Talking Heads - Fear Of Music

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Ripped By....: Griphin               Encoding Rate: 192 kbps HQ
Date Ripped..: 11/12/99              Release Size.: 55 Mb
Date Released: 08/03/79              Music Genre..: Alternative

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Talking Heads is a band who I have always admired for their
decidedly unique musical style and identity. Their third
album, Fear Of Music, is their most technically complex, as
well as the densest lyrically, of any of their endeavors. On
a lyrical level, Fear Of Music reflects David Byrne's
overwhelmingly paranoid view of the modern age, in which the
most  commonplace of objects looms threateningly overhead.
Songs like the hypnotic "Air" display Byrne's view that even
the most basic of all things we need to survive is waiting
out there to do us damage: "Air...Air/Hit me in the face/Air
can hurt you, too." Fear Of Music's lyrics state Byrne's
despair-ridden view of the world in the style of a computer
print-out; his pronouncements are presented matter-of-factly,
very much like a psychological laundry list--"Animals,"
"To trust them is a big mistake;" "Cities," "A lot of ghosts
in a lot of houses;" "Heaven," "A place where nothing ever
happens." Are we then, as supposedly sensitive individuals,
moved to any specific action? Byrne's own advice to the rest
of us appears at the end of the energetic "Life During
Wartime:" "Try to be careful/Don't take no chances/You better
watch what you say." The sheer awesomeness of the sound of
Fear Of Music is a result of Brian Eno adding his own unique
methods of space-age production techniques. Eno's studio
wizardry had very much enhanced the sound of the second
Talking Heads album, More Songs About Buildings and Food,
where his "treatments" were applied in a strinkingly subtle
manner. On Fear Of Music, Eno's influence is decidedly more
pronounced, and the band's own unique musical persona is
somewhat buried in a near avalanche of Eno-esque space-noises,
electronic nonsense syllables, phase shifts, and the like.
This is the major critical flaw, in this reviewers opinion, of
the album. However, there are a great many of those who
would find Eno's work on this album to be a major asset.
Fear Of Music is Talking Heads' most ambitious work to date
and, although its lyrics are initially impenetrable, and its
production very obtuse, it is a more than competent album
which grows better and better after repeated listenings.
Watch out! - CMJ New Music Report

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01  I Zimbra                                                 3:06
02  Mind                                                     4:10
03  Paper                                                    2:35
04  Cities                                                   4:04
05  Life During Wartime                                      3:39
06  Memories Cant Wait                                       3:28
07  Air                                                      3:31
08  Heaven                                                   4:00
09  Animals                                                  3:29
10  Electric Guitar                                          2:59
11  Drugs                                                    5:09

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