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Sand In The Vaseline
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Label
Sire/Warner Bros.

Production
Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Mark Spector, Tony Bongiovi, Lance Quinn, Steve Lillywhite & Nick Launay - producers
Renée Lehman & Ira Lippy - project coordinators
Bob Ludwig - digital remastering

Release Date
10/13/1992

 Disc One
1. Sugar on My Tongue
(Byrne) 2:34
2. I Want to Live
(Byrne) 3:22
3. Love -> Building on Fire
(Byrne) 2:56
4. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
(Byrne) 2:31
5. Psycho Killer
(Byrne/Weymouth/Frantz) 4:19
6. Don't Worry About the Government
(Byrne) 3:00
7. No Compassion
(Byrne) 4:47
8. Warning Sign
(Byrne/Frantz) 3:55
9. Big Country
(Byrne) 5:30
10. Take Me to the River
(Green/Hodges) 5:00
11. Heaven
(Byrne/Harrison) 4:01
12. Memories Can't Wait
(Byrne/Harrison) 3:30
13. I Zimbra
(Byrne/Eno/Ball) 3:06
14. Once in a Lifetime
(Byrne/Eno/Frantz) 4:09
15. Crosseyed and Painless
(Byrne/Eno/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 4:45
16. Burning Down the House
(Byrne/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 4:00
17. Swamp
(Byrne/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 5:09
18. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
(Byrne/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 4:56

Disc Two
1. Life During Wartime (live)
(Byrne/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 5:03
2. Girlfriend Is Better (live)
(Byrne/Frantz/Harrison/Weymouth) 3:32
3. And She Was
(Byrne) 3:36
4. Stay up Late
(Byrne) 3:51
5. Road to Nowhere
(Byrne) 4:19
6. Wild Wild Life
(Byrne) 3:39
7. Love for Sale
(Byrne) 4:39
8. City of Dreams
(Byrne) 5:06
9. Mr. Jones
(Byrne) 4:18
10. Blind
(Byrne) 4:58
11. (Nothing But) Flowers
(Byrne) 5:32
12. Sax and Violins
(Byrne) 5:18
13. Gangster of Love
(Byrne) 4:28
14. Lifetime Piling Up
(Byrne) 3:59
15. Popsicle
(Byrne) 5:19

Notes

  • "Sugar on My Tongue" & "I Want to Live" are early demos and previously unreleased. "Sugar on My Tongue" is later released on the compilation Once in a Lifetime and the Talking Heads: 77 duel disc reissue
  • "Love -> Building on Fire" was previously only released as a vinyl single, this is the first time on cd. Later reissued on the compilation Once in a Lifetime and the Talking Heads: 77 duel disc reissue
  • "I Want to Live" is a b-side and available for the first time on cd, so far the only cd release
  • "Sax And Violins" was originally released for the soundtrack 'Until The End Of the World'. Later reissued on the compilation Once in a Lifetime and the Naked duel disc reissue
  • "Gangster Of Love" is an outtake from the album Naked and only available on this release
  • "Lifetime Piling Up" was previously only released as a single. later reissued on the compilation Once in a Lifetime
  • "Popsicle" is an outtake from Speaking In Tongues and only available on this release

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