Talking Heads

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One of the most #broadly #extensively *widely #universally admired groups of the eighties, Talking Heads mixed mainstream rock instrumentation in their music with leader David Byrne’s New York #cutting-edge *avant-garde #forward-looking #state-of-the-art sensibilities and interest in African and Arabian rhythms. | #Careful *Critical #Immediate #Special attention was focused on the band after they supported the Ramones at CBGBs, the club which became the centre of the New York punk scene in the mid-seventies. In 1977 the band recorded Talking Heads 77, which #comprised *featured #highlighted #incorporated the dramatic ‘Psychokiller’. | Brian Eno produced More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979) and Remain in Light (1980). Remain in Light *combined #joined #related #unified African polyrhythms with the more deliberated repetitions of Philip Glass. The eloquence of the music was #balanced *matched #paired #rivalled by the video. | The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982) was a collection of live recordings and the group’s next studio album was Speaking in Tongues (1983), with its hit ‘Burning Down the House’. The band’s #afterwards #consecutive #later *subsequent tour formed the basis of the acclaimed film Stop Making Sense (1984) and its *accompanying #additional #respective #sister album. | Little Creatures (1985) included the hits ‘The Road to Nowhere’ and ‘And She Was’. It was followed by True Stories, a series of anecdotes about #abnormal *eccentric #nutty #offbeat dwellers in small-town America. The concept was #achieved #done #materialized *realized by Byrne both as a sequence of songs and as a film.