Fear Of Music

I love how much of a role rhythm plays in Talking Heads' music. So many of these songs are built around tight, funky rhythms. But the music doesn't sound like traditional funk. They've got their own unique spin on it. This is an excellent album and has two classics, "Life During Wartime" and "Heaven" (which has great lyrics that read like a poem). Some songs can feel a little cold, which might be why I've listened to this album less than other Talking Heads albums. There are also a few songs on here that I'm more familiar with from the live album/movie "Stop Making Sense" and they come alive even more in that performance.

So much quirkiness in this band, I love it.

I really like this band and this record as well. Have it on vinyl and play it often. Kind of suprise to see it in the 1001, but hey !

I don't know how relevant it is to have so many Talking Heads albums in the challenge, but for sure, I won't complain. This one is my third favorite of the band and it's still incredible new wave music!

Really good and I love the classic talking heads sound

Talking Heads give me a reason to believe weird is good

This was my first time listening to any Talking Heads albums from start to finish, I really know their hits but I really haven't heard any songs from this album before. Couple things I noted -David Byrne's peculiar and sometimes eerie singing really is the driving force behind these songs, but I feel like sometimes this becomes too much in songs. -I really enjoy the instrumentals of the songs, I appreciated how they tried to make each song really unique to one each other, no song feels blended with one another; each track feels like a separate experience Notable tracks: I Zimbra, Air

Damn I wish the two days I had to kinda rush through these albums wasn’t for this one and Low end theory. Both have banger after banger. I’m surprised this isn’t one of the talking heads more acclaimed albums. Liked the grooves and guitar playing a lot on this one and of course the experimentation and David Byrne’s vocals are always cool. 👍: cities, memories, Heaven

Good album probably their weirdest and darkest

Brilliant

Very nice album

It's been a while but this is a classic and probably my fav Talking Heads album

fabulous

Моё представление о Говорящих головах меняется с каждым прослушанным их альбомом. Я был всегда уверен, что это такой пост-панк и ничего более. Потом был альбом Remain in Light, который прям неплохо так окунул нас в нью-вейв и фанк, что совсем отличалось от дебютника. И сейчас мы попали в середину, откатившись из 1980 в 1979. Здесь всё ещё много гипнотически-трансовых басовых линий, но есть небольшой "откат" в сторону классического песенного стиля. Это всё ещё очень классно, и кажется, я открыл для себя ещё одну интересную группу, в дискографии которой хочется покопаться. С другой стороны, я думаю, что может этот альбом в списке и лишний. Мы с большой долей вероятности услышим и первую пластинку группы Talking Heads 77', мы уже слышали следующий за этим альбом. А здесь... ну, смесь) В целом, для знакомства можно было бы и двумя альбомами обойтись. Вопрос только какими... Это 4+, 5 не ставлю, чтобы выделить, что прошлый альбом понравился больше.

Изначально думал как-то сравнивать с их предыдущим ака следующим альбомом, но они оба хороши. Если Влад говорит об обволакивании альбомов, то я заявляю, что головы просто затянули меня в их альбом и это было вкусно

Objectively 4.5

Just the best dad music. Not my dad, of course, who's a Beatles guy - but someone's dad. Byrne is cool as fuck. Great rhythms. Great lyrics. Nice taste in suits. Rhythmic, angular, great life-affirming, funk-adjascent groove. I particularly like the section where Byrne says heaven is a place where nothing really happens. Dunno what it means but it feels like it means something good.

3.5

Not their best album, still very good

More Rock than I ever knew the Talking Heads could be. Some good tracks in there

Great album

The final Talking Heads album before The Big One. Truth be told, you can throw a dart at a board of the first five Talking Heads albums and land on a great one. That goes double for the Eno-produced ones. I love Live During Wartime, but the energy on the live version is undeniably better. The b-sides mostly sound like manic ramblings, which are actually captivating thanks to David Byrne's excellent delivery. Perhaps their most dissonant album. I like what it does and I've always liked how weird they are.

I love Talking Heads, not overly familiar with this one. Thought I didn't know any of the songs, but Phish had covered Cities. Byrne seems to put the wit in the back seat here. Good stuff.

Good album! Very funky and groovy.

Yup - so good. What a strong debut album.

Nothing quite like it. Hilarious and unsettling at the same time. Only (small) drawback is that thay managed to top themselves with Remain in Light in most ways. A great record.

Not the best Talking Heads album, but even an okay Talking Heads album is still amazing.

buen disco los amo talking heads 8.5/10

Love the Talking Heads, Life During Wartime is top 5 David Byrne. His influence on music is still being felt today. I listened to this one twice yesterday.

This was a really good album for me.

Very nice. I have weird fascination with 'Cities', it sounds so humorous to me which I quite like😆

One of the great ones.

Casi perfecto, toda la onda. Un par de temas medio fuera de lugar. Mejores canciones: 1- Life during Wartime 2- I Zimbra 3- Heaven

Awesome Talking Heads album that feels get a bit overshadowed by Remain in Light, unfortunately. I prefer this one over Remain in Light, since I find that the talking heads typical "groovy" sound is there is full form while remaining accessible. On Remain in Light, this sound is going overboard a little bit in the experimentation in my opinion. Incredible songs here like "I Zimbra", "Cities" & "Heaven" are really representative of the genius of Talking Heads. FUNKY 8,8/10

Love this band Love how this has the rub of Fela Kuti and moving towards the next albums Some of my favourite tracks … even if the Stop Making Sense live versions are wven better in my ears Why go to college …

I've always been a fan of Talking Heads but never spent much time with this album. I Zimbra sets the mood, Life During Wartime sounds eerily like the Bunnings theme song, and Dancing for Money is a trip. Overall feels just as relevant today.

Maybe my favorite talking heads album? It is catchy and accessible yet its not afraid to go out there either. For now 4 stars but might grow honestly.

This is my favourite Talking Heads album. The pure energy of I Zimbra announcing the arrival of the new Taliking Heads to the world as one of the first purveyers of true African Rhythms in rock music. This would reach its zenith on the next release Remain in Light. But this album I think better combines their punky, nervous new wave roots with the poly rhythms that they would become famous for. Filled with great songs from beginiing to end. My only gripe is the mastering of my somwhere close to original Canadian viny is a little thin and shrill at times. It doesn't allow those gorgeous rhythms space enough to breath the way they do on Remain in Light. 4.5 stars

another weird talking heads album

First time listening. Good album, enjoyed listening to it!

Loved it for the first 3/4 before it started to drag a bit, but never exactly got boring. Super high energy, quirky, head bobbing music and felt like a more organic and stripped back version of remain in light. The super tight choppy slap echo rhythms were my favorite part of the whole album, def plenty to learn here as a musician. Overall a great listen with a few tracks I was indifferent to.

4.25

The third Talking Heads album I've had and the only I've enjoyed. It's fucking weird and I actually enjoy it. Dunno why I like this over their other stuff, but this one is just weird enough that I like it. Not enough to say that I will regularly listen to the Talking Heads, but enough find it passable from them.

legal legal bem grooviezao

I really liked this album. It felt tight, groovy, funky, glamorous, and fun. It felt a little Bowie-esque. All of the tracks were extremely cohesive and let my mind imagine a world of fun characters to go along with the antics of the lyrics. In true Talking Heads fashion, the lyrics had a sense of humor, heart, and insight. Favorite Tracks: 1) I, Zimbra 2) Mind 3) Life During Wartime 4) Memories Can’t Wait 5) Heaven 6) Drugs 7) Electric Guitar Honorable mention: Air

i'd like to find the person who first told David Byrne he could sing, and then shake that person by the hand

A transitionary album for Talking Heads and just barely my least favorite of their first 5.

Heaven is such a beautiful song in such a great album. Oslid stuff

Enjoyed this, blends together a little but good music

If David Bowie was playing a character from Mars, Talking Heads are playing characters (and music) from planets that haven't received actual names yet. Super fun, weirdly, oddly funky. Favorite tracks: "Life During Wartime", "Heaven", "Animals"

Another album by Talking Heads. Good stuff as usual in my opinion. Saved tracks: Paper, Cities, Life During Wartime, Memories Can’t Wait, Heaven

Some real highlights on this album and I'll never get sick of the Talking Heads, but it falls just shy of a 5/5 album for me.

This reminds me of a very specific time so a biased 4

Felt way ahead of its time for 1979, eccentric music and lyrics but in a modern sounding way, really good

the talking heads - fear of music (1979) notes - second talking heads album that i’ve reviewed - this one accentuates the things that i liked about the first and tones down the stuff i didn’t enjoy - released 1 year after the other one - the guitar interplay on this is great! - david byrnes delivery seems a but more measured and intentional on this one - produced by brian eno fav song - cities - like the warped piano, lyrics and vocal performance - Bonus shout out to the song animals least fav - Electric guitar - I liked the bass and some of the weird sounds but the song itself was meh 4/5

Always fun to listen to Talking Heads. Their funky signature style gets you dancing every time.

Jag skulle aldrig vara rädd för denna musik!!

Bu!

Oh. this is the talking heads. ~ psycho killer. qu'est-ce que c'est bah bah bah bah bah abah bah bahab ah ~

Would be a 5 but there are some strange, classic TH tunes on this one. Standouts are I Zimbra, Cities & Life During Wartime, which are all time songs.

Not my favorite talking head but life in wartime elevated

Good melodies and good beats. Need to finish listening.

Sums up much of what I love about Talking Heads. Rhythmic, manic, anxiety inducing, funky in parts. Produced by Brian Eno in possibly my favorite period of his career, having just worked with Bowie on his Berlin trilogy. Standout track "Life during wartime"

4.0 - It's David Byrne and Brian Eno so of course it's epic, right? For the better part of this week I bopped my head along, feeling the rhythms and noting the subtle studio quirks: on "Mind" Byrne's grunt fades seamlessly into a guitar solo, there's an extended outro on "Memories Can't Wait" that's awesome, and I love the ambient paranoia of "Drugs"...Still, the music won't burrow into my guts. Some of it sounds like "And She Was", some of it sounds like Blues Brothers ("Cities"). Mostly I hear the advent of NY punk, which I'm getting (kinda sorta) sick of?

fabulouussssssssssssssss 8/10

Funky shit funky shit catchy choruses

Probably the TH record I'm least familiar with although have always loved cities. Heaven is an obvious five star tune too. Overall somewhat darker offering.

drugs крутейшая

Isang pagdiriwang.

Good variety of sounds and ideas, very creative band with undoubted talent

I wasn't expecting this to be so upbeat and musical.

Very nice. Familiar with it.

Cities is a real bop. The Talking Heads really lean into this funk disco sound on the open tracks on this album. Life During Wartime is rad.

This album still has David Byrne's oddities and creativity, but I would say this is a more accessible Talking Heads album that tones down some of his more "out there" ideas. The last two songs are definitely where he lets loose, leading up to that it's a bit more of a standard alternative rock album.

Super interesting album. Not great for background music or relaxing to. More for when you want to actually listen to some music and let your thoughts and emotions roam around a little.

Interesting, but I think their other work is better. Great to hear where the later sounds started.

I feel like I love pretty much anything Brian Eno works on. This album was a very solid surprise to me.

consistent with their sound

Great album by a great band. Unique mix of punk, dance, funk, as well as rhythmic sounds from all over the world. Layers of subtle instruments. Polyrhythms on top of polyrhythms.

Just weird enough.

I'm a big fan of Talking Heads - they've made some of my favourite tracks and influenced loads of other great artists - but I've yet to find a TH album I loved from start to finish. Having said that, I do like the cut of this one's jib. The commitment to completely bonkers (but possibly profound??) lyrical themes hooked me in, and second time round some pretty infectious tunes revealed themselves too. 3.5, but I suspect that score may rise further in future.

Love some vintage Talking Heads

enjoyed

Not my fave Talking Heads but it’s got Heaven

Good album. Husband loved it.

Some of their best

It's probably the nerviest sounding Talking Heads album which is no mean feat. Half the album is gives, the other half threes...

Talking Heads are always pretty great, sometimes fantastic, but during this era, I find it hard to listen to anything but Stop Making Sense. The album versions of Heaven and Life During Wartime on this one are just not the same!

4.5

Talking Heads are my fine wine band, they get better to me with my age

Great band, great album

I am certain that the titular fear is tongue-in-cheek, but one could easily read it in the monotone of the opening songs. Intention is evasive like that, and divining Byrne's feelings about melody seems annoying and useless. Talking Heads wake up late in the tracklist with a fabulous run of songs. Drugs proves that there's still range there, and suggests that I should revisit the music I initially found boring.

Great album by a great band. This album sounds like a band coming into their own. 4 stars. On a separate note, can we talk about how many Brian Eno-produced albums are on this list? Pretty amazing really. I can’t imagine there’s any individual who has contributed to more albums on this list than Eno.

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Honestly, I could never really get into the Talking Heads so this album was pretty average for me

I like the talking heads as much as the next guy but at this rate we’re going to have listened to their entire discography by the time we get done with this list

Funky new wave, and an agree David Byrne. And then it’s got Life during wartime on it. What’s not to like

Such a great band, musical genius. Incredible album to sit and listen to what is going on with each track, harder if you are just taking in if it's background music

Getting to the heights of Remain in Light.

Aðeins ójöfn, og ég er í sjálfu sér enginn aðdáandi raddar Byrnes, en þetta er oftar en ekki töff og skemmtilegt, gæti vel hlustað á oftar.

8/10. Quite good, but how many Talking Heads Albums are on here?

Decently entertaining if a little odd. 7/10

Even as a fan of the Talking Heads, it is hard to beat their work on their live album Stop Making Sense. Most of the music off of this recommendation, Fear of Music, was new to me. I am only certain that I have heard two of the eleven tracks from this album, but the album does sound like the Talking Heads. I liked "I Zimbra" and "Life During Wartime" the most. "I Zimbra" hints at later work by the band and David Byrne's solo career. I was a little disappointed that I didn't find more than one or two tracks that I'm definitely going to listen to again, but overall I could give Fear of Music another listen.

Fav songs: - Memories Can't Wait - Electric Guitar - Paper

Only really knew one song, but enjoyed entire album.

Love this album - the lyrics, the rhythms, the cover...

I've been trying to get into this band for what feels like forever, and I think this is the album that finally opened the door a bit. Each track is distinct 'Heads' material, but the off-kilter guitar tones now match up to Byrne's eclectic delivery and leave every song an earworm. Lots of head-turners in terms of instrumentation, rhythm, and production only complement the sense of artistic weirdness and make this a fun but easily digestible listen.

Ég held mikið með David Byrne og Talking Heads. Asskolli skemmtileg plata!

Yes, this was very David Byrne, some of the tracks I've never heard but I felt like I could have known them for years.

4.5/5 Basically one notch below "Remain in Light"

Amazing highlights. Heaven, life during wartime, cities, mind are really great. Sadly, some other songs sound filler. Great listen though

There were a few songs I liked on this album, but in general, not a fan of the style.

Très sympa ! J'ai toujours du mal avec le fait que la musique des Talking Heads me paraît un peu lugubre (peut-être parce que c'est en mineur) mais l'album est très sympa !

Great!!

"Deep breath, stay calm, try and hide those sweaty palms." At first, I liked Talking Heads. I got into them at around 18, after reading Rip It Up and Start Again. I bought lots of albums because of Simon Reynolds’ writing about them, and the chapter on Talking Heads and Wire was among my favourites. At that age, I still liked the idea of a band as a self-contained unit of guitars, bass, and drums, ideally with one non-musician. This album was my favourite; it seemed a good balance of that tradition and musical experimentation, before they expanded into a funk orchestra with Remain in Light. I had a rough time over the next couple of years. I’d moved from a quiet, rural place to go to university in London, running away from teenage drama with the vague feeling that everything would be better when I got there, and I was completely out of my depth. I’d always sailed through exams and essays with ease, which made things look alright from the outside and taught me to see what intelligence I had as a kind of protection. Suddenly, I felt like I couldn’t even read any more. Things I didn’t immediately understand felt like attacks. At some point during all of that, Talking Heads stopped making sense to me. Their music felt purely intellectual in a way that was beyond me. With the exception of I Zimbra, which I always liked, it felt like something that needed to be decoded. I thought of it as emotionless. I didn’t like feeling that I was missing something obvious. A lot has changed since then, thank god. I’ve come to understand social phobia better. I’m less scared of being thick and better at asking questions. Recently, I listened to Speaking in Tongues and quite enjoyed it. Even so, I had some trepidation about going back to this one. It has the reputation as the one that fans like the most, rather than the one we’re supposed to admire. The Revolver to Remain in Light’s Sgt. Pepper, perhaps. Then it hit me: melophobia, the fear of music. Some of the symptoms are common to other forms of anxiety, including elevated heart rate, panic attack, breathlessness, an urge to flee, anger or loss of control, and the inability to speak or think clearly. Maybe that last one is why it took me 15 years to pay attention to the title. It’s not cold and emotionless at all, it’s music of fear. The scene is set with Hugo Ball's sound poetry, a form that erupted during the cataclysm of "world war without end...revolution without beginning." It appears as form without content, but the disrupted content exposes the futility and arbitrariness of form alone. The Dada manifesto, in translation, calls Dada "the word soul," the definitive essence of communication without borders in a time of unstoppable turmoil. It can't give you answers. There is no sense, only sensation. This sets up an album that's not funk as dance music, but as a mind itching for a definite answer where there isn’t one; David Byrne freaking out in a freezing bedsit with the radio on and the news on the tv. The relentless rhythms and warped, psychedelic guitar tones put me in the cortisol-zapped mind of the vocalist as he races through every trigger and hopelessly cycles through every available coping mechanism. At first glance, Electric Guitar seemed like an outlier to me, as it essentially retells the concept of Rush's 2112, in which an authoritarian regime has banned rock. It seems far-fetched from a comfortable western perspective. It might seem more immediate to a paranoid, panic-stricken mind, or indeed to anyone who had to etch pop songs onto old x-rays to share them. To put it in an historical context, the album was composed during the Iranian revolution; the band went into the studio to record it about 2 months after the Ayatollah took control in Tehran. I appreciate Fear of Music a lot more now I'm not too close to take it in. It's a tense record, but that's kind of the point, and I find it less claustrophobic than I used to. I’m really not going to make it through The Young Gods, though, am I? P.S. because I just noticed this and can't resist putting it in: the Dada Manifesto says that "In German it means 'good-bye,' 'Get off my back,' 'Be seeing you sometime." I wonder if Patrick McGoohan was a fan.

This isn't my favorite Talking Heads album, but it still slaps

I like it. It's an experimental album with african beats

Another of these records where the hit is misleading about overall texture, which is interesting throughout and occasionally weird, though it scans as much less weird today than 40+ years ago. It's a whole album, a unit of measurement that isn't much used anymore. I still think of it all as a peace with the other three early albums. Whole lotta Eno, too, works for me. Zimbra, Air, Heaven, Drugs are the personal faves.

I run hot and cold with Talking Heads. Love some songs, find others really grating. This one's got more good to it than grating. Glad for that.

I’ve always liked The Talking Heads, although I have never heard this album. Glad that has been addressed, because this is a great album. It is really fun to listen to with its interesting rhythms, quirky lyrics and fun musical touches. But underlying all that is a lot of fear in “Fear of Music.” There’s a palpable desperation as the album grapples with the challenges of modern life. I was familiar with the song “Life During Wartime.” The problems it explores have not been addressed. The singer of “Cities” struggles to find a place to in the world that the pandemic has made a top-of-mind issue for many. Our increasingly polarized societal splits makes “Mind” something that could have been written today. Climate change could make “Air” its anthem. “Fear of Music” does not feel like an artifact from 1979. Am I reassured that despite this being true 41 years ago we are still here or frightened that this is so relevant after 41 years? Timeless. Fun. Disconcerting. Great!

Best album I've listened to by far

Some great tracks on this. Instrumentation is fantastic. Basslines pop out and synth is everyewhere. Rhythmically complex and interesting, and probably only let down by David Byrne's voice. Heaven is a killer tune.

this was a very good album. I enjoyed listening to it. got a lot of modest mouse vibes with david byrne's singing so, that's probably where isaac brock, uh, got that idea, but it's working. Instrumentally some of the songs I was really into and some of them I could leave it. Mind was particularly catchy and i'm not sure i'd heard it before.

Mind resonated for me the most

I Zimbra is probably one of the best songs I've ever heard in my entire life.

kinda hard to rate as a whole but heaven is low-key really good

Off the wall.

It was solid, just not my fav Talking Heads album

LIfe During Wartime Heaven Good classic Talking Heads

Fun listen. Will definitely go back to.

I love Talking Heads, but haven't listened to these songs much before now. I'm sure that'll change.

Nice, relaxed

Legendary album full of experimental grooves. Not my favorite talking heads album though, misses the mark for 5 stars despite having lots of awesome songs because some parts of this album can be abrasive and borderline annoying at times. It’s a unique piece of art but not the most enjoyable talking heads album to listen to

Liked this one a lot some songs got a bit repetitive though

Really enjoying this one. Not sure how I hadn't listened to this entire album in the past. Definitely starts stronger than it ends. 4/5

HECCIN GROOVYYYYY delay experimentation for the 70s. can see where the fall etc got some vocals, also maybe black midi lol this is quite brilliant and i will listen to it more

Funky. The bass lines are sick

Very solid.

4 star pre-credit. i really will try talking heads at some point

Another one that I’m more of a fan of on paper than reality. Some interesting hybrids of DIY disco and electro but did grab my attention as much as I was hoping.

Never listened to this entire album before. Pretty good , and I think these guys are still influential today. 3.5 and rounding up due to “Life during Wartime”.

Fun energetic album overall. Pretty abstract in some places

A lot better than I thought I’d be

This is already one of my favorite albums ever, I have this on vinyl and will be listening to it later today. UPDATE: This is such an incredible album. Weirdly dark in places, lots of different influences mixed in.

Easy to listen to. I love the songwriting.

I like to think of this album as the dark horse candidate of the Talking Heads discography. It’s where they really started to get inventive with their music and also fleshing out their new Afro-Beat style which would take them to great heights

Late breaking news: Talking Heads are awesome! I've always been aware of them, and some songs that were great, but had no idea what was lurking on their albums was better than any of the singles released. All interesting tracks, none sound remotely like they're over 40. I'm very late to this party, but I'm really enjoying Talking Heads.

Great songs here, will need a few listens but guaranteed 4 star album.

Best oké album

I always have a great experience with Talking Heads, you never know what you’ll get, but you’ll get a new twist to their signature sound. Eno really comes out in this one too.

Great stuff - driving baselines, funky but not overbearing guitars, and David Byrne doing his vocal thing. I hadn't heard most of these, and will dive deeper into their catalog.

Czyzby talking heads wysunelo sie na prowadzenie w rankingu najwiekszej liczby pickowej na liscie, bo jest to juz trzeci album ktory slucham w ramach codziennej listy, jednoczesnie jest to trzecia pozycja w dyskografii bandy, a druga z bohaterem wczorajszego picka panem Brianem Eno, ktory wyprodukowal lwia czesc dyskografii headsow, fear of music jest dziwnym albumem, bo nie obrodzil w zadne hity wedlug countow na spotifaju czy lasfmie, nie jest on nawet w top 4 najpopularniejszych plyt zespolu, a jednak jest on ciekawym punktem w transformacji pomiedzy 77 a remain in light, eksperymentowanie z cudami elektroniki, ktore swoja osoba wprowadzil pan eno, ktory jest oczywiscie odpowiedzialny na klikanie synthow na plycie, jak prawie zawsze zreszta na albumach ktore produkuje, ale nie na tym koczy sie jego influencja, bo jestem przekonany, ze wokalny styl Davida Byrne rowniez moze byc zasluga pana Eno, bo slychac w nim wiele podobienstw do stylu wczorajszego roxy music, a wydania dzieli blisko 7 lat, taki pastiszowy styl stal sie wrecz wizytowka headsow polaczony z diskowymi rytmami, a raczej ich inkorporacja w typowe rokowe brzmienie, taki wlasnie byl pomysl na nowa fale w wydaniu gadajacych glow, ale jak dla mnie headsy to rowniez kontent liryczny, bo byrne nie zawodzi swoimi tekstami, ktore zazwyczaj poruszaja na pozor trywialne watki, ale swoja postacia potrafi stworzyc dramat oparty na tak niewielkich rzeczach jak papier, miasta, zwierzeta czy niebo, to niektore z tytulow kawalkow tej plyty, bo sam tytul, fear of music, mozna interpretowac jako fear of wstaw nazwe songa i robi to sens, bo z paranoicznych tekstow jest przecez pan byrne znany, ale jest i trak ktory odejdzie od tej koncepcji i bedzie blizej czemus co nazwalbym blue printem pod remain in light, jest to otwierajacy I zimbra, ktory sklada sie z giberyszowych lirykow bedacych adaptajca poematu w stylu dadaizu, wiec giberisz najprosciej, dosc orginalne, wrecz przegiete afrykanskie brzmienie oparte na gitarkach fripowych i drumersach frantza i na eksperymentach enowych, jako fangej headsow ciezko mi ocenic pomiedzy soba te trzy picki, wiec standardowe 4 gwiazdki, a na plejaka rzuce minda, aira i life durning wartime, ktory jest jak dla mnie najlepsza mini historyjka tej plyty, bo jak inaczej nazwac opowiesc o urbanskim guerrilli co zyje o masle orzechowym

Sounds as fresh as it did the day it came out. Perfect vibes for a sunny Friday.

An album I should listen to more often. (7/10) Favorite Tracks: Life During Wartime, Heaven

Weird and wonderful. Pretty hooked the entire time, will listen again and explore more Talking Heads for sure.

Fantastic

Really nice for chilling etc

Groovy, jazzy

I've heard this one before, but I've always loved talking heads. Remain at light is still my favorite, but this one goes hard too.

Talking Heads is about as "weird" as my music taste gets. Listened to their greatest hits album growing up, so I know those songs well. Excited to get to know more of their catalogue.

Prefer this to the other Talking Heads album we've heard, it's a different style and I enjoyed it way more

The only Talking Heads song I had heard before this was Psycho Killer. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars. It’s good, not good enough to be a 4, but I also can’t give it a 3.

Niiice. I've listened to their first two albums and Remain in Light quite a lot, but never paid as much attention to this one in the middle. It's great. Imagine having strange enough ear to take all the sinister, menacing energy of post-punk, and filter it into weird surreal funk stuff. There are some "straight" rock moment and a ballad, but none of it is really played straight. It's like a group of weirdo aliens trying to make their idea of normie human music and failing beautifully. Not the best Talking Heads album imho, but I guess it shouldn't be punished for sitting amongst greatness.

This album doesn't have any of my best-remembered Talking Heads songs. Still pretty good.

Very fun and dancy, just a good time. Pretty ahead of it's time too.

Late breaking news: Talking Heads are awesome! I've always been aware of them, and some songs that were great, but had no idea what was lurking on their albums was better than any of the singles released. All interesting tracks, none sound remotely like they're over 40. I'm very late to this party, but I'm really enjoying Talking Heads.

Intresting album. It didn't sound like a music recorded in 70's. It's not the best funk that I heard of but I will back sometimes to this album.

yep, talking heads is still good

Tof album! Echt van genoten.

not my cup of tea. songs felt very repetitive.

Buenos ritmitos, no se escucha 70s ni 80s en realidad, así que supongo que sí eran másonemos únicos y detergentes. De repente dan crack adict energy. Me gustó sobre todo Memories Can´t Wait con sus toques algo oníricos, pero igual conservando algo de momento de las canciones más rápidas que le anteceden, sobre todo esa guitarra en el min 1:13 muy simple, pero satisfactoria. Animals también chida: medio dark. Mood: Cocainomanos.

Talking heads are cool

Feels very "definition of New Wave"

Weird vibe, but totally worth listening to it

starts off with a bang with the nonsense dadaist lyrics of I Zimbra... Gadji beri bimba clandridi Lauli lonni cadori gadjam A bim beri glassala glandride E glassala tuffm I zimbra. Like, how does Byrne come up with this brilliant shit? Life during Wartime is also one of their best singles with a funky jerky African rhythm. I like how their sound is evolving with the Eno collaboration also. This is a great album, but not their best, I would rank Remain in Light, 77 ahead of this, so it gets a sold 4 from me.

Great stuff. Be sure to watch the Byrne movie American Utopia. Fabulous.

Quizá me hice más expectativas de este disco, que sí me gustó, pero no tanto como quería (?). Igual, de repente tiene sonidos muy padres y suena a varias emociones. No pienso que tenga skips, pero no sé si regrese igual a este álbum como a Remain in Light. Mis favs: "Mind", "Life During Wartime", "Animals" y ese final del lanzamiento original, "Drugs", muy top. 8/10

very cool

I actually liked this one better than the other Talking Heads album

I hadn't dug into this one yet, so I'm glad for this opportunity. At first listen, I think "Paper" is my favorite track, but I can see "Heaven" taking over next time.

The more you pay attention to the lyrics the better it gets. Probs 4.5.

YEAH BOI

Ahora entiendo porque muchos de mis grupos favoritos los cuentan entre sus influencias.

had never listened to this one before despite loving talking heads

I love Talking Heads. David shouts in the corner of a room - the album(makes it very echo sounding). Every song before 'Cities' seems to lead up to that particular sound, it's almost eclectic before 'Cities' brings it together. 'Life During Wartime' is probably the most recognisable song from this album, which seems to sooth down the rest of the chaos from earlier with a nice jazz note and David's softer tones, though later he may express more exasperatedly it's still quite literally the middle of the album where it's finding itself. I recognise with 'Memories Can't Wait' this is Talking Heads in their 2 years after their debut, with a lot of drug taking. David saying there's a party in his mind and he never wants it to stop and then later the last song of the album 'Drugs', you can begin to see why the music arrangement in some areas is eclectic and less thought through. ' Air' sounds like a pre-cursor to something by The Pixies, but clearly there's an indication that David's on an LSD trip. Overall I think this is Talking Heads finding their feet, legs, torso and arms. In their infancy, greatness yet to come

Loved it. New TH for me

I'm going to ignore the song Animals. The rest is the right amount of adventurous and fun. Funky and experimental, and just cool.

Art punk made with professionalism but balanced with campy subject matters and surrealist lyrics. Too dumb to take it seriously, but that's how you get to make weird/great stuff.

Solid album. Definitely hear why we often discuss TH as a reference point for our music. The end of "Mind" made me think of Open Door Policy. The repetition and winky-ness of the songs is very RCE. Not sure I had listened to this album before. Most familiar with "Heaven." Liked it even more upon second listen. They're like demented party jams.

Didn't make much of an impression on me this time around. But it is a precursor to the amazing Remain in Light, and has a lot of interesting sounds on it. It also has one of my favourite Talking Heads songs on it - Heaven, which is still hauntingly beautiful.

If I wasn't but a child in the 80's, I'd like to think I would've been a Talking heads superfan. Just great music.

Pretty good, but the live is a better compilation of the best songs

Bonkers in all the right ways

Solid Tracks! Good Bass rythms

Very great (Talking Heads very much my thing, going back to the very early days), though I think not quite at the full cohesion of the sound or themes yet at this point. Still one of my favorite albums.

Talking Heads is a band I have not dived into much, although I know they are a big influence on a bunch of bands I like (Radiohead especially, considering they took their name from a Talking Heads track). I am not a huge fan of the singer's voice when it's straight, but after a few listens its acceptable to me now. Some crazy instrumentals and interesting progressions. I can appreciate some of the experimental/different instrumentation/tempo/key changes. For 1979 it's quite forward thinking. I can definitely see the influence it had on Radiohead. Part of the vocal stylings/delivery do remind me of RCE (Cities, Life During Wartime). I can see parallels with Jon's vocal delivery here. If I loved the vocals more it could be a 5. At first I thought I wouldn't listen again but I did it twice. With RCE there is a joke aspect that is fun, but here it's just commentary that is purely negative. I am listening to this one twice though, as it was a lot for just one listen. RCE could definitely cover one of these songs and it would be "on brand". Fav Tracks: Life During Wartime, Memories Can't Wait

It’s talking heads. It’s good

Always liked talking heads. Weird at times but a great sound

Really feel like this should be a 3.5 but gonna round up

Funky bass

Classic talking heads. Great

Enjoyed :)

What I expect from Talking Heads pretty much. Solid.

Will start this on 8th Jan, listened to Nowhere by Ride on 7th Jan

Not really my thing but I can see what people like about it

I don’t know many Talking Heads songs. I do know a few hits but as I listened to this I understand why they are popular. They have a formula. They music never strays too far from that formula and it sounds good. I enjoyed this. And I’m glad I heard it.

Getting a bit fed up of talking heads albums. Great bass playing but overall quite repetitive.

Some compelling vocals but I don't know if I'll return to this album

Hmm. Not my fave.

All the bops are in the first half of the album. But I hadn't revisited this one in a while and enjoyed what I enjoyed.

Fair

more of a post-punk, new wave sound than their later records.

Exactly what I expected to receive from a Talking Heads album

3 - ok

Overall Rating - 3.36/5 (6.73/10). This is definitely Talking Heads. Very recognizable sound, even if this is fairly early in their career.

I guess I'm just not much of a Talking Heads. This, too, like the last two, was a fine album. But not that fine.

Expected more from this really. Talking Heads are great, but this album is fairly tame for them. Nothing really stood out for me. Enjoyable, but nothing exciting.

I don’t like the sound of his voice but the instrumental parts are nice

Solid

C'est bon. Juste avant que ça devienne vraiment bon. 3.49 étoiles

Experimental rhythms are entrancing and easy to get lost in, yet this is otherwise a largely immemorable album.

You know how sometimes you’ll read about a film or a book that people describe as world changing and you watch it/read it and afterwards you’re like have I missed something here? I’m like that with this album, it’s clearly good. Like a disco in a dystopian future it grooves but it unsettles but it’s too much vibe and not enough song for me. Another listen may help, but we are where we are now

aceptable.

Paranoico, Actor, Intrigante y sumamente expermiental. Aunque en los próximos álbumes posteriores tienen un concepto y sonido más definido, no cabe duda que algo distinto querían traer a la escena de la época.

Yaaaaas. I’ve been wanting to check out Talking Heads. Only know two of their songs. Oh. Okay. Well, maybe I’ll like their other albums better. Not exactly my cup of tea. I started vibing with some songs a bit more the second time around but then I gave up. Maybe later down the line I will revisit. They’re definitely a vibe. But this album wasn’t my vibe.

I listened to the original release (11 tracks). Typical goofy Talking Heads topics with typical Talking Heads music. “Life During Wartime” is one of my favorites, although the rest of the album is average.

The album cover looks like a tire, but apparently it is a floor. My subconscious's album is called Fear of Flat Tire. Some more nonsense lyrics here on 'I Zimbra'; what a thematic week we've had. But those lyrics are from a (bad, imo) poem, so although they might be nonsense, they aren't mysterious. Good lyrics on the rest of the tracks. 'Cities' would make for a good college decision theme song. 'Air' would make a good everyday theme song. 2nd iteration of 'Heaven' on this list, following Simply Red's cover. (The OG is better.) It would make a bad "The Good Place" theme song. This album feels funk-adjacent at points. I most like the points where it isn't. Words to live by: "Never listen to electric guitar" :)

It’s … ok. I don’t think I like them as much as I thought I did.

So Jim hates disco, but loves the Talking Heads. This is, fundamentally, a disco album. Ergo, Jim loves disco.

I feel like this is the wrong talking heads album. The debut album and speaking in tongues are way better.

3/5

2.8 stars, three songs I liked of the bunch. Not at all a bad listen, just kind of boring.

Ok, didn't love it. Lot of subvocal moaning that was a tad distracting.

An okay album, I liked Heaven the most.

7/10 - This might be a product of me having too high of expectations going into an album. It’s a good album and maybe if the musician wasn’t Talking Heads I would have been higher on it. They might be a victim of their own success on this review.

Bell’album, non il migliore ma comunque sinbolo della new wave

kind of anxiety inducing!! “Animals” and “Cities” in particular. “Heaven” is such a gem

I can respect it but I don't have the time to dig into it lyrically which I believe is where the good stuff may be in this.

Pretty solid album, not my favorite of all time but Talking Heads are a unique listen every time

I didn’t recognize any of these songs, but still pretty good. I don’t like all their albums equally but I am growing to like their sound.

Perfectly functional talking heads. Still a strong album but not their best.

I can't stand the Talking Heads...

Fun. It's the Talking Heads.

5/10 Interesting music - Talking Heads was really doing something unique here, especially for the time. Unfortunately it's not really sonically appealing.

"I did not know this album until I got a vinyl copy last year. I played it one or two times, but it didn't really get me. So, the 1001 Albums Generator gave me the opportunity for another try today. It is not an easy record to grasp, understand, or appreciate. Reading some of the praise for this album—which ranks high on many '70s and especially 1979 album lists—I got the feeling I should love it if so many other people do. It's often seen as their best album. I like the Talking Heads—especially the Stop Making Sense concert movie—and I was already familiar with 'Heaven' and 'Life During Wartime.' But while some songs on here are really great, other tracks are difficult for me as a 'simple' music lover due to the unusual rhythms and sounds —especially the album closer, 'Drugs.' I am torn between 3 or 4 stars. I was leaning toward four, but the last three songs shift it back to a 3 for the moment."

Stellenweise ganz interessant, aber so richtig gecatcht hat es mich nicht.

Gesang nicht immer ganz so meins. Wobei ich auf 'Remain In Light" gut damit klar komme.

I love the talking heads. But I didn’t love this album. I wouldn’t say I disliked it. But there was just not much here that resonated with me. I like a lot of the sounds, and I respect what they’re going for. I liked the funk guitar especially. But at the end of the album it felt more like it was trying to be interesting than it was to be effecting. And that’s personally more of what I look for. I’ve always enjoyed the THs hits, and this album could’ve used more of their pop sensibilities to round out the bizarre vibe they were chasing.

Yeah not bad. Don’t do drugs kids

A few songs are good, too, but I think the album is mainly overrated, especially when I look at the 4.00 rating on Rate Your Music.

Listening experience was a little disjointed due to a bad internet connection. No particular complaints or compliments about the music itself. A little sad to have a typo in previous journal entry

This is my third Talking Heads album and still not sure what to think of them. This one seemed a bit weird for me and not something I’d choose to listen to. Still, it had some decent tracks. I think I would need to spend some more time with it to give it fair judgment.

It’s got the classic talking heads groove but I just couldn’t get into it like some of the others

Not my favourite THs album, but still odd, weird and using rhythms and sounds that are not new wave. I prefer the debut and the one after this.

great music, the tracks kinda all sound the same to me. nevertheless amazing to listen to during a long drive

It's alright.

Buen album

skulle inte lyssna på själv men ok

It was fine

Not my favorite Talking Heads record, but strong singles including Life During Wartime and I Zimbra. Makes me want to watch Stop Making Sense again.

Talking heads, such an iconic sound. I really appreciate some Byrne from time to time, but this album as a whole is a little too much for me.

15 songs I don't even know what to think of this album. It wasn't bad, but gun to my head I wouldn't be able to hum a single song after an hour had passed. So, because of that, I cannot rate it any higher than a 3.

gosssto disso

i'd never listened talking heads before except psycho killer. i didn't get bored or tired listening to this album and it was not bad but i guess i won't consider listening to it again. i saved only one song, heaven, it was not great but okay.

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Torn on this one but I think I needed more so it’s gonna stay as a 3. Super interesting though.

Another Talking Heads album. Another up and down experience.

Fear of reviewing this album. Talking Heads are one of my top favorite bands ever, but his album isn't. I understand it was groundbreaking at the time to incorporate Brian Eno behind the boards and made it much more moodier and filled all the spaces with ambient sounds which sound great in principle, but at the same time, they had assembled the greatest live lineup of their band ever with Andrew Below, Steve Scales and Bernie Worrell, and the explosive dynamism of their live shoes is bogged down by the ambient soundscapes they're trying to keep the album within. I Zimbra is one of my favorite songs ever, Life During Wartime is one of their best live songs, and Cities is such a great song, but the album version is so muted and incomplete. The rest of the songs are mostly memorable like Mind, Air, Memories and Heaven, but it doesn't really buyou the album to the heights of the rest of their early discography.

Classic Talking Heads tones. Hasn’t aged real well, but it’s a fun listen. 3.3/5.0

David Byrne is such a weirdo. I love this guy.

I just don't get Talking Heads. For me this music defines the idea of "it's there I guess".

I think this could probably be 4 stars for me with more listens.

Yeah these guys are good.

I liked this but it wads kind of unremarkable to me

Random encounter with Brian Eno!

Life During Waring is an epic song that never ages. The rest are good - some are too mellow or too similar.

It was alright, it has highs and lows. Overall pretty mid. Favorite track(s) Heaven

agitated, and propulsive

First listen

No es un género que escuche usualmente, pero me sorprendió, un rock mas suave y ochentoso, siendo accesible para aquellos que no estan tan involucrados en el género. Definitivamente un album que no hubiese escuchado por mi cuenta pero ahora lo volveria a escuchar varias veces sin duda. Sorprendida

This didn't land like other Talking Heads releases. It's good though, maybe good enough for a revisit. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit 🫳 ★★★☆☆ (6/10) Total reviewed : 338 Already owned : 76 Purchased : 16 To buy : 3 Nope : 243

Talking Heads is a band I’ve never loved. This album was okay. Standard “some tracks are better than others” and overall while I didn’t have any issues with it I also wasn’t enamored with anything I was hearing.

Dober

I like the talking heads, but not this album

It's alright but I've never been super into the talking heads outside of their hits

Talking Heads is one of the ultimate acquired tastes I need to develop. Like Steely Dan, I figure "if you listen, it will come" so just keep putting them on. I've seen David Byrne live but wish I'd seen them to get the full effect!

Não conhecia nenhuma música do álbum, mas até é interessante

This isn't their best album there are a couple of standout numbers. Always liked some of their songs but not their albums.

cover reminds me of the gym, music is more art than really listenable music

A pretty fun time. I didn't like everything here, especially the more zaney tracks, but it was produced in a really satisfying way with good soundstage and diversity among all the songs so I'll be coming back to a few of these for sure.

Perfectly fine in every way

im not really into them tbh

Mid

Quirky. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not so good. Vocals are just odd and a bit off-putting but the music is quite catchy on some tracks. Favourite songs are Cities and Life During Wartime. 2.5/5.

3/5

Pretty good

It's fun, it's weird, it's David Byrne, what more can I ask for out of a Talking Heads album? It's not my favourite and not something I'm likely to come back to but I had fun listening to it.

Too much art, not enough rock. I’m fine with Byrne and Eno making music mostly to entertain themselves but this is just not particularly successful as a piece of popular culture.

And you may ask yourself- who wrote this song. It was the Talking Heads. There were quite a few catchy parts, but very little caught my attention.

Nunca me gustó este grupo