On this day in music history: September 16, 1977 - Talking Heads: 77, the debut album by Talking Heads is released. Produced by Talking Heads with Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn, it is recorded at Sundragon Studios in New York City from Late 1976 - Mid 1977. The bands first album contains several songs were written during the bands residency at the legendary punk rock club CBGBs in New York City. The single Psycho Killer (#92 Pop) will become one of their signature tunes and one of their most enduring. The album will be remastered as a DualDisc CD in 2005 with one side featuring a standard redbook CD with five bonus tracks, and the other side containing a DVD-A (DVD Audio) version of the album with the original stereo mix and a high definition 5.1 Surround mix (remixed by E.T. Thorngren and Jerry Harrison), with two live performance videos of the band performing Pulled Up (Live at Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, CA in 1978) and I Feel It In My Heart (Live at The Kitchen in New York City in 1976). It will also see its first release on vinyl in nearly twenty years when it is reissued as a 180g LP on Record Store Day in April of 2009. Talking Heads: 77 will peak at number ninety seven on the Billboard Top 200.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:00:19 +0000
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