Once in a Lifetime (box set)

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Once in a Lifetime
Box set by Talking Heads
Released	November 18, 2003
Genre	New Wave/Art punk
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Tony Bongiovi, Brian Eno, Nick Launay, Steve Lillywhite, Lance Quinn, Mark Spector
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Talking Heads chronology
Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites (1992)	Once in a Lifetime (2003)	The Best of Talking Heads (2004)

Once in a Lifetime is a three-disc compilation album by the American rock band Talking Heads, released by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino in 2003. It also includes a DVD, 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 by art directed by Stefan Sagmeister (for which he received a 2005 Grammy award for "Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package").

Only one previously-unreleased song appears in this release, the Naked outtake "In Asking Land." This song was later completed by David Byrne and released as "Carnival Eyes" on his solo album Rei Momo. Other non-album tracks are "Sugar on My Tongue," a 1977 live-in-studio recording; the 1976 single "Love → Building on Fire" and its B-side, "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That"; and a pair of Naked-era songs finished in 1992 for the Sand in the Vaseline compilation, "Sax And Violins" and "Lifetime Piling Up." These non-album tracks were all included on Sand in the Vaseline, though three non-album tracks (1977 B-side "I Want to Live" and 1992's "Gangster of Love" and "Popsicle") remain exclusive to that compilation.

"A Clean Break", a 1977 live recording from 1982's The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, was a CD exclusive to this collection when it was released, but that recording has since been released in a double album with new material.

Four alternate takes are exclusive to this set. "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town" and "New Feeling" are the original Tony Bongiovi mixes, with brass parts and other more "commercial" production techniques that the band ultimately rejected. "Cities" is an alternate take that includes a verse not found in any previous official release. "Drugs" is an early version of the song which features very different production and instrumentation than does the final version.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 1.3 Disc three 1.4 Storytelling Giant DVD

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by David Byrne unless otherwise indicated.

[edit] Disc one

1. "Sugar on My Tongue" – 2:35
2. "Love → Building on Fire" – 2:59
3. "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That" – 2:37
4. "Don't Worry About the Government" – 3:00
5. "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town" [Alternate take] – 2:55
6. "New Feeling" [Alternate take] – 3:03
7. "Pulled Up" – 4:30
8. "Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth) – 4:20
9. "Warning Sign" – 3:55
10. "Artists Only" (Byrne, Wayne Zieve) – 3:35
11. "Tentative Decisions" – 3:07
12. "No Compassion" – 4:49
13. "Stay Hungry" (Byrne, Frantz) – 2:41
14. "I'm Not in Love" – 4:34
15. "The Book I Read" – 4:09
16. "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" – 2:13
17. "Found a Job" – 5:01
18. "A Clean Break" (Live) – 4:57
19. "Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Teenie Hodges) – 5:04
20. "The Big Country" – 5:31
21. "Heaven" (Byrne, Jerry Harrison) – 4:01

[edit] Disc two

1. "I Zimbra" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Hugo Ball) – 3:07
2. "Cities" [Alternate take] – 5:27
3. "Life During Wartime" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 3:41
4. "Air" – 3:32
5. "Memories Can't Wait" – 3:30
6. "Drugs" [Alternate take] – 3:33
7. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:20
8. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" (Byrne, Eno) – 5:47
9. "Listening Wind" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:41
10. "Houses in Motion" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:31
11. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno) – 4:45
12. "Burning Down the House" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:01
13. "Making Flippy Floppy" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:54
14. "Girlfriend Is Better" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:43
15. "Slippery People" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:05
16. "Swamp" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:10
17. "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:56

[edit] Disc three

1. "And She Was" – 3:39
2. "Stay Up Late" – 3:44
3. "Creatures of Love" – 4:15
4. "The Lady Don't Mind" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:04
5. "Road to Nowhere" – 4:20
6. "Wild Wild Life" – 3:41
7. "Love for Sale" – 4:31
8. "People Like Us" – 4:29
9. "Puzzlin' Evidence" – 5:23
10. "City of Dreams" – 5:09
11. "Blind" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:00
12. "Mr. Jones" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:21
13. "The Democratic Circus" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:04
14. "(Nothing But) Flowers" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:33
15. "In Asking Land" [Outtake] (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 3:58
16. "Sax and Violins" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:18
17. "Lifetime Piling Up" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 3:53

[edit] Storytelling Giant DVD

1. "Once in a Lifetime"
2. "Wild Wild Life"
3. "Stay Up Late"
4. "Blind" [Previously unreleased]
5. "Crosseyed and Painless"
6. "Burning Down the House"
7. "And She Was"
8. "Sax And Violins" [Previously unreleased]
9. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
10. "The Lady Don't Mind"
11. "Love For Sale"
12. "(Nothing But) Flowers"
13. "Road to Nowhere"

Talking Heads
David Byrne – Chris Frantz – Tina Weymouth – Jerry Harrison
Discography
Studio Albums: Talking Heads: 77 (1977) - More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) - Fear of Music (1979) - Remain in Light (1980) - Speaking in Tongues (1983) - Little Creatures (1985) - True Stories (1986) - Naked (1988)
Live Albums: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982) - Stop Making Sense (1984)
Filmography
Stop Making Sense (1984) - True Stories (1986) - Storytelling Giant (1988)
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