Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
The ‘difficult second album syndrome” wasn’t a problem for this quirky, jerky, intellectual dance-pop band out of downtown New York. Here that original record gets the four-album expanded treatment with alternate and fairly faithful – if more nervy – live versions in front of a hometown crowd.
The Big Country sounds even more relevant today as he looks down on suburban America from an aircraft and concludes, “I wouldn’t live there if you paid me”.
