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- Record Label: PLG
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2024
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- Record Label: PLG
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Nov 27, 2024The outtakes – live performances drawn from CBGBs (of course!), mighty raging debut single Love -> Building On Fire, various acoustic and alternate versions of familiar numbers – are damn near indispensable. [Dec 2024, p.85]
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Nov 27, 2024The package is worthwhile for the remaster of the album and the alternate takes, which at a minimum, are interesting. .... The true star of the show here is the live recording, which slots in fine with Stop Making Sense and the sadly overlooked The Name of This Band is Talking Heads.
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UncutNov 27, 2024This new pin-sharp remaster of Talking Heads: 77 emphasises the freshness of the whole endeavour. .... But the real find of this Super Deluxe Edition, and the main justification for its existence, is a previously unreleased live set, forged in the white heat of CBGB on October 10, 1977. Taped a month or so before the performance featured on Side One of The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads, it underlines what an incredible live band Talking Heads were from the get-go. [Dec 2024, p.44]
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Jan 3, 2025Talking Heads: 77 is truly fascinating. From the demos and outtakes through the album to the live show, it demonstrates a young bad, without a route map, re-writing pop music. [Jan 2025, p.95]
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MojoNov 27, 2024Talking Heads: 77 still feels like a record that is always going to get past you, speeding ahead of the curve. [Jan 2025, p.96]