Talking Heads "Remain In Light" [1980]

This is what happens when dorks get too much money, and spend it on trying to act hip: they hang with cool people they don't understand and buy drugs their systems can't handle. Their scattershot minds take pains to describe the meaningless while they design monotonous beats and drive them deep into the ground (or at least the dork named David Byrne does). "Remain In Light" is basically a party Byrne threw for the side musicians from Parliament-Funkadelic and King Crimson that his fellow-dork bandmates from Talking Heads needed to crash in order to get in. Thus, it's incredibly awkward, and on multiple levels. Itchy, impatient and desperate, the end-result is the band taking a big dump on Fela grooves (as if that guy didn't already have enough problems!) and pontificating about various banalities that pass through the minds of eggheads on too much coke. "Relegate to Darkness" would have been a more deserving title.