“Damage I've Done” by The Heads

When David Byrne couldn't be talked into coming back, the three other members of Talking Heads pressed on as the Heads, and "Damage I've Done" was the first single from their 1996 album No Talking, Just Head, the only studio record they made under that name. Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth wrote the music with T. "Blast" Murray, and the backing track was already in the can by November 1994, before any singer was lined up.

For the words and the voice they turned to Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, a singer they had never met; Frantz had simply caught one of her club shows and come away floored by her sheer power. The Heads produced it themselves, and the borrowed-voice experiment plays like a dare.

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