The Best of Talking Heads

Tracklist

• 1
  Love → Building on Fire
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Psycho Killer
  4:20
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Take Me to the River
  5:04
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Found a Job
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Life During Wartime
  3:41
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Heaven
  4:02
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Memories Can't Wait
  3:31
  3.7 ★
• 9
  Once in a Lifetime
  4:20
  4.3 ★
• 10
  Houses in Motion
  4:31
  4.0 ★
• 11
  This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
  4:56
  3.8 ★
• 12
  Girlfriend Is Better
  5:46
  4.4 ★
• 13
  Burning Down the House
  4:03
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Road to Nowhere
  4:20
  4.1 ★
• 15
  And She Was
  3:39
  4.2 ★
• 16
  Wild Wild Life
  3:41
  3.6 ★
• 17
  Blind
  5:00
  3.2 ★
• 18
  (Nothing but) Flowers
  5:32
  4.2 ★

More by Talking Heads

Remain in Light

Remain in Light 1980

Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues 1983

Talking Heads: 77

Talking Heads: 77 1977

Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense 1984

Little Creatures

Little Creatures 1985

Fear of Music

Fear of Music 1979

Release credits

• Abdou M’Boup
  congas [17-18], cowbell [17], talking drum [17]
• Adrian Belew
  guitar [12]
• Alex Sadkin
  engineer [12], mix [11-13], task [11, 13]
• Andrew Cader
  guest [14], washboard [14]
• Ari Up
  congas [6], guest [6]
• Benjamin Armbrister
  assistant [4-5]
• Bernie Worrell
  synthesizer [12]
• Brad Baker
  horn [1]
• Brian Eno
  background vocals [4-5, 9-10, 12], bass guitar [12], guitar [4-5], keyboard [12], mix [5, 9-10], percussion [4-5, 12], performer [6-8], piano [4-5], producer [4-10], synthesizer [4-5], vocal arranger [9-10]
• Brice Wassy
  shakers [18]
• Butch Jones
  engineer [11-13]
• Charlie Brocco
  assistant [16]
• Chris Frantz
  arranger [14-15], background vocals [12-13, 16], drums (drum set) [2-9, 11, 13-18], keyboard [12], membranophone [1, 12], percussion [4-5, 12], synthesizer [12-13], tambourine [1]
• Chris Martinez
  assistant [6-8]
• Dave Jerden
  engineer [9-10], mix [9-10]
• David Byrne
  arranger [14-15], background vocals [18], bass guitar [11-13], bell [1], guitar [1-9, 11-18], keyboard [11-13], lead vocals [1-10, 12, 14-18], mix [9-10], percussion [12-13], synthesizer [4-5], vocal [11, 13-14], vocal arranger [9-10]
• David Van Tieghem
  guest [11], percussion [11]
• Diva Gray
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Earl Gardner
  trumpet [17]
• Ed Stasium
  engineer [1-3], mix [5]
• Ellen Bernfeld
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Eric Thorngren
  mix [14-15], recording [14-16]
• Erin Dickens
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Fernando Kral
  background vocals [17-18], lead vocals [17-18]
• Frank Gibson
  assistant [11-13]
• Gene Wilder
  congas [6], guest [6]
• Gordon Grody
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Jack Nuber
  additional [9]
• Jay Mark
  assistant [12-13]
• Jean-Loup Morette
  assistant [17-18]
• Jerry Harrison
  Hammond organ [18], arranger [14-15], background vocals [4-5, 12-16], bass guitar [12], guitar [2, 2-5, 7-8, 12, 12-14, 14-16], keyboard [2, 2-3, 7-9, 11-12, 12-14, 14, 16], organ [4-5], percussion [12], piano [4-5, 17], synthesizer [4-6], vocal [2-3, 6-8]
• Jimmy MacDonell
  accordion [14], guest [14]
• Joe Barbaria
  engineer [6-8]
• John Convertino
  assistant [12-13]
• John Potoker
  additional [9], mix [9-10]
• Johnny Marr
  12 string guitar [18]
• Jon Hassell
  brass [10], trumpet [10]
• José Rossy
  percussion [12]
• Julie Last
  assistant [6-8]
• Karen Ahmed
  executive [2]
• Kathy Botich
  assistant [16]
• Kendal Stubbs
  assistant [9-10]
• Kirsty MacColl
  background vocals [18]
• Kurt Yahijian
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Lance Quinn
  horn [1], producer [2-3]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Laurie Frink
  trumpet [17]
• Lenny Pickett
  brass [17], guest [14], saxophone [14], tenor saxophone [17]
• Mark Wallis
  mix [17-18]
• Matt Cohen
  additional [2]
• Melanie West
  assistant [14-16], task [14-15]
• Mick Guzauski
  mix [16]
• Mory Kanté
  kora [17]
• Neal Teeman
  engineer [6-8]
• Nick Delre
  assistant [16-17, 17-18, 18], background vocals [17-18], lead vocals [17-18]
• Nona Hendryx
  background vocals [9-10, 12]
• Rhett Davies
  engineer [4-5]
• Richard Manwaring
  recording [17-18]
• Robert Palmer
  percussion [12]
• Robin Eubanks
  trombone [17]
• Robin Hurley
  executive [2]
• Robin Laine
  assistant [16]
• Rod O’Brien
  engineer [6-8]
• Stan Harrison
  alto saxophone [17]
• Steve Elfon
  baritone saxophone [17]
• Steve Lillywhite
  producer [17-18]
• Steve Scales
  bongos [14], congas [14], guest [13-14, 14], percussion [13], tambourine [14]
• Steven Stanley
  additional [9]
• Talking Heads
  arranger [9-10], producer [2-9, 11-18]
• Thomas Erdelyi
  associate [1]
• Tina Weymouth
  arranger [14-15], background vocals [11-18], bass [1, 4-5, 7-9], bass guitar [2-3, 12, 15-18], bass synthesizer [13-15], double bass [12], electric bass guitar [6], guitar [11-12], keyboard [12], percussion [12], synthesizer [12]
• Tom Heid
  assistant [6-8]
• Tom Nist
  assistant [16]
• Tony Bongiovi
  producer [1-3]
• Wally Badarou
  guest [11, 13], keyboard [17], synthesizer [11, 13]
• Yves N'Djock
  guitar [17-18]
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