More Songs About Buildings And Food
by Talking Heads

More Songs About Buildings And Food by Talking Heads
Year: 1978
Release date: 1978-07-14
Overall rank: 604th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 765 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1978 (10th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (138th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (604th)

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Talking Heads bestography

More Songs About Buildings And Food is ranked 6th best out of 17 albums by Talking Heads on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Talking Heads is Remain In Light which is ranked number 26 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 27,479.

Talking Heads album bestography « Higher ranked (547th)
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This album (604th)
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Lower ranked (1,187th) »
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 604th | 1970s rank: 138th | 1978 rank: 10th

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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 765 votes)
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80/100
 
01/15/2026 00:08 This_is_handsome  Ratings distribution  76979/100
 
90/100
 
12/26/2025 14:11 Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,62978/100
 
75/100
 
12/18/2025 17:03 araidernomore  Ratings distribution  43576/100
 
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12/08/2025 02:57 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,69970/100
 
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11/13/2025 00:00 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.3/100, a mean average of 79.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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From 12/16/2024 18:34 | #306548
For me the most memorable album of the seventies. I kept playing it a year long on a cassette every day, until Fear of Music was released. That was even a better album but it was less addictive.
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85/100
From 06/01/2022 17:17 | #285906
A litte step down from their debut, but quality of the record is still high and ahead of its time.
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90/100
From 03/24/2022 22:32 | #283333
Still love this and 77.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 11/28/2021 22:44 | #276850
O baixo desse álbum é fantástico demais!
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From 10/14/2021 15:05 | #274974
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95/100
From 08/08/2020 19:03 | #256823
A classic talking heads album. This defined their sound for several years until David Byrne became more of a solo artist with as fellow bandmates playing what he told them to play.
A much better album than the poppy Speaking in Tongues and nowhere near as depressing as Fear of Music.
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75/100
From 04/15/2020 21:18 | #249992
A completely average Talking Heads record, consistent to a fault.
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Rating:  
60/100
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80/100
From 02/25/2019 03:08 | #232588
Forgot the trouble, that's the trouble!

Not as memorable as their first, but still a decent album.

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80/100
From 11/09/2018 21:48 | #224227
I'm just listening to this, and must say I like it far more than the first record. Cool vibe and 'Artists Only' is just amazing.
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