Fear Of Music

Another Talking Heads? I can accept Remain In Light in this list, even if I don’t like it, but I can’t see this band meriting two entries for notability alone. Let’s see if I like the music. Uh Ok I can respect how true to their artistic vision these guys are, but do I have to listen to this drivel? Again with the tribal drums, weird vocals and bizarre noises. I gave them three stars for Remain In Light just for historical significance. This can be a one star.

Do not like.

To be honest, this one was a struggle. It took me most of the day to make it through, and it wasn't the best experience. Individually, the songs ranged from fine to good. Dissonance can be a useful story telling tool in music, but their reliance on it throughout their tracks is too much. I wonder if maybe live it wouldn't be quite as painful for my ears, if maybe the production value (which seemed fairly high) on the album ended up making the dissonance far worse to sit through.

Not my type of music at all. It kind of hurt my ears

Am I being tortured? It brings no specific elements originality or a profound sound

Make it stop

Either you love or hate this vocal style. I'm in the later category...

Meh! It's not road to nowhere!

1. zimbra - 1.5 2. mind - 1 3. paper - 1 4. citiez - 1 5. life - 0 6. memoriez - 1 7. air - 1 8. heaven - 1.5 9. animalz - 0 10. guitar - 0 11. drugz - 0 12. money - 0 13. life - 0 14. citiez - 0 15. mind - 0

Yeaaah, this one just isn't it for me. It's extremely repetitive, some of the songs sound like they were constructed from really cheesy music sample packs, I'm not hearing anything that's catchy, a lot of songs grate on me. To be fair, I've never been a huge fan of Talking Heads, even on the songs I do like (Burning Down the House and Psycho Killer), but this is just not good. Maybe I'm being too hard on it, but stuff like Electric Guitar and Drugs are awful. Like, I can see where they were going on *some* of the album, but it just doesn't work at all. This'll be my first 1/5. Really struggled between a 1 or a 2, but yeah, nothing on this comes close to being enjoyable for me. (I somehow came out of this record with Psycho Killer stuck in my head... what?)

balls balls balls

Not my cup of tea. "Heaven" is not bad, but the rest is not for me. The song "Air" is not bad either.

Eh... Not for me.

Nope.

I didn't get it at all

Can’t do it.

Uuuurgh. I've already had to review a Talking Heads album. Maybe this one is better? Nope. Could not finish this. Like some weird food someone offers you that they are evangelical about, but you think tastes spoiled. I have no taste for this, and life is too short. One annoying weird star.

Not a fan

Wow - I was never much of a Talking Heads fan...but this album fell way short of my already low expectations. A fair number of the cuts are simply unlistenable. Pass...

Man, this was annoying... When it started, I was like "This might be a good record for riding the bike home". Then it kept going and became more and more annoying... Musically it is so bland, nothing sticks in my mind. This is a clear NO from me.

I don’t even like Talking Heads hits let alone their less known songs. Grating vocals. I appreciate him embracing weirdness but this is not my brand of weird sorry.

FFS

Nop thank you. Let's stay with psycho killer. What was even that album.

I don't know.... I just... I just don't get this. I don't care about it. I know this band is deemed one of the greatest... But I just don't care.

I can see how, at the time, it might have been seen as 'cutting edge' but now...? Nope. Not a track on the album that struck any kind of chord with me. I try to listen to these albums at least twice... I could barely manage once with this one - it did nothing for me at all.

Sorry Mr Heads but I did not enjoy this album whatsoever. There was nothing wrong with it I'm just a hater. 1/5 self-titled album better

I've been walking past one of their other albums for years, the one with the four heads, in the window of the record store, hanging next to Nevermind and Highway 61 Revisited, all blue tinted bleached out and I've been wondering if I should know this apparent classic. If I should have payed attention to those Talking Heads. Haha, nope. This sounds precisely like "they met in design school and openend for the Ramones" and I don't mean this as an accolade. Honestly, I'm puzzled by all the glowing reviews. People, 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, listen to Electric Guitar, Animals or Drugs and go "Wow, ohh, wonderful! 😍"? Huh?Because: this album's ~art wave rock~ whatever with Byrne's exalted vocals made me think of the 1978 'Dub Housing' by Pere Ubu (#52) and that one is currently rated the 14th worst album on this entire list. I went and had a look at the reviews and sure enough... "Talking heads but worse" "It reminded me a lot of Talking Heads, especially the singing, but a worse version" They have it backwards, though. Dub Housing was ★★★★☆, actually wild, interesting and experimental. This is not. Fear of Music reminded me of Pere Ubu but boring bullshit, with a stick up its ass. I'll give them the "ahead of their time", if I have to, and 'Heaven' had a strange low key beauty about it, I might keep that one, but other than that, this sucked, mightily.

Head banging 2

not quite Robert Wyatt bad but vocals make this pretty much unlistenable.

garbage

What the fuck is this..

Didn't gell for me.

Couldn't get into it. 1/5

It annoys me in the same way the music from the challenge island in animal crossing is annoying

No

I imagine this is what I would sound like singing high on LSD. Some interesting things musically, but otherwise just ok.

No for me. Sound doesn’t resonate.

Overall, kind of annoying.

Verrückt, funky, Pop. Nicht für mich.

Weird af

Ok, I really like Psychokiller, but this album never killed my boredom.

Didn't like it much, probably not my style of music.

j'aime pas talking heads de manière générale, cet album ne m'a pas fait changer d'avis

Kunst Electro Pop?

Most of the songs sounded like the instrumental track was recorded at one time, then the vocals were recorded in a completely separate room with no idea what the BPM/measures would be. So the vocals felt like they were just placed on top of a beat that didn't match, and the two don't align right. Some of the vocals felt completely off time. It wouldn't be that bad if the vocals were at least decent to make up for it, but they absolutely were not, and were mostly just hilariously awful. Overall this just sounded like decent rock instrumentals with a drunk singer slurring and falling behind when trying to sing to the beat, and was constantly trying to play catch up.

I hate it, white ppl make some weird ass music. overly upbeat

Not for me

Funk? Myyyyyyynd, Hold on to that Papuh,

Bland album, no groove, nothing that made me even tap my feet, not one stand out track. Will give it a 1/5 only for their attempt to be creative.

I only knew one Talking Heads song before listening and I like that one. I hoped I may like this album but I didn't. Didn't keep any of my attention

Really not my thing at all

David Byrne is Superfun and cool guy, and I like some of the songs , but none od those are not on this album…

This wasnt really for me. Couldnt vibe with it.

Not for me

Sounds like terrible 70s music

1 not a fan of the sound nor the vocals. I could prob sing just like this and there’s nothing special about it.

Sucked ass.

"Fear Of Music"? Yeah, these guys were deathly afraid of making good music. I don't get this genre at all. They're just talking... with their heads. Almost like they're The Talking Heads™ (Credits roll) There's like 5 Talking Heads albums on this list. Maybe I'll enjoy one of them, since I actually think Psycho Killer's quite a banger.

Experimental sounds but just can’t get into Talking Heads at all. Music or vocal styles.

Didn't like this album at all. Can't really find much redeeming about it. It's different, but it's not especially easy to listen to. Perhaps that's the appeal? These guys are raw and not sellouts? Finally turned it off at song #12... Couldn't make it through the whole album and didn't even want to. 1 star.

Haut mir noch nicht den Tornister von Rücken - da gefallen vergleichsweise konventionelle Nummern wie „Air“ & „Heaven“ noch am besten nebst Lieblingsstück „Drugs“. Aber sonst…viel Nichts. Furchtlose 1.3

- not taken with the vocal style, can he sing in tune? - feels like intentionally disconcerting melodies - I can see how influential this is but not something to listen to again. Didn't finish the album.

merf

Started off good, then sadly it got weird in a bit great way.

Really not my type of music Every song sounds the same Weird instruments barely noticeable in the background Never again.

Das Jahr 1979 hat großes hervorgebracht. Kraftwerk - Das Model zum Beispiel. Nicht aber Fear of Music. Hat mich bissi das Fürchten gelehrt. Laut Wikipedia viele Einflüsse vieler Kulturen. Satz: „I changed my hairstyle so many times, I don’t know what I look like“ fühle ich.

Glaube der Schlagzeuger kann nur einen beat.

Tough one. Wanted to like this cos I do like the "hits" I've heard despite never really exploring Talking Heads much, but didn't think all that much of this. Was very obviously them, so if that's what you're into, I can see why you'd love it, but I'm not sure Eno/Byrne is for me.

not my cuppa tea m8

I like "Once In A Lifetime." Sadly that's not on this album.