Talking Heads: Great Speeches

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chrome Dreams
• ASIN: B00003OTG8
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,264,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Televised Presidential Debate

2. Abdication Address

3. Reports on the Four-Power Munich Conference

4. On Germany's Invasion of Czechoslovakia

5. First Radio Address as Prime Minister

6. Declaration of War Against Japan

7. History's First Atomic Bomb Attack

8. The Cuban Missile Crisis

9. Confrontation Over Russian Missiles in Cuba

10. The End of the Vietnam War

11. Christmas Message

12. Address to the Civil Rights Marchers

13. Black Power

14. Address to the Women of America

15. The Watergate Tapes

16. Landing on the Moon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful speeches, April 30, 2002

By 

M. A. ZAIDI "Ali Zaidi" (Karachi; Pakistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Talking Heads: Great Speeches (Audio CD)

Presented here are 16 fascinating speeches by key historical figures of the 21st century. I listened to the CD to get an understanding of both the contents of the speech and the emphasis of the voice used to convey the dynamics of the situation. These are very powerful speeches and my 3 preferred ones from this selection are
1. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (Address to the civil rights marches)
2. President john F. Kennedy (The Cuban Missile crisis)
3. Mr. Adlan Stevenson (Confrontation with the Russian ambassador in United Nations over missiles in Cuba).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap background music ruins cd., January 22, 2008

By 

Elisabeth Anderson "Tosagirl" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talking Heads: Great Speeches (Audio CD)

These are stand-alone speeches. So what's with the cheap, repetitive minimalist music in the background? The "music" was completely distracting from the speeches. This one is headed for the garbage because of it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It will kill you., January 30, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Talking Heads: Great Speeches (Audio CD)

This is impossibly annoying. I was hoping for a collection of powerful and important speeches. I had no idea that someone would put a jingle in the background of all of them and dirty any pleasure that I had hoped to enjoy. This album is dirty.

I can only imagine that this was done to ensure some sort of copyright over the product to boost some abstracted idea of future profit. I sincerely hope that people do not buy this item if only to punish this behavior to stop its spread.

This album will kill you.