Track Listing 1. Damage I've Done - (with Johnette Napolitano) 2. King Is Gone, The - (with Michael Hutchence) 3. No Talking Just Head - (with Deborah Harry) 4. Never Mind - (with Richard Hell) 5. No Big Bang - (with Maria McKee) 6. Don't Take My Kindness For Weakness - (with Shaun Ryder) 7. No More Lonely Nights - (with Malin Anneteg) 8. Indie Hair - (with Ed Kowalczyk) 9. Punk Lolita - (with Deborah Harry/Johnette Napolitano/Tina Weymouth) 10. Only the Lonely - (with Gordon Gano) 11. Papersnow - (with Andy Partridge) 12. Blue Blue Moon - (with Gavin Friday)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Andy Partridge, Deborah Harry, Ed Kowalczyk, Gavin Friday, Gordon Gano, Johnette Napolitano, Richard Hell | | Producer: | The Heads | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Heads: Tina Weymouth (vocals, bass, keyboards); Jerry Harrison (guitar, piano, keyboards); Chris Frantz (drums, bongos, electric saw, programming). Additional personnel includes: Johnette Napolitano (vocals, guitar); Richard Hell, Debbie Harry, Michael Hutchence, Shaun Ryder, Malin Anneteg, Ed Kowalczyk, Gordon Gano, Andy Partridge, Gavin Friday (vocals). Principally recorded at Clubhouse Music Studio, Cock Island, Connecticut. The Heads, as both their name and debut album title suggest, are Talking Heads without their singer, David Byrne. With Byrne comfortably ensonced in a solo career, the killer rhythm section behind the band's twitchy, neurotic pop has gathered a disparate all-star cast of vocalist-lyricists to replace him on this most strange of all reunion albums. The rotating group of frontmen here includes '70s CBGB compatriots Debbie Harry and Richard Hell, contemporary popsters Ed Kowalczyk (of Live) and Michael Hutchence (INXS), and cult heroes Andy Partridge (XTC) and Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes). Rather than rehash any of Talking Heads' various musical phases, remaining Heads Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison go for a more modernized, electronic atmosphere on these offhandedly arty collaborations. No one is likely to mistake this for a Talking Heads album, and that's probably just the way The Heads want it.
Editorial Reviews 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...a cross between the dense, complex funk grooves of REMAIN IN LIGHT and the dark pop tunes on SPEAKING IN TONGUES---but with an added '90s rattle and hum, influenced by techno and grunge....there are enough outstanding moments to justify the experiment... Q (12/01/1996)
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