Its the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (its the singers) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album; its 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 albums 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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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. If youre interested in the revival of small town life ...By Margaret De MarcoIf youre interested in the revival of small town life; its aesthetics; its economics; its physical character; the real people who inhabit small towns and their struggles to have a community; then read this book. Read it all! Take your time and think about it. Then figure out how to gather all the stories of it past as a prelude to a future.
