Talking Heads - 1978-08-28 - Chicago, IL (FM/FLAC)

(FM/FLAC)

Park West Chicago

Lineage
download + CD-R > Audacity > CD Wave > TLH > FLAC

01 The Big Country
02 Warning Sign
03 The Book I Read
04 Stay Hungry
05 Artist Only
06 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
07 Dont Worry About The Government
08 The Good Thing
09 Uh-Oh Love Comes To Town
10 Love-Building on Fire
11 New Feeling
12 Psycho Killer
13 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
14 Take Me To The River

It's true stereo (unlike another mono version that circulates) and could be mistaken for pre-FM were it not for the very brief announcements in two places.

The only changes were reducing the speed - minus 3 percent (by comparing to other contemporaneous recordings), and editing in the last chord of The Good Thing, and synch-ing in the start of Take Me To The River as there was a small skip in the music files on that (not a CD-R fault). I synch-ed in the missing 2 seconds (! - 1 second of each) from the download version, doing a little careful mixing to ensure a smooth match. If I hadn't described this here you wouldn't know the joins were there.

Talking Heads - 1980-08-27 - New York City, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Talking Heads

Remain in Light Tour

1980-08-27 (27th August 1980)

Wollman Rink, Central Park

New York City, NY, USA

Lineage:

1xSony HF90 (unknown generation) -> Yamaha KX-493 cassette deck - > Audacity for track splitting nothing more -> FLAC -> TLH.

David Byrne= vocals, guitar

Jerry Harrison= guitar, keyboards, vocals

Tina Weymouth= bass, keyboards

Chris Frantz= drums

Adrian Belew= guitar, vocals, percussion

Bernie Worrell= keyboards, vocals, percussion

Busta 'Cherry' Jones= bass

Steve Scales= percussion, vocals

Nona Hendryx= vocals, percussion

Dollette McDonald= vocals, percussion

01 - Psycho Killer

02 - Warning Sign

03 - Stay Hungry

04 - Cities

05 - Band Introductions

06 - I Zimbra

07 - Once in a Lifetime

08 - Houses in Motion

09 - Born Under Punches

10 - Crosseyed and Painless

11 - Life During Wartime

12 - Take Me to the River

13 - The Great Curve

Total running time: 1:12:04

Notes:

One of several Talking Heads tapes that we have recently found, this one is well known but I don't see it on Dime. The tape came from a record fair or trade in the mid 1980's. The recording is marked as soundboard though the generation of the copy is unknown. Thanks to Kevin for keeping these tapes safe for so long.

Talking Heads - 1979-08-24 - Boston, MA (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Lineage:
SBD > WBCN Pre-FM reel > DAT @ 48 kHz > WAV > FLAC

01 intro 0:21.22
02 Artists Only 5:46.57
03 Stay Hungry 3:38.29
04 Cities 5:10.21
05 Paper 2:40.00
06 Mind 5:21.67 *
07 Heaven 4:26.09
08 The Book I Read 5:37.06
09 Electric Guitar 3:09.57
10 Air 4:07.62
11 Warning Sign 5:18.67
12 Building On Fire 3:49.38
13 Memories Can't Wait 3:52.63
14 Psycho Killer 7:03.15
15 Life During Wartime 4:13.65
16 Take Me To The River 5:33.25
17 outro 0:29.08

total running time 70:40.11

* Track 6 ("Mind" not included, as it was included in the official live album "The Name of This Band Is..."

Talking Heads - 1978-08-23 - Chicago, IL (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Source: FM > ? > DAT

Transfer: 
Panasonic SV-3800 > Monster Coax > Audigy Soundcard > Soundforge 6.0 > flac

01. The Big Country (deleted, because released official !!!)
02. Warning Sign
03. The Book I Read
04. Stay Hungry
05. Artists Only
06. Girls Want To Be With The Girls
07. Don't Worry About The Government
08. The Good Thing
09. Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
10. Love Comes To A Building A Fire
11. Pulled Up
12. Psycho Killer
13. Thank You, For Sending Me An Angel
14. Take Me To The River

Talking Heads - 1980-08-23 - Bowmanville, ON (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Heatwave Festival
Mosport Park, Bowmanville Ontario, Canada

SB LINEAGE UNKNOWN > REEL > AUDIO CD > FLAC

01. Psycho Killer
02. Warning Sign
03. Stay Hungry
04. Cities
05. I Zimbra
06. Once In A Lifetime
07. Houses In Motion
08. Born Under Punches
09. Crosseyed And Painless
10. Life During Wartime
11/12. Take Me To The River*

*(Cut on SB master,filled in with audience copy.Less than a minute.)

Talking Heads - 1982-08-23 - Saratoga Springs, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Talking Heads

1982-08-23

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Saratoga Springs NY

Lineage

Sbd 2nd Gen Cassette> Marantz pmd501>Cool Edit Pro 16-441>Simple Bass Lift Sound Quality Is VG

David Byrne

Tina Weymeth

Cris Franz

Jerry Harrison

Bernie Worell

Jollette McDonald

Alex Weir

01 - Psycho Killer

02 - Love> Buildings On Fire

03 - Cities

04 - Big Blue Plymouth

05 - Once In A Lifetime

06 - Mind

07 - My Big Hands

08 - Slink

09 - Big Bussiness # Tape Splice 6.45

10 - I Zimbra

11 - Swamp

12 - Houses In Motion

13 - What A Day It Was

14 - Life During Wartime

15 - ENc

16 - Take Me To The River> Band Intro

17 - Crosseyed & Painless

RUNTIME 1HR 29.48

Talking Heads - 1983-08-20 - South Yarmouth, MA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Cape Cod Coliseum

Source
SBD > MC > DAT(2) > Audigy > Soundforge 6.0 @44.1k > FLAC Wave > Wavemerge (reassemble tracks) > Soundforge 8 used for remastering > CD Wave (track splits) > FLAC (level 8)

David Byrne-vocals, guitar
Tina Weymouth-bass, guitar, vocals
Chris Franz-drums
Jerry Harrison-guitar, keyboards
Bernie Worrell-keyboards
Alex Weir-rhythm guitar
Steve Scales-bongos, percussion
Lynn Mabry-b/g vocals
Ednah Holt-b/g vocals

Disc 1 - Set 1
-Missing Psycho Killer-
01 Heaven
02 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
03 Love Goes To A Building On Fire
04 The Book I Read
05 Slippery People
06 Cities
07 Big Blue Plymouth*
08 Burning Down The House
09 Life During Wartime

Disc 2 - Set 2
01 Making Flippy Floppy
02 Swamp
03 What A Day That Was*
04 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
05 Once In A Lifetime
06 Big Business*>Izimbra
07 Houses In Motion
08 Genius Of Love#
09 Girlfriend Is Better
10 Take Me To The River

Encores
11 Crosseyed And Painless^
12 Burning Down The House II^

*from David Byrne's "The Catherine Wheel"
#from The Tom Tom Club (Weymouth, Franz)
^encores are derived from a different and inferior SBD recording

Talking Heads - 1983-08-20 - South Yarmouth, MA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

20 August 1983

Cape Cod Coliseum

South Yarmouth, MA, USA

Soundboard Recording Unknown Taper With Thanks To You.

Unknown Generation Of Tape (Market Trader Cira 1985).

New Transfer From 1985 Cass Tapes.changes Made Are As Follows. Lower Input levels Stays In Green Area.

Stereo Signal (Mono Last Time). Diffrent playback Machine. Diffrent Sound Card.

No Eqs Made .No Noise Reduction.Same As Playback On Old Machine.

01 Heaven.

02 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel.

03 love Goes To A Building On Fire.

04 The Book I Read.

05 Slippery People.

06 Cities.

07 Big Blue Plymouth.

08 Burning Down The House.

09 Life During Wartime.

10 Making Flippy Floppy.

11 Swamp.

12 What A Day That Was.

13 This Must Be The Place.

14 Once In A Life Time.

15 Big Business.

16 Houses In Motion.

17 Girlfriend Is Better.

18 Take Me To The River.

19 Cross Eyed And Painless.

20 Burning Down The House.

Tapes End.

Transfer Infomation. Two Maxell UR 60 Cass Tapes Recived In Dublin In 1985.Playback In Hitachi TRk W260E

Portable Unit Via Ear out (Stereo Fly Lead) To Line In Audigy soundcard As Wav Files At 44 Khz.Split As Wavs.

Traders Little Helper Flac Front End Compression Level 8 To Internet.

Talking Heads - 1976-08-17 - Atlantic Beach, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Ocean Club

Excellent Audience

This has Fletcher Buckley as guest on Saxaphone

David Byrne= vocals, guitar

Jerry Harrison= guitar (enters on #6, 7, 9- 11 (?))

Tina Weymouth= bass

Chris Frantz= drums

Fletcher Buckley= saxophone (#'s 4,5, 9- 11)

01. Artists Only

02. New Feeling

03. Happy Day

04. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (minus beg.)

05. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls

06. Love Goes To Buildings On Fire

07. Psycho Killer (tape flip)

08. First Week/ Last Week... Carefree

09. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

10. The Book I Read

11. I'm Not In Love

Talking Heads - 1979-08-13 - New York City, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Mudd Club

David Byrne= vocals, guitar
Jerry Harrison= guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tina Weymouth= bass, vocals
Chris Frantz= drums
*= possibly sound- check (?); there is no applause
'New Feeling' begins Part B

01. The Big Country
02. Warning Sign
03. Love Goes To Buildings On Fire
04. Stay Hungry
05. Life During Wartime
06. Paper
07. Mind
08. Heaven
09. Electric Guitar
10. New Feeling (minus beg.)
11. Memories Can't Wait
12. Air

13. Artists Only
14. Psycho Killer
15. New Feeling*
16. Air*
17. Heaven*
18. Memories Can't Wait*
19. Life During Wartime* (2 starts)

88:40 (A= 42:13; B= 46:27)

Talking Heads - 1983-08-05 - Saratoga Springs, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Talking Heads

1983-08-05

Saratoga Springs, NY

Q'd>Comp'd>S1'd>BBE'd>L3'd>Flac'd

PRE-13 SOURCE INFO

**** sbd A+ sound and performance ****

source:orig cd boot(maxell)>wav(hp using dac)>mkwact(wav>shn)>you

upped by ttmk55

this show is an amazing peformance(very jammy) and an overal amazing set of discs

01 - psycho killer

02 - heaven

03 - building on fire

04 - book i read

05 - slippery people

06 - cities

07 - eyes wide open

08 - burning down the house

09 - life during wartime

10 - making flippy floppy

11 - swamp

12 - what a day it was

13 - this must be the place

14 - once in a lifetime

15 - big business>i zimbra

16 - houses in motion

17 - fun natural fun (tom tom club)

18 - girlfriend is better

19 - take me to the river

20 - crosseyed and painless

Just another great one from the Talking Heads. Sounded pretty good to begin with, but sounds even better now.

Talking Heads - 1979-07-20 - Tokyo, JP (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Tokyo Nihon Seinenkan

Source: FM Broadcast

Lineage: FM > CT > WAV > FLAC frontend > flac

01 - Stay Hungry

02 - Heaven

03 - Air

04 - Artists Only

05 - New Feeling

06 - Memories Can't Wait

07 - Psycho Killer

08 - Take Me To The River

09 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

Talking Heads - 1982-07-09 - Montreux, CH (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Montreux, Jazz Festival 

(FM + vinyl source) 

Lineage:
CDr>CDwave>WAVE>FlacFrontend Level 8>FLAC
Vinyl>CDwave>WAVE>FlacFrontend level 8>FLAC (Track 3)

01) Under The Boardwalk ( Tom Tom Club ) 
02) Wordy Rappinghood ( Tom Tom Club ) 
03) Genius Of Love ( Tom Tom Club ) (off vinyl bootleg "Chance Meeting" ) 
04) Psycho Killer 
*** Cities removed due to being officially released on "Chronology" *** 
05) Big Blue Plymouth 
06) Once In A Lifetime 
07) Mind 
08) My Big Hands 
09) Big Business 
10) I Zimbra 
11) Swamp 
14) Slink ( Jerry Harrison ) 
15) Houses In Motion 
16) What A Day That Was 
17) Life During Wartime 
18) Take Me To The River ( fade out ) 

Talking Heads - 1979-07-08 - Tokyo, JP (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Tokyo Nihon Seinenkan

Lineage:
FM > CT > WAV > FLAC frontend > flac

01 - Stay Hungry
02 - Heaven
03 - Air
04 - Artists Only
05 - New Feeling
06 - Memories Can't Wait
07 - Psycho Killer
08 - Take Me To The River
09 - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

Talking Heads - 1982-07-04 - Werchter, BE (FM/FLAC)

 

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Lineages:

Tracks 1, 7-10:
Sounddesk > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 96/24 > FLAC > CoolEdit > Wav 44/16.

Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12 .
FM broadcast 1982 > cassette Hans de Vente > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > Wav 44/16.

Tracks 4, 13:
FM broadcast 2006 > Onkyo TX-SR600E ->M-Audio 1010LT ->Adobe Audition v2.0 -> Wav 44/16.

01 - Psycho killer

02 - Cities

03 - Big blue Plymouth

04 - Once in a lifetime

05 - Mind

06 - My big hands

07 - Big business

08 - I Zimbra

09 - Swamp

10 - Slink

11 - Houses in motion

12 - Life during wartime

13 - Take me to the river

Running time: 68:20

This upgrade comes courtesy of the Talking Heads tapes Hans de Vente shared last year. Among them were 25 minutes of this concert recorded from the sounddesk: Psycho killer, Big business, I Zimbra, Swamp and Slink. Quality was of course better than that of the two FM broadcasts (1982 and 2006) that were available. Also, Slink was a track that was never broadcast (I guess they considered a solo Jerry Harrison track less interesting).

I tried to combine these five tracks with the FM broadcasts, but this did not work out well. The 2006 FM broadcast has great sound but its compressed and in-your-face quality did not fit in with the sounddesk tracks. And the available recording of the 1982 broadcast was simply not very good.

I had just about given up about the idea when I discovered among the myriad Talking Heads tapes Hans shared an excellent recording of the 1982 FM broadcast. This one fit much better with the sounddesk tracks. And it makes the recording closer to how things originally sounded. So I used this for the other tracks and added to it only two tracks from the 2006 broadcast, Once in a lifetime (not broadcast in 1982) and Take me to the river (which faded halfway into the bleeps of the news, a bittersweet throwback to how things were, listening to Dutch radio).

In combining the sources I took the soundboard tracks as point of departure and used CoolEdit to adapt the other tracks to make transitions minimal (some equalizing, volume leveling, etc.). You can still hear a slight difference in sound characterics, with the sounddesk tracks standing out, but only when listening closely. Also, Slink was at the end of Hans'tape, so it fades out after about four minutes.

Anyway, these are just minor issues. This is a nice Talking Heads concert from 1982 with great sound quality. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do (which won't be easy, believe me).

Talking Heads - 1982-07-01 - Leiden, NL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Groenoordhallen

Soundboard tape from the collection of Hans Devente, tape #44.

Transfer by Hans:

Cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > WAV > FLAC.

Edits:

FLAC > TLH > Wavelab > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC 1644 tagged.

CD1

01 Pyscho Killer

02 Love > Building on Fire

03 Cities

04 Big Blue Plymouth

05 Once in a Lifetime

06 band intros

07 Mind

08 My Big Hands

09 Big Business

10 I Zimbra

CD2

01 Swamp

02 Slink

03 Houses in Motion

04 What a Day that Was

05 Life During Wartime

06 Encore 1: Take Me To the River

07 Encore 2: Crosseyed & Painless

Talking Heads - 1979-06-08 - Sydney, AU (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Triple J FM Broadcast (FLAC)

Rebroadcast by Triple J in January 2005 as part of their "Live At The Wireless" celebrations.

Source:
ANALOGUE FM > AUDIO CDRW > EAC > WAV > FLAC 8 > YOU

01 - Whiny Announcer
02 - The Book I Read
03 - Paper
04 - Mind
05 - Found A Job
06 - Memories Can't Wait
07 - Psycho Killer
08 - Take Me To The River

Talking Heads - 1977-06-05 - London, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Roundhouse

Tape from the collection of Hans Devente - TAPE TH08.
Hans - Cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Audacity > WAV > FLAC
Me - Hans FLAC > TLH > WAV > Cool Edit 2000 (track separation only) > WAV > TLH > FLAC

David Byrne= vocals, guitar
Jerry Harrison= guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tina Weymouth= bass
Chris Frantz= drums

01 Love Goes To Building On Fire (3:21)
02 Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (3:21)
03 Don't Worry About The Government (3:07)
04 Take Me To The River (5:48)
05 Who Is It? (1:56)
06 Tentative Decisions (3:34)
07 The Book I Read (6:00)
08 New Feeling (3:17)
09 A Clean Break (5:57)
10 Pulled Up (4:11)
-
11 I'm Not In Love (6:05)
12 Psycho Killer (5:30)

ENCORE
13 No Compassion (6:12)
14 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (2:13)

total time: 60:40

Hans' source, straight up / no audio modifications, just track marks.
There's some clipping, but I didn't do anything to try to address that.
I removed 9mins of silence off the end of the tape Side B file.
I SBE-fixed each tape side separately.

Hans notes:
****
-they were opening for The Ramones; The Saints were also on the bill
-the second of two nights in this venue

Talking Heads - 1977-05-24 - Birmingham, UK (FM/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Lineage:
CDr>CDwave>WAVE>FlacFrontend Level 8>FLAC

Quality : 9 (+)

01 - Love Goes To Buildings On Fire

02 - Uh Oh,Love Comes To Town

03 - Dont Worry About The Government

04 - Take Me To The River

05 - Who Is It?

06 - Tentative Decision

07 - The Book I Read

08 - New Feeling

09 - A Clean Break ( Wash That Love Away )

10 - Pulled Up

11 - Im Not In Love ( bad tape at the beginning )

12 - Psycho Killer

13 - No Compassion

Talking Heads - 1979-03-15 - Cleveland, OH (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

LP > WAV > slight cleanup with Adobe Audition > FLAC

David Byrne - guitar, vocals

Jerry Harrison - guitar, keyboards

Tina Weymouth - bass

Chris Frantz - drums

01 - The Big Country (6:01)

02 - Warning Sign (4:42)

03 - Artists Only (5:22)

05 - The Good Thing (3:18)

07 - New Feeling (4:30)

09 - Psycho Killer (7:19)

10 - Take Me to the River (6:19)

The following tracks have been omitted because they have been officially released on the album "The Name of the Band is the Talking Heads".

4. The Girls Want to Be with the Girls (3:56)

6. Electricity (3:31)

8. Found a Job (5:35)

Throughout the latter half of 1978 and the early months of 1979, Talking Heads continued to criss-cross their way across Europe and the U.S.A., surprising many audiences with the power of their live shows.

Recognizing that on stage the band tapped into an energy source that their records left unminded, Warner Brothers (Sire's parent company) taped a Talking Heads show at the Agora in Cleveland on March 15th 1979. 

Entitled 'Talking Heads Live On Tour', the album caught the group on the verge of the sessions for their third album Fear Of Music, and one song, 'Electricity', later appeared on that album as 'Drugs'. The rest of the live album consisted of songs from the first two studio LP's, charged with an emotional current that belied the often placid sound of the group's records.