“Live On Tour” was recorded at the Agora in Cleveland on December 18, 1978 and published as promo LP for radio broadcast. It was never officially released for the public. Only three songs “The Girls Want To Be With The Girls”, “Electricity” and “Found A Job” were reprinted in the double live CD “The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads”; one song “Psycho Killer” was issued as a 7″ promo single in UK. All the others are still officially unavailable elsewhere.
Talking Heads significantly boosted the image of the live album with their ground breaking “Stop Making Sense”, in 1984. However, even before they issued that celebrated title, they had released a terrific live collection, “The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads”: a highly durable double set assembled from several shows the NYC four-piece played between 1977 and 1981.
The first side of that album was culled from an exhilarating gig staged at Boston’s Northern Studios in November 1977, for US radio station WCOZ. However, only those five songs (plus a couple more included on the 2001 reissue of “The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads” have officially been available up to now. More than earning its place among the best Record Store Day 2024 vinyl releases, “Live At WCOZ 77” includes Talking Heads’ complete 14-song set from Northern Studios, including energetic and previously unreleased takes of songs such as “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”, “The Good Thing” and “The Big Country“, which the group would shortly nail for their second album, “More Songs About Buildings And Food”.
The Fat Angel Sings 