Popular Favorites 1976-1992: Sand in the Vaseline

Performer: Talking Heads
Engineer: Dave Jerden; Melanie West; Ed Stasium; Eric "E.T." Thorngren; Fernando Kral; Jack Nuber; Joel Moss; John Potoker; Alex Sadkin; Mark Wolfson; Nick Launay; Rhett Davies; Richard Manwaring; Rod O'Brien; Steven Stanley; Butch Jones
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: This is a 2-disc retrospective with 3 previously unreleased tracks. Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards); Tina Weymouth (bass); Chris Frantz (drums). Producers: Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Mark Spector, Tony Bongiovi, Lance Quinn, Steve Lillywhite, Nick Launay. Includes liner notes by each member of Talking Heads. Personnel: David Byrne (vocals, guitar, strings, piano, keyboards, mini-Moog synthesizer, vocoder, percussion, bells); Jerry Harrison (vocals, guitar, piano, Clavinet, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, marimba, background vocals); Brian Eno (vocals, background vocals); Nona Hendryx (vocals); Tina Weymouth (guitar, flute, keyboards, bass synthesizer, background vocals); Alex Weir (guitar, background vocals); Yves N'Djock, Robert Fripp (guitar); Johnny Marr (12-string guitar); Mory Kant� (kora); Jimmy Macdonell (accordion); Mitch Frohman, Stan Harrison (alto saxophone); Lenny Pickett (tenor saxophone, brass); Al Acosta (tenor saxophone); Steve Elfon, Steve Sacks (baritone saxophone); Angel Fernandez, Laurie Frink, Ite Jerez, Earl Gardner, Steve Gluzband, Charlie Sepulveda (trumpet); Dale Turk (bass trombone); Wally Badarou (keyboards, synthesizer, congas); Bernie Worrell (keyboards); Chris Frantz (synthesizer, bass synthesizer, drums, tambourine, timbales, percussion, background vocals); Abdou M'Boup (congas, talking drum, cowbells); Manolo Badrena (congas, cowbells, shaker, wood block); Gene Wilder, Ari (congas); Brice Wassy (cowbells, shaker, percussion); Andrew Cader (rub-board); David Van Tieghem, Jose Rossy, Steve Scales (percussion); Ellen Bernfeld, Erin Dickens, Gordon Grody, Diva Gray, Edna Holt, Kurt Yahjian, Julie Last, Kirsty MacColl, Lani Groves, Lynn Mabry, Tawatha Agee, Dollette McDonald (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Chris Frantz; Dave Jerden; Eric "ET" Thorngren; James Farber; Jerry Harrison; Johnny Potoker; Kevin Killen; Alex Sadkin; Mark Wallis; Mick Guzauski; David Byrne; Brian Eno. Audio Remixer: Bob Ludwig. Liner Note Authors: Chris Frantz; Jerry Harrison; Tina Weymouth; David Byrne. Recording information: Compass Point Studio, New Providence, Bahamas (03/1978-12/1983); Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Germany (03/1978-12/1983); Sundragon Studios, New York, NY (03/1978-12/1983). Arrangers: Chris Frantz; Jerry Harrison; Tina Weymouth; David Byrne. It's hard to know where to begin when anthologizing a band as hugely influential as the Talking Heads, so the folks at Sire clearly had their work cut out for them in assembling this two-disc compilation. They took the sensible route, culling the best tunes from each album and assembling them chronologically, with a couple of previously unreleased bonus cuts thrown in to spice things up. The band's herky-jerky, nerd-with-a-guitar CBGB's days are represented by the anthemic "Psycho Killer." The expansion of their sonic palette is marked by their quirky cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River" and the African-sounding "I Zimbra." The revolutionary funk-new wave hybrid of REMAIN OF LIGHT in the form of "Crosseyed and Painless" and the transcendent "Once in a Lifetime." "Burning Down the House" represents the concept of T-Heads as intellectual party band. The inclusion of some fiery live cuts makes it clear that the band could lay it down on the stage as well as in the studio. POPULAR FAVORITES is an ideal introduction to/overview of one of the late-1970s/early-'80s most important bands.

Entertainment Weekly (10/30/92, p.86) - "...a retrospective as exacting, intricate, and ambitious in presentation as their music...[a] classy artifact..." - Rating: A Q (11/92, p.137) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...undoubtedly one of the most important and influential bands of the '80s..." Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #8 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best Reissues Of 1992.

Proving you could rock despite having attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Talking Heads' innovative brand of downtown art-pop featured David Byrne's manic yelp, pointed lyrics about mundane subjects, and R&B-meets-Velvet Underground grooves, all without ever tipping over into pretension. The group began making twitchy pop in the punk era, but by the early-1980s the Heads had graduated to a dense, funky style incorporating a phalanx of additional musicians including Adrian Belew and P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell. They made a slight return to their pop/rock roots before imploding at the end of the '80s, moving on to solo projects and production work.

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