Welp, it only receives 3 of 5 stars and earns but one sentence in the band's section: "Eno's services were retained for the opaque Fear of Music, which included the popular Life During Wartime." Uh, ok then. I recently picked up a used copy of The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave (from the Chicago Public Library discard heap - eBay can be a wonderful thing sometimes), let's see what it says about this album. I love this thing - the quirkiness, Eno's production, the grittiness, the white-boy funk, the cautionary realism, the music-noir. I'd guess I didn't hear this album until 5 years after its release. Like many kids my age, I discovered Talking Heads when I saw the video for Once In A Lifetime on MTV in the early '80s. I'd love to tell you the story about a hip 13 year-old living on the rural Texas coast, compulsively listening to Fear Of Music amid the rice farms while his polyester-wearing friends were listening to disco records.
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