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| | Gendron, Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde, excerpt |
 | | The Talking Heads' debut two months later completed what was to be the nucleus of the new wave in its first incarnation, though at this time the scene was still nameless. |
 | | On the other hand, Rockwell, from the beginning, considered the Talking Heads to be the "class of the field among unrecorded New York bands." Their unabashed artiness was a virtue rather than a vice for Rockwell, who later became a chief proponent of art/pop fusion. |
 | | The Talking Heads were perceived as closer to the Ramones than, say, Bruce Springsteen, who otherwise shared the latter's "primitive matters and meters" and "spirit of rat-breath oblivion." But whereas "Springsteen's music brims over with Spectoresque studio trimmings," the Heads, like the Ramones, "are stripped to the chassis. |
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