Mike Ragogna talks to Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz

"MR: How would you rate Stop Making Sense with the rest of the Talking Heads catalog? JH: I would say that if no one had heard of the Talking Heads, it would be the first thing I would point them to. … That being said, thinking back, I think Remain In Light will probably go down as the most original album we ever did. I think it changed the way people thought about making music. … CF: … Talking Heads was really remarkable in many ways, especially in the fact that we sort of rewrote what a rock band should be like. Great rock bands before us were like The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones—bands that were a great influence on us. But we felt like those guys had already done such a great job at that, there's no way we can outdo them at what they do. So we came at the rock band thing from a different angle. Thanks to that, a lot of normal kids from the suburbs feel like they don't have to dress up in leather clothes and stuff like that in order to get their message across. Also, we were one of the few bands who could have artistic credibility and commercial success at the same time. We could really kind of have our cake and eat it too which was remarkable" ("Stop Making Sense," Huffington Post, 11/5/09).