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I agree with the reviewer that Remain In Light is a brilliant album. Personally, I consider it one of the greatest of the decade that began right when the album was released. However, the review does not highlight the most important thing, which is that it does not answer the question: "What were the Talking Heads doing?". In short, it seems to me that it fails to grasp the artistic idea that the Talking Heads aimed to achieve. I will try to answer that myself, of course according to my modest and debatable opinion and in very few concise words. From the very beginning, the Talking Heads enjoyed parodying the neuroses and anxieties of contemporary, or rather, postmodern man. Remain In Light, then, presents an extraordinary artistic solution made up of the omnipresent tribal percussions and Afro and funky rhythms. In this way, they reinvent a kind of ethnic music in a synthetic key where the jungle is the postmodern, artificial, and civilized world inhabited by the average man, whom they wonderfully mock. The brilliant core of the idea of Remain In Light is the vision of the world’s grandes metropoles as a great jungle inhabited by a curious animal full of neuroses and anxieties up to its hair: the animal "Average Man". Two stars for the review, five with honors for the album.

Anyway, I care about you too, tstw. Somewhere in your lonely little room, there must be a nice record. Why don't you try writing a review? Let's see what you choose and how you write.

all of you, every single one, wouldn’t be the way you are if the pistols hadn’t existed. I'm going to dinner. I’ll be back. I love you, but you trust me. I have important things to share with you, but only when the time is right. Big things are brewing. For now, I wish you all a worthy evening.

All the rock music that came after them had to contend with that album and what that album represented.

Let’s remember that the Sex Pistols cannot be considered merely a musical phenomenon. It’s evident that on a strictly musical level they were a disaster. But if we look at them from a broader perspective, that is, as the most notable representatives of a historical and sociological phenomenon... well, then the matter changes. They become a turning point of enormous significance.

It doesn't matter if "never mind" doesn't precisely represent the band. It's a great album. It's their only official album and, for this reason, it's a piece of rock history.

It comes out as a vital, entertaining work, but it’s something that doesn’t precisely reflect what the Sex Pistols were.

The album is the result of a production that desperately tries to mask the group's technical shortcomings.