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#18 (1978 Part 1) Blondie, The Police, Jeff Wayne, The Stranglers & more

The Album Years

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X T C, the Talking Heads

X t c are a band from New York City, formed in the early 1980s. They have an energy buzz that reminds me of beetles erus mid 60 singles. And they have this old school rock and roll element provided by barry andrew's organ. The music somehow reverberates also in the music of talking heads. A lot of these bands, yoare the barking seal or something, or barking seal. But it's interesting, because if you take that away from some groups, there's really very little left that you could even say it's punk in conception,. isn't it? It's usually the vocal delivery that makes it, and maybe sometimes the guitar, the attack of

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