since Stop Making Sense.

[vinto34]

nice ...good to hear alternate versions of these songs.