5.1 surround sound is what you’re really paying for here. Courtesy of Lost Highway Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises. The CD side contains four unfinished outtakes from the Remain In Lightsessions, hardly essential but interesting nonetheless. This reissue is a dual-disc with a DVD on the flipside featuring two previously unreleased performances of the Heads 1980 appearance on German Televison program Rockpop. From the first few seconds of the opening track “ Born Under Punches” (immediately punctuated by Byrne’s yell/growl) it’s apparent you are in for a Talking Heads ride unlike anything before. “Polyrhythmic” gets thrown around a lot when discussing this album, and it’s as apt a description if there ever was one. Coming on the tails of Fear of Music, Byrne and company fused post-punk, funk, latin-rhythms, pop, and everything else available in the mix on this, their fourth album. Talking Heads were one of the finest/inventive bands of the 20th century and this album is their opus.
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