More Songs About Buildings and Food

A middle of the pack talking heads album is still better than most bands best album.

The Talking Heads really don’t miss do they?
One note, the alternative version of I’m Not in Love that’s on the reissue is the superior version imo

I kind of hated it. But mostly just the singing. The band is amazing. Probably wouldn't listen again though.

Big improvement on their earlier work in my opinion. Eclectic, groovy, beautiful. Favorite track: The Good Thing

The older I get the more ok I am with this band. I do not like David Byrne and I don't think any of this music is particularly groundbreaking. But it's better than not bad. I'd say if I didn't know anything about this band I'd say it's good. 3 I guess.

More Songs About Buildings And Food was a huge surprise coming from the Talking Heads seeing as its significantly better than the last album i looked at by then and actually manages to be a really good album. The main reason this album is so much better than Fear Of Music is just the simple fact that it is mixed far better than that album was which makes no sense considering this album came first so I'm left wondering how did Brian Eno manage to drop the ball that hard on that album. The music itself is still really solid being super catchy while having a certain 80s sound to it that i enjoy. It may not be the best album ever but it is leagues ahead Fear Of Music.
Best Song: Take Me to the River
Worst Song: Stay Hungry

Incredibly funky for a bunch of rhode islander college design nerds. I imagine that school as Real Genius but for style.

As solid as all TH. A little more upbeat and poppy compared to some others, but still experimental. I'm probably too used to it to have the impact it should. Solid 3.

A tour de force of kinetic twitchy nervous energy released in frantic bursts. Exuberant, skittish - a band finding its feet, and finding them sprinting full pelt.

I really believe this is a perfect, indispensable album.

I first listened to it a few years ago when I wanted to understand Talking Heads better (I only knew their hits). This one intrigued me because I had never seen the cover before, unlike the later albums that popped up when “Burning Down the House” or “Road to Nowhere” streamed.

“More Songs About Buildings and Food” doesn’t have a song like that. In re songs, someone wrote a while ago that for all the changes in how we consume music in the last century, the song remains the basic building block. But every once in a while you have albums that truly function as albums, where the songs fade into the background. The collection is really what matters.

I do NOT mean operatic concept albums, which are okay in their place. If those are epic poems, a collection album is something like William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience… an arrangement of verses that reveal transcendent themes.

“More Songs” is doing that in relation to our contemporary corporate civilization, looking through David Byrne’s alien eyes. There are so many fun turns of phrase and observations. Yet it’s also fractal… you can zoom out, zone out, just jam to it if you want. Weirdly it is an album you can work to. I think its palatability is due to the fact that Brian Eno is confident enough to treat Byrne and all the other member bands as instruments, just another part of Eno’s quest for music that is “as ignorable as it is interesting” (as he said of ambient). Dude had just made Low with Bowie, he could do anything.

The uniform tension of the first nine tracks is finally released courtesy Al Green in the “Take Me to the River” cover. I don’t think I understood the brilliance of this cover until I heard it on the album… it really is like being splashed in the face with cool water after running a marathon. It provides just enough asymmetry to remind you that this music was made by humans and not intelligent machines.

Anyway, I could listen to this every day, and just might for a while!

Byrne's silly vocals spoil the party.

Every pre-1985 Heads record is at least a 4. This one came out in 1978.

I was familiar with the hits from this album, but otherwise, it's my first time listening to this particular album.

And, as usual, Talking Heads are great. I'm definitely going to add this to my collection.

Agree with a lot of others that there's a lot of talking heads on this list. Some ok tracks, but they should have really narrowed down on records to pick.

Top tier album title. They DO like buildings and food! But most of these songs are about girls and landscapes instead, which is fine, but less good in my opinion.

Highlight: 'The Big Country' (the most building-focused track!)

Syntactically interesting lyric: "All my pictures are confused/And now I'm going to take me to you"

Couldn’t stop thinking about that singing fish from the Sopranos

I had Fear Of Music 5 days ago and while this one is very good, it doesn’t quite hit the same heights for me. I enjoyed it throughout but I can’t say there were any tracks I absolutely loved. Maybe it needs another listen or two.

Top Track - Take Me To The River

This would be fine if it were just a song not an entire album, not the worst but not close to mid either, as bland as my opinion on it.

No songs about buildings OR food. This is false advertising, I feel betrayed, mislead, toyed with, I want my money back.

It wasn't as good as I expected. I didn't really enjoy it that much. It wasn't the worst thing but I wouldn't listen to this again.

Well alright here we go again with the quirky tunes of Talking Heads!
Their first album came up a couple of weeks ago and now on to their second album.
Yep it still sounds like them.
The production seems to be better this time around.
I find a lot of the time that the songs don’t necessarily stick in my head very much and I find some parts to be a bit monotonous however I’m sure that with a few spins they will stand out more as there are a lot of cool things to listen to here.
Ya I’m not sure if the first two albums by this band should be on this list as I have a feeling that their best albums are about to come after those two.