FEAR OF MUSIC

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a m asterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record tha t bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band, and hints at the directions (positive and negative) they'd take in the nea r future. Here, Jonathan Lethem takes us back to the late 1970s in New York City and situates Talking Heads as one of the most remar kable an...[Read more]