Talking Heads Outline ‘Live at WCOZ 77,’ Seven Previously Unreleased Recordings

Talking Heads announced the Record Store Day release of its seminal live performance, tracked for WCOZ-FM in 1977. Due on April 20, 2024, and fittingly titled Live at WCOZ 77, the set expands upon some material first shared on the band’s 1983 LP, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads and its subsequent 2004 reissue. The forthcoming collection represents the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

The assemblage of live cuts was recorded at Northern Studios near Boston on Nov. 17, 1977, a mere two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads ‘77. During the tracked performance, band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth delivered over half the songs off their initial set, in addition to a previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town,” featured on the upcoming collection.

The band’s set also included early renditions of “Take Me To The River,” “The Good Thing,” and “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel,” numbers that would appear on their 1978 sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food. The impending set will present fans of Talking Heads with seven previously unreleased live cuts. A limited number of 13,300 copies of  Live at WCOZ 77 will be released worldwide. The set will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20. 

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Tracking List: 

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