{"id":17702,"date":"2013-01-30T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17702"},"modified":"2013-01-30T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:32:18","slug":"1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17702","title":{"rendered":"1979"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is<\/a> Rolling Stone's 1979 review of the Talking Heads' Fear Of Music<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I'm going to spoil the read by quoting the kicker:<\/p>\n

For me, Fear of Music<\/em>'s least interesting track is the rock-disco-like \"Life during Wartime,\" which sounds almost live. The problem isn't the production but the song itself. While \"Life during Wartime\" is both structurally and harmonically conventional, boasts a silly chorus lyric and even adds a conga player to the group, the tune's real trouble is that it lacks Talking Heads' usual counterpoint. On the other hand, some of the words are arresting: \"I got three passports, a couple of visas\/You don't even know my real name.\"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here's a bit from their review of Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door<\/i>:<\/p>\n

As you might suspect, In through the Out Door<\/em>'s best number is the one in which you can understand the least words. This is \"In the Evening,\" a classic Zeppelin orchestral guitar rumble halfway between \"When the Levee Breaks\" and \"In the Light.\" The only line I was able to understand was \"Oh oh I need zoo love.\" Judging by Plant's convincing orgasmic moans on the rest of it, I would rather guess at the remaining lyrics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zoo love. Hah.<\/p>\n

How did they like The Police's debut?<\/p>\n

As entertainment<\/a>, Outlandos d'Amour<\/em> isn't monotonous\u2014it's far too jumpy and brittle for that\u2014but its mechanically minded emptiness masquerading as feeling makes you feel cheated, and more than a little empty yourself. You're worn out by all the supercilious, calculated pretense. The Police leave your nervous system all hyped up with no place to go.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

Tons of fun, reading the old reviews. <\/p>\n

And, for some reason, the writers were frequently concerned about what the album at hand meant given the that it was almost... 1980!!<\/i>.<\/p>\n

About The Stones' Some Girls<\/i>: <\/p>\n

...well, if you want to survive the Seventies and enter the Eighties with something more than your bankbook and dignity intact, you'd better dredge up your leftover pride, bite the bullet and try like hell to sweat out some good music\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About Fleetwood Mac's Tusk<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Plagued by internal conflicts and challenged by New Wave rock, this psychedelically tinted folk-rock tribe might well be the last and most refined of a breed of giddy celebrants who, from the early Sixties on, prospered on the far shore of the promised land as they toasted the pure splendor of a beautiful and possibly frivolous pop dream.<\/p>\n

Can this dream survive the economic chill of the Eighties?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oooohhh... The eighties!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is Rolling Stone's 1979 review of the Talking Heads' Fear Of Music. I'm going to spoil the read by quoting the kicker: For me, Fear of Music's least interesting track is the rock-disco-like \"Life during Wartime,\" which sounds almost live. The problem isn't the production but the song itself. While \"Life during Wartime\" is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}