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Talking Heads   08/27/1980

Central Park, New York, NY
Source AUD > 1st generation cassette (Maxell XLII no dolby, from fzmio69, thank you!) > played on Nak. 125 > soundforge (wav) > flac
Media CDR   1 disc
Notes Also available in FLAC. Missing official track "Life During Wartime".
Tech Notes Heads are gonna roll in the Big Apple
Talking Heads
David Byrne - vocals, guitar
Adrian Belew - guitar
Chris Frantz - drums
Tina Weymouth - synthesizer, bass
Jerry Harrison - guitar, synthesizer
Dolette MacDonald - percussion, vocals
Busta Jones - bass
Bernie Worrell - keyboards
Steve Scales - percussion
Central Park
New York City, N.Y.
(part of the Dr. Pepper Concert Series)
August 27, 1980
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B
source: 1st generation audience tape
runtime: 66:22 (minutes/seconds) with one official song removed
setlist:
1: radio announcer stage introduction :18
2: psycho killer 5:39
3: warning sign 4:46
4: stay hungry 3:48
5: cities 5:01
6: band introductions 1:05
7: I zimbra 4:32
8: once in a lifetime 5:14
9: houses in motion 6:22
10: born under punches 7:46
11: crosseyed and painless 7:27
12: life during wartime (removed from this posting, released on "the name of this band is TH")
13: take me to the river 7:08
14: the great curve 7:09
Note:
because there are 14 tracks in the show and one is removed, there is no track 12 in this post
to maintain the proper numbering of the actual setlist, so actually only 13 tracks included here.
lineage:
1st generation cassette (Maxell XLII no dolby, from fzmio69, thank you!) >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge (wav) > flac > torrent.
first seeded in 2008. reseeded in 2010 with track times, set time, band lineup and lineage info.
and a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.
comments:
A high energy outdoor Talking Heads summer show in the Big Apple. It's a nice recording, not too
much crowd noise. This one has both my favorite songs of this or any Talking Heads tour, and
hot versions of both, Crosseyed and Painless and Born Under Punches. I am not certain that this is an
almost complete show, but I think it is. For those of you who may think New York City is far north enough
to be refreshingly cool for an August concert in Central Park- uh, usually not. I don't know how hot it
was this day, but with 10 million people and almost as many cars, planes and busses driving around,
summer in NYC can get quite uncomfortable (although compared to a summer in Texas the weather and air
probably seems refreshing) and a concert by the TH would likely not be their usual 80-90 minute set in
those conditions. This sounds like a summer concert, a hot weather concert and a hot concert. Not just a
few good songs, they all sounded well played and it was a good setlist.
Do not sell this recording.
(not even for a pallet of punctured Dr. Peppers)
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: B+
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