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Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Vinyl)
Sire Records (1977 / This Pressing 2009)

5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
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$55.00

Brand New ~ Sealed! 180 Gram Vinyl, Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. “Psycho Killer”, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town”, “Pulled Up”, “Who Is It”…

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SKU: 8122798841 Category: Rock Tag: Talking Heads
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Brand New ~ Sealed! The Classic 1977 Debut Talking Heads Album On 180 Gram Vinyl. Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. Features “Psycho Killer”, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town”, “Pulled Up”, “Who Is It” & More.

Side 1:
Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
New Feeling
Tentative Decisions
Happy Day
Who Is It?
No Compassion

Side 2:
The Book I Read
Don’t Worry About The Government
First Week / Last Week….Carefree
Psycho Killer
Pulled Up

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Europe

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NEW

Format

LP

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1 review for Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Vinyl)
Sire Records (1977 / This Pressing 2009)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    5 out of 5

    AMG – October 4, 2017

    Alternately threatening and goofy, Talking Heads created something new that still managed to be oddly familiar -- a landmark album! Though they were the most highly touted new wave band to emerge from the CBGB's scene in New York, it was not clear at first whether Talking Heads' Lower East Side art rock approach could make the subway ride to the midtown pop mainstream successfully. The leadoff track of the debut album, Talking Heads: 77, "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town," was a pop song that emphasized the group's unlikely roots in late-'60s bubblegum, Motown, and Caribbean music. But the "Uh-Oh" gave away the group's game early, with its nervous, disconnected lyrics and David Byrne's strained voice. All pretenses of normality were abandoned by the second track, as Talking Heads finally started to sound on record the way they did downtown: the staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, the odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single-note patterns, the non-rhyming, non-linear lyrics that came across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch, and that voice, singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying desperately to sound normal. Talking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed 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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