Talking Heads: 77 - Talking Heads

Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (1977) Producer: Tony Bongiovi, Lance Quinn & Talking Heads Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town New Feeling Tentative Decisions Happy Day Who Is It? No Compassion The Book I Read Don't Worry About the Government First Week/Last Week... Carefree Psycho Killer Pulled Up Talking Heads is an American rock band which formed in 1974 in New York. The band consisted of Scottish-American guitarist and vocalist David Byrne, keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison, bassist Tina Weymouth, and last but by no means least, drummer Chris Fantz. All of the songs on Talking ...  Read the complete review

With the explosion of punk just weeks from fading away, and prog-rock being pretty much dead and burried, the new wave of art-school rock, post punk and 'white man's' funk came knocking at the door. On this album, '77, released in september 1977, this new movement presented itself. Although it did very little to disturb the charts on both sides of the atlantic, in retrospect fits in beautifully with the cronology of music. It's as fast as punk, as funk as funk and soul, and has a certain advant garde, without being pretentious. Although this is their debut album, listening to it now, they sound like a band who have been in the business a long time. ...  Read the complete review