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Classic Album Reviews: Talking Heads | Best of / The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

Get the best of both Heads with this single-disc best-of & definitive live album.

These came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got them. Here’s what I said about them back then (with some minor editing):

 


If you couldn’t — or just didn’t want to — shell out for last year’s comprehensive Talking Heads box set Once In A Lifetime, Rhino’s new single-disc hits package is a decent-enough substitute, even if it is missing classics like Air, Drugs and Crosseyed And Painless. More vital is the definitive 1982 live set The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads, which finally debuts on CD — and with a whopping 15 extra cuts from both the jittery, original ’70s quartet and the funky, expanded ’80s lineup.