Tracklisting
1. I Zimbra
2. Mind
3. Paper
4. Cities
5. Life During Wartime
6. Memories Can't Wait
7. Air
8. Heaven
9. Animals
10. Electric Guitar
11. Drugs
I have been listening to this album on and off for over 15 years and I still hold the same opinion of it - it ... Read review
This disc represents the bridge between Talking Heads' first two herky-jerkier albums and ... more
the next two funky ones. Fear of Music is more than just a bridge, though. It's the water under the bridge, the air, the animals, the cities the river flows throu...
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This disc represents the bridge between Talking Heads' first two herky-jerkier albums and ... more
the next two funky ones.Fear of Musicis more than just a bridge, though. It's the water under the bridge, the air, the animals, the cities the river flows through...
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This disc represents the bridge between Talking Heads' first two herky-jerkier albums and ... more
the next two funky ones. Fear of Music is more than just a bridge, though. It's the water under the bridge, the air, the animals, the cities the river flows through, and the heaven on top of it all: "...a place where nothing ever happens." Plenty happens here, however. The CD starts out with its feet off the ground and both arms in the air: "I Zimbra" is all-out celebration. The rest of the songs are pretty much exercises in simplicity: one-word titles with music to match. (Witness the lightness of "Air", the trippiness of "Drugs", the "ooga"-ness of "Animals".) David Byrne's artful naiveté ("Hold the paper up to the light/Some rays pass right through"), coupled with the whole band's musical playfulness (for example, the tuba on "Electric Guitar"), makes for fun fun fun. --Dan Leone
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This disc represents the bridge between Talking Heads' first two herky-jerkier albums and ... more
the next two funky ones.Fear of Musicis more than just a bridge, though. It's the water under the bridge, the air, the animals, the cities the river flows through, and the heaven on top of it all: "...a place where nothing ever happens." Plenty happens here, however. The CD starts out with its feet off the ground and both arms in the air: "I Zimbra" is all-out celebration. The rest of the songs are pretty much exercises in simplicity: one-word titles with music to match. (Witness the lightness of "Air", the trippiness of "Drugs", the "ooga"-ness of "Animals".) David Byrne's artful naiveté ("Hold the paper up to the light/Some rays pass right through"), coupled with the whole band's musical playfulness (for example, the tuba on "Electric Guitar"), makes for fun fun fun.--Dan Leone
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...ever made about paranoia and fear - everything about it just seems right :
the simplicity of the one word titles, the sparseness of the musical arrangements, Brian Enos production, Byrnes haunted and haunting vocals.
The most accessible tracks here are Heaven and Life During Wartime - the latter is the one that mentions CBGBs in the chorus and tells of a survivor/spy? of WWIII. And the former, at first listen seems like ... ...are murkier and deal with fear of the atmosphere and oxygen (Air - "people say not to worry about the air, some people have never had experience of air"), how someone is controlling us for music for sinister reasons, (Electric Guitar - "never listen to electric guitar", "someone controls electric guitar") and how animals can't be trusted (Animals) and aren't as cute and innocent as they make out.
1. I Zimbra 2. Mind 3. Paper 4. Cities 5. Life During Wartime 6. Memories Can't Wait 7. Air 8. Heaven 9. Animals 10. Electric Guitar 11. Drugs
I have been listening to this album on and off for over 15 years and I still hold the same opinion of it - it still scares me even now.
The genius of this album is that it is the best album ever made about paranoia and fear - everything about it just seems right :
the simplicity of the one word titles, the sparseness of the musical arrangements, Brian Enos production, Byrnes haunted and haunting vocals.
The most accessible tracks here are Heaven and Life During Wartime - the latter is the one that mentions CBGBs in the chorus and tells of a survivor/spy? of WWIII. And the former, at first listen seems like a really nice song with simple lyrics and pleasant melody, but when you listen closely you realise that it is quite a grim song. Here David sings about Heaven being really monotonus and dull, "nothing ever happens", "when this kiss is over, it will start again, wont be any different, be exactly the same." But the chorus does say "its hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun."
The rest of the songs are murkier and deal with fear of the atmosphere and oxygen (Air - "people say not to worry about the air, some people have never had experience of air"), how someone is controlling us for music for sinister reasons, (Electric Guitar - "never listen to electric guitar", "someone controls electric guitar") and how animals can't be trusted (Animals) and aren't as cute and innocent as they make out.
The album opens with the nonsensical world music jam of I Zimbra (not one of my favourites) and then appropriately goes into Mind, "I need something to change my mind" and then after Paper comes Cities about trying to find somewhere to fit in and belong.
The best song on here and probably their best song ever is Memories Can't Wait - I still don't know what it is about after all these years but it is that ambiguous that anyone can have an opinion that fits. Lyrically it seems to be about a party in the singers mind that never stops where everyone else can leave but he has to stay - for the best version of this song listen to the live double album "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads".
The album, quite fittingly, ends with an even murkier song called Drugs - the lyrics are hard to decipher and Davids singing amounts to a lot of breathing of the words that flit from speaker to speaker - the music is sparse, it sounds like only one instrument is playing at each time.
Alot of the sound "effects" of the album were down to Eno and his box of tricks but the main achievement of it is Byrnes lyrics that perfectly capture differing mental states in music form and come the closest anyone will get putting pyschosis on record.
Advantages: The funk, the style, the sound Disadvantages: None
...on the next LP, 1979’s Fear Of Music. The record also showed the band’s growing interest in funk and African music - although the band members disagreed over who introduced this element.
I Zimbra, a frantic, driving track with nonsense lyrics from a poem by Hugo Ball, featured a pair of African drummers, and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp added some experimental noises at Eno’s invitation. Cities set Byrne’s familiar persona - the outsider ... ...energetic beat, while Life During Wartime - released as a single - was a description of urban tension written, according to Tina, “from the point of view of a terrorist”; “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,” sang Byrne grimly.
The Heads were refining and adapting their style in a masterly way and were capturing a massive and committed following. It was difficult to argue with those who loved them. ...
dave27 10.10.2000
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Advantages: The funk, the style, the sound Disadvantages: None
...on the next LP, 1979’s Fear Of Music. The record also showed the band’s growing interest in funk and African music - although the band members disagreed over who introduced this element.
I Zimbra, a frantic, driving track with nonsense lyrics from a poem by Hugo Ball, featured a pair of African drummers, and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp added some experimental noises at Eno’s invitation. Cities set Byrne’s familiar persona - the outsider ... ...energetic beat, while Life During Wartime - released as a single - was a description of urban tension written, according to Tina, “from the point of view of a terrorist”; “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,” sang Byrne grimly.
The Heads were refining and adapting their style in a masterly way and were capturing a massive and committed following. It was difficult to argue with those who loved them. ...
dave27 10.10.2000
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Product details
Title
Fear Of Music
Performer
Talking Heads
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
New Wave
Release Date
15/06/1994
Recomended Retail Price
12.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1979
Label / Distributor
Sire / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Rod O'Brian
Producer
Brian Eno; Talking Heads
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75992742825
Catalogue Number
7599274282
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards); Tina Weymouth (bass); Chris Frantz (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Robert Fripp (guitar); Gene Wilder, Ari (congas); Brian Eno (sound effects, background vocals); Julie Last, The Sweetbreathes (background vocals). Principally recorded at Chris and Tina's loft, Long Island City, Queens, New York. FEAR OF MUSIC is the point of transition between the angular art-school new wave of the Heads' early work and the P-Funk-inspired modalism of their early-'80s output. While there's nothing as funky or visionary as REMAIN IN LIGHT here, the album represents a step in a new direction. At the same time, the Heads' white-knuckled neuroticism is pushed to the extreme here. Almost unrelentingly dark and paranoid-sounding, the tunes find Byrne at his most Anthony Perkins-like, and the interplay of the guitars, even more syncopated and thoughtfully arranged than on the previous album, provides a pointillistic landscape on which Byrne can let his twitchy persona run free. From the tense espionage tale of "Life During Wartime" to the global disaffection of "Cities," Byrne and company seem wound so tight you wonder when they'll snap. One of the only places to look for breathing room here is the funky, African-sounding "I Zimbra," with its highlife-influenced guitars and tribal chanting. This tune also points the way to the mind-blowing innovations that were just around the corner on REMAIN IN LIGHT.
Titles on disc 1
1.
I Zimbra
2.
Mind
3.
Cities
4.
Paper
5.
Life During Wartime
6.
Memories Can't Wait
7.
Air
8.
Heaven
9.
Animals
10.
Electric Guitar
11.
Drugs
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