History Music / FearOfMusic

* {{Feelies}}: Vinyl copies of the album cover were embossed in a pattern similar to industrial diamond-plated metal flooring. Incidentally, because of the difficulty involved with replicating this cover on CD releases (as the LP sleeve minus the embossing is just stark black with a green title logo), most tend to simply use a scan of a spare LP copy.

** "I Zimbra", an {{afrobeat}} track placed in the middle of what was, at the time, an overtly-PostPunk oeuvre; Talking Heads would end up incorporating afrobeat into their next two albums, ''Music/RemainInLight'' and Music/SpeakingInTongues''.

** "I Zimbra", an {{afrobeat}} track placed in the middle of what was, at the time, an overtly-PostPunk oeuvre; Talking Heads would end up incorporating afrobeat into their [[Music/RemainInLight next]] [[Music/SpeakingInTongues two]] albums.

''Fear of Music'' is the third album from Music/TalkingHeads, released in 1979. It is their second of three albums produced by Music/BrianEno, and has an unusual recording history, rehearsals and many of the initial recording sessions having taken place at the loft apartment of married band members Tina Weymouth (bass) and Chris Frantz (drums) using The Record Plant's mobile recording truck. The album peaked at number 21 on Billboard's album chart, and was eventually certified gold (sales of over 500,000 copies) by the RIAA.

* LongTitle: The single release of "Life During Wartime" extends the title to "Life During Wartime (This Ain't No Party... This Ain't No Disco... This Ain't No Foolin' Around)", giving it the distinction of being one of the longest titles ever given to a single.

* SpecialGuest: Music/KingCrimson's Music/RobertFripp plays guitar on "I Zimbra".

->Fear of Music ''is an album where all the discos are closed, the parties are over, bombs are falling from the air, the imagining of heaven has ceased to exist, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the animals are bad examples]].''
-->-- yerblues, rateyourmusic.com