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The Heads wore button-down shirts and embraced a tightly wound normality as rebellion. "For a long time, I felt, 'Well, fuck everybody,' " David Byrne told Punk magazine in 1976. "Well, now I want to be accepted." That's the tense, ingeniously constricted sound of Talking Heads' debut.

Total album sales: Under 500,000

Peak chart position: 97

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