Talking Heads – “No Compassion”

You know, music is an interesting form of art in that often times we don’t treat it or consume in the same way one would a painting or prosaic block of text, possibly because it is so available or because it is has roots in more primitive emotional cues than other forms of expression. However, I to this day can’t help but treat the work of David Byrne like a myriad of priceless paintings and sculptures standing alone in their own reserved galleries. To me the post-punk/new wave whatchamacallit that was Byrne’s Talking Heads was not a group of musicians; they were artists, and that says something significant since very few musicians have crossed that line dividing the primeval and the progressive, the music and the art, the emotion and the soul. Talking Heads: 77 is another one of those albums that you should be genuinely embarrassed to not yet have in your collection.

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