The tune here, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town”, originally sung by Talking Heads.
Taken from Talking Heads’ debut album, ’77, this was one of the very first songs that introduced me to the synthesizer-heavy + glam fashion x nervous and nerdy personas New Wave, along with Kraftwerk’s “The Model”, The B-52’s “Rock Lobster”, Gary Numan & Tubeway Army’s “Are Friends Electric”, and others.
“Uh-Oh” is the leadoff track from the album that was released in September 1977 by Sire Records. From the start, you can sense David Byrne and company’s eccentricity. “It was a pop song that emphasized the group’s unlikely roots in late-’60s bubblegum, Motown, and Caribbean music,” AllMusic contributor William Ruhlman noted.
Tina Weymouth’s distinctive minimalist art-punk bass lines are also present here.
Weymouth described herself as a “complete autodidact”. “I was only playing bass for five months when the band first played (live). I did not take a lesson. Nobody taught me,” she told an audience at the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo in 2014.
The album is placed 291 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. While Alan Cross’ The Alternative Music Almanac ranked ‘77 fifth on his list of the10 Classic Alternative Albums list.
Uh-oh, love and 2020 come to town!
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