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TALKING HEADS - TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (SONG)
Year:1978
Music/Lyrics:Al Green
Mabon Hodges
Producer:Talking Heads
Brian Eno
Cover version of:Al Green - Take Me To The River
World wide:
nz  Peak: 20 / weeks: 13

7" Single
Sire SRE 1032 (us)



7" Single
Sire 100 317


TRACKS
1978-08
7" Single Sire SRE 1032 (Warner) [us]
1. Take Me To The River (7" Edit)
3:36
2. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Version)
2:12
   
1978-10
7" Single Sire SIR 4004 (Warner) [uk]
1. Take Me To The River
5:00
2. Found A Job
5:00
   
1978
7" Single Sire 100 317 (Warner)
1. Take Me To The River
5:00
2. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
2:11
   

AVAILABLE ON FOLLOWING MEDIA
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Number
Format
Medium
Date
5:00More Songs About Buildings And FoodSire
26 383 XOT
Album
LP
1978-07-14
7" Edit3:36Take Me To The RiverSire
SRE 1032
Single
7" Single
1978-08
5:00Take Me To The RiverSire
SIR 4004
Single
7" Single
1978-10
5:00Take Me To The RiverSire
100 317
Single
7" Single
1978
6:26Live On TourWarner
WBMS 104
Album
LP
1979
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Compilation
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1979
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Album
LP
1982-03-24
Live6:43Talking Heads LiveSire
SIR 26 218
Single
12" Maxi
1982
Live5:38Stop Making SenseEMI
064-24 0243 1
Album
LP
1984-10-15
Live5:59Stop Making Sense [Long Versions]EMI
CDP 7 46064 2
Album
CD
1984-10-15
Live5:59Lifetime Piling Up [CD 2]EMI
CDEM 250
Single
CD-Maxi
1992-09-28
5:02Once In A Lifetime: The Best OfEMI
7805932
Album
CD
1992-10-12
5:02Sand In The Vaseline: Popular FavoritesEMI
CDEQ 5010 / 7804662
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CD
1992-10-13
5:02Was het nu 70 of 80? vol 3EVA / Virgin
8417052
Compilation
CD
1996
5:00Torhout Werchter 21PolyGram TV
555.186-2
Compilation
CD
1997-12-01
Live5:33Stop Making Sense [Special New Edition]EMI
522 4532
Album
CD
1999-09-06
5:04Once In A Lifetime [Box]Rhino / Sire
R2 73934
Album
CD
2003-11-18
Live6:33The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [Expanded]Sire
8122-76489-2
Album
CD
2004-08-23
5:04The Best OfSire
764 88 2
Album
CD
2004-10-15
5:02More Songs About Buildings And Food [Remastered & Expanded]Rhino / Sire
812 273298 2
Album
CD
2006-03-03
Live5:48Rome Concert 1980Vinyl Passion
VP 80112
Album
LP
2009-07-24
Live5:34EssentialEMI
6802632
Album
CD
2011-09-09
Live5:37PerformanceApplebush
CPSSPCD9
Album
CD
2014-05-12
Live5:28Live Chicago 1978Plastic Soho
PLSOH 026
Album
CD
2014-07-07
MUSIC DIRECTORY
Talking HeadsTalking Heads: Discography / Become a fan
Official Site
TALKING HEADS IN SWEDISH CHARTS
Albums

TitleEntryPeakweeks
Remain In Light1980-10-31283
The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads1982-04-20324
Speaking In Tongues1983-06-28126
Stop Making Sense1984-10-26262
Little Creatures1985-07-12107
True Stories1986-09-2455
Naked1988-03-3093
SONGS BY TALKING HEADS
(Nothing But) Flowers
A Clean Break (Let's Work)
Air
And She Was
Animals
Artists Only
Big Daddy
Bill
Blind
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Buildings On Fire
Burning Down The House
Cities
City Of Dreams
Cool Water
Creatures Of Love
Crosseyed And Painless
Don't Worry About The Government
Dream Operator
Drugs
Electric Guitar
Electricity
First Week/Last Week...Carefree
Found A Job
Gangster Of Love
Girlfriend Is Better
Girlfriend Is Better (Live)
Give Me Back My Name
Happy Day
Heaven
Hey Now
Houses In Motion
I Feel It In My Heart
I Get Wild/Wild Gravity
I Want To Live
I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
I Zimbra
I'm Not In Love
Life During Wartime
Life During Wartime [Live]
Lifetime Piling Up
Listening Wind
Love For Sale
Love Goes To Building On Fire
Making Flippy Floppy
Memories
Memories Can't Wait
Mind
Mommy, Daddy, You And I
Moon Rocks
Mr. Jones
New Feeling
No Compassion
Once In A Lifetime
Once In A Lifetime (Live)
Papa Legba
Paper
People Like Us
Perfect World
Popsicle
Psycho Killer
Pull Up The Roots
Pulled Up
Puzzlin' Evidence
Radio Head
Road To Nowhere
Ruby Dear
Sax And Violins
Seen And Not Seen
Slippery People
Slippery People (Live)
Stay Hungry
Stay Up Late
Sugar On My Tongue
Swamp
Take Me To The River
Talking Heads Live
Talking Heasd Remixes
Television Man
Tentative Decisions
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
The Big Country
The Book I Read
The Democratic Circus
The Facts Of Life
The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
The Good Thing
The Great Curve
The Lady Don't Mind
The Overload
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Totally Nude
Two Notes Swivel (Unfinished Outtake)
Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
Walk It Down
Warning Sign
What A Day That Was
Who Is It?
Wild Wild Life
With Our Love
ALBUMS BY TALKING HEADS
12x12 Original Mixes
Essential
Fear Of Music
Little Creatures
Little Creatures / True Stories / Naked
Little Creatures + True Stories
Live At Werchter Festival - July 4, 1982
Live Chicago 1978
Live Chicago, August 28, 1978
Live On Tour
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Naked
Once In A Lifetime [Box]
Once In A Lifetime: The Best Of
Performance
Remain In Light
Rome Concert 1980
Sand In The Vaseline: Popular Favorites
Speaking In Tongues
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense Tour
Stop Making Sense Tour 1983
Talking Heads: 77
The Best Of
The Broadcast Collection
The Collection
The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
True Stories
DVDS BY TALKING HEADS
Chronology
 
REVIEWS
Average points: 3.81 (Reviews: 36)
*****
Klasse Adaption des Songs von Al Green und einer der wenigen echten Singlehits, # 26 in den USA im Winter 1978/79.
****
Nun ja, ich kannte diese Version vor dem Original, aber eigentlich gefallen mir keine Versionen des Songs wirklich gut, der Song ist mir deutlich zu wenig flott, etwas zu unharmonisch.
***
Al Green's "Take Me to the River" brought the band the succces they earned
***
Passt überhaupt nicht zum Rest ihres damaligen Outputs. Aus meiner Sicht ein kommerzielles Zugeständnis auf Druck der Plattenfirma. Ziemlich ereignislos, nicht wirklich gelungen.
***
großzügige drei - für einen reinfall..
****
Geht so. Packt mich nicht so besonders. Da haben sie Vieles, das mir besser gefällt. Gerade 4*.
***
begeistert mich ebenfalls nicht...
****
hat was ... aber so gut ist es nun auch wieder nicht
****
ok
******
Rocking it out ! Yeaaaaaah !
***
Mag ich nicht. Verschwurbelte Green-Adaption ohne jeglichen Anflug eines Höhepunktes. Mutzpunter könnte durchaus Recht haben mit seiner These.
*****
Eine gelungene Interpretation.
*****
Erstklassige Performance...
*****
Absolut gelungen..... wenn auch deutlich kommerzieller
**
Finde ich eine sehr schlechte Adaption, ohne Pfuff
**
Die haben besseres gemacht
****
eine 4 kann ich hier ruhigen Gewissens geben
***
Just okay.
****
War jetzt auch nie ein absoluter Liebling von mir, aber für<br>eine (sehr) gute 4 reicht's natürlich noch locker....<br><br>4 +
***
mittelprächtige Fassung des Al Green-Stücks – abgerundete 3.5…
***
... nicht meine Welt ...
**
schwach
****
... gutes Cover ...
*****
Wunderbares Cover in typischem Talking- Heads-/David Byrne-Jammer-Stil.
**
schwach
****
haben bessere<br><br>CDN: #34, 1978<br>USA: #26, 1978
****
solide umgesetzt
*****
Peaked at #58 in Australia, 1979.
***
langweilig
****
<br>Ist bei weitem nicht die beste Version. 4-
*****
Eigenlijk is hier toch echt wel heel weinig mee mis.
******
Geniale Coverversion, die sich nicht am Original anlehnt und dieses auch nicht verleugnet.
****
Solid rendition.
****
Knapp in ordnung. Die bassline erinnert sehr an pink panther.
****
Solides Frühwerk.
***
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