Editing Talking Heads (section)

==Musical style==
[[AllMusic]] stated that Talking Heads, one of the most celebrated bands of the 1970s and 1980s,<ref name=allmusic_bio /> by the time of their breakup "had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop".<ref name=allmusic_bio /> In [[Pitchfork (website)|''Pitchfork'']], Andy Cush described the band as "New York art-punks" whose "blend of nervy postmodernism and undeniable groove made them one of the defining rock bands of the late 1970s and ’80s."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cush |first=Andy |date=September 21, 2023 |title=Talking Heads' Original Lineup on Stop Making Sense, Their Early Days, and the Future |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/talking-heads-reunion-2023-stop-making-sense/ |access-date=September 25, 2024 |website=[[Pitchfork (magazine)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> [[Media studies|Media theorist]] [[Dick Hebdige]] said the group "draw eclectically on a wide range of visual and aural sources to create a distinctive pastiche or hybrid 'house style' which they have used since their formation in the mid-1970s deliberately to stretch received (industrial) definitions of what rock/pop/video/Art/ performance/audience are", calling them "a properly postmodernist band."<ref name=":0" /> Talking Heads' [[art pop]] innovations have had a long-lasting impact.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Talking Heads &#124; Biography, Albums, Streaming Links |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/talking-heads-mn0000131650 |access-date=June 21, 2021 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> Along with other groups such as [[Devo]], [[Ramones]], and [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], they helped define the new wave genre in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gendron |first=Bernard |title=Origins of the First Wave: The CBGB Scene (1974–75) |url=http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/287378.html |access-date=May 11, 2014 |work=Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde |publisher=University of Chicago Press}}</ref> Meanwhile, their more cosmopolitan hits like 1980's ''Remain in Light'' helped bring African rock to the Western world.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=November 8, 1988 |title=Review/Music; How African Rock Won the West, And on the Way Was Westernized |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/08/arts/review-music-how-african-rock-won-the-west-and-on-the-way-was-westernized.html |access-date=May 11, 2014 |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref>