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Talking Heads: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles

Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 13 October 1979

DON'T KNOW quite what it is, but those skinny American men with high voices have got something. Maybe it's the weekly shot of Charles Atlas comicbook propaganda that sent Neil Young up Sugar Mountain and David Byrne down manhole covers to dream up private revenge. It's the sort of voice that just cuts straight through the crap and goes straight for the jugular.

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