How the Talking Heads wrote "Once in a Lifetime" 

Well, the rest of the budget is spent on acid.

And a killer suit****

fancy seeing you here, good job on the gman parody

Blue screen. Green screen wasnt the standard yet

Shouldn't be suprised to see you here

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

Bill Nye'remindds me if David Byrne teaching

_"Bill Nye has lost his mind!"_

More like 60 minutes on acid

Exactly! Every time I see this, I think of Bill. Thought it was just me.

Bill Nye did lose his mind.

I love this song why do you hate once in a lifetime

cool 2614 I’ve had this quite often where a song your parents would listen to over and over and over becomes annoying but now i love them.

I remember where I was when I first heard this when it was released, on a great system. I just stood up, jaw dropped for the whole time, orgasmic when the choral voices came in. It just hangs so well. There really was nothing else like this, but there was, if you get my drift. Art yes it is

Me too. It’s “Grown-Up” music apparently. 😁

It ridiculously good. I’m the same though, hated as a kid.

Suffocation moment

To be fair you can connect a life or death moment like drowning (or the concept of figuratively drowning) to a lot of that stuff. But people do definitely over complicate it.

where can i find this?

Yes,I can believe that HE would say a thing like that.

I related it to Fahrenheit 451 when Guy Montag finally figured out what the fuck was going on in the world and wanted to try to fix it.

HARD AGREE

Yes TALKING HEADS are a good band

Did you know there is water at the bottom of the ocean?

TRUUUUUE!!!

My God, what have you asked?!

That would be amazing

YES

Oh hell yes. I've listened to it all the way through several times in the past couple of weeks... the music still touches me all these years on.

You stole my comment

@@ThatOneGuy7550 Saw your channel thumbnail. NIN for ever.

"Manic Monotony" was a great Bangles song

@@WarrenBurstein a 2021 re -working

To his credit he used a lower case "the". Similar to the Eagles (right) as apposed to The Eagles (wrong).

Lol, & now their name is more relevant than ever. As nowadays, we have talking heads on numerous 24 hour "news" channels, who are constantly feeding us lies & bs.

You're absolutely right !

@@brandonpage7087 same as it ever was

It's like when people spell the band R.E.M. as REM.

Aries Dragon road to nowhere is also a masterpiece.

is that all??? they have a ton more. pfft.

wow some really deep cuts there 🙄

Me too! Along with Road to Nowhere, a song I completely relate to!

Mine is Psychokiller, that bass is catchy

As it's so often with bass.

@@ricardojmestre Under pressure..dum-dum-dum-dum-dadda-dum-dum...

@@spindriftdrinker precisely - and everyone knows what song it is 👍🏼

I can name more famous bands who came just from the state of Michigan. Alice Cooper, Kiss, Madonna, Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Eminem, Kid Rock, MC5, Iggy Pop, White Stripes, and of course there was that whole Motown thing.

@@sunsetpalms1923 The people I included were just those that left Scotland, not every Scot's band/performer. It was an observation of a quirk. BTW what's the pop of Michigan? Scotland has only 5 million.

We're naturally talented 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Also Bon Scott of AcDc was from scotland its weird how most of AcDc is just people from britain

@@MortanAMrk Maybe they should have been called AC/UK!

Wheeze

I wholeheartedly agree

With Mr Eno as the common denominator...absolutely!

same as it ever was

You need to do an evolution video on David bowie

Good to see you! Didn't expect you would be here though... XD

@Eric Miret fuck you, woosh

Moist.

now thats what i call dedication

Heather Andrews She dated Byrne during 1980-1983.

She was a staple of MTV music videos in the 80's. Worked on so many great ones.

Same here! I'm black, by the way, and I JAMMED this loudly with my windows down in my car this afternoon

When I was in high school in the 80s, I thought Once in A Lifetime was the coolest song I ever heard. Then I heard "Listening Wind" on the same album, and I was like, damn, two amazing tracks on the same album!

@@ButterCookie1984 25 here, feel the same way. Amazing, how art grows as you do

@@justincase1853 Absolutely. Take a whole weekend and listen to the 80s....that's what Im gonna do in the midst of all this misery.

Groundhog day after 20 years of marriage

same

@@blueninja012 as

@@gammakay521 ?

@@gammakay521 it

Ever

ENA is also one of the reasons its blowing up again

Coincidence? I say algorithms

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

Same as it ever was, Dr. Freeman...

Same as it ever was

My Account just started reading it today. So far very interesting

Another interesting read by DB is 'the New Sins'

@@hammalammadingdong6244 what is it about?

@@dianaruiz8604 - Oddly enough, it's about small engine repair.

Absolutely, although it was interesting that Chris inspired this bass line. Reminds me of another random bass inspiration - Billy Preston dreaming up the original "Miss You" line that Bill Wyman plays on the record. Inspiration can come from anywhere, and great music happens when musicians genuinely collaborate with a minimum of ego.

Would love to hear about The Tom Tom Club

his handle is watchpolyphonic open.spotify.com/user/watchpolyphonic

@Isaac Dweck ah, yes, a record store playlist. my favorite

@Isaac Dweck cringe, m8. Don't gatekeep how people listen to music. if I want to download flacs from Soulseek or if I want to listen to 192 kbps tracks neatly arranged and recommended for only ten bucks or vinyl records or cds or 24 kbps mp3s from limewire with 12 Trojan viruses hidden inside I should be able to without some asshat saying that I'm "listening to, like, half the song"

@@Outta-hz1ej Oop, he deleted the comment. What did it said I'm curious now lol

@@vehemetipolygoniae2197 oh he was just saying something like "vinyls the only way to listen to music or someshit" I like vinyl, I'm not a big Spotify guy and I also think that gatekeeping isn't bad, but I dunno m8 I think that sayin that gets annoying

That's actually a really cool story.

Ryan James Barr oh man. Don’t get me started. Life during wartime IS one of the best TH songs, and lyrically it’s so unlike any other TH song. I got turned on to them by the song “Swamp” in the movie Risky Business and then on the soundtrack. Great band. All members alive and well. Chance of a reunion tour? I’m guessing not.

Ryan James Barr I feel like I don’t enjoy the studio version, but instead the live one from Stop Making Sense

Raven A video on The Forbidden Zone perhaps?

Or Devo? Mark Mothersbaugh, his brother and friends were all art students at Kent State.

I agree!! Oingo Boingo deserve some recognition & a Polyphonic video. 😊

It's "Talking Heads". There's no "The".

@@MrEazyE357 hence why "the" is lowercase.. rather than The Talking Heads which would indicate it's apart of a name/title if it were capitalized, for example The Beatles.. The use of "the" here is just called proper grammar.

Fitting considering Baby Boomers hit middle age in the 80s

Turron? TURRON?

@@UnintelligibleYT TURRON TURRON!!!!

@@UnintelligibleYT TURRONNNNNNNNN

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Half Life Alyx is amazing.

Ahaha both of those made me aware of the song, both from CoreyLaddo's video and ena

It's like 5,258,880 minutes on acid.

David Byrne is an Agnostic. Mind your language.

I am a member of the Church of Latter Day Heads, and I am proud, thank you very much

@@marcusy.6372 My condolences. What a cursed life you have. It's really not fair.

teppolundgren LMFAOOO

i was expecting this comment haha

Sent by a Picasso painting.

YAAAAAY I found it! Also TURRRON TURRON!!!!!

Sweet

TURRON?

@@fizzyegg TURRRRRON!

T u r r o n

Because David Byrne

To make his head appear smaller

Felix Charles it’s not big suit he’s just small brained

W I D E B O Y

From Wikipedia: "The suit was partly inspired by Noh theatre styles, and became an icon not only of the film - as it appears on the movie poster, for instance - but of Byrne himself. Byrne said: "I was in Japan in between tours and I was checking out traditional Japanese theater - Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku - and I was wondering what to wear on our upcoming tour. A fashion designer friend (Jurgen Lehl) said in his typically droll manner, 'Well David, everything is bigger on stage.' He was referring to gestures and all that, but I applied the idea to a businessman's suit." Pauline Kael stated in her review: "When he comes on wearing a boxlike 'big suit' - his body lost inside this form that sticks out around him like the costumes in Noh plays, or like Beuys' large suit of felt that hangs off a wall - it's a perfect psychological fit." On the DVD he gives his reasoning behind the suit: "I wanted my head to appear smaller and the easiest way to do that was to make my body bigger, because music is very physical and often the body understands it before the head."

Anthony Picco my favorite live album.

Care?

@@fr1endsh1p well that comment went over my head...

Agreed

Zombie is my favorite track!

Bang on

When I first saw this video on MTV, I was about 16 years old, an Talking Heads instantly became my favorite band. It's awesome to see young folks enjoying it now as much as I did back then!

Don’t remove it!

It sounds ridiculous until you remember there are deep sea rivers that flow thousands of meters below the surface.

@@wednesday181 - Underwater currents rock!

I would love a video on Tom Waits tbh

That One Guy same here I truly would ❤️ that too.. Tom Waits is awesome.. and that’s is a fact.. !

SportsRGreat: feet for children's shoes

@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown - dayum that was a slick reference

Please do this.

Dildo Baggins Yes that is her!

Yes - but for most of her career she's been a brilliant coreographer. Look her up on RU-vid, she's one of the people that initially brought popping and locking to the masses.

She also did a decent cover of Devo's "Be Stiff".

@@steveplease Yeah! Devo played on that. She also covered "Pity You" and "Spacegirl Blues." Her first album "Word of Mouth" is a secret classic.

She also was a go-go dancer in The T.A.M.I. Show (along with Teri Garr) and was one of the women Fonda and Hopper hung out with in New Orleans in Easy Rider (along with Karen Black).

I’ve been looking for this comment

Me too

Salutations

@Vladimir Putin *T U R R Ó N*

@Nicholas Brown Turrón!

Congratulations, you’re the only one who cares.

I do too.

The 't' is lowercase meaning it wasnt put there as part of the title of the band. The is part of the title sentence not the band name.

@@russ6541 It's a joke...one of their albums is called "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads" but yes I am know most people just say the Talking Heads...myself included sometimes

Okay.

So would I. But I'm afraid it would be a video based purely on speculation. I mean, Townshend is the only one who understands the thing, and as far as I know, he's never published a script or offered up anything more elaborate than a brief synopsis of the overall concept. The story of the failed Lifehouse project is already well documented, so a video about that would just serve as repetition without adding anything new.

teppolundgren I don’t know I think polyphonic could do it some real justice. To be honest anything about The Who would be great from him

Rust Belt Kid bro relax it’s not that serious

Rust Belt Kid I mean the charges were dropped, and I believe he WAS doing it only for his book, but we’ll never know. I really like the music Pete Townsend has made and I don’t want that to be ruined because he made a mistake. Yes it was a BIG mistake and he definitely should have gone about the book research in a very different way, but he was a man on a mission that wanted to know if the things he went through as a child were the same as the kids in the videos(of course these are just my thoughts the subject).

Hey, they actually made one on it a few weeks ago! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6gAd1X0Uawk.html

I nearly wooooshed myself

Great comment from The Jake Chapman...😁

Yeah it's like having the narrator from Wonder Years telling you about music. Very perceptive but. He's really thought about this stuff. My fave is the Bonzo drumming vid, which could have been an hour long

You just listed the only 4 bands that I listen to

😂🤣

Care to elaborate?

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