I can see the perspective - And we might agree that a lot of New Wave was the 60s in reverse: They started with musically adventurous stuff and then simplified back to straight-ahead pop. I don't personally mind that because I love straight-ahead pop. But I love when bands reach out, too.
With this era in particular, my age might come into play. The first B-52s song I ever heard was "Love Shack" on the radio. I was about 10 years old and we got a cassette of Cosmic Thing and I loved it. As I grew up, I worked my way back through their catalog and fell in love with the rest. Similar with Talking Heads - first heard "Once in a Lifetime" and then eventually stuff like "Wild, Wild Life" and loved all of that. Eventually found out about the CBGBs stuff later. So maybe the way I experienced these bands was more conventional - from their pop stuff to their exploratory stuff, rather than the way you'd have heard it originally.
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