RSD Black Friday 2025 · Friday, November 28, 2025
Talking Heads
Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live
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11/28/2025
About This Release
Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in a college band called The Artistics. In spring semester 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: “Warning Sign” and “Psycho Killer.” This collection for RSD Black Friday includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional eleven demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.
Track Listing
- A1. PSYCHO KILLER (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
- A2. TENTATIVE DECISIONS (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
- A3. NO COMPASSION (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
- A4. WARNING SIGN (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
- A5. IÂ’M NOT IN LOVE (1976 DEMO)
- B1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (1976 DEMO)
- B2. THE BOOK I READ (1976 DEMO)
- B3. I WISH YOU WOULDNÂ’T SAY THAT (1976 DEMO)
- B4. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (1976 DEMO)
- B5. HAPPY DAY (1976 DEMO)
- B6. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT THE OCEAN CLUB, NEW YORK, NY, AUGUST 17, 1976)
- A1. PSYCHO KILLER - THE ARTISTICS
- B1. WARNING SIGN - THE ARTISTICS