Talking Heads 77 [Sire, 1977]A debut LP will often seem overrefined to habitues of a band's scene, so it's not surprising that many CBGBites felt betrayed when bits of this came out sounding like Sparks or Yes. Personally, I was even more put off by lyrics that fleshed out the Heads' post-Jonathan Richman, so-hip-we're-straight image; when David Byrne says "don't worry about the government," the irony is that he's not being ironic. But the more I listen the more I believe the Heads set themselves the task of hurdling such limitations, and succeed. Like Sparks, these are spoiled kids, but without the callowness or adolescent misogyny; like Yes, they are wimps, but without vagueness or cheap romanticism. Every tinkling harmony is righted with a screech, every self-help homily contextualized dramatically, so that in the end the record proves not only that the detachment of craft can coexist with a frightening intensity of feeling--something most artists know--but that the most inarticulate rage can be rationalized. Which means they're punks after all. A−
>>131913331>Like Sparks, these are spoiled kids, butanyone who complains about trust fund hipster bands should remember that it was never not this way
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>>131913331nigga look like sheldon cooper
>>131913399NYC was not a plastic tourist trap in the 70s, no, not at all. That was what killed the place.
>>131913331>Every tinkling harmony is righted with a screechThat’s about as close to perfect a summary of cuckgau’s musical philosophy there is.
>>131913331Dave Byrne was a psycho control freak anyway. Fuck him.
>>131913523shut up and make chris a sandwich, tina
>>131913523t. Chris
>>131913523funny you should say that, Christopher, since you've demonstrated that (as Bob pointed out in his review of No Talking, Just Head) without Byrne you guys can only make corny dancepop.
>>131913665As you guys were no doubt well-aware given that you repeatedly tried to get Byrne to reunite TH.
>>131913523>every member of a band should have equal say in decisionsbassist hands wrote this
>>131913523See this is why Jerry was secretly the best member of the band, Chris. He never participated in this petty drama bullshit. You wish you could be him. You never will be. >>131913566You say this as if Chris wouldn't be serving Tina. Have you read his interviews? He's probably the biggest wife-guy in music.
>>131913331liking The Talking Heads tells me all I need to know about this hipster
>>131917141>You say this as if Chris wouldn't be serving Tina. Have you read his interviews? He's probably the biggest wife-guy in musicfigure why Cuckgau rated them highly. he's always been the ultimate "the woman wears the pants in my household" kind of dude.
>>131917141was that before or after they had a threesome with Adrian Belew?
>It has been widely reported that Weymouth learned to play bass from listening to Suzi Quatro albums, which she has said is not true, instead citing Wrecking Crew bassist Carol Kaye as her main influence. "I checked out Quatro in the beginning, but she just acted like another one of the guys onstage. I related more to Carol Kaye as a woman and mother."[3]
>>131917141Chris was the single most useless member of the band. his drumming was rudimentary and he's never gotten over Byrne using a guest drummer on "Burning Down The House" and guest percussionists on True Stories and Naked because he couldn't play at the level the material required.
