Talking Heads - Fear of Music
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Free Music Review: One of the best albums ever!...
Hit: 5 Stars
You can listen to this album a million times and not get tired of it. This is a masterpiece that far outshines the often favored '77. Byrne's frantic vocals coupled with the unconvential african/punk/techno/rock rhythms makes this album a frenetic movement of genius.I Zimbra is a sort of disco rhythmed/african tribal chant that reminds us we are dealing with pioneering and unorthodix rock n' roll. While Mind is a slinky like song that relies on Byrne's plaintive lyrics and a descending and reverberating bass beat to draw you in and keeps you singing it for hours after.
"Had a love affair and it was only paper!" Byrne screams. This brilliant and quick confession is then countered by a low tone chant of "sunrays they pass right through".
I always start off with intention to go through each song, but it seems ridiculous. Buy this album, it is incredible!
Free Music Review: Seminal Cerebral New Wave - A Stunning Achievement
Hit: 5 Stars
Fear of Music challenges the listener to enter an uncomfortable and claustrophobic space, but also a totally listenable, syncopated, driving angular space and asks you to stay with it until the Drugs take over (the last song on the album). Another reviewer likened this space to "madness" and I agree -- the album's a song cycle from a paranoid drug trip. Induce the same state while listening to this album and you'll find its Rosetta Stone. You won't fully understand the brilliance recorded until you do. This is not casual listening music. Don't use it as background music. One quiet night, perhaps when it's raining or cold outside and you don't know what to do with yourself, play this CD from beginning to end in a darkened room with a couple of candles burning. Concentrate. Concentrate harder. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Free Music Review: An Homage to Madness
Hit: 3 Stars
"Fear of Music", the Talking Heads' third album, is a transition from the proto-punk stylings of the late seventies into the more groove-oriented eighties. The theme here is madness. David Byrne starts the journey off with the nonsensical anthem "I Zimbra", and leads us through the album with a franticness unparallelled to anything ever put on record. In "Cities" he quickly names the cities he could live in, arbitrarily summing each one up, and then quickly moving on to the next, as though being chased. "Animals" finds him warning us that the animals are laughing at us behind our backs ("They don't even know....What a joke is") and how they plan to revolt against us. Occasionally, he slows down. Byrne reveals in "Heaven", a borderline ballad, that Heaven is really a bar where nothing ever happens, but this isn't a negative depiction. "It's hard to imagine that nothing at all/ Could be so eciting, could be so much fun". This album falls in perfect sequence to the Heads' prior album "More Songs about Buildings and Food", in which Byrne's character seemed overly obsessed with his job, his work.....here it seems to have driven him over the edge, and he plays the part beautifully.Free Music Review: the band in heaven
Hit: 5 Stars
FEAR OF MUSIC stands out from all the other Talking Heads albums and also stands tall against most "new wave" music of time. Now over 20 years old (imagine that!), it still sounds fresh, energetic, creative, and youthful as ever. The songwriting is great too and "HEAVEN" may just be the best song David Byrne ever wrote. This recording has just enough Brian Eno to tie together the raw rock, quirky lyrics, and hints of world music that band later became known for. Listen to it on vinyl if you can.Free Music Review: By this great band's standards, a merely good album.
Hit: 4 Stars
A star needs to be withheld from the rating because there's no arguing that some of the tracks consist of dressed-up noodling. That being said, it's damned creative and accomplished noodling. The fully-realized tracks are already well-celebrated by anyone who has ever heard of this band. The chugging "Life During Wartime", paranoid "Animals", hectic "Cities", and staccato "I Zimbra": each of these songs by themselves are worth the relatively low price of this CD. This band is among the very few that managed to live up to art-house pretentions, and that slightly snooty attitude enhances the complex dynamics of this CD. As has been noted elsewhere, this album serves as a kind of bridge between the band's earlier minimalist efforts and the lush, dense, polyrhythmic workouts that followed with "Remain in Light" and "Speaking in Tongues". By this great band's standards, this is a merely good album.