Talking Heads were a gift to youth. I grew up aware of them as I turned teenage but without the life skills and critical awreness to process what they were about. I'm getting there now. They were World Music before the world adopted that ridiculous expression. They encouraged you to look a but further than your own street. And also that gazing at your iwn navel was not entirely a waste of time. Their records were about things.
They had the funkiest and most inquisitive rhythm section at CBGBs. A guitarist from Modern Lovers. And David Byrne who looked at things differently from others. And fairly early they also had Brian Eno. They were called Talking Heads and they put out albums called things like More Songs About Buildings & Food. They plotted their own paths.
On More Songs they tried their hands at an Al Green tune and broadened their horizons . Raised the ante. It may not hang together quite as coherently as the next two Fear of Music and Remain In Light but they show a good band in the process of becoming a great one. This doesn't seem like an 'old' album. It's themes never date. .
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