"Of the great debut albums by bands from the CBGB scene, you might listen to Television's Marquee Moon and think of bat caves made of ice, lit by neon. On their debut album, the Ramones sounded like they'd been strapped to the nose cone of a ballistic missile and blasted into space. Talking Heads: 77 was replete with jittery impulses, uptight and tense. Patti Smith's Horses, meanwhile, sounded like something beset by bad weather, hoarse incantations made on a windswept beach under a sky best described as glowering. Blank Generation, finally released in November 1977, sounded by comparison grubby, dishevelled, like it had been recorded in an alley strewn with broken glass, beer cans and dead cats".