It's the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW
on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the
singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking
Heads have a new album, it's called "Fear of Music""; - and
everything spins outward from that one moment.
Jonathan Lethem treats "Fear of Music"; (the third album by the
Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a
masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic,
repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's
songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and
legacy, showing how "Fear of Music" hints at the directions
(positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem
transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling
one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in
which we fall in and out of love with works of art.
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