Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Studies by our psychiatric staff in laboratories miles apart indicate that these lyrics, taken from the album Fear of Music by Talking Heads, foster feelings of paranoia, confusion and even suicidal tendencies among the teens who listen to it. Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...
...mental health experts who conducted this study unanimously report that today's public needs soothing, simple music designed to ease the strains of modern life. Music like Talking Heads', with its complex layers of oddly syncopated rhythms, serves no useful social function. Furthermore, their album is produced and heavily influenced by Mr. Brain Eno, a notorious balding man who named his second album after a piece of Red Chinese propaganda...
...have only touched on how worthless this album is, how insipid and unprofessional. B-52s drop things, and cows drop things too, which because they are loose and watery become flat and circular and, in the winter, hard and very much like a record. Get yourself a wig and an electric guitar. In America anything is possible...
...Devo--there, in a nutshell, you have the B-52s. These three men and two women--none musicians in any sense of the word--have captured the pose of the New Wave, the mannerisms without the guts. Robot repetition of the rhythm, one finger electronic keyboards, mechanistic vocals--this album is a parody of Devo, which was a parody to begin with. It might sound like the New Wave to the "Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man," but this is polyester music, boring, irritating...
...White Album, Didion...