Talking Heads – Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live [CD]

Album Details

Tentative Decisions: 1974-1976 is a special release from Talking Heads, featuring their early works on vinyl. This collection captures the band's innovative sound during their formative years, making it a must-have for fans and collectors alike. 

Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in a college band called The Artistics. In spring semester 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: “Warning Sign” and “Psycho Killer.”

This 3CD collection includes this newly discovered material alongside additional demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976 alongside the first official release of the band's demo session for CBS/Columbia Records in 1975 as well as rare live recordings of the original trio lineup in 1976 and 1977.

Album Highlights

Format: Vinyl
Label: ‎RHINO
Rel. Date: 03/06/2026
UPC: 603497809523

Tracklist
1-1    Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
1-2    Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
1-3    No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
1-4    Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
1-5    I’m Not In Love (1976 Demo)
1-6    Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo)
1-7    The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
1-8    I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo)
1-9    Love → Building On Fire (1976 Demo)
1-10    Happy Day (1976 Demo)
1-11    Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, August 17, 1976)
1-12    Psycho Killer
1-13    Warning Sign

CBS/Columbia Demos, 1975    
2-1    Psycho Killer
2-2    Sugar On My Tongue
2-3    Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
2-4    I Want To Live
2-5    I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
2-6    The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
2-7    Who Is It?
2-8    With Our Love
2-9    Stay Hungry
2-10    Tentative Decisions
2-11    Warning Sign
2-12    I'm Not In Love
2-13    The Book I Read
2-14    Love → Building On Fire
2-15    No Compassion 

Live At Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, October 9, 1976
3-1    Artists Only
3-2    1, 2, 3 Red Light
3-3    Happy Day
3-4    Don’t Worry About The Government
3-5    Psycho Killer
3-6    Love → Building On Fire
3-7    Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
3-8    With Our Love
3-9    Pablo Picasso
3-10    I’m Not In Love

Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, January 26, 1977    
3-11    No Compassion
3-12    New Feeling
3-13    Psycho Killer
3-14    A Clean Break (Let’s Work)
3-15    Sugar On My Tongue
3-16    I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That
3-17    Take Me To The River

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