NewsTalking Heads / Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live
3CD set and Vinyl LP
Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live is a new 3CD deluxe set that offers early demos and live tracks from Talking Heads.
This release follows the last year’s Black Friday RSD vinyl release of Tentative Decisions which effectively offered CD 1 of the new deluxe on clear vinyl. That same vinyl edition is now available to full retail on black vinyl, accompanied with the same seven-inch single (with A and B-sides of ‘Psycho Killer’ and ‘Warning Sign’).
CD 2 offers more demos, this time 15 Columbia/CBS demos from September 1975, all of which are previously unreleased.
The disc offers 17 live cuts from 1976 and 1977, from three different gigs. The October 1976 performance at Max’s Kansas City took place just a few weeks before the group met with Seymour Stein and signed to Sire Records. The January 1977 show at The Jabberwocky Club in Syracuse was shortly before Jerry Harrison joined.
Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live will be released on CD on 6 March 2026, and on vinyl on 27 March, both via Rhino/Sire.
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Tracklisting
Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live Talking Heads /
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CD 1
- Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
- Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
- No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
- Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
- I’m Not in Love (1976 Demo)
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (1976 Demo)
- The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That (1976 Demo)
- Love Goes to a Building on Fire (1976 Demo)
- Happy Day (1976 Demo)
- Artists Only (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
- Psycho Killer
- Warning Sign
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CD 2
- Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Sugar on My Tongue (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- I Want to Live (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- The Girls Want to Be With the Girls (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Who Is It? (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- With Our Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Stay Hungry (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Tentative Decisions (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Warning Sign (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- I’m Not in Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- Love Goes to a Building on Fire (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
- No Compassion (CBS/Columbia Demo)*
*Previously unreleased
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CD 3
- Artists Only (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Happy Day (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Don’t Worry About the Government (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Psycho Killer (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Love Goes to a Building on Fire (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- With Our Love (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- Pablo Picasso (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- I’m Not in Love (Live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)*
- No Compassion (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)*
- New Feeling (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)*
- Psycho Killer (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)*
- A Clean Break (Let’s Work) [Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77]*
- Sugar on My Tongue (Live at the Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)*
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)*
- Take Me to the River (Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)*
* Previously unreleased
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CD 1
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By Paul Sinclair
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