Talking Heads Quiz: Ultimate New Wave Challenge

David Byrne opened the landmark concert film Stop Making Sense alone on stage with just a boombox and a music stand — the film’s iconic oversized suit (worn later in the show) was a deliberate theatrical choice Byrne used to turn a pop concert into performance art.

The band’s landmark album Remain in Light was produced with Brian Eno and deliberately built around West African polyrhythms and looped guitar patterns — the result sounds like a genre-bending studio experiment rather than a conventional rock record.