"The better a singers's voice, the harder it is to believe what he is saying!"
Talking Heads: 77 exhibits a band that had a unique vision with few obvious influences and even fewer copycats. Lumped in with punk music due to the lack of touchstones and the frequency of appearances alongside fellow New York scenes-ters, the Heads’ first record, while being an extremely influential release among college and alternative musicians, presented nothing that could be characterized as a traditional punk sound. Comparisons may exist between the Heads and Television, but the Heads lacked the virtuoso guitarists found in Television and made up for it with the stellar rhythm section of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth. Their sound was rounded out by keyboardist and occasional guitarist Jerry Harrison and frontman David Byrne.
Talking Heads can throw you off balance, but grabb your attention with a sound that seems at first alternately threatening and goofy. The music was undeniably catchy, even at its most ominous, especially on "Psycho Killer," Byrne's supreme statement of demented purpose. Amazingly, that song made the singles chart for a few weeks, evidence of the group's quirky appeal, but the album was not a big hit, and it remained unclear whether Talking Heads spoke only the secret language of the urban arts types or whether that could be translated into the more common tongue of hip pop culture. In any case, they had succeeded as artists, using existing elements in an unusual combination to create something new that still managed to be oddly familiar. And that made Talking Heads: 77 a landmark album.
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