Talk:More Songs About Buildings and Food
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- All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 21:21, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Sentence
"The album's title refers to the theory of sophomore slump as applied to second albums—that they consist of unfinished or sub-par material from the first album's recording sessions or of failed attempts to recreate the hits from the first album. The title of the album refers to a critic's review of their first album, Talking Heads '77, which said all of their songs were about buildings and food."
This paragraph is pretty weird to read. A conclusion needs to be found as to which was the origin of the title. The first one seems a bit confusing to me, and the second one I don't really believe, because none of their songs are really about food on the first album. I don't have a user account, so I can't really help that much on this, but it's really bugging me now. 207.7.187.135 14:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- The AMG review says:
- "slyly addressed the sophomore record syndrome, in which songs not used on a first LP are mixed with hastily written new material"
- so that part is copyvio.
- "The album's title refers to
the theory of sophomore slump as applied to second albums—that they consist of unfinished or sub-par material from the first album's recording sessions orof failed attempts to recreate the hits from the first album. The title of the album refers to a critic's review of their first album, Talking Heads '77, which said all of their songs were about buildings and food." - or failed attempts to recreate the hits from the first album
- no source.
- "
The album's title refers to the theory of sophomore slump as applied to second albums—that they consist of unfinished or sub-par material from the first album's recording sessions orof failed attempts to recreate the hits from the first album. The title of the album refers to a critic's review of their first album, Talking Heads '77, which said all of their songs were about buildings and food." - The original version on wikipedia is, 'Also the title of the album refers to a critics review of their first album, Talking Heads '77. He said that all of their songs were about buildings and food' with no reference to the name of the critic.
- talking-heads.net has a better quote, which is actually sourced.
- "When we were making this album I remembered this stupid discussion we had about titles for the last album," Tina smirked. "At that time I said, ‘What are we gonna call an album that's just about buildings and food?' And Chris said, ‘You call it more songs about buildings and food.' "
- Let's go with that.Fantailfan 17:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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--CactusBot (talk) 10:20, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
"significantly more" popular
I had thought that the relative chart positions spoke for themselves - so this sentence in the lede was just summarizing the chart tables. Talking Heads: 77 made No. 60 on the UK charts, but failed to make the US charts at all, while this album made US No. 29 and UK No. 21. But I agree they do not relate to exact numbers of units. I'll try and look for a source which says this explicitly. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:30, 17 November 2015 (UTC) Here's a collection of reviews that migfht be useful in any case: [1]