Product Description
Rare High Quality Japanese First Pressing! Includes Colour Insert, Plus B&W 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese, Labels Are Clean. The Fourth Talking Heads Studio LP Was Produced By & Co-Written With Brian Eno.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of light surface marks, which are not audible. Plays NM!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some small spots of foxing, due to age.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Crosseyed And Painless
The Great Curve
Side 2:
Once In A Lifetime
Houses In Motion
Seen And Not Seen
Listening Wind
The Overload
AMG –
Talking Heads were connecting with an audience ready to follow their musical evolution, and this album was so inventive and influential, it was no wonder! The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads' fourth album, Remain in Light. "I Zimbra" and "Life During Wartime" from the earlier album served as the blueprints for a disc on which the group explored African polyrhythms on a series of driving groove tracks, over which David Byrne chanted and sang his typically disconnected lyrics. Remain in Light had more words than any previous Heads record, but they counted for less than ever in the sweep of the music. The album's single, "Once in a Lifetime," flopped upon release, but over the years it became an audience favorite due to a striking video, its inclusion in the band's 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, and its second single release (in the live version) because of its use in the 1986 movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills, when it became a minor chart entry. Byrne sounded typically uncomfortable in the verses ("And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife/And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?"), which were undercut by the reassuring chorus ("Letting the days go by"). Even without a single, Remain in Light was a hit, indicating that Talking Heads were connecting with an audience ready to follow their musical evolution, and the album was so inventive and influential, it was no wonder. As it turned out, however, it marked the end of one aspect of the group's development and was their last new music for three years.