First Time ever hearing Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" Reaction | Asia and BJ
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Lead singer David Byrne said this about the song: "Byrne said the song was about the unconscious: "We operate half-awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?'" The video is perfect for the song. Nice Reaction Asia and BJ ❤️
Talking Heads are totally worth a deep dive. True art and poetry set to music.
What do you mean true art and poetry set to music?
The singer and band members actually met in school in art class. The singer is literally a genius
You are well informed 😁thank you for sharing the knowledge 😉
Yes he is!
Sounds like Pink Floyd. They should have music lessons as a part of art school curriculum.
This song only uses 1 chord through out the song.
"LIFE DURING WARTIME" live from the concert movie "Stop Making Sense" the entire concert is a masterpiece!
It was one of the best gigs I have ever seen. Summer of ‘83 pacific amphitheater. Irvine Ca.
This is a great suggestion!
absolutely..great suggestion...think i may go and watch it again now
yes, amazing song
Great request!!! Life During WarTime was the first song that turned me on to The Talking Heads. Their concert version shows how much energy this band had.
Love him or hate him you have to admit this is some really really unique performance art with an extremely talented band. David Byrne is the man
Love him.
You know I have always loved what was mainstream but have never dived into him. Think I might tonight. His voice is just wow but I just always felt he is probably going to be too smart to understand. 😂😂😂
This song only has 1 chord.
This song is a masterpiece!
"You cannot step into the same river twice," Heraclitus. Time flows, same as it ever was. The days go by and we go back into the blue after our money (time) is gone. Also, after our actual wealth is gone we may realize what life is truly about. We are not in the "red" but in the blue. The existential question of what is my life about? I wanted a big house and car and a beautiful wife since I was told that is success. I have it, what now? What have I done? I wasted all that time. I only have this life to live as this identity. Regardless, we all end where we started, into the blue again. Time isn't holding us or after us. We exist in time and have to let go since all is impermanent. "Letting the days go by (Water flowing underground) / Into the blue again."
Wow. I will say this with no hesitation. This comment is the absolute best I've seen when it comes to explaining the meaning of a song ever. You nailed it.
Love this explanation. 💜
Yep well explained, same as it ever was is such a great line.
This may be the best take on any song I have ever read. This actually made me stop for a moment and think about my life and how I got here. Thanks for that. Also, thanks to The Heads and Asia & BJ for leading me to this today.
This is THE answer for all questions about this song. Wonderfully done, sir or ma'am or them.
Such a great carpe diem song! Basically he's saying, don't sleep walk through life. David Byrne is a mad musical genius. *And She Was* is one of my favorites of them. Anything from their *Stop Making Sense* performance is great. They're another band that is better live than in studio. 💜
Love them!!!!
Agree!!
That's exactly right
Totally agree! And She Was is a great tune!
and to me, just my view on it, is the 'water flowing underground'...is his way of just saying there may be a lot of stuff going on in your life around you that you can't see but don't worry too much about that stuff, it's gonna happen so just let it happen...it won't bother you.. at least that's always kind of how those words hit me anyhow. Talking Heads are frickin awesome 👍
This Video was directed by Toni Basil who had a huge hit in the early 80's with the song "Mickey". She basically told David Byrne the lead singer to do what he felt was "natural" and now you see the result. It is considered a video classic.
Wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.👍
Holy shit. That's crazy.
20 years of dancing lessons and now you can see the results.
BJ the answer to your questions is "same as it ever was". Asia, there are things about life we just can't ever fully understand like 'water flowing underground'. Things are happening behind the scenes - same as it ever was!
My favorite by the Heads is "Burning Down The House." Relentless groove.
Great choice. You can't sit still to that!
But it HAS to be the Stop Making Sense version
Jam!
"And she was" is another personal favorite by the Talking Heads....to be continued...
Talking Heads was always a whole vibe..but they are so good! Burning Down the House n Take Me to the River and Psycho Killer are musts! They were 👍
Good suggestions
Yes! Great suggestions and great songs! I would add in "Wild Wild Life" just because it's a fun video and you get a really young John Goodman cameo!
"This Must Be The Place" & "Heaven"
I remember my father entering the room where we were all watching MTV and had that same look on his face as Asia at 3:21
The singer is totally a genius. If you take his music apart,it boggles the mind
Yes!!!!!
He's on the Aspergers spectrum
@@annother3350 most geniuses are
Love Talking Heads. Check out their concert footage where David Byrne has a ginormous suit on. Dancing around and singing. Don't get it twisted they wrote great music.
Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer"(must be album version) and "Take Me To The River". Very creative band. Started in the 70s.
Hey @ surlechapeau 👋💙
My favorite is "And She Was", agree they are very creative 🎶
@@juliewhite7469 good song! and thanks!
Definitely the album version
This one was played constantly on MTV back in the day. Now their bands title is synonymous with the commentators on cable news. Other popular songs are Burning Down the House and Road to Nowhere.
Absolutely..MTV generation in the house!!
The "heads" RULED the early 80s, please check out
Burning down the house.
Wild wild life.
Little creatures.
Take me to the river.
Their live version of
Life during wartime
Will blow ur dam mind.
David Byrne and band are
Ultimate showman.
Asia I had the same reaction that you did, the first time I heard this band. I think I was about 14 years old and thinking to myself * wtf did I just listen to?* The lead singer, David Byrne, is very creative, artistic, eclectic, and has a slightly neurotic/psychotic stage persona.
You should check out their MTV hits "Burning Down the House" and "Wild Life".
"Once in a Lifetime" was the lead single from Talking Heads' fourth studio album, Remain in Light (1980), which is one of those albums that deserves a full listen. I remember first hearing the song on the radio before seeing the video on early MTV. On the radio the song came across as the bright bubbly bouncy pop song it is. Dig that Fela Kuti inspired Afrobeat! And that simple but powerful bass line is supplied by Tina Weymouth. I rediscovered the song in a big way when the video came out a few years later. My buddies and I thought it was the bomb. The trippy water graphics, Byrne's quirky dancing, his duck walk, those jerky motions -- like he was getting beat up by the invisible man -- and that chopping gesture, that was strange and weird and cool to us. Fifteen year olds have strange tastes! [grin]
It really is their best album. They’ve got some good songs on their other albums, but the entirety of Remain in Light is solid. If you love it and want to go a little further, check out My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the collab between Byrne and Brian Eno.
I guarantee if you guys grew up in the 1980s you’d be listening to them. They were on radio all the time. Great band.
David Byrne’s “American Utopia” is amazing. Such a creative artist.
When they did this on SNL last year it was incredible!
First! David Byrne was a legend in New Age Rock Music in America. Welcome to R&R 101!
Wife here..Great Point..Absolutely!
Lucky to remember all these videos coming out on MTV. Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and others made some incredible videos. They were almost as invested in the video as the music. Special time.
Ya'll should do their song "Life During Wartime" the live version 1983, another great trippy song that shows how crazy and unorthodox they are.
YES!!!
Do it!!!
Classic! Take time to stop and smell the roses because what you have right now might be once in a lifetime, that's what I get out of the lyrics.
When this came out during the 80's we would ask our friends "how are you doing"' and they would usually say "Same as it ever was" and then do the hand going across the arm deal. This song was that popular then!
This band made popular rock into something meaningful and yet fun. Great beats. Lead singer, David Byrne, says part of what works for him in his creativity is his Asperger's Syndrome. Gotta see them live to really 'get' them. Try Life During Wartime live from 83. Also, keep in mind, when listening to anything around that time, that was art's Absurdist Period, featuring people like Weird Al, Steve Martin and David Letterman. Weird was in. Non sequitur was hip. This song's just built off a jam with some preacher-like phrases added more for how they sounded than what they meant.
Don't forget the really strong African influence on the beat & the dancing in this video.
Great song. "Burning Down The House" "Road To Nowhere" "Take Me To The River" "And She Was" "Psycho Killer" "This Must Be The Place" "Life During Wartime" "Stop Making Sense" "Wild Wild Life" "Girlfriend Is Better" are some of their other hits.
Talking Heads is one of the bands that came out of the early punk scene at CBGB's in NYC, with the Ramones, Blondie, Dead Boys and Cramps. It was such an interesting thing that went on there. Try a Talking Heads song called "Psycho Killer", which was their first big song. Blondie and Talking Heads were later labelled "New Wave" because radio resisted playing anything labelled as "punk", and the idea of what could be called "punk" became narrower, but initially it was a very open concept.
Talking Heads *Stop Making Sense* Movie Concert was the most rented VHS of all-time.
Theatres had to shut down mid-movie due to the risk of upper seats collapsing. People were bouncing in and out of their seats like it was a live show.
Also, averaged 80s live arena rock concert cost between $8 and $16:
BTO, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Supertramp, Foghat, Blue Öyster Cult, Triumph, Foghat, Pat Travers Band, Midnight Oil, Beach Boys, Duran Duran, Loverboy, Toto, Great White, Thin Lizzy, April Wine, Little River Band, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Headpins, Tragically Hip, Styx, Gerry Doucette, Gordon Lightfoot, Nazareth and Heart.
To be young in the 70s and 80s!
One of the best, most important bands of the 80s. Extremely innovative, especially as regards rhythms and influences. They were true movers and shakers.
I love when music's more connected to art than to brand deals
King Solomon: "There is nothing new under the sun"
David Byrne: "Same as it ever was"
You want to see Byrne being really trippy, watch the video for "Girlfriend Is Better" from the Stop Making Sense film.
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the band up ahead… your next stop, the Talking Heads Zone!
“Life flows like water underground.” You nailed it!
it is so brilliant! can you imagine being an 17 year old and watching this for the first time? my mind was blown away! This must be the place is my favorite by them!
Yes time moves on no matter what you do , time marches on, the questions are futile. The water flows.
Yeah - it's about waking up to the life you have and questioning is it really what you wanted? Is the automobile, the wife, the job and the monotony that goes with that etc. what you signed up for? The video is so good. When 80s music videos were doing more than being literal to the lyrics.
I love David Burne. The first time i saw this video i said to my-self "what the !@#$ is this?" Once I got my bearings, I realized how great his music is. The man is a genius and I love his music. A true artist.
One of my best & favorite celebrity encounters. I saw David Bryne after the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, hailing a cab. I ran up to him like a madwoman (lol) and he let the cab go by to chat with me & give me an autograph. One of the most prolific artists around. I love him and this band. Explore his artistry, he's a genius.
Thank you Asia & BJ!! Talking Heads have spanned such a diverse range of musical styles & compositions over the years. Their song 'The Democratic Circus' is well worth checking out, and very apt for the current times imho.
Can't remember how old Byrne is, but he's presently doing like 6 shows a week on Broadway. Incredible pace.
I always viewed the Talking Heads as eccentric graphic artists that choose music as their media to design on.
A song with deep meaning. Dave's a genius
David Byrne is amazing. I absolutely love this band, they’re in my top twenty favorite bands. My mom listened to them all the time when I was growing up and I’m almost 42. I’ve listened to them the majority of my life.
BJs got the perfect response. A belly laugh. All David Bs are weird. It's a good thing. Their movie and best live album is called "Stop Making Sense". We need to lighten up, they are saying.
The Talking Heads were from RISD, Rhode Island School of Design...one of the best art schools we have. This was a form of choreography and videography as well as music. The best didn't have to make up for an absence of good music with flashy videos. Same goes for music without video. Fripp & Eno did their first album for 13 bucks, I believe it was, and it is still one of the weirdest, most transcendent pieces of music ever. Many great songs on the live album, and the "Naked" album. Neither has a bad song. Fun review. Thanks y'all.
The Talking Heads are physical and visual artists just as much as musical artists, they try to engage as many of your senses as possible during a live performance
Byrne and his bandmates sittin' around a living room: Byrne: "Everybody's trying to be cool or serious, let's be weird." Bandmates: "sounds good".
Both of your reactions were pretty much the perfect way to react to them/him.
He's a character.
You may ask yourself why am i listening to The Talking Heads and the B-52'S ! Two of the best New Wave bands of the 70's and 80's lol
David Byrne (lead singer for this group) did a broadway show using his music and I believe this is one of them. Then I think they brought it to film with the help of Spike Lee. Talking Heads is a little strange but that's also what makes it good. What videos are was a new concept back when this video came out - there wasn't a formula like there is now - people experimented.
They are still making music today 😊
Incredible music.
This band is so good. Here's a few of my favs of theirs
This must be the place
And She was
Road to Nowhere
Flowers
Burning down the house
The Talking Heads and the B-52’s both played at the CBGB in the late 70’s. I wonder how much David Byrne and Fred Schneider influenced one another.
This is one of those times when I'm really glad you were able to watch the official video -- sometimes it's such a key part of experiencing the song. I was watching this at a friend's house when his grandpa walked into the room. He could barely hear, so the song didn't grab his attention, but he looked at the video and you could just tell, he had no idea WTF he was looking at & a little weirded out.
This is the song from their best album, REMAIN IN LIGHT, 1980, full with funky and Afro beats. Adrian Bellew and Brian Eno were there too. It was the peak of TALKING HEADS. After that album came the commercial success
That was a PRICELESS reaction guys!!!!! The laughter alone made it for me. And yes, it took me years to get this song, but the bassline on it ALONE is just so dope; it got sampled like crazy....
I love ❤️ this song!!!😎Thank you!!!
The Talking Heads are such a different vibe, love them!! Very quirky and artistic in all their projects.
Your reaction is the way most of us reacted to this tune when the video came out!
Check out their live performance of Life During Wartime from the Stop Making Sense movie. Flat out energy.
One look at all the amazing artists that Byrne has worked with and what they all walk away stating about their experience is enough to understand that some talent is an understatement for what Byrne holds. You could spend hours reading the reviews of those who have worked with him, and realize how impactful on music he has been, as an unheralded hero working in the background of the music so many find amazing if not epic.
Imagine going to a club, and hundreds of people are 'dancing' like David Byrne!🥴😵😵💫 I think 'water flowing underground' goes with the concept, 'same as it ever was' 🤔 Byrne is indeed a true musical genius!
These guys are worth exploring. There is no one like them and David Byrne is an absolute genius. Love your reactions
When you first hear this song it seems really strange. There was a lot of music like that back when radio ruled. But I would pick up on the lyric and adopt it to mean whatever I dang well pleased when I was listening to it. Generally, with this song the “you may ask yourself” kind of put me in the mind that I didn’t have to ask myself, I may if I want. It was oddly liberating and would remind me not to take myself so serious…. don’t sweat the small stuff kind of thing.
This song... the music, the beat... it's a helluva song.
Wife here...Asia.., I see your beautiful smile over there contemplating this song..So cute!!!..BJ..identifying with the song.."Water is ever flowing..as is our lives..You both are so intelligent to pick up this meaning quickly...It took me years!!..Thanks for making me smile AGAIN!
Wow, thank you
You're So Welcome..!!You've became my favorite reaction channe!!l..So insightful!!
One of the few artists that has more Oscar's than Grammy awards...
You will not truly "get" this band til you see a live performance.. they did a concert film called "STOP MAKING SENSE. In 84.. watch any song from that and you'll get it. It's weird, its art, its funky, it's high energy New Wave at its finest.
Take a listen to Talking Heads - Slippery People (from "Stop Making Sense") Such a great groove! You gotta love the girls singing the backing vocals, puts a smile on my face everytime...
When I was tripping on acid I would put this song on. Try "Take Me To The River". It's an awesome song.
"LIFE DURING WARTIME" live from the concert movie "Stop Making Sense" ( Thanx Uncle Meat.) Band was a mix of Talking Heads and African American funk band Parliament/Funkadelic.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time. It was featured in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," a funny movie starring Bette Midler and Nick Nolte. It was also sampled by Jay Z and Memphis Bleek, and Pete Rock & Cl Smooth. "Burning Down the House" is another one.
The Talking Heads movie "Stop Making Sense" is the greatest concert film of all time. Do yourself a favor and watch it, you will not regret it.
David Byrne with American Utopia is one of the best gig I've ever atended in my whole life. Take this in this context: huge fan of Prince, I listen every day to many different styles of music from pop to jazz, from blues to electronica... I love live events, music festivals and I've been Stage Technician the last 25 years (rock, opera, theatre, musicals, ballet, etc).
Of course, I'm fan of Talking Heads for decades. There's a show filmed by Jonathan Demme titled Stop Making Sense: a must.
The dance moves, and sweating, we’re inspired by all the crazy televangelists who were so popular in the 80s.
Great message in this video
The first time I ever heard Talking Heads, I wondered what on earth I was hearing, because I had never heard anything like them. They are a true art rock experience -- so original and visionary. David Byrne is a genius. Listen to more from them.
You two really need to do yourselves a favour and react to the live performance of "Life During Wartime" from the Stop Making Sense soundtrack/film! You really really do!!! Really!!!
I laugh at Asias face when she hears this different type music. It was cool in the day, lol. I enjoy you guys!
😊 thank you
David Byrne was inspired by radio preachers' cadence and sentence structure for the "you may ask yourself" parts. He listened to radio religious shows in the '80s. Oh David, you're so fine. You're so fine; you blow my mind.
David Byrne is a tremendous artist musician who entertains on so many levels. He surrounds himself with fantastic musicians. I have seen him many times over 40 plus years and I do not need to know what he is doing that show , Byrne’s playing I’m there🥰
Same as it ever was 🤘🤘🤘🤘
This song and "take me to the river" are my favorites from them. Always puts me in a great mood. 👍
BJ nailed it. As usual. There are no answers and I, like you BJ, ask myself the same questions every day.
Must check out Talking Heads live! Their live in Rome concert in 1980 is especially excellent.
Keep exploring Talking Heads. "Born Under Punches" LIVE Rome ,Italy 1980. "Life During Wartime" Live! Just a couple but you'll enjoy them...... Always love your energy!
David Byrne is a genius. Once in the lifetime is a very profound song. BJ IS RIGHT about the water 💧 being like Life. All the hand and body movements are typically sign language of African people that he was using to describe the message of the song. BJ IS RIGHT 👍
David's Byrne's bizarre movements were based on videos he'd seen of preachers and shamans who went into trance-like states and spiritual possession. The beginning starts with him rising up out of the water as if he's just been baptised. The chopping movement across his forearm is a direct imitation of an African ritual. David delivered the whole song as if he was conducting a sermon. The chorography isn't directly linked to the lyrics themes other than the river and water references. It was just something visually arresting and quirky. This band made their oddness an asset and funked it up. Check out anything from their live album 'Stop making sense', the bands energy is astounding.
The lyrics just flew right over your heads 😅
Ridiculously talented artist. What I would call eclectic.
He’s just as crazy while performing live.
This was put together to fit the movie “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” it makes a lot more sense after seeing it
Intellectual Punk, Art Rock, New Wave etc... Talking heads have had a lot of labels.
Dudes, they are soooo legendary.....like, released, idk, 7, 8, or 9 albums between 1977 and 1991, and they have, like, 50+ songs that are just epic, legendary, masterpiece works of art....they’re brilliant, delve this band!....check out “book I read”, “cross-eyed and painless”, “houses in motion”, “wild life”, “heaven”, “air”, “cities”, “life during wartime”, “stay hungry”, theres seemingly a trillion songs of theirs that are all spectacular:D.....I’m a painter and David Byrne is the epitome of the word artist to me, him and Peter Gabriel
You’ll find that you know the band “Tom Tom Club”. It’s comprised of the drummer & bassist from the talking heads. Their biggest song, “Genius of Love”, has been sampled a lot. You should check it out too.
This video was many people's introduction to Talking Heads, and it confused them. But David Byrne and friends went on to have an amazing career. The best way to get what they are all about is to watch the concert film "Stop Making Sense". It is an amazing audio and visual spectacle, with, eventually, nine people on stage, The Heads started out in college as a three then four piece group.
Talking Heads, proof that America has good in it!!!♥️🏴🇺🇸
talking heads are like abstract painters. Love that video. Best ever.
This gem was released in 1980… 42 years ago! This was cutting edge video editing and was meant more as an art piece than a literal depiction of the song’s lyrics. The song is well etched into my life’s soundtrack as it rung through my high school years through to my retirement. Talking Heads often played CBGBs in New York where the Ramones, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, the Runaways, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains and SO many others started and became punk and underground music royalty. Wonderful era for music with songs that just never grow old.
Enjoyed the reaction - greetings from Canada!