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Fear, stylized as FEAR, is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1977. The band is credited for helping to shape the sound and style of Californian hardcore punk . [ 1 ] The group gained national prominence after an infamous 1981 performance on Saturday Night Live .
"Catfight" was written by original guitarist Philo Cramer and recorded for the band's unreleased 1979 demo, as well as for Cramer's project The Coup d'État Lab Band. It was also performed live many times. "Hard 'Cotto' Salami" is a remade version of the well-known Fear song "Beef Bologna".
In the mid-1970s he moved to Los Angeles, playing briefly with heavy metal bands before forming the hardcore punk band Fear. [7] The band's first concert was in 1978. [7] Ving is Fear's lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player and is the only member to have remained with the band since its inception. [5] [9] During Fear's ...
The album has been regarded as Fear's best album and as a classic album of the 1980s Los Angeles hardcore punk scene. It has received mostly positive reviews, with Mark Deming of AllMusic rating the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and stating that it "makes sense that John Belushi was a big fan of Fear, because The Record sounds like the punk equivalent of the movie Animal House-- puerile, offensive ...
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote that More Beer "repeated the debut album's formula, with occasional stylistic variation but little else to recommend it." [3] Trouser Press wrote that the album "belch[es] forth a hops-drenched worldview that could only offend the most humorless knee-jerk liberal — plenty of whom had infiltrated the hardcore movement by the time of the album’s release."
Pages in category "Fear (band) songs" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fuck Christmas; I.
The song exaggeratedly describes a stereotypical, turbulent life one may face in Los Angeles, where blood and corpses litter the street. The B-side , "Now You're Dead", details John F. Kennedy's assassination and the resulting conspiracy theories .
Fear of Music is the third studio album by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released on August 3, 1979, by Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in New York City during April and May 1979 and was produced by Brian Eno and Talking Heads.