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Talking Heads Hyperventilate Some Clichés

Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 February 1976

TALKING HEADS offers a fragile middle finger to bands in which anonymous sidemen play powerhouse back-up through a Luftwaffe of amplifiers, while the man with the curliest lip says "Lookit me, I'm frenzeeee." To the notion that power and glory can be found through efficient organization around the sexiest available male.

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