Fear of Music/Remain in/Speaking [Box set, Import]

Talking Heads | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Phantom Sound & Visi
• ASIN: B00004SV9Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,019,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

2. Crosseyed And Painless

3. The Great Curve

4. Once In A Lifetime

5. House In Motion

6. Seen And Not Seen

7. Listening Wind

8. The Overload

9. Burning Down The House

10. Making Flippy Floppy

11. Girlfriend Is Better

12. Slippery People

13. I Get Wild/Wild Gravity

14. Swamp

15. Moon Rocks

16. Pull Up The Roots

17. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

18. I Zimbra

19. Mind

20. Paper

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Ridiculously low priced box featuring three of the best studio albums by David Byrne & co.'s hit new wave band: 1979's top 40 'Fear Of Music', produced by Brian Eno & featuring the hit 'Life During Wartime', 1980's top 20 'Remain In Light', also produced

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Treasure for free?, March 10, 2001

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DiskSpinner (Beaverton, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear of Music/Remain in/Speaking (Audio CD)

This is an unbelievable offer. Talking Heads is one of my favourite bands of alltime. Three of their best albums are in this pack (Another great album "More songs about buildins and food" is not in the pack). The price is unbelievable if you remember that the CDs are imported. Talking heads, one of the groundbreaking acts in late seventies and eighties with their best recording in this price is like getting a free gift. My favourite songs like "Once in a lifetime", "Burning down the house", "I zimra" are in this 3 CD pack. It is simply a treat for punk flavoured world music lovers. This should be the buy of your life.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Deal - Memories Can't wait, July 27, 2001

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Peter Norvig (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear of Music/Remain in/Speaking (Audio CD)

Look, its a great deal: (price)or so for 3 albums by a great band. You can't go wrong.

For me, it was nostalgic; I have the albums on casette, but don't seem to play them anymore. But I have two memories of what I listened to while working on my thesis nearly 20 years ago: my casette recording of my neighbor's Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, and NPR radio, which on Sundays used to play some guy telling stories about a lake in Minnesota, along with a show playing folk music. (One day after months of listening to this in the background, I was concentrating on my writing less than usual, and noticed that the two shows were one and the same.)

Some of the Talking Heads material seems topical all over again, both before Sept 11 ("Our president's crazy / Did you hear what he said?") and after ("the sound of gunfire off in the distance", "what is happening to my skin?") Some of it is inspiring ("I knew my heart was in the right place / I knew I'd be able to do these things") or makes you think ("By keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his mind or somewhere in the back of his mind / He thought that he might, by force of will, cause his face to approach those of his ideal ... This is why first impressions are often correct") and some of it just makes you think "what were they thinking?" ("Look over there / Dry ice factory / Good place to get some thinking done").

If you loved them then, you will again; if you missed them then (or weren't born then) try them now.