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Jonathan Lethem Talking Heads' Fear of Music Paperback Music Book (33 1/3) 2012 Jazz ConservativeIt's the summer of 1979. A fifteen year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs ""The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music"" and everything spins outward from that one moment. Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece edgy, paranoid, funky,