Talking Heads – True Stories

What a pressing! Wide, gigantic 3D sound with exceptional detail in the midrange. Hot on top and rocks on bottom. This has a powerful, well-balanced fidelity. I have the SACD but this just rips in a way lacking in the digital realm. This has that in-the-room image that makes the music come alive. Wow! [Tech specs in my profile]

An excellent pressing of a very-very underrated album. Highly recommended!

Includes a 5th track on Side A: "Give Me Back My Love" from Little Creatures

These are indeed True StoriesTM

//My Highlight Tracks:
Love For Sale
Hey Now
Wild Wild Life
Radiohead
Dream Operator
People Like Us

AMAZING! Why can’t all pressings be like this? I don’t know how it compares to original but this sounds perfect to me. Pressing is flat, quiet, and not warped. Artwork and inner sleeve picture perfect. Definitely recommend.

In reference to variant 1. A variety pack of songwriting styles and recording techniques. If one is concerned about the sonics, listen to Papa Legba, it resonates. A full range narrative.

Someone to add in notes that it was released and given for free by Greek newspaper "Espresso".

This album was blasted by the critics, largely because the band had been around long enough at this point that there were no hipster points to be gained by praising them anymore. The film that accompanied this release was also blasted.

Well sod them. This is another excellent Talking Heads album. It is unique in their canon in that it is the closest they ever came to straight rock music, which was the chief complaint leveled against them. It's also a dumb complaint. The polyrhythms of the early 80's may be mostly gone at this point, but rather than repeating themselves, the band tried something new. "Love For Sale" is a tremendous rocker, but just as off-kilter and paranoid as their best music, and the lyrics are a hoot too. "City of Dreams" is autumnal and elegiac, and it gains resonance with passing time. "Dream Operator" is one of the prettiest pieces of music the band ever made. 'Wild Wild Life" is pure fun. "Puzzlin' Evidence" rides a great gospel rock groove. "People Like Us" might sound like a smug jab at rednecks, but it is actually empathetic, generous of spirit, and sharply written. Nothing here is bad, and most of it is great.

It isn't the same sound of the 70's and early-80's band, but there is no deterioration of wit or commitment in the music.

And don't skip the movie, the essence of which is captured in "People Like Us". Funny, insightful, and charming in its own way, as well as ultimately prescient.

Very good, clean out of the paper sleeve and sound quality is on point. I guess I got lucky with the non fill thing.

Absolutely SUPERB reissue. The pressing quality is the pinnacle of what can be achieved today. This is Record Industry at their best offering better than UHQR/1Step noise floor for 1/6th of the price. And then theres the fresh mastering. No IGD and a very agreeable clarity to everything even on my humbler 2M red equipped rig. Incredibly good, one of the best modern records ive bought in 2023