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057: Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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The Cure's Best Album, Pritters Are My, What's Pornography?

This is one of the band's more underrated songs. The interpretation I ran across for this song that seemed to make the most sense to me. It sounds like writing to me too, like the scratching really quickly. And also kind of like sandpaper, that's another way he thinks of it. So choose your own synesthesia,. Well, my synesthesia corner here, you know, Rich sees lots of bright vivid colors when he listens to music. Apparently, I feel pain because the scratchy guitars in paper sound like paper cuts. Why did you do that? No! You ruined the paper.

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