Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier; however, Byrne said he had written the song years prior. - how about this: Water IS life, and what's holding us back is life its self.. perhaps he's suggesting we need to leave our physical body behind and experience something more spiritually fulfilling - maybe like an acid trip :). [3] Jerry Harrison developed the synthesizer line and added the Hammond organ climax, taken from the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On".[3]. Wonderful story! Lyrics submitted by It was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by National Public Radio[1] and is also included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. It’s super easy, we promise! It kind of talks about how if a the wheels of a brain stop spinning it is technically dead. Just thought that was interesting. The song has religious overtones shown in the vocal delivery of a preacher in the vein of MLK. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. ", The song title was used by the band for two later compilation albums—the 1992 Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads and the 2003 Once in a Lifetime. it really got to me. Very intelligent interpretation of this song's lyrics and well articulated too! The closing shot briefly sees the original Byrne, small against the entire video colourfield, apparently waving for help, but then fading into the "water". The unexamined life is soo worth living!! Don’t have an account? A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. [7] While the song failed to chart on the U.S. Still waters run deep, however, a still mind never does. The song was written by David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth, and produced by Brian Eno. Many of Byrne's mannerisms, such as the physical spasms, unfocused eye movements, and sharp intakes of breath, were inspired by his choreographer Toni Basil, after showing him footage of epilepsy sufferers and also viewing footage of various tribal religious rituals from around the world, incorporating some of their movements as well, in keeping with the "unconscious religious lyrics."[9]. rock on. Template:Use mdy dates Billboard Hot 100 chart, various American 80s format radio stations have come to programming it in their playlists over the years. Your brain got jacked up by Socrates. Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In the final mix, Eno faded between these independent ideas at different parts of the song. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". According to AllMusic critic Steve Huey, one of the main themes of the lyrics is "the drudgery of living life according to social expectations, and pursuing commonly accepted trophies (a large automobile, beautiful house, beautiful wife). I can't imagine living like that." The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer". "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by American post-punk band Talking Heads, originally released on their 1980 album Remain in Light. Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. L-R Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads, The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century, NPR interviews David Byrne on the occasion of the, https://culture.fandom.com/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(Talking_Heads_song)?oldid=10395, The live version plays over the opening and closing titles of the 1986 comedy film, An instrumental version is used as part of the opening soundtrack for the pilot episode of US TV crime drama. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. You've gone a tad deeper on each of my basic thoughts I have in my "more shallow" (honestly, no aquatic pun intended, let's say basic instead!!) On the way he spoke them Byrne has said: "Most of the words in 'Once in a Lifetime' come from evangelists I recorded off the radio while taking notes and picking up phrases I thought were interesting directions. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics. This version was remixed to remove the live audience and was released as a single, peaking at #91 on the U.S. Now I need to hear it. Go directly to shout page. Template:Infobox single, "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in 1981 as the first single from their fourth studio album, 1980's Remain in Light. interpretation but at least we're on the same track!! Waait...what is this song again? As the song essentially consisted of a repetitive two-bar groove (with the pattern reversed between the verse and chorus), Eno decided to approach the production by allowing each of the band members to record overdubs of different rhythmic and musical ideas independently of each other, with each member being kept blind to what the others had recorded on tape. I think like many of the songs on "Remain in Light", this song is a critique of the path of normalcy and materialism, verses the path of spirit ("water"). Maybe I'm fascinated with the middle class because it seems so different from my life, so distant from what I do. And how many other videos can you say that about?"[12]. Very well written and explained. This is a song about a transcendent realization of "spirit being in a body" versus a "body with a spirit". "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by Talking Heads, from their album Remain in Light, Written by David Byrne and Brian Eno, it was later used for the promotion of the concert film Stop Making Sense, and was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by National Public Radio. It has really two centers of gravity: their '1' and my '1.'" Remain in Love by Chris Frantz review – once in a lifetime with Talking Heads Talking Heads in Amsterdam, June 1977. "[4] Although the singer has these trophies, he begins to question whether they are real and how he got them. Instead he could have just said that "the unnoticed life is not worth living, and the only reason that it's not worth living is because if a life went by and the person who lived that life did not notice that he had lived it, then it would have been a life unlived in from that liver's perspective. This speaking style was also the basis for his approach of starting several consecutive lines with the same phrases "And you may find yourself...", and with the chorus singing in part "letting the days go by, let the water hold me down," the song presents an existential mood to it. On the other hand, a huge body of water is there, potentially to absorb his ego, to wash his sins, satisfy his thirst for transcendence, and give him birth as a spiritual being, and provide the kind of existential rootedness and stability that he seeks. [11], "We used to have so much fun playing this song live," Chris Frantz remarks in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. At the end a serene Byrne appears, dressed in white, but also chanting. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Water relieves thirst, it washes clean, it is there after the money is gone, but also it represents rebirth or baptism. The first verse describes his initial shock, in the realization that all of this somehow feels very unfamiliar. Sonically, there is a synth sound that plays continuously during the song (except for the chorus) that represents water every-present. The music video features a bespectacled David Byrne in a tight-fitting suit and bow tie, appearing out of breath but still dancing around, much like a marionette against a video representation of blue/green waving field, possibly a liquid (water). To me I sounds like a genius right now, but that's probably just because I'm as high as a tethered kite. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Thank you for sharing :). Some of these evangelist recordings also made their way onto the 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Byrne and Eno. Thanks. It gave the song what Eno called "a funny balance within it. Reviewing the 2003 album for the BBC, Chris Jones said: "Three discs encapsulate the band's career while a fourth gives us an updated DVD version of their video greatest hits, Storytelling Giant. He should have told you that you don't have to examine life (to take it apart and consequently kill the thing that you want to know). The information gained my this internal witness can make absolutely any any life worth living. Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977. The ex-Talking Heads drummer talks about his revealing new book Remain in Love and a contentious relationship with the band’s frontman ... Frantz appreciates the once-in-a-lifetime … It doesn't take tweeking via acid to expand boundaries, just a little thought with the understanding that boundaries do not exist. You may find yourself living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of…. Their hilarious video for "Once in A Lifetime", with David Byrne's twitchy Middle American preacher in horn rims, remains as compelling as it was in 1981. At first, Eno sang nonsense verb sound blocks, which Byrne then converted into lyrics in the "call-and-response" style of American radio evangelists on the theme of moving through life with little awareness or questioning. I agree with you about the spiritual sense of the song. I agree this song is not just "about appreciating what you have." Speaking the lyrics he makes sudden jerking movements and flings his arms, taps his head and gets onto his hands and knees to make patting gestures near the floor. The video has made appearances on the "Midnight Video Special" episode of SCTV and an episode of the 90s show Beavis and Butt-Head, and was exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This is very much in keeping with his production technique of Oblique Strategies. This was amazing to read. There is a little blurb in the sleeve of one of Tool's albums (I'm pretty sure aenema) that goes along with your interpretation. So you need to think for yourself and don't be afraid to question stuff. Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox single "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in 1981 as the first single from their fourth studio album, 1980's Remain in Light. It made #14 in the UK charts and #31 in The Netherlands. https://www.last.fm/music/Talking+Heads/_/Once+in+a+Lifetime I got out my albums and turntable and placed the platter down after some 20 years. [5], Eno wasn't particularly fond of the song, and it was almost dropped from the album before he came up with the vocal melody for the chorus, which "saved" it. [2], Brian Eno introduced Fela Kuti's multiple rhythm music style to the band, and during production Eno used a different rhythm count for some members of the group than others, starting on the "3" instead of the "1."
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