{"id":53021,"date":"2025-11-26T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:36:24","slug":"talking-heads-releasing-newly-discovered-early-demos-as-the-artistics-for-record-store-day-black-friday-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53021\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads releasing newly discovered early demos as The Artistics for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/record-store-day-announces-2025-rsd-black-friday-exclusive-titles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Record Store Day Black Friday<\/a> is this Friday (11\/28), the day after Thanksgiving, and among the exclusives this year is Talking Heads\u2018 Tentative Decisions: Demos &amp; Live. It includes very early demos of \u201cPsycho Killer\u201d and \u201cWarning Sign\u201d from when they were known as The Artistics, recordings that were thought lost until recently discovered in the Rhode Island School of Design archives. The band just shared some information about the release on their socials, along with the album art:<\/p>\n<p>BEFORE THEY WERE TALKING HEADS: Band members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met at Rhode Island School of Design and made music as The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Chris\u2019s apartment to record a demo tape featuring tracks that eventually became classics in the Talking Heads discography \u2013 \u201cPsycho Killer\u201d and \u201cWarning Sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 50 years later, you can now listen to this newly discovered material, plus live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of @frantzchris, @davidbyrneofficial, and Tina Weymouth, on \u201cTentative Decisions: Demos &amp; Live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the tracklist and artwork below.<\/p>\n<p>Other RSD Black Friday exclusives include releases by Ramones, Bad Brains, Bratmobile, Son Volt, Chappell Roan, Deltron 3030, Led Zeppelin, Jonathan Richman, Voivod, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/record-store-day-announces-2025-rsd-black-friday-exclusive-titles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/talking-heads-albums-ranked-worst-to-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our ranking of all Talking Heads albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb-[6px]\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talking-heads-artistics-demos.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"talking heads artistics demos\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Talking Heads \u2013 Tentative Decisions: Demos &amp; Live<br \/>A1. PSYCHO KILLER (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)<br \/>A2. TENTATIVE DECISIONS (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)<br \/>A3. NO COMPASSION (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)<br \/>A4. WARNING SIGN (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)<br \/>A5. I\u2019M NOT IN LOVE (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B2. THE BOOK I READ (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B3. I WISH YOU WOULDN\u2019T SAY THAT (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B4. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B5. HAPPY DAY (1976 DEMO)<br \/>B6. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT THE OCEAN CLUB, NEW YORK, NY, AUGUST 17, 1976)<br \/>A1. PSYCHO KILLER \u2013 THE ARTISTICS<br \/>B1. WARNING SIGN \u2013 THE ARTISTICS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record Store Day Black Friday is this Friday (11\/28), the day after Thanksgiving, and among the exclusives this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,29315,9,24,63,29316,29317,29318,29319],"class_list":{"0":"post-53021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-david-byrne","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-record-store-day-black-friday","16":"tag-rsd-black-friday-2025","17":"tag-talking-heads","18":"tag-the-artistics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}