Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sugar on My Tongue
2. I Want to Live
3. Love --> Building on Fire
4. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
5. Psycho Killer
6. Don't Worry About the Government
7. No Compassion
8. Warning Sign
9. Big Country
10. Take Me to the River
11. Heaven
12. Memories Can't Wait
13. I Zimbra
14. Once in a Lifetime
15. Crosseyed and Painless
16. Burning Down the House
17. Swamp
18. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Disc 2:

1. Life During Wartime [Live]
2. Girlfriend Is Better [Live]
3. And She Was
4. Stay up Late
5. Road to Nowhere
6. Wild Wild Life
7. Love for Sale
8. City of Dreams
9. Mr. Jones
10. Blind
11. (Nothing But) Flowers
12. Sax and Violins
13. Gangster of Love
14. Lifetime Piling Up
15. Popsicle

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70536 in Music
• Released on: 1992-10-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .43 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Thirty-three songs featuring merely a smattering of pseudo-self-conscious filler mean that hindsight has been good to Talking Heads' music. Fans have long since debated where the genius lay, though a couple of hours with Sand In The Vaseline yields no clear answers beyond "Probably not Jerry Harrison". The speed with which Talking Heads transformed from art-school punks to a highly credible funk noise is well illustrated here: just compare the irritating earliest material to the clipped funkadelica of "Girlfriend Is Better", and "Burning Down The House". The band's purple patch between More Songs About Buildings And Food and Remain In Light is well-represented here, especially on songs like "Heaven" and "Once In A Lifetime", where Brian Eno's masterful production lent the band's music an esoteric elegance they never quite returned to. In fairness though, 1985's Little Creatures suggested they didn't much care to. "Road To Nowhere" and "And She Was" (both featured here) represent the group's last truly great pop spree, before Byrne's all-consuming interest in world music (and his Luaka Bop label) began to dominate. --Peter Paphides

From Amazon.com
Released four years after the Talking Heads called it a day with 1988's Naked, Popular Favorites provides a thorough overview of one of the most important American bands of the '80s. From tightly wound early efforts such as "Psycho Killer" and "Don't Worry About the Government" to the seriously funky likes of "I Zimbra" and "Burning Down the House," David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Franz grew as musicians as they stretched the original concepts of the unit to the breaking point. Over the course of two discs and 32 selections, the anthology chronicles the Heads' development from Bowery art punks (albeit of the most civil stripe) to unlikely arena stars. A smattering of unreleased tracks and notes from the original quartet nicely flesh out the retrospective. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

ARTFUL-FUNK-ROCK
As an overview of Talking Heads this compendium is marvellous. It may theoretically have been out done in terms of quantity by a with bells on box-set, but for me it's still the smart choice. We begin in the foothill's and then hit the summit with selections from the twin peaks of Fear of Music and Remain in Light albums, then back down gain.When I say foothills that's not to say that the material not from these albums is inferior, far from it, there are the bright shining moments such as Psycho Killer and The Big Country, but those two afore-mentioned albums are cohesive masterpieces, whereas the other albums are patchier. So come on kids put away those Franz Ferdinand, Clap Your Hands say Yeah, Arcade Fire and Rapture albums for the moment and shake your trousers to the original and best Art-Funk outfit ever.

Perfect Heads Up
If you are going to buy a Talking Heads compilation, this is the one to go for. Its a really good selection of singles and some of the best album tracks. If I'd have been asked to pick my 33 favourites, it wouldn't be much different. The sleevenotes written by the band are quite interesting too.

Marvellous
This collection is priceless. Buy it!

It is a fantastic compendium of material from the world's most original band. Not only does it contain a great cross-section of their eclectic, nervy, yet melodic material (which is all great), but it also contains a number of tracks not on their other albums.

Buy it now - you won't be disappointed!