These Folks Are The Greatest American Rock Bands Ever

Talking Heads

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Talking Heads entered rock as a punk band in the late ’70s, but after adopting their New Wave sound they went on to become “one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the ’80s,” according to critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine.

David Byrne and Chris Frantz were art students who started as The Artistics in the early ’70s. Tina Weymouth was Frantz’s girlfriend who would later join the band on bass. With the addition of Jerry Harrison, the band had their first hit with “Burning Down the House” in 1983.