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His vocals were marred by cracks and unnatural modulations that thwarted melody. He wrote Dada lyrics about parking lots and fire. David Byrne made his approach to both songwriting and performance as unnatural as possible. And yet, Talking Heads were conspicuously artificial. Punk sought a music that was felt and not just performed. To a generation of punks, though, they were rock at its most bloodless and calculating.ДЄlthough they were a new wave band, Talking Heads operated within New YorkвЂ™s larger punk scene, which was predicated on rejecting the artifice of late-вЂ™70s rock. Ostensibly, these were works of deep sentiment. It was finally unseated by Bob SegerвЂ™s Against the Wind, which was knocked out of the top spot by Billy JoelвЂ™s Glass Houses.

Pink FloydвЂ™s The Wall, possibly the least ironic recording of all time, was the No. As disco continued to monopolize music you could dance to, rock reached a point of maximum theoretical sincerity.

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Or maybe the limbic system? IвЂ™m not a doctor-whatever part of human physiology is responsible for getting funky.Д«y 1980, the conflict in music between what was thought and what was felt was in full cry. At nearly every turn, Remain in Light thwarts cognitive sense to appeal to the gut. As much as we like to think about art, art is not for our brains.

The idea is appealing: that art without a visceral element-without something that hits your gut and intoxicates you-is dead. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht is credited with the aphorism вЂњa theater without beer is just a museum.вЂќ No one can point to where he actually said it, but let us indulge a system of attribution where publication and page are less important than what we feel like Brecht would say.

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