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LeddSledd
June 8th 2022


7445 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

maaan I like catchy Talking Heads but I wish they got weirder more often, Animals and Drugs are such cool songs

SandwichBubble
April 1st 2023


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I may as well bump this back up. Still the weakest of their first 4 to me.

3.5 → 4.0

cylinder
April 1st 2023


4352 Comments


always thought this one was a huge step up from their first two

DoofDoof
April 1st 2023


17292 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

agreed

SandwichBubble
April 1st 2023


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

A-side is great. B-side I cannot bring myself to give a shit about. Nothing bad on this though.

ArsMoriendi
April 1st 2023


42318 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Not even Animals? I LOVE that on

SandwichBubble
April 1st 2023


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Album basically ends after Air for me.

I'm no longer shocked that people like this more than More songs, but I heavily judge you all for it make no mistake.

cylinder
April 2nd 2023


4352 Comments


What about Heaven?

ArsMoriendi
April 2nd 2023


42318 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Pretty much every song on here other than maybe Paper is classic



Judge me but it’s prob tiger 2nd best album

cylinder
April 2nd 2023


4352 Comments


I love Paper. Weakest for me is Electric Guitar

ArsMoriendi
April 2nd 2023


42318 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

That is a crime against the state





cylinder
April 2nd 2023


4352 Comments


Haha nice

SandwichBubble
April 2nd 2023


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Relative to the rest of their output, and even on this album, Heaven is closer to the bottom than the top. I'd take anything off 77, more songs, and remain in light (goes without saying) before it.



But if any other band released it, it'd be their best song.



And Electric guitar is probably their weakest pre-Speaking in Tongues song to me. Not even a bad song, it's just a crazy grading curve we're dealing with here.

JohnnyoftheWell
April 2nd 2023


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Yeah, Electric Guitar would be one of the first tracks I'd cut from this (and Heaven one of the last, don't think there's a single 77 song outside of the final two that I'd favour above it)

Animals is the real underrated gem here

ArsMoriendi
April 2nd 2023


42318 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Damn, electic guitar is an album highlight for me tbh



SandwichBubble
April 2nd 2023


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Let's not get too negative though, this still has jams. This 4.0 isn't for pity.



Main reason I bumped this was the opener, Mind, Cities and Life During Wartime. I always preferred the live version of the latter, but this version's still great.

LilLioness
February 2nd 2024


3802 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"Drugs" is stupid good.

JohnnyoftheWell
December 31st 2024


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

This is getting a long-deserved bump up

Butkuiss
February 25th 2025


8745 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Around the time this album was released, I saw Talking Heads play a small bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a great, intimate show. I really loved the band at the time. After the show, I checked out the merch table. They had t-shirts with a small Talking Heads logo on the upper-left front side of the shirt. I asked the guys manning the table what I thought was a reasonable question, particularly given the exorbitant price of the shirts: "Is there anything on the back?" And they proceeded to ridicule me mercilessly. "Like what a giant skull?" "Or, or, a naked chick riding huge boner?" And they continued on like that between each other, laughing uproariously, even as I wandered away. That experience definitely left a bad taste in my mouth

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17292 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

One of only ten albums I'd award a full 100% score to.



EDIT: oh, thought this was the 'Remain in Light' thread :3



This might be the 'closest to getting a 5 bump' album I have on a 4.5.



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