057: Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Asterisks, I Salute My Peers on a Music Podcast Rich
David Byrne wrote the song in his loft on 7th and Avenue A. He was thinking about Bader Meinhof, Patty Hearst,. Tomkin Square This is some good old 1970s urban paranoia And I can never resist the chance to make fun of Rolling Stone When they make preposterous statements in their contemporary reviews Oh please do. The weird thing about this one for me is that it just fades out in the middle of a verse Yeah, it always bothered me Well, war, war never changes.
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