Talking Heads – Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live [Vinyl LP Reissue]

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 collection on LP and 7" includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional eleven demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.

 

Album Highlights

Format: Vinyl

Label: ‎RHINO

Rel. Date: 03/06/2026

UPC: 603497809530

 

Tracklist

A1 Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)

A2 Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)

A3 No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)

A4 Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)

A5 I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo)

B1 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo)

B2 The Book I Read (1976 Demo)

B3 I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo

B4 Love → Building On A Fire (1976 Demo)

B5 Happy Day (1976 Demo)

B6 Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, August 17, 1976)

 

7": The Artistics Demos

C Psycho Killer

D Warning Sign

 

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