Talking Heads' first album has as its title the year of its release, 1977. After two years playing in concert halls and alternative rock bars, the band was contracted by the small company Sire, dependant of Warner Brothers, to publish its first album.

Talking Heads: 77 The making of this record passed through a lot of problems, because its producer, Tony Bongiovi, didn't seem much convinced about the revolutionary ideas of the band, and he insisted on making changes to many of the songs of the album, whose structure didn't fit into the songs that the public was used to.

Between the most weird ideas suggested was including a cello to the most famous song of this album, Psycho Killer, but (fortunately) this never saw the light.

At the end, the album could get into the record stores, at the same moment of the recording of other three punk groups, the musical movement where the group was supposed to be at its beginnings: The Saints, The Dead Boys and Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

Without any doubt, the song that made this recording famous is Psycho Killer, the first one to be written by the group (although it's penultimate in the album). It became since then the most known song of the band, and even now David Byrne includes it in all his concerts. With a strong bass by Tina, the introduction of songs in french, that makes us think about the schyzophrenia of the psycho killer that the song talks about, Psycho Killer was the song that sent the band high in the top lists.

If you want to laugh a little, you may like to know about this version of the song made byt The Fools, Psycho Chicken, where the "fa fa fa fa..." was changed by the cackling of the psycho chiken.

Songs on 77:

Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
New Feeling
Tentative Decisions
Happy Day
Who Is It?
No Compassion
The Book I Read
Don't Worry About The Government
First Week/Last Week...Carefree
Psycho Killer
Pulled Up