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Compilation anthology by Talking Heads

2003 box fix by Talking Heads

Once in a Lifetime
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Box ready by

Talking Heads
Released November 18, 2003 (2003-eleven-eighteen)
Recorded 1976–92
Genre
  • New wave
  • art punk
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Tony Bongiovi, Brian Eno, Nick Launay, Steve Lillywhite, Lance Quinn, Marking Spector
Talking Heads chronology
Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites
(1992) 		In one case in a Lifetime
(2003) 		The Best of Talking Heads
(2004)
Professional ratings
Amass scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 83/100[ane]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
Blender [3]
The Guardian [4]
Entertainment Weekly A–[5]
Q [half dozen]
The Village Voice C [7]

Once in a Lifetime is a three-CD box ready by American post-punk/new wave ring Talking Heads, released in the Usa by Sire, Warner Bros, and Rhino in 2003. The set also includes a DVD containing an expanded version of the music video compilation Storytelling Giant. The discs are packaged in a wide horizontal book that recalls a CD longbox, featuring paintings by Russian artists Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov and with fine art direction past Stefan Sagmeister (for which he received a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package). Sagmeister would later work with David Byrne and Brian Eno on their 2008 collaborative album Everything That Happens Volition Happen Today.

Only one previously unreleased song appears in this release: the Naked outtake "In Asking Land", previously reworked into the song "Carnival Eyes" on Byrne's 1989 solo album Rei Momo. Other non-album tracks are: "Sugar on My Natural language"—a 1975 studio demo, dating from when the band was still a trio (minus Jerry Harrison); the 1977 not-album single "Love → Building on Fire", the "Psycho Killer" B-side "I Wish Yous Wouldn't Say That"; and two Naked-era songs – "Sax and Violins" (finished in 1991 for the soundtrack to the film Until the Terminate of the Globe) and "Lifetime Piling Up" (finished in 1992 for the Sand in the Vaseline compilation). These not-album tracks had all been included on the 1992 compilation Sand in the Vaseline, though iii non-album tracks (1975 studio demo "I Want to Live" and 1992's "Gangster of Honey" and "Popsicle") remain sectional to that compilation, in terms of CD releases. Remastered versions of these three tracks were later issued on the download-only release Bonus Rarities and Outtakes in 2006.

This box set marked the get-go CD release of "A Make clean Intermission", a 1977 live recording from 1982's The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads. Notwithstanding, that album was remastered and reissued in 2004 as a ii-disc set.

Once in a Lifetime contains four previously unreleased "alternate versions", three of which would later be reissued in various forms: "Uh-Oh, Beloved Comes to Town" and "New Feeling" are the original Tony Bongiovi "pop experiment" mixes, including brass parts and other more "commercial" product techniques that the band ultimately rejected; "Cities" is an alternate take that includes a verse previously heard merely in alive performances (about notably in a deleted scene from Stop Making Sense); and "Drugs" is an early mix of the song, featuring Robert Fripp on guitar and very different production and instrumentation than the final version. The alternate version of "Cities" was reissued on the 2006 remaster of Fearfulness of Music, while the alternating versions of "New Feeling" and "Drugs" were reissued digitally on Bonus Rarities and Outtakes.

Track list [edit]

All tracks are written by David Byrne except where noted.

Disc one
No. Title Writer(southward) Origin Length
1. "Saccharide on My Tongue" Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, 1992 2:35
ii. "Beloved → Building on Fire" Non-album unmarried, 1977 2:59
3. "I Wish Y'all Wouldn't Say That" B-side of "Psycho Killer" single, 1977 2:37
4. "Don't Worry Nearly the Government" Talking Heads: 77, 1977 3:00
5. "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town" (alternate version) Talking Heads: 77 ii:55
half dozen. "New Feeling" (alternate version) Talking Heads: 77
seven. "Pulled Upwards" Talking Heads: 77 four:30
8. "Psycho Killer" Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth Talking Heads: 77 iv:20
nine. "Warning Sign" Byrne, Frantz More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978 three:55
10. "Artists Only" Byrne, Wayne Zieve More Songs About Buildings and Food 3:35
11. "Tentative Decisions" Talking Heads: 77 iii:07
12. "No Compassion" Talking Heads: 77 4:49
13. "Stay Hungry" Byrne, Frantz More than Songs Nigh Buildings and Food 2:41
14. "I'm Not in Dearest" More Songs About Buildings and Nutrient 4:34
fifteen. "The Book I Read" Talking Heads: 77 4:09
sixteen. "Thank Y'all for Sending Me an Angel" More than Songs About Buildings and Food 2:13
17. "Found a Job" More than Songs Near Buildings and Food five:01
18. "A Make clean Break" (live) The Name of This Ring Is Talking Heads, 1982 4:57
19. "Take Me to the River" Al Greenish, Mabon Hodges More Songs About Buildings and Food 5:04
20. "The Big Country" More Songs About Buildings and Food 5:31
21. "Heaven" Fear of Music, 1979 iv:01
Disc 2
No. Title Writer(s) Origin Length
ane. "I Zimbra" Byrne, Brian Eno, Hugo Ball Fear of Music 3:01
2. "Cities" (alternate version) Fear of Music 5:27
3. "Life During Wartime" Byrne, Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Weymouth Fear of Music 3:41
4. "Air" Fear of Music 3:32
v. "Memories Can't Wait" Byrne, Harrison Fearfulness of Music three:30
6. "Drugs" (alternate version) Byrne, Eno Fear of Music iii:33
7. "Once in a Lifetime" Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Remain in Light, 1980 4:20
viii. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Remain in Light five:47
ix. "Listening Wind" Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Remain in Calorie-free 4:41
10. "Houses in Movement" Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Remain in Light 4:31
11. "Crosseyed and Painless" Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Remain in Light 4:45
12. "Burning Down the House" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues, 1983 4:01
13. "Making Flippy Floppy" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues 5:54
14. "Girlfriend Is Ameliorate" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues 5:43
15. "Slippery People" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues 5:05
16. "Swamp" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues 5:x
17. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Speaking in Tongues iv:56
Disc three
No. Championship Writer(southward) Origin Length
1. "And She Was" Little Creatures, 1985 3:39
2. "Stay Up Belatedly" Little Creatures 3:44
3. "Creatures of Love" Footling Creatures 4:15
iv. "The Lady Don't Listen" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Footling Creatures 4:04
5. "Road to Nowhere" Little Creatures 4:twenty
half-dozen. "Wild Wild Life" Truthful Stories, 1986 iii:41
vii. "Honey for Auction" True Stories 3:41
8. "People Like The states" Truthful Stories 4:29
ix. "Puzzlin' Evidence" True Stories 5:23
ten. "City of Dreams" True Stories 5:09
11. "Bullheaded" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Naked, 1988 v:00
12. "Mr. Jones" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Naked iv:21
13. "The Democratic Circus" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Naked 5:04
14. "(Zip Only) Flowers" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Naked 5:33
xv. "In Asking State" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Previously unreleased outtake from Naked sessions 3:58
16. "Sax and Violins" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Until the End of the Earth: Music from the Motion Moving picture Soundtrack, 1991 5:18
17. "Lifetime Piling Up" Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 3:53
Disc four: Storytelling Giant DVD
No. Title Music video manager(s) Length
1. "One time in a Lifetime" Toni Basil, Byrne
2. "Wild Wild Life" Byrne
3. "Stay Upwards Late" Ted Bafaloukos
iv. "Blind" (previously unreleased) Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
five. "Crosseyed and Painless" Basil
6. "Burning Down the House" Byrne
7. "And She Was" Jim Blashfield
eight. "Sax and Violins" (previously unreleased) Wim Wenders
ix. "This Must Exist the Place (Naive Melody)" Byrne
ten. "The Lady Don't Mind" Jim Jarmusch
11. "Love for Sale" Byrne, Melvin Sokolsky
12. "(Nothing Merely) Flowers" (previously unreleased) Tibor Kalman, Sandy MacLeod
13. "Road to Nowhere" Byrne, Stephen R. Johnson

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Critic Reviews for In one case In A Lifetime". Metacritic . Retrieved December ten, 2016.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. One time in a Lifetime at AllMusic
  3. ^ "Review". Blender. No. 23. Jan 2004. p. 122.
  4. ^ Sweeting, Adam (November 27, 2003). "Talking Heads: One time in a Lifetime". The Guardian . Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "Review". Entertainment Weekly. November 28, 2003. p. 127.
  6. ^ "Review". Q. December 2003. p. 156.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (Dec 30, 2003). "Consumer Guide: Who Needs Boxes?". The Village Voice . Retrieved December 10, 2016.

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