Awesome
5
By jmk63
Released August 3, 1979, yet iTunes editor tied Orwellian overtones to the Reagan era? He was elected in Nov 1980, and sworn in during Jan 1981. Some iTunes youth needs to RElearn how to use a calendar. /endrant.
As for the music? I needed something to change (my) mind today. Still awesome.
This aint no party, this aint no disco...
5
By El Chulo de la Muerte
All I can add to the reputation of this record s that the Robert Fripp insane-sick guitar version of life during war time is worth the whole thing just in itself. English and American avnt garde coming together
Life During Wartime
5
By Marfarm14
I can't ever listen to this song without thinking about the movie Soylent Green.
Greatest ever collection of song titles.
5
By rehabilitated_troll
Paper, Air, Animals. Hilarious as I would expect from TH.
Greatest Album Ever
5
By ExiledScouse
I grew on this dark danceable masterpiece. Still sends shivers down my spine
Animals
5
By Atlanta in the 80's
I remember listening to Animals and thinking it was hilarious and really weird at the same time. This is one of my favorite album covers too, you can feel the treads. Whenever I look at the CD I feel sorry for folks without records. Brian Eno people, he's one of Time Magazine's most important people of the year. Oh wait, that's in the alternate cool universe...
Something for every mood
5
By JPNYC12
What an amazing album, first got it 22 years ago and it still gives me the chills. I just played "Animals" and almost fell off my chair laughing. Thanks Talking Heads !
Mind blowing, and not even their best!
5
By Fast Eddy321
Rythmic music with dark paranoid lyrics. Life During Wartime is the official theme song to my life.
No Disco
5
By ghostir
Psychotic ranting set to snappy tunes.
My favorite album of all time.
The highest point in a string of very high points
5
By jk1964
I was an adolescent when this came out and it took my breath away. I loved the first two albums, and I remember the excitement I felt when I saw this in the store (the manhole patterning with green stamp remains my favorite album cover design) but I wasn't prepared for the breadth of this record - the frenetic, rhythmic urgency of the first five songs; the odd and deeply evocative atmospherics of the rest. The songs are often suffused with paranoia, but always leavened with humor. What other band shows such range? 'I Zimbra', 'Heaven' and 'Electric Guitar' would seem to have been recorded by different artists, what they have in common is what made Talking Heads so great - an offbeat but highly developed intelligence and that slight nerdiness that reinforces their integrity. They did great things after this (and maybe 'Cool Water' on 'Naked' is as moving as 'Heaven' is here), but speaking highly subjectively, this is one of three records I hold above all others. n.b. The title refers to a rare medical condition in which, if I remember correctly, the inflicted goes into convulsions upon hearing music.
