Giles

there's an ad for the brick box set in the lastest issue of Blender and it states that each album has been remixed in 5.1 in their entirety. If that's the case, I CAN NOT wait for these discs!!!!

EMB

My concern is really with whether the complete regular album releases will be 5.1. I'm assuming this will be the case....

ED

Hollowgen

geeze, i really hope so. can't they just make it clear?

Giles

apparently not, I really rather wait until someone has a review copy and review to back this up.

Buford T Pusser

I saw the ad and meant to post that. If they are, I'll buy more than just the first three or four.

Giles

I also emailed Musictap.net's Matt Rowe and he replied to my inquiry about this and he replyed:

"It seems that the entire album is mixed in 5.1 as well as key bonus songs."

Buford T Pusser

Niiice.

Buford T Pusser

at Amazon:

Talking Heads Brick [BOX SET] [DUALDISC]
Talking Heads

List Price: $149.98
Price: $119.98 and this item ships for FREE SHIPPING

$15 each.

What's the list price on the individual releases? $20?

ZoneFighter

I just ordered the Brick from CD Universe for $104.99 & $6.99 shipping for the whole order...

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6967364

Around $13.60/CD (I ordered the new Art Brut CDingle and DVDingle and a few other CDs to spread out the shipping cost.)

Hollowgen

...still holding out for a best buy sale

Giles

and with my Amazon Visa triple points - yeah baby!

which Art Brut song is the 'single' I been digging the album.

ZoneFighter

The new CDingle is
1. Good Weekend
2. Really Bad Weekend
3. Home Altars Of Mexico

The DVDingle is
1. Good Weekend promo video
2. Formed A Band (original version) promo video
3. Interview With Eddie Argos
and who knows what else. Art Brut are an Easter Egg-ie bunch. Did you find track 0 on the Bang Bang Rock & Roll CD?

Giles

really? no... not yet

Hollowgen

anyone finding any reasonable prices on the Brick yet? i've scoured just about every site i know, and i'm not pleased thus far....

Chaza

Wherehouse www.wherehouse.com has it for $120, but there is a 33% off coupon code: ISC409OF to make it $80 plus shipping.

Buford T Pusser

Thanks. I placed an order w/Wherehouse.

Hollowgen

whoa, thanks, chaza! you should mention this in hot deals too!

Buford T Pusser

I ended up going back an ordering a bunch more with the discount. It easily beat Amazon and DeepDiscountCD.

The Ramones ~ Weird Tales of the Ramones
New CD - Price: $34.66

Various Artists ~ Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1995 [Box] [Remastered]
New CD - Price: $34.66

Franz Ferdinand ~ You Could Have It So Much Better [DualDisc]
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $10.13

Supergrass ~ Road to Rouen
New CD - Price: $9.59

Super Furry Animals ~ Love Kraft
New CD - Price: $7.99

Various Artists ~ Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to Another
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $37.32

Ric Ocasek ~ Nexterday
New CD - Price: $10.12

auto

Thanks Chaza. Ordered the set.

Giles

another thanks for the link:

my order (I am tad annoyed that the new Elbow album is not available to purchase):

- Talking Heads ~ Talking Heads Brick [DualDisc] [Box]
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $79.99

- Franz Ferdinand ~ You Could Have It So Much Better [DualDisc]
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $10.13

- The Beta Band ~ Best of the Beta Band
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $11.19

- Echo & The Bunnymen ~ Siberia
New CD - Price: $9.05

- Ladytron ~ Witching Hour
Pre-order CD - Est. Release Date 10/04/2005 - Price: $9.59

Total Bought: $119.95
Credit Applied: ($0.00)
Shipping and Handling: $6.95
Sales Tax (DC 5.75%): $6.90
Total: $133.80

Buford T Pusser

I ordered Echo (and Architecture in Helsinki) from Amazon the other day. Had a rebate coupon.

Giles

why is that funny ...

I actually bought the Echo album from Olsson's here in town at full price, but haven't opened it, gonna exchange it when they get the Elbow album instore.

Incidently also bought a used copy of the Architecture in Helsinki album from Amazon Marketplace, looking forward to hearing that album as well.

Buford T Pusser

It's funny cuz I bought Talking Heads and Franz Ferdinand in my order.

I bought the new AiH cd at their show and should have just bought both of them. I'd never heard them before the show so they were still starting to catch on with me. Damn I enjoy their newest cd and wish I'd heard it before the show.

TimJS

Normally, I wd just post a link, but don't that will work for this piece published on consecutive days in ICE magazine's Daily News Flash :


Talking Heads

Talking Heads' Body of Work

"This ain't no foolin' around," as will be obvious to anyone who sees the futuristic cube housing the complete reissue set of all eight studio albums made by proto-art-rockers Talking Heads (ICE # 223). Due October 4 on Rhino, Talking Heads, a gleaming white plastic slipcase embossed with fragments of Heads lyrics, contains the band's catalog as encoded in the new DualDisc format, with remastered versions of the stereo albums’ CD content on one side, along with bonus audio tracks, and 5.1 surround mixes of the respective albums plus live footage and music videos as DVD content on each disc's flip side.

Andy Zax, whose archival talents have previously enriched the catalogs of bands such as Television and Echo & the Bunnymen, co-produced the reissue series with the full involvement of the original four band members: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison (who supervised the 5.1 remixes with engineer Eric 'ET' Thorngren), Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz. For fans eager to learn of the rarities seeing light for the first time in this set, Zax offers a disc-by-disc breakdown, beginning with the band's initial release. We’ll cover the first four reissues today, then finish up the rest of the batch tomorrow.

Talking Heads '77

"As bonus tracks on the CD side," Zax tells ICE," there's the remastered version of the band's first single, ‘Love Goes to a Building on Fire’ b/w ‘I Wish You Wouldn't Say That.’ Then there’s an unreleased acoustic version of their early signature tune, 'Psycho Killer,' just stunning with accompaniment from cellist [and latter-day cult figure] Arthur Russell. 'I Feel It in My Heart' is a Talking Heads '77 outtake never before issued; the song was a part of the band's early live set. Finally, there’s 'Sugar on My Tongue, ' an early demo first appearing on the Sand In The Vaseline compilation, another pre- Talking Heads '77 song." The DVD side, in addition to the surround-sound mix of the album, holds two 5.1 bonus tracks, alternate mixes created by Harrison of 'Uh Oh Love Comes to Town' and the acoustic 'Psycho Killer.' The video content includes a performance of 'I Feel It in My Heart' recorded in 1976 at the Kitchen in New York City, and 'Pulled Up' performed live in 1978 at U.C. Berkeley's Sproul Plaza."

More Songs About Buildings and Food

The band's second album features four bonus audio tracks. First up are alternate versions of 'Stay Hungry' and 'I'm Not in Love.’ "These are very intense performances with interesting sonics from the band performing in studio alongside producer/synthesist Brian Eno," says Zax. "There’s also an alternate version of 'The Big Country' and the twangy, 'Country Angel' version of 'Thank You for Sending Me an Angel' intended as a B-side, to date unreleased in North America." The disc's DVD side features two more performance videos: "Found a Job" dates from New York's Entermedia Theater in 1978, and "Warning Sign" draws again from the Sproul Plaza during the same year.

Fear of Music

The band's third album, its second with Eno recording bed tracks in Chris and Tina's loft, holds four bonus audio tracks. Zax points out "the clearly unfinished, heretofore unknown 'Dancing for Money,' just catchy as hell and great fun to listen to," featuring Byrne and Eno singing extemporaneous lyrics. Also unearthed was an alternate version with full-length ending of "Life During Wartime" (the original ended with an extended fade-out, rendering inaudible some of the song's lyrics). Zax notes "This changes the character of the song completely." Next is an outtake version of "Drugs" with King Crimson's Robert Fripp (a longtime Eno collaborator) on guitar, as is also the case with the alternate take of "Mind." The "Cities" heard here is longer than the album cut, with different lyrics; this version was previously found on the Once in a Lifetime boxed set assembled by Zax. Two band performances – "I Zimbra" and "Cities" – from 1980 episodes of Rock Pop, a German TV program, complete the DVD side.

Remain In Light

The first appearance of the expanded Talking Heads, and their final Brian Eno production, is complemented with four previously unheard bonus tracks: "Fela's Riff" (its title alluding to Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti), "Unison," "Double Groove" and "Right Start." Zax points out that "Both 'Unison' and 'Double Groove' contain the beginnings of uncompleted songs, and a guitar riff from 'Right Start' holds some of the DNA of 'Once in a Lifetime.' For anyone who's a fan of this album, this is the mother lode. And the DVD side's surround mix is especially dramatic, though anyone used to the dull sound of the initial CD reissue will be impressed [just] by the stereo mixes." Also in the DVD program are two more Rock Pop performances, "Crosseyed and Painless" and "Once in a Lifetime."

Join us tomorrow for even more details on the Talking Heads box!

Speaking in Tongues

The CD portion of this 1982 opus is extended with two additional songs: the outtake "Two-Note Swivel" and an alternate take of the classic "Burning Down the House." Producer Andy Zax notes that the original LP release sported edited version of the songs, with the cassette and, later, CD reissues containing the full-length performances, all of which are restored on the CD program of the new DualDisc. The DVD content includes a surround-sound bonus mix of "Burning Down the House" that’s different from the original album mix, as well as two music videos, "Burning Down the House" and "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)."

Little Creatures

Early versions of "Road to Nowhere" and "And She Was" constitute two-thirds of this album’s extra material. "These are pretty cool, preliminary versions," Zax tells ICE, "just the band bashing the songs out in the privacy of the studio. They're both intriguing from that perspective. It's almost like the return of the sound of Talking Heads '77." Also featured on the CD side is an extended mix of "Television Man," as remixed by Jerry Harrison and Eric Thorngren. "This came out on 12-inch singles in foreign markets," explains Zax. "The sound is very ’80s." DVD items include videos for "Road to Nowhere" and "And She Was."

True Stories

The soundtrack to the 1986 feature film directed by David Byrne is augmented with three bonus cuts: the extended mix of "Wild, Wild Life," a bonus track on the original CD now included on the DualDisc reissue; then two outtakes, the "movie vocal" of "Papa Legba" as sung by Pops Staples, then Tito Larriva's (of the Plugz) rendition of "Radio Head." "There will probably be a Rhino Handmade two-CD edition of True Stories," Zax says, "with all of the ancillary material, both from the band's version of the record and the movie version sung by the actors, as well as the Sounds from True Stories album issued during the film's theatrical run." Special DVD material includes two videos, "Love for Sale" and "Wild, Wild Life." Additionally, Harrison created a surround-sound remix of Staples' take on "Papa Legba."



Naked

The final Talking Heads studio effort, issued in 1988 during the early years of the CD age, originally had a running time of 53 minutes. Owing to the limitations imposed on the CD content by the DualDisc format, only one bonus audio track could be included. "Sax and Violins" was done by the band for Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World during the Naked sessions. (Zax reminds fans that other songs from this period were previously released on the Sand in the Vaseline compilation.) Naked's DVD portion hosts a surround mix of "Sax and Violins," plus videos for "Sax and Violins" and "Blind."

-- Richard Henderson

Tim

ps. What's the deal with dualdisc, some posters don't appear to like them??

Hollowgen

that's amazing to know they'll release the original true stories songs. byrne's intial idea was far more ridiculous/great. i can't wait/hope that RHM will put that out.

otherwise, thanks for that update.