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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?