The Best of Talking Heads

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of Talking Heads
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Talking Heads


Released = August 17, 2004
Recorded = 1976-1988
Genre = New Wave/Art punk
Length = 77:25
Label = Sire Records/Rhino Records/Warner Bros.
Producer = Tony Bongiovi, Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, Lance Quinn
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:b95e8qnxbtx4 link]
Last album = "Once in a Lifetime" (2003)
This album = "The Best of Talking Heads" (2004)
Next album = "Talking Heads Brick" (2005)

The Best of Talking Heads is a 2004 compilation album by Talking Heads, released by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino, and contains in all 18 tracks, from the beginning to the end of the Talking Heads history. It was released the same day (August 17, 2004) as the expanded "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads".

The cover may be an homage to the cover of the soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles.Fact|date=July 2008

Track listing

All songs by David Byrne unless otherwise noted.
# "Love → Building on Fire" (from single, 1977) – 2:59
# "Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth) (from "", 1977) – 4:20
# "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town" (from "", 1977) – 2:55
# "Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Teenie Hodges) (from "More Songs About Buildings and Food", 1978) – 5:04
# "Found a Job" (from "More Songs About Buildings and Food", 1978)– 5:01
# "Life During Wartime" (from "Fear of Music", 1979) – 3:41
# "Heaven" (Byrne, Jerry Harrison) (from "Fear of Music", 1979) – 4:01
# "Memories Can't Wait" (from "Fear of Music", 1979) – 3:30
# "Once in a Lifetime" (from "Remain in Light", 1979) – 4:20
# "Houses in Motion" (from "Remain in Light", 1979) – 4:31
# "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)" (from "Speaking in Tongues", 1983) – 4:56
# "Girlfriend Is Better" (from "Speaking in Tongues", 1983) – 5:43
# "Burning Down the House" (from "Speaking in Tongues", 1983) – 4:01
# "Road to Nowhere" (from "Little Creatures", 1985) – 4:20
# "And She Was" (from "Little Creatures", 1985) – 3:39
# "Wild Wild Life" (from "True Stories", 1986) – 3:41
# "Blind" (from "Naked", 1988) – 5:00
# "(Nothing But) Flowers" (from "Naked", 1988) – 5:33