Sometimes I forget that I'm not twenty any longer. Then I'll bump into a song that I love tagged with a reminder of how old it is. Once in a Lifetime is one of those songs. The story goes like this:
Once upon a time, cable television was a bit of a novelty. Then some geniuses decided that they should take this new-ish medium and make a station that played music videos all day, except for short breaks for news about music. It was the most amazing thing I had seen in my to-that-point short life. One of the videos that enjoyed heavy rotation was Once in a Lifetime.
That was 32 years ago.
A better part of the story goes like this: Brian Eno and David Byrne make amazing music together. The Talking Heads recorded some of what they wrote and Once in a Lifetime still stands as the best of those songs.
Now story time is over. You young whipper-snappers have a listen and find out what MTV was for, 'way back then, and then realize that David Byrne and Brian Eno are still making amazing music together. Go find it.
Categories:
80s music,
alternative,
oldies
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