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Bezig met laden... Talking Heads' Fear of Music (33 1/3) (2012)door Jonathan Lethem
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  markflanagan | Jul 13, 2020 |   I may have enjoyed it more if I read it when I was younger. I don't mind when 33 1/3 books take a big divergence. "Dusty in Springfield" is largely about white appropriation of black music and less about the album. I didn't expect that turn - but it was a great read. I wouldn't mind Letham's loose and honestly beat-y descriptions of songs if it was backed up by wizz-bang facts I didn't know about the album's creation. Read "This Must Be the Place" if you're looking for a book to learn cool shit about Talking Heads. Read the 33 1/3 on "Another Green World", "Village Green Preservation Society" or even "Aeroplane Over the Sea" if you want an effusive book written by a fan that will bring new stories to light about an album you love. (  ) arewenotmen | Jan 13, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's 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 album's 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)782.42166092The arts Music Vocal music Secular Forms of vocal music Secular songs General principles and musical forms Song genres Rock songs History, geographic treatment, biography BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.1)
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No one loves Talking Heads third album, Fear of Music, more than Jonathan Lethem. No one. Ever. But if you love this album - with its grocery list of tracks - Cities, Air, Drugs, Electric Guitar, Mind, Paper ... then you're pretty much going to devour this book.
I fell in love with this album (album!) in the mid-80s, while on a road trip (ok, cassette recording) to a friends' wedding. Since that time I've been unable to shake "Heaven" as one of my favorite songs, impossibly attracted to this place where nothing ever happens.
"It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun."
Also the idea of everyone being there, and everyone leaving at exactly the same time (reminiscent of "New Feeling" on Talking Heads 77, in which I get to meet everyone all over again and bring them up to my room). Beautiful. (