TALKING HEADS FEAR OFMUSIC JAPAN VINYL LP [TEXTURED CVR] NM OBI SIRE RJ-76001979

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I had 5 brick and mortar stores in Portland, OR, Boise, ID, Fairbanks, AK, and 2 stores in Anchorage, AK. I operated under the name Nickelodeon Records & Tapes from 1973 to 1979, hence the eBay name Original 1976 Nickelodeon Records.

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Songs include:SIDE ONE: I ZIMBRA, MIND, PAPER, CITIES,
                           LIFE DURING WARTIME, MEMORIES CAN'T WAIT.
                              
               SIDE TWO: AIR, HEAVEN, ANIMALS, ELECTRIC GUITAR, DRUGS.
                           
Fear of Music is the third studio studio album by American new wave band Talking Heads, released on 3 August 1979 on Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in New York City between April and May 1979 and was produced by the quartet and Brian Eno. The album reached number 21 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and peaked at number 33 on the UK albums chart. Three songs were released as singles between 1979 and 1980: "Life During Wartime", "I Zimbra", and "Cities". The record was certified Gold in the U.S. in 1985.

The album was well received by reviewers. Jon Parles , writing in Rolling Stone, was impressed with its "unswerving rhythms" and Byrne's lyrical evocations; he concluded, "Fear of Music is often deliberately, brilliantly disorienting. Like its black, corrugated packaging (which resembles a manhole cover), the album is foreboding, inescapably urban and obsessed with texture." John Rockwellof The New York Times suggested that the record was not a conventional rock release,  while Stephanie Pleet of The Daily Collegian commented that it showed a positive progression in Talking Heads' musical style. Robert Christgau writing in The Village Voice, praised the album's "gritty weirdness", but noted that "a little sweetening might help".  [ED Note: Cristgau rated the album a rare A-]. Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times was impressed with Byrne's "awesome vocal performance" and its nuances and called Fear of Music "a quantum leap" for the band. Tom Bentkowski of New York concluded, "But what makes the record so successful, perhaps, is a genuinely felt anti-elitism. Talking Heads was clever enough to make the intellectual infectious and even danceable.  WIKIPEDIA