Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads

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Once in a Lifetime – The Best of Talking Heads
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 1992 (1992-10-12)
Recorded1977–1991
GenreNew wave
Length63:20
LabelEMI/Warner Bros.
ProducerTony Bongiovi, Lance Quinn, Brian Eno, Nick Launay, Gary Goetzman, Steve Lillywhite, Talking Heads
Talking Heads chronology
Popular Favorites 1976–1992: Sand in the Vaseline
(1992)
Once in a Lifetime – The Best of Talking Heads
(1992)
Once in a Lifetime
(2003)

Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads is a compilation album by Talking Heads, released in 1992. The single disc version of Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, it was released outside of the US and UK in place of that album.

Track listing

All songs written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth except as noted:

  1. "Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth) (from Talking Heads: 77, 1977)
  2. "Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) (from More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978)
  3. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) (from Remain in Light, 1980)
  4. "Burning Down the House" (from Speaking in Tongues, 1983)
  5. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (from Speaking in Tongues)
  6. "Slippery People (Live)" (from Stop Making Sense, 1984)
  7. "Life During Wartime (Live)" (from Stop Making Sense)
  8. "And She Was" (Byrne) (from Little Creatures, 1985)
  9. "Road to Nowhere" (Byrne) (from Little Creatures)
  10. "Wild Wild Life" (Byrne) (from True Stories, 1986)
  11. "Blind" (from Naked, 1988)
  12. "(Nothing But) Flowers" (from Naked)
  13. "Sax and Violins" (from the Until the End of the World soundtrack, 1991)
  14. "Lifetime Piling Up" (unreleased single, 1987)