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Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [1] AUS [2] AUT [3] CAN [4] NLD [5] NOR [6] NZ [7] SWE [8] SWI [9] UK [10] Talking Heads: 77: Released: September 16, 1977 (US) [11] Label: Sire; Formats: LP; 97 — — — — — 21 — — 60 BPI: Silver [12] More Songs About Buildings and Food: Released: July 14, 1978 (US) [13] Label ...
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.
After leaving art school, Talking Heads released their debut single, "Love → Building on Fire", in early 1977, [3] followed by their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, later that year. [1] The album contained "stripped down rock & roll" songs and was notable for its "odd guitar-tunings and rhythmic, single note patterns" and its "non-rhyming ...
Two years before Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads released a more conventional double LP live album, culled from years of recordings capturing their rapid evolution from 1977 to 1980.
The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer". [22] Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier; however, Byrne said he had written the song years prior. [23] Weymouth and Frantz married ...
Talking Heads (also known as Brick [3] [4] [5]) is a box set by rock band Talking Heads, containing the band's eight studio albums in DVD-Audio format on DualDiscs with videos and previously unreleased material.
"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. [3]
However, Byrne sued the group, asserting that their name and presentation were too evocative of Talking Heads and that this release was a trademark violation. [3] The suit was settled out of court and only the studio album was released. [4] [5] The band toured the US in late 1996, with Johnette Napolitano serving as the primary lead vocalist. [6]