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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. The album reached number 21 on the Billboard 200 and number 33 on the UK Albums Chart.
[1] [5] The experimentation continued on Fear of Music (1979), in which the band began utilizing African-styled polyrhythms, most notably on the album's opening track "I Zimbra". [1] [6] The style and sound of Fear of Music was expanded upon on their final Eno collaboration, Remain in Light (1980).
"I Zimbra" is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the second single from their 1979 album Fear of Music. According to Sytze Steenstra in Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present, the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time.
Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno–Talking Heads collaboration "at its most mutually fruitful and equitable". [29] The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco". [30] The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the ...
"Life During Wartime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album Fear of Music. [2] It entered the US Billboard Pop Singles Chart on November 3, 1979, and peaked at number 80, spending a total of five weeks on the chart. [3]
Lee James Jude Capallero [1] (born April 10, 1950 [2] [3] [additional citation(s) needed]), also known as Lee Ving, is an American guitarist, singer, and actor.Ving is the frontman of the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band Fear.
During a sit-down with Diane Sawyer in honor of "The Sound of Music's" 50th anniversary earlier this year, star Julie Andrews revealed she has many fond memories of making the classic film.
The song was based on Fear's song "Fetch Me One More Beer", written by Philo Cramer and John Clancy. [8] Bobby and Larson Paine, who were managing the Go-Go's , re-worked the song with new lyrics and gave it to them, but after a falling out forbade the band from playing it and gave it to Cotton. [ 9 ]