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timricemorissey
Having just gotten into their output, and after listening extensively first 4 albums, this is the only weaker one, while Cities is absolutely magnificent, and a couple other songs are good, like I Zimba, Mind and Electric Guitar, rest are a bit unoriginal, basic a bit.
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fuzmeister
Everyone's favorite seems to be Remain In Light, but for me, this is it! Great album!
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neodude991
Tina really shines on this album. Every song as a crucial bass line and carry's the song further and further....
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MisterJunior
For many years this was my favorite Talking Heads album. Now I don't know. How do you pick a favorite from a band whose output was so uniformly excellent? Even their LIVE albums are awesome, which can't be said of too many Rock-oriented groups. Anyway, I no longer know which LP I'd consider their best, but I do know that Fear of Music must be ranked near the top. I'm particularly fond of "I Zimbra," "Life During Wartime" and "Heaven," the latter of which is just achingly beautiful.
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mybloodyprofile
The oppressive paranoia and emotional frustration oozes from this thing like a drooling contortionist. This is absolutely amazing stuff and I think it's the Heads at their most direct but also most challenging. Fear Of Music is one of my all-time favorite records. I never tire of it. Song after song is perfectly composed, skillfully deliberate, and lyrically/ sonically fascinating.
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sophiewilder
this or Remain in light? Hmmm. Life During Wartime is great (though not a patch on the stupendous Stop Making Sense version) but Once in a Lifetime edges it. I Zimbra and Paper are skippable, but so is Seen and Not Seen. Nothing on RIL is as beautiful as Heaven, but nothing here is as drivingly unstoppable as The Great Curve. The Overload wins battle of the weird final track. Cities beats Houses in Motion but Crosseyed and Painless and Born Under Punches kick Air, Mind and Animals out of the park. Remain In Light wins, but it had to go the whole distance.
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DiffusedOctaves
I like to think albums don't work like that. To me, this album is greater than the sum of its parts, like most great albums. I am not comparing it to Remain In Light but one thing that it has going for it is the sheer number of tracks and the accompanying variety.
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viniciusazevedo
"I like how the album title can be interpreted in two ways - the quite literal 'Fear Of Music' itself, or the album as a collection of 'Fear Of......' songs ('Fear Of' Music) - e.g. Fear Of Cities, Fear Of Drugs, Fear Of Life During Wartime etc." [2]. It really fits almost all the songs from the album except "I Zimbra".
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innerspeaker
I like how the album title can be interpreted in two ways - the quite literal 'Fear Of Music' itself, or the album as a collection of 'Fear Of......' songs ('Fear Of' Music) - e.g. Fear Of Cities, Fear Of Drugs, Fear Of Life During Wartime etc.
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AUFrechterGang
I think "Fear of Music " is the (Post)-Punk record of them. Really great and always stand a showdown with " Remain in Light" is a year older and more " Glam/Art ".
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