Talking Heads: 77 (studio album)
by Talking Heads
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Talking Heads: 77 is ranked 5th best out of 17 albums by Talking Heads on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Talking Heads is Remain In Light which is ranked number 26 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 27,921.
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Talking Heads: 77 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 3 days ago | NYAndreas | | 55/100 |
90/100 | 11/08/2025 03:57 |  pranafilms | | 91/100 |
60/100 | 10/12/2025 20:21 |  Superunknown | | 70/100 |
75/100 | 09/27/2025 09:53 | markl73 | | 79/100 |
90/100 | 09/15/2025 14:19 |  imimesis | | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.7/100, a mean average of 80.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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buzzdainer 11/06/2022 15:17
Artsy nerds of New York City's CBGB punk scene Talking Heads released this debut album without much fanfare, although in hindsight the album has all the ingredients that would soon make them major stars. This album is little less consistent and rougher around the edges than their subsequent albums would be, but the high points here are as good as anything they've ever done. In particular, the neurotic and frenetic "Psycho Killer," inspired by the stage antics of Alice Cooper, is one of the most creative and iconic songs of the late seventies. Although David Byrne has repeatedly denied that the Son of Sam killings were the inspiration behind "Psycho Killer," the similarities in content and the eerie timing between the arrest of David Berkowitz and the single’s release a few months later were enough for the public to forever associate the two together. That song alone is enough to lift this album into the upper tier of albums from the late seventies.
Great debut for Talking Heads, lyrics are insane and instrumentals are mostly great, but it's not a perfect record: Happy Day and Who Is It? could be thrown away.
Great Debut album from a fine band.
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InsanityPrawnBoy 02/23/2021 00:09
I apologise to everyone on behalf of the last reviewers overly-long, rambling, boring comment about other bands.
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Great album, god awful album cover
mdbaxter 08/28/2019 18:48
An interesting and funky album. A very cohesive album tied together by the band's unity and a general aesthetic of absurdity. The songwriting is exceptionally creative and the music can be held to the same standard for most of the album. The lyrics can get a little distracting at times and the instrumentation is a little lacking at points. My favorite songs are "Who Is It?" and "The Book I Read".
Favorite Tracks:The Book I Read, Don't Worry About The Government
85/100
An opening decent debut album for one of the best bands all time
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