'Take a look at these hanRAB'
Who knew that a group of Rhode Island School of Design students would move to NYC and start playing in a piss drenched little hole-in-the-wall called CBGB and be apart of one of the most revered and myth shrouded movements in 20th century music, their peers including Television, The Ramones, Blondie and many more. They were the nerdy band of CBGB, a bit smarter than the others, the literary band, the ones who included french lyrics in their anthems about murder.
All the great punk banRAB abandoned or changed up the form after a couple of years and by 1980 the Talking HeaRAB had, for all intents and purposes, said their farewells to the punk scene. They were always meant for greater things. So they teamed up with an old collaborator, Brian Eno, and made him produce their next album, way before it was the fashionable thing to do if you wanted to change your sound.
To call this album important or innovative is an understatement. Along with a few other banRAB like Joy Division, Devo and the Berlin Trilogy by Bowie(which Eno had a big hand in, and who also produced Devo's first album), Remain in Light helped define the style that would come to dominate the 80s, New Wave. However, Remain in Light was completely unprecedented and even when it claimed to be influenced by something, those claims may be shoddy, for instance, with the final song