SHARPS & FLATS : FEUDING TALKING HEADS JUST CAN'T SEEM TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE.

Byline: Fred Shuster

The ex-members of the Talking Heads just won't play nice with each other.

In one of the longest-running and most disappointing feuds in rock, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison just can't seem to see eye-to-eye on anything.

As Weymouth recently revealed, any Talking Heads archival project is a struggle.

Take, for example, the recent 15th anniversary re-release of ``Stop Making Sense,'' Jonathan Demme's acclaimed documentary of the Heads first shown in 1984. Using no voice-overs, no cut-aways to the audience or backstage and no between-song patter, the film focused on the music and had 'em dancing in the aisles.

``There's no arguing with David,'' Weymouth says about efforts to restore the print of ``Stop Making Sense'' and the new edition of the soundtrack, which offers seven previously unreleased tracks.

``He says all things are white before dye is added,'' she said. ``There's just no arguing with a guy like that. You can't argue from the point of view of the logical. You just can't win.''

The bass-playing Weymouth, who still fronts the Tom Tom Club with drummer/husband Frantz, insists it was Byrne vs. everyone else during the ``Stop Making Sense'' restoration process.

``I don't know why it has to be this way,'' she said. ``But I think David feels any return to the past is a sign of weakness.''

Byrne was unavailable for comment.

The 88-minute digitally remixed and remastered ``Stop Making Sense,'' originally shot at the Pantages Theatre, will be issued Tuesday on DVD with commentary tracks from Byrne and Demme.

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Photo: While Talking Heads David Byrne, left, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison (shown circa 1977) don't often agree, they managed to get 1984's ``Stop Making Sense.''