Talking Heads: Fear Of Music DTS CD (1979)

Posted By : wustenratte | Date : 05 Mar 2010 23:33:24 | Comments : 4 |

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Conceivably the best album the Talking Heads ever recorded, "Fear of Music" is the band's second album in collaboration with producer Brian Eno, and it strikes a perfect balance between the strengths of the band and that of the producer. The album ended up being significantly darker than anything the band had done previously, the manic and somewhat paranoid content of the music on the previous albums takes on a claustrophobic feel, and yet amidst all of this, the structures are at times brighter and looser than anything the band had previously done.

In a way, it's opener "I Zimbra" that probably best illustrates this-- featuring a polyrhythmic stew, a circular (pre-80s Crimson) and incredibly complex interweaving guitar lick from guest Robert Fripp and a chanted in harmony vocal-- it's quite unlike anything the Talking Heads have ever done. It's also a work of complete musical genius.

What the piece does is add a sense of density to the music-- a sense that turns claustrophobic pretty much throughout, whether its the bizarre "Another Green World"-esque "Mind", the bubbling, chaotic and psychotic "Cities" or "Animals" (both of which feature rant-like vocals that end up providing extraordinary character to the pieces), or the murky and paranoid "Memories Can't Wait" (one of the real standouts on the album and maybe the darkest cut in the band's catalog) and fractured, black closer "Drugs", its the same band but its all different. Along the way, there's a couple interludes to this-- "Life During Wartime" has a dance rhythm but lyrically matches the rest of the record, "Heaven" offers a pool of serenity and calm admist the insanity-- the chorus tells us "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens", and somehow this proves true for the piece-- it comes and goes and feels like it barely happened but leaves an impression.

"Fear of Music", in the end, is one of those endlessly powerful albums that bears rewards upon repeated listens. While it may not be representative of the Talking Heads as a whole, it is probably their best effort. Essential.
Michael Stack @ Amazon

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1. I Zimbra
2. Mind
3. Paper
4. Cities
5. Life During Wartime
6. Memories Can't Wait
7. Air
8. Heaven
9. Animals
10. Electric Guitar
11. Drugs

a mojave productions dvd-a 96/24 mlp to 44/24 dts cd transcode

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WARNING: This CD requires DTS compatible equipment or software for playback. Don't play this on equipment that isn't compatible because you'll only hear static and it can damage your speakers!

5.1 Music Disc - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The DTS-CD, DTS Audio CD or 5.1 Music Disc (official name) is an audio Compact Disc that contains music in surround sound format. It is a predecessor of DVD Audio. Physically, it conforms to the Red Book standard, except for the way the music is encoded on the CD. Where regular CDs store the music as linear PCM, the DTS-CD stores music using the DTS format, with the same fixed bitrate as 16-bit linear PCM, namely 1,411,200 bit/s or roughly 1,378 Kib/s.

As opposed to other surround formats, such as Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio, which require a specialized player, a DTS-CD is compatible with most standard CD players with a digital (S/PDIF) output. CD (and DVD) players recognize the disk as a standard audio CD. The only requirement is a receiver that can decode DTS audio.

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Posted By: jorgeluiz Date: 06 Mar 2010 01:07:07

thanks again, very nice. :-)

Posted By: yam421 Date: 06 Mar 2010 07:38:26

their best Album ? Thanks you very much.

Posted By: johnnyguitar Date: 06 Mar 2010 08:01:20

Your contribution in this section is really precious !

I wonder why the administrators have not added yet a separate chapter in the category of MUSIC for surround ,multichannel albums (DTS , DVD-Audio) that is extremely interesting .

I would be grateful to see more DTS all-time-classics (Astral Weeks , Abbey Road , Kind of Blue , Pet Sounds , Hot Rats , Let it Bleed , Blood Sweat & Tears II , Sail Away , Songs In The Key Of Life , Ommadawn , The Wall , OK Computer , Selling England By The Pound , Snowgooze , The Yes Album , Lark's Tongues In Aspic .... ) posted here from your wonderful "music laboratory" .

Cheers !

Posted By: oaqm Date: 11 Mar 2010 04:19:56

I just now sat down and listened to this. This is effing outstanding. This is stupendous. Which is to say, this is just hugely good. It sounds way better than awesome. It's spectacular. Damn, this is really good.

If you have 5 channels to listen to, this is a MUST have.

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