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77

Talking Heads

SKU: 0081227988418

Barcode: 081227988418

25.00 £25.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Rhino
  • Released Date: 26th June 2009
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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When they burst out of the New York underground/CBGB’s movement, the Heads stood apart from the pack because not only were they unlike anything that had gone before, they were even anomalous to their contemporaries. A million miles from the detached irony of Blondie or the willful primitivism of the Ramones, Talking Heads virtually invented geek-rock, setting the stage for everyone from the Violent Femmes to They Might Be Giants. Lyrically, David Byrne came off as the guy who thought too much about everything. Fortunately, he also happened to be a unique visionary, whose quirky, hyper-cerebral modernism echoed the work of poet John Ashbery and “serious” composer Robert Ashley. All this high-mindedness doesn’t detract from the infectious rock & roll appeal of the tunes on the band’s debut album, though. Their twitchy, preppies-on-amphetamines rhythms and semi-neurotic gestalt fueled tunes like twisted anthem “Psycho Killer” and the jubilant “Pulled Up”. Byrne’s high, yelping tenor was the perfect complement to the band’s tightly-wound but kinetic rhythms, and 77 is an auspicious debut.

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Track Listings

1.Uh Oh Love Comes To Town
2.New Feeling
3.Tentative Decisions
4.Happy Day
5.Who Is It
6.No Compassion
7.The Book I Read
8.Dont Worry About The Government
9.First Week/Last Week .... Carefree
10.Psycho Killer
11.Pulled Up

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