Warning Sign (track)
by Talking Heads
Year: 1978
From the album More Songs About Buildings And Food (track #4)
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Warning Sign appears on the following album(s) by Talking Heads:
- More Songs About Buildings And Food (track #4) (this album) (1978)
- Popular Favorites 1976-1992 - Sand In The Vaseline (track #8) (compilation) (1992)
- Brick (track #15) (compilation) (2005)
- Live On Tour (track #2) (1979)
- Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live (track #13) (compilation) (2025)
- The CBS / Columbia Demos (track #11) (2026)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 10/24/2026 11:05 | mash | 4,705 | 92/100 |
| ! | 07/10/2026 14:17 | Siromynian | 20,416 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/23/2025 05:31 |  Tamthebam | 46,462 | 79/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.6/100, a mean average of 79.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.6.
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I like the sort of psychedelic sound on this one
Sounds like a precursor of what was to come on "Fear of Music" to me. Fear of Warning Sign? I don't know, worth a shot. One of my favourites on this album.
