77 doesn't seem like the finished article to me. Jerry Harrison had only just joined the band and the unit seems to be bedding in here. David Byrne is trying on different voices and occassionally drops into a place which is uncomfortably between The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz and, PeeWee Heman. Plenty of great song but you can undesrtand why they annoyed the Punk Magazine set in CBGB' so much at this point.There's a lot of attention seeaking and a lack of clear direction here. Despite some great songs. Psycho Killer stands out a mile. Compare and contrast wuth the first albums from Television, Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Pere Ubu and Suicide. They improved fast after this
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