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The Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Box Set) (CD)

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DISC 1 for The Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Box Set) (CD) Album By Talking Heads (Artist)
1   Sugar On My Tongue
2   Love -> Building On Fire
3   I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
4   Don't Worry About The Government
5   Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
6   New Feeling - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
7   Pulled Up
8   Psycho Killer
9   Warning Sign
10   Artists Only
11   Tentative Decisions
12   No Compassion
13   Stay Hungry
14   I'm Not In Love
15   Book I Read, The
16   Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
17   Found A Job
18   Clean Break, A - (live)
19   Take Me To The River
20   Big Country, The
21   Heaven
 
DISC 2 for The Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Box Set) (CD) Album By Talking Heads (Artist)
1   I Zimbra
2   Cities - (alternate version)
3   Life During Wartime
4   Air
5   Memories Can't Wait
6   Drugs - (alternate version)
7   Once In A Lifetime
8   Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
9   Listening Wind
10   Houses In Motion
11   Crosseyed And Painless
12   Burning Down The House
13   Making Flippy Floppy
14   Girlfriend Is Better
15   Slippery People
16   Swamp
17   This Music Be The Place (Naive Melody)
 
DISC 3 for The Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Box Set) (CD) Album By Talking Heads (Artist)
1   And She Was
2   Stay Up Late
3   Creatures Of Love
4   Lady Don't Mind, The
5   Road To Nowhere
6   Wild Wild Life
7   Love For Sale
8   People Like Us
9   Puzzlin' Evidence
10   City Of Dreams
11   Blind
12   Mr. Jones
13   Democratic Circus, The
14   Flowers, (Nothing But)
15   In Asking Land - (outtake)
16   Sax And Violins
17   Lifetime Piling Up
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (11/28/03, p.127) - "...This stunningly produced [box set] moves from the perky pretentio-pop of 'Psycho Killer' to the Afro-rock experiments on REMAIN IN LIGHT..." - Rating: A-
Q (12/03, p.156) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This collection is laced with a compelling sense of psychosis..."
Uncut (1/04, p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 - "'Once In A Lifetime' still sounds like it's being broadcast back to us from some voodoo World Service of the future....TALKING HEADS ought to be lauded as authentic pioneers."

Title Note

ONCE IN A LIFETIME contains a DVD including the tracks: "Once In A Lifetime," "Wild Wild Life," "Stay Up Late," "Crosseyed And Painless," "Burning Down The House," "And She Was," "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)," "The Lady Don't Mind," "Love For Sale," "Road To Nowhere," "Blind, (Nothing But) Flowers," and " Sax And Violins".

Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar, vocodor, synthesizer, bass, percussion); Jerry Harrison (guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (keyboards, synthesizer, bass, percussion, background vocals); Chris Frantz (keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Brian Eno (guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass, percussion, background vocals); Robert Fripp (guitar); Jon Hassell (trumpet); Wally Badarou (keyboards); Robert Palmer, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Nona Hendryx (background vocals).

Producers include: Mark Spector, Tony Bongiovi, Lance Quinn, Talking Heads, Brian Eno.

Compilation producers: Talking Heads, Gary Stewart, Andy Zax.

Recorded between 1976 & 1992. Includes liner notes by Tim Scanlin.

Expanding on the excellent two-disc SAND IN THE VASELINE compilation, the three-CD/one-DVD Talking Heads box set, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, includes most of the former release, along with more than 20 additional tracks. Like the highly visual NYC art-rockers themselves, the collection, in both sound and design, is perversely smart and strangely beautiful.

Starting with the group's early days in the late 1970s, ONCE IN A LIFETIME features frantic, urban-themed tracks such as "Don't Worry about the Government" and "Pulled Up." From the city, the setting shifts to wider spaces on their breakthrough cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River" and the rural twang of "The Big Country." The second disc sees the Heads hitting the zenith of their fruitful collaborations with Brian Eno, while frontman David Byrne reaches new levels of both lyricism and experimentation on the iconic title track. The third disc cherry-picks from the group's later years, including their most accessible songs ("And She Was," "Road to Nowhere," and "Wild Wild Life"), along with the previous unreleased outtake "In Asking Land." As a summation of the consistently inventive and restlessly energetic ensemble that was the Talking Heads, things don't get any better than ONCE IN A LIFETIME.

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