Same as It Ever Was

Tracklist

• 1
  Love → Building on Fire
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 2
  The Book I Read
  4:11
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Psycho Killer
  4:22
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
  2:14
  3.4 ★
• 5
  Take Me to the River
  5:03
  3.8 ★
• 6
  Heaven
  4:01
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Cities
  4:14
• 8
  Life During Wartime
  3:43
  4.3 ★
• 9
  Crosseyed and Painless
  4:47
  3.9 ★
• 10
  Once in a Lifetime
  4:22
  4.4 ★
• 11
  Burning Down the House
  4:03
  4.5 ★
• 12
  This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
  4:58
  3.9 ★
• 13
  And She Was
  3:43
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Road to Nowhere
  4:22
  4.2 ★
• 15
  Wild Wild Life
  3:42
  3.6 ★
• 16
  (Nothing but) Flowers
  5:35
  4.2 ★

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Fear of Music

Fear of Music 1979

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Talking Heads: 77 1977

The Collection

The Collection 2007

Release credits

• Abdou M’Boup
  congas [16]
• Alex Sadkin
  mix [11-12], task [11-12]
• Andrew Cader
  guest [14], washboard [14]
• Ari Up
  congas [8], guest [8]
• Benjamin Armbrister
  assistant [4-5]
• Brad Baker
  horn [1]
• Brian Eno
  background vocals [5, 9-10], guitar [5], mix [9-10], percussion [5], performer [6, 8], piano [5], producer [4-6, 8-10], synthesizer [5], vocal arranger [9-10]
• Brice Wassy
  shakers [16]
• Butch Jones
  engineer [11-12]
• Charlie Brocco
  assistant [15]
• Chris Frantz
  arranger [13-14], background vocals [11, 15], drums (drum set) [3, 5-6, 8, 10-16], membranophone [1], percussion [5], synthesizer [11], tambourine [1]
• Chris Martinez
  assistant [6, 8]
• Dave Jerden
  engineer [9-10], mix [9-10]
• David Byrne
  arranger [13-14], background vocals [16], bass guitar [11-12], bell [1], guitar [1, 3, 5-6, 8, 10-16], keyboard [11-12], lead vocals [1-6, 8-10, 13-16], mix [9-10], percussion [11], synthesizer [5], vocal [11-12, 14], vocal arranger [9-10]
• David Van Tieghem
  guest [12], percussion [12]
• Diva Gray
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Ed Stasium
  engineer [1-3]
• Ellen Bernfeld
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Eric Thorngren
  mix [13-14], recording [13-15]
• Erin Dickens
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Fernando Kral
  background vocals [16], lead vocals [16]
• Frank Gibson
  assistant [11-12]
• Gene Wilder
  congas [8], guest [8]
• Gordon Grody
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Jack Nuber
  additional [10]
• Jay Mark
  assistant [11]
• Jean-Loup Morette
  assistant [16]
• Jerry Harrison
  Hammond organ [16], arranger [13-14], background vocals [5, 11, 13-15], guitar [3, 5-6, 11, 13-14, 14-15], keyboard [3, 6, 10-12, 14, 14-15], organ [5], piano [5], synthesizer [5, 8], vocal [3, 6, 8]
• Jimmy MacDonell
  accordion [14], guest [14]
• Joe Barbaria
  engineer [6, 8]
• John Convertino
  assistant [11]
• John Potoker
  additional [10], mix [9-10]
• Johnny Marr
  12 string guitar [16]
• Julie Last
  assistant [6, 8]
• Karen Ahmed
  executive [3]
• Kathy Botich
  assistant [15]
• Kendal Stubbs
  assistant [9-10]
• Kirsty MacColl
  background vocals [16]
• Kurt Yahijian
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Lance Quinn
  horn [1], producer [2-3]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Lenny Pickett
  guest [14], saxophone [14]
• Mark Wallis
  mix [16]
• Matt Cohen
  additional [3]
• Melanie West
  assistant [13-15], task [13-14]
• Mick Guzauski
  mix [15]
• Neal Teeman
  engineer [6, 8]
• Nick Delre
  assistant [15-16, 16], background vocals [16], lead vocals [16]
• Nona Hendryx
  background vocals [10]
• Rhett Davies
  engineer [4-5]
• Richard Manwaring
  recording [16]
• Robin Hurley
  executive [3]
• Robin Laine
  assistant [15]
• Rod O’Brien
  engineer [6, 8]
• Steve Lillywhite
  producer [16]
• Steve Scales
  bongos [14], congas [14], guest [11, 14], percussion [11], tambourine [14]
• Steven Stanley
  additional [10]
• Talking Heads
  arranger [9-10], producer [2-6, 8, 10-16]
• Thomas Erdelyi
  associate [1]
• Tina Weymouth
  arranger [13-14], background vocals [11-16], bass [1, 5-6, 10], bass guitar [3, 13, 15-16], bass synthesizer [11, 13-14], electric bass guitar [8], guitar [12]
• Tom Heid
  assistant [6, 8]
• Tom Nist
  assistant [15]
• Tony Bongiovi
  producer [1-3]
• Wally Badarou
  guest [11-12], synthesizer [11-12]
• Yves N'Djock
  guitar [16]
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Issues

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  Same as It Ever Was

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  2009