Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics (as featured on the bonus 7″). In the spring semester of 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 new collection includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional 11 demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.
Released for Record Store Day 2026.
Tracklisting:
| A1 | Psycho Killer | 3:32 |
| A2 | Sugar On My Tongue | 3:15 |
| A3 | Thank You For Sending Me An Angel | 2:01 |
| A4 | I Want To Live | 3:50 |
| B1 | I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That | 2:09 |
| B2 | The Girls Want To Be With The Girls | 3:04 |
| B3 | Who Is It? | 2:20 |
| B4 | With Our Love | 4:09 |
| C1 | Stay Hungry | 4:29 |
| C2 | Tentative Decisions | 2:42 |
| C3 | Warning Sign | 3:33 |
| D1 | I’m Not In Love | 3:52 |
| D2 | The Book I Read | 2:53 |
| D3 | Love → Building On Fire | 2:35 |
| D4 | No Compassion | 3:41 |
