Talking Heads – Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live (LP + 7-inch Vinyl)
Before they ever set foot in a New York City club, before Brian Eno, before Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads were three art school kids building something genuinely strange and new from almost nothing. These recordings capture the band in their most unguarded form, when the angular grooves and Byrne's anxious brilliance were still being sketched out in real time, and the songs that would define a generation were just hunches waiting to be proven right.
Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in a college band called The Artistics. In spring semester 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: “Warning Sign” and “Psycho Killer.”
This collection for RSD Black Friday includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional eleven demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
7": The Artistics Demos
UPC: 081227809003
Label: Rhino
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: LP Vinyl