this record is a tad better (the second track is one of their few interesting songs), but it's still incredibly boring in it's bland disco-oriented repetition. repetition can be powerful, but not when it's meant for dancing to. the hardest thing about listening to talking heads nowadays - and the thing that is going to lock them in the 70s as being unable to transcend their function as popular dance music, historically speaking - is really the absolutely pathetic drumming that runs through all their records. it completely sucks the music of any kind of actual life force, reducing it to this prodding snooze....

the guitar work is pretty lame, too. they fixed that on the next record, which is the only thing they've done that has a remote chance of being remembered after their fan base dies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6izAqdTnc