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I'm not sure if this is the right forum for them, so feel free to move accordingly.

Naked - The band's last album, you can tell how much animosity was present because nearly all the tracks sound like throwaways. (Nothing But) Flowers is the one exception.


Little Creatures - Some great tracks (Road To Nowhere, And She Was, Stay Up Late), but they're all pop, there's none of the artsy experimentation the band was known for.


True Stories - The soundtrack to David Byrne's movie of the same name. Not a bad album, Radiohead, People Like Us, and Wild Wild Life are great tracks. However, it feels as if Byrne just hired session musicians to perform his tracks instead of it being a Talking Heads album.


Fear Of Music - The first album the band did with Brian Eno. It's dark and dancy, and considered one of their best albums thanks to tracks Like Life During Wartime and I, Zimbra. Not a personal favorite of mine compared to other albums, hence the ranking.

More Songs About Buildings And Food - The band scored their first top ten with their cover of Take Me To The River. A solid album all the way through, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, Found A Job, and The Girls Want To Be With The Girls are all awesome tracks.

Speaking In Tongues - This is the album that made the band famous and the tour Jonathan Demme documented in the (freaking amazing!) movie Stop Making Sense. Burning Down The House, what more do I have to say?

Remain In Light - Another Eno collaboration, you can hear the African rhythms that influenced the sound of the band in subsequent releases. Unrelated to the music, this is the album that brought tensions in the band to the surface due to Byrne and Eno's reluctance to listen to the ideas of the other members or give them songwriting credit.

77 - My favorite album, featuring Psycho Killer. I enjoy the spare, punky sound as opposed to the more funk driven later works.

Agree or disagree? What would your number one be?

Janszoon

Completely disagree on Naked. With the possible exception of "The Democratic Circus" every track on that album is gold. I understand that people don't like it because it's very different from where the band started out (especially the last four tracks, which sound like a completely different band, but an amazing band nontheless), but it's a terrific and terribly underrated album with some of the most sophisticated songwriting and best lyrics of their career. Hell, just pay attention to the very subtle sonic transitions weaving their way through "The Facts of Life" and you have to at least admit that the production on the album is fantastic.

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I'm probably just biased because of how much I like the earlier albums, I'll have to listen to it again and give it a fair shake.