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Best of Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/13/2000
Label:	Emd Int'l
UPC:	0077778059325
catalogNumber:	780593
Rank:	19742

Tracks

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Talking Heads Primary Artist
Wally Badarou Synthesizer,Keyboards
David Byrne Bass,Guitar,Percussion,Keyboards,Vocals,Vocoder
Jerry Harrison Organ,Guitar,Piano,Keyboards,Hammond Organ,Vocals,Background Vocals
Kirsty MacColl Background Vocals
Bernie Worrell Keyboards
Nona Hendryx Background Vocals
Gordon Grody Vocals,Background Vocals
Tawatha Agee Background Vocals
Erin Dickens Vocals,Background Vocals
Brian Eno Vocals
Chris Frantz Synthesizer,Percussion,Drums,Background Vocals
Laurie Frink Trumpet
Earl Gardner Trumpet
Diva Gray Vocals,Background Vocals
Lani Groves Background Vocals
Stan Harrison Alto Saxophone
Ednah Holt Background Vocals
Abdou M'Boup Conga,talking drum
Lynn Mabry Background Vocals
Johnny Marr 12-string Guitar
Dollette McDonald Background Vocals
Yves N'Djock Guitar
Lenny Pickett Tenor Saxophone,Brass
Steve Scales Percussion
David Van Tieghem Percussion
Brice Wassy Percussion,Shaker,cowbell,Wood Block
Alex Weir Guitar,Background Vocals
Tina Weymouth Bass,Synthesizer Bass
Kurt Yahjian Background Vocals
Andrew Cader Rubboard
Steve Elfon Baritone Saxophone
Nino Gioia Timbales
Jimmy Macdonell Accordion
Ellen Bernfeld Vocals,Background Vocals