Again no excuse needed for the debut of perhaps my favourite band but I did buy this on it's release back in '77 and loved it immediately. Artschool music bar none, this was a group of people talking directly to me! Curiously perhaps I didn't really like Psycho Killer as a track and though it became staple diet for TH fans and formed an integral part of their sets I still don't care for it. It is perhaps the most obvious of their songs IMHO and doesn't do anything for me really there are such better tracks on this debut that I would list over and above this one. . . . . . but hey, each to their own 

On this day in music history: September 16, 1977 - “Talking Heads: 77”, the debut album by Talking Heads is released. Produced by Talking Heads with Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn, it is recorded at Sundragon Studios in New York City from Late 1976 - Mid 1977. The band’s first album contains several songs were written during the bands’ residency at the legendary punk rock club CBGB’s in New York City. The single “Psycho Killer” (#92 Pop) becomes one of their signature tunes and one of their most enduring. The album is remastered and reissued as a DualDisc CD in 2005 with one side featuring a standard redbook CD with five bonus tracks, and the other side containing a DVD-A (DVD Audio) version of the album with the original stereo mix and a high definition 5.1 Surround mix (remixed by E.T. Thorngren and Jerry Harrison), with two live performance videos of the band performing “Pulled Up” (Live at Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, CA in 1978) and “I Feel It In My Heart” (Live at The Kitchen in New York City in 1976). It is also reissued as a 180g LP on Record Store Day in April of 2009, making it available on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years. “Talking Heads: 77” peaks at number ninety seven on the Billboard Top 200.

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