10 Perfect Post Punk Albums With No Bad Songs
1. Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads (1983)
Remain In The Light (1980), was the album that solidified the Talking Heads as a creative force to be reckoned with. It was one of the first real instalments in the post punk movement to incorporate electronic dance sounds with new wave rock.
If Remain In The Light was a bunch of music nerds making fun dance rock melodies, then this record was when the nerds became slick. At its core, it contains the same sounds that put the Heads on the map, but the songs are delivered in a far more succinct way.
Songs like Burning Down The House and Girlfriend Is Better, contain confident and steadfast bass lines, that seep into your soul to emerge as infectiously dance inducing melodies. Throughout the the album, David Byrne utilises his endearingly bizarre vocal experimentation, with songs like Moon Rocks. There isn't a track that doesn't get you moving. The band rounds things off with the laid back but no less groove inducing hit, This Must Be The Place.
This is avant-garde art rock at its least pretentious and most enjoyable.