Rare full Talking Heads radio broadcast to make debut on Record Store Day

Talking Heads’ live performance recorded for WCOZ-FM in 1977 will be released in full for the first time on Record Store Day 2024. While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads and its subsequent 2004 reissue, this marks the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide, LIVE AT WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20 for $34.98. The LPs were cut at 45 RPM to optimize audio fidelity and sourced from the original two-track tapes, which were recorded and mixed by Ed Stasium.

Recorded on November 17, 1977, at Northern Studio near Boston and broadcast on WCOZ, this performance took place just two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads ’77. At the show, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town” featured on the upcoming collection.

In addition, the show’s setlist also has early renditions of five songs destined for the band’s next album, More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978). All of those recordings have, until now, remained in the vaults, including versions of “Take Me To The River,” “The Good Thing,” and “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel.”

Track Listing:

LP One

Side One

1. “Love Goes To A Building On Fire” *
2. “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town” *
3. “Don’t Worry About The Government”
4. “Take Me To The River” *

Side Two
1. “The Book I Read”
2. “New Feeling”
3. “A Clean Break (Let’s Work)”

LP Two

Side One
1. “The Big Country” *
2. “The Good Thing” *
3.. “Stay Hungry” *

Side Two

1. “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel” *
2. “Who Is It?”
3. “Psycho Killer”
4. “Pulled Up”
* previously unreleased