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The Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime,Talking Heads

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Talking Heads
Released 1992

Burning Down the House
04:01
6,716 plays

Once in a Lifetime
04:19
6,554 plays

And She Was
03:39
6,180 plays

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songs

- 1
- Psycho Killer
- 04:21
- 10,101 plays

- 2
- Take Me to the River
- 05:02
- 4,677 plays

- 3
- Once in a Lifetime
- 04:19
- 6,554 plays

- 4
- Burning Down the House
- 04:01
- 6,716 plays

- 5
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- 04:55
- 4,507 plays

- 6
- Slippery People [Live]
- 04:14
- 5,406 plays

- 7
- Life During Wartime [Live]
- 05:04
- 4,548 plays

- 8
- And She Was
- 03:39
- 6,180 plays

- 9
- Road to Nowhere
- 04:20
- 4,089 plays

- 10
- Wild Wild Life
- 03:41
- 4,559 plays

- 11
- Blind
- 05:00
- 2,219 plays

- 12
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- 05:34
- 3,057 plays

- 13
- Sax and Violins
- 05:18
- 3,413 plays

- 14
- Lifetime Piling Up
- 03:52
- 3,086 plays

album review

For the holiday season of 1992 (and a year after they announced their split), the Talking Heads issued the excellent double disc anthology, Popular Favorites 1984-1992: Sand in the Vaseline, which combined rarities, hits, and key album cuts. While America got the double disc set, Europe received a streamlined, single disc collection, The Best Of (Once In A Lifetime). As its title suggests, the fourteen track collection focuses solely on the group's best known tracks, including such classics as "Psycho Killer," their commercial breakthrough cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River," "Once In A Lifetime," and "Burning Down the House," among others. But the inclusion of a pair of oddities, "Sax and Violins" and "Lifetime Piling Up," will raise a few eyebrows, especially with such a backlog of stronger material that very easily could have fit alongside the renowned hits (namely "Memories Can't Wait," "Crosseyed and Painless," "Swamp," "Girlfriend is Better," etc.). But by and large, for a single disc collection, The Best Of (Once In A Lifetime) accomplishes its goal -- hopefully one day a slightly more expanded version will see a stateside release. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide