I've always loved DB, but the rest of the band are no slouches either! Take Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth--The Tom Tom Club, hello? That song, 'Genius of Love' WILL NOT DIE. And all their production work w/ The Marleys? I mean, come on!
I liked them enough in the 80's as a teenager, but when I started dating a recent Art School graduate in 90 I learned how many layers there were to Byrne's work and i got a new appreciation for Talking Heads.
This is the song that introduced me to the Talking Heads. I was 15. Every single one of their songs are different and to me that is amazing with their vast catalogue. Incredible talent here.
Mine was Road to Nowhere from the Little Monsters soundtrack...I think I was like 7 or so lol. It's still my favorite of theirs but this is a close second :)
My ex husband's (now late) grandmother never saw a music video in her life. This one happened to be on MTV at that moment I saw her. Tears were in her eyes. This video made her so happy. Her husband was physically abusive and controlled her every move. The ONLY one she saw before she passed. I still think about it today. He wasn't in the room. She saw this in it's entirety. I cry because I gave her happiness. So did this video. Much love. Thank you for reading.
61 year old, and this song has new meaning: it's about my wife, multiple sclerosis has stripped away her ability to do anything but lift her right hand to her face, but her mind is still intact. She loves all that she senses: wind, bird song, sun's warmth, music, stories, humour, food and drink, being touched.
My wife died back in July of this year. About 5 months before she died, she discovered the Talking Heads. Man she really loved this band!! I think she watched or listened to the Stop Making Sense album every day until she died.
So hard to discern the plan or purpose, yet all the joys of life still hers deliberately. What else do we have Toby as human incarnations? All of it everything to you both.
63 here. The Taljing Heads exist because of Tina's baselines. David Byrne was a performance artist. He was their appearance. Tina and her husband were their substance. In 1980, my wife described them as" Punk-Funk", which I think describes them perfectly.
Tina formed Tom Tom Club with her sister and husband. The band made a Huge impact on me because of the sound and the lyrics without any filter! Amazing
Ya me too, was a world I absolutely loved, late 70s and early 80s punk, ska, and new wave the best time to be alive especially in the UK :) We 'owned' Punk and Ska. ;)
I was in my older teens til 86, t these guys were played at every hay burning we did! Along with Zeppelin and so many other awesome band s from the 70’s-80’s.
You can tell at the end of the song they knew they had an amazing hit: cowbell clanging away, guitar riffs come in, silly and obnoxious vocals. They're having so much fun, and their music is pure joy.
one of their best for sure... I'd be honored if some Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) ruclips.net/video/ufAJixCpGZU/видео.html on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Peace and stay safe.
Was in England in 1986, and my boyfriend and his band used to do this song to perfection when they played pubs and social clubs. Its still one of the songs on their list that i remember vividly. Inwas 25, am 61 now and this brings back awesome memories 😊
Child of the 80’s here, David’s vision and of the future was wildly correct. Now that we got it what are we gonna do with it? Maybe we’ll keep ruining it! Sorry we missed the warning signs too!
I’m. 26 and the 80s brings me such a nostalgic wonderful happy feeling idk why and it all is so familiar it’s so weird lol but I love it can’t beat 80s music none can idc what generation were talking bout lol
Without the Talking Heads, '80's Mtv just wouldn't have been the same. It was like each of their song's videos was a trip inside the mind of David Byrne. Artistic expression at it's best, I believe..
This video still blows my mind. The colors all look washed out and similar grainy because they used old school photographs copy/pasted together and put through a Color Xerox Copier to create the images for what is basically a cartoon made with photographs. Crazy stuff.
Im 45 years old from New-Zealand and grew up listening to them on the radio, I still listen to them now, and they are still being played on the radio - LOVE TALKING HEADS!!!
Got to see the David Byrne/Heads 2 times in Seattle Bumbershoot. During Burning down the house, David Byrne changes his wardrobe into a flaming suit of fire. Awesome! Long live the Heads!
Imagine, all of us young'ns during this time are going to be listening to this, Sid Vicious, the Ramones, and punk in our retirement homes. Can't wait!!!
Talking Heads was a GREAT band, consisting of four GREAT creative musicians lead by the indominatable incredible David Byrne! Miss them & their fun music!
I was 27 in 1984. I thought mtv and all our hot damn best music 70s 80s era would last FOREVER!! I can't believe im freaking 67 yeara old!! I feel young!!
Hey! And she was lying in the grass And she could hear the highway breathing And she could see a nearby factory She's making sure she is not dreaming See the lights of a neighbor's house Now she's starting to rise Take a minute to concentrate And she opens up her eyes The world was moving she was right there with it and she was The world was moving she was floating above it and she was And she was And she was drifting through the backyard And she was taking off her dress And she was moving very slowly Rising up above the earth Moving into the universe and she's Drifting this way and that Not touching the ground at all and she's Up above the yard The world was moving, she was right there with it and she was (Hey, hey) The world was moving, she was floating above it and she was (Hey, hey, hey) She was proud about it, no doubt about it She isn't sure about what she's done No time to think about what to tell him No time to think about what she's done and she was (Hey hey, hey hey, hey) And she was looking at herself And things were looking like a movie She had a pleasant elevation She's moving out in all directions oh, oh oh Hey, hey, hey Hey-hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey-hey hey! Hey, hey, hey Hey-hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey-hey hey! The world was moving, she was right there with it and she was (Hey, woo hoo) The world was moving, she was floating above it and she was (Hey, hey) Joining the world of missing persons and she was Missing enough to feel all right and she was And she was And she was And she was And she was And she was Hey! And she was! And she was And she was!
Seen David in a shopping cart in a parking lot in a rainstorm, giving a interview with MTV when this song came out. Over the top funny, I'm still gigglin... long live talking heads - I'll keep listening forever...
seeing so many people comment on this music video with their own experiences is so amazing to me. this band united so many different people and this song still means a lot to them to this day. i love this song so much and always will!
I bought the 7" single of this when it came out in early 1986. I've probably still got it - definitely still have the copy of Once in a Lifetime that I bought five years before that. I thought this was about a girl he knew who did her own thing and went her own way,however eccentric or unconventional,and came in and out of his life on her wander through life.
I was singing this song to myself when I was riding my bike today. It always makes me ride in long swooping curves while I belt it out. Thank you David Byrne.
...and she was singing this song. and she was riding her bike. and she was belting and swooping. and she was thanking David Byrne. ...the world was moving and ....
This song was in the charts while I was captured in the John Radcliffe hospital in Feb 1986, I was pregnant and my baby wasn't growing properly because I couldn't stop dashing around , this tune saved my sanity, and even now in 2020 "and she was" relates to my baby girl who is 34 and beautiful ♥️
Lovely,I hope both of you stay healthy and happy. I was sent to the Radcliffe in 2012,for an angiogram. There were banks of screens on either side of me so it was possible to see my heart and what they were doing in the procedure - only I crashed out asleep for most of it. I'd felt a bit nervous but they put me at ease and were very good to me all the way through. I was supposed to be collected and taken back to Milton Keynes Hospital,only between the two of them they forgot! So the Radcliffe put me up for the night in a good single room,like being in a 3 or 4 star hotel,with a nice view from several floors up over a leafy part of Oxford.
@dread true The B52's are alright, but compared to the Talking Heads, their songs are gimmicks. The B52's songs are fun, Talking Heads however are on a whole other plane of existence, their songs were profound and meaningful.
Music is art. Art is subjective. What about this band makes them more original than any others? Your statement is an opinion with nothing to back it up. All musicians are influenced by someone else. What is deep and meaningful to you may mean absolutely nothing to someone else. There is no need to disparage or put someone else's favorite music down because it doesn't resonate with the same way with you as it does with them. To not realize or understand this is ignorance in it's purest form.
@dread true My statement was made to the original post by GRADSKA BOY "The most original band of all time." and the conversation that followed. I was in a way actually defending what you said about the B-52's to Luka Baljkas' reply stating that B-52's songs are "gimmicks" or tricks. When clearly the B-52's mean more to you than they mean to Luka. I said "art is subjective." art is subjective to the person who experiences it. That is not an opinion. That is a truth. I was not being arrogant and I displayed no personal tastes for any music at all. I asked what makes them more original than any other band because I am curious.
"Blah blah blah, voicing an opinion may hurt someone's feelings, so you better not have one and just shut up, blah blah blah." That's you Higgins, in case you dont recognize yourself. Do you realize how empty inside and boring you sound?
You know what Yuuki Goku, I'm sorry. I don't want to be that guy who's a jerk in the comments section. I think we can both agree this is a great song from a great band and shouldn't squabble with each other.
😂 my niece is 15 and is mad into them and she loves the Smiths, anything 80s ,70s 60s and even 50s music..dresses in dungarees and a nirvana t shirt ❤ love it
@@brilafableAWESOME 😎!!!! ❤❤❤ My daughter just turned 16 and she's been the same way ... Elders look at her like " how do you know who that is ?" Lol.... Bless our babies 💞 happy turkey day ☺️
Funny thing.....I was always a big fan of the talking Heads, and knew their songs well. When my Mom died, amid all the sadness....someone said "She is...I mean, "She Was'. So This song, and video came to mind! Bizarre I know....But I looked at it, and it all seemed to fit a woman, that died and moved up and on, and out in all directions'...liberated of her old body and life, moving into so much exciting and new. It just made me feel good and Happy for her.....like her soul was happy, and letting us know as much. Weird Eh?
I never listened to the words of this song too closely till I read your comment. Now I gotta tear in my eye thinking of my own mother who is gone. You nailed it. Awesome. Thank you.
The most original band of all time. Every person I know who loves The Talking Heads is weird.Including myself. This song envokes such a strange sense of nolstalgia even if you haven't heard it before
My daughter, all of 8 years old use to dance around to this mid 1990s. Now she's a Mom with her own kids. I STILL see her moving to this . She can't help it 😆😆
Happy 73rd Birthday Charton Christopher Frantz May 8, 1951.. Fort Campbell, Kentucky.. The Talking Heads were this really fantastic band that came out of the whole N.Y.C. C.B.G.B.'s scene. It took time but they caught fire and then everyone was burning down the house..
That was one the songs that impacted me as a college student at 18. When you get in touch with original material at that age, it will stick. The rest of your days. Thank you, David.
I was in an abusive relationship and would creep out onto the trampoline in the dark in my pajamas. This song always reminded me of me and the joy I was able to feel in the middle of lunacy. Love it.
And we "old folks" are still fans of the Talking Heads. We were there for David Byrne in the mid-80s and many of us are still here in our 80s still listening and thinking "When are we going to wake up this 2020 clusterflock?
Love the video Jim Blashfield did for the Talking Heads... The penny tiles, the tinted photography, Byrne crooning from an old TV... Just pure genius in genius company!!! 📺
It's not a coincidence that we have the best music decade after decade to listen to, and now instantly access via RUclips and other platforms. The world is here, for us.🙂 We are here to experience, learn and grow, spiritually. No time for worry, or regret. It's all happened the way it was supposed to.
Part of my 77 y.o. soundtrack, too, along with many other tunes by Byrne, Talking Heads, and Tom Tom Club. Numerous comments here reminded me of Greg Khin’s immortal hit from the same era, “The Breakup Song”: ruclips.net/video/vjWd_7OzO84/видео.html. I hope that some you from later generations will hear this for the first time 🥰 ruclips.net/video/vjWd_7OzO84/видео.html
lyrics that at first confuse . . . .then inspire . . . .one of the few groups to consistantly pull the same ruse time after time . . . .what amazing talent !
This was the first music video I ever saw, and I will never forget the feelings I had while watching: confusion, elation, excitement, guilt, happiness, etc. I was only 11, so I couldn’t have known expressed those emotions at the time. But now, almost 40 years later, I can. And it’s still so freakin cool!
Hello David, I just woke up and got my guitar and started playing "Once In A Lifetime". Great music. Thank you for the beautiful songs all this time. A hi from Brazil.
Being a 68 Year Old Hispanic from San Antonio, Texas, I danced to this Song at Night Clubs during the New Wave Music of the 80's. What a mesmerizing, blissful, splendid moment in Time.
This is going to be my exit song at my funeral. It's in my advanced directive.❤ It's my love letter to all who attend to let them know that I'm happy and I'll be waiting at "The Bridge" for them when it's their turn to go.
Oh had totally forgotten this song by them. One of my favorites and such a great group. Their music videos and songs were some of my favorites from the 80s . Timeless music Thanks so much for the upload David!
There is a wonderful eccentricity and surrealism about Talking Heads, in their music and wonderful videos. This is such a cool idea... a story as well as a song, that a woman was able to just float off into space one day and become a missing person just because she felt like it; using the power of her mind. This kind of stop-motion animated video was very trendy in the 80's. Another in this style was "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel. I've always loved Talking Heads and David Byrne's edgy, slightly mad-sounding vocals. I've never forgotten seeing him dancing insanely on stage in that rubber yellow suit. So original and so entertaining. 😍
Heard this song playing in a grocery store today; lately I will hear an oldie like this and will somehow develop a new appreciation for it for some reason, over and above when it originally charted. Nostalgia, I guess, and it can sneak up on one when least expected. I just may add this to my YT song favorites.
I was 9 when this song came out and adored it then. I'm now 44 and still feel the exact same about it. There's certain songs that I call 'lifey' songs in that I have always loved them and if you were having a life review or your life was a film these songs would be the soundtrack at certain times. It's a different feeling to just another song I like, a goose pimply bigger picture thing. This is one of those songs. I have recently been listening to lots of accounts of people having near death experiences and although I'm not sure of the original meaning of this song and video it seems to be just that.
I agree. I was in my early 20s when this song came out. I remember having MTV on all the time and when this song came out I couldn't get it out of my head. It's so good to this day. I'm in my late 50s now and watching this video again I'm more aware of the work that went into putting this video together. Unlike today when you can create the same visuals in a computer back then I'm sure most if not all of this video was produced practically with some photographic fx. Videos like this and Sledgehammer are more art forms than just music videos.
I don't think this _insane_ music video is getting the appreciation it deserves. I mean, the amount of effort of photographing things moving, then printing them, then laying them out on top of each other _physically_ and perfectly matching the song is astonishing. Why isn't this one of the most iconic music videos ever??
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
Me, too.
David Byrne & CO --- just awesome!
Literally could not word that better! spot on
With you there bleep77
Decades come down to a few songs. This is one of them.
David Byrne is a Living Genius, a musical treasure...
De do de vienes succionar forasart
I've always loved DB, but the rest of the band are no slouches either! Take Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth--The Tom Tom Club, hello? That song, 'Genius of Love' WILL NOT DIE. And all their production work w/ The Marleys? I mean, come on!
Hi I recommend taking a listen to a Song which is called 'Where I Come From' By Robert Nix
HE TOtALLY IS!
absolutely, indeed; he was my passion during the 90`s music;🎼🎹🎤🎸🪕🥁🥁
I am 65 years old and I can truly tell you the Talking Heads were the best and still are! Makes me Happy every time I hear them!
makes you feel young no matter what age!
I am 35 years old and it makes me Happy every time I hear them!
I know of somebody’s now late grandma who said the same thing!
I’m 16 (Turning 17 On April 4), & I Agree What You All Are Saying.
i am 43 years old. me too
Imagine me, a seventy year old senior listening to Talking Heads; I love this song! It lifts my spirits, makes me tap my feet and nod my head.
edward licence
No worries I’m damn near 60 and listening to it lol...good music can be enjoyed no matter how old we are....👍🏼
Well I'm 16 and I fucking love the talking heads.
You’re saying70 like it’s old or something? I’d be more concerned if you’re 70 and not listening to this.
@@chevyman1722 you're going to look back on this 20yrs from now,and say"oh,why didn't I realize that I was still young!
@@Mr102405 exactly!
70's the new 30.
David Byrne was way ahead of his time. What he and Brian Eno did. Amazing music that still resonates today.
Word
Absolutely
Music still hasn't caught up to him yet.
Eno didn't produce this one, but did the three albums right before it.
I grew up in the 80's and I liked this band but it wasn't until I was older that I realized how brilliant that they were.
I liked them enough in the 80's as a teenager, but when I started dating a recent Art School graduate in 90 I learned how many layers there were to Byrne's work and i got a new appreciation for Talking Heads.
Same here.....
Me too
Exactly the same for me. 80s kid, kinda knew them but there was so much else going on. Big revival for me now. Keep on keeping on.
@@edwardgiovannelli5191 ‘dating a recent art school graduate’… ie., Starbucks barista.
This is the song that introduced me to the Talking Heads. I was 15. Every single one of their songs are different and to me that is amazing with their vast catalogue. Incredible talent here.
Mine was Road to Nowhere from the Little Monsters soundtrack...I think I was like 7 or so lol. It's still my favorite of theirs but this is a close second :)
My ex husband's (now late) grandmother never saw a music video in her life. This one happened to be on MTV at that moment I saw her. Tears were in her eyes. This video made her so happy. Her husband was physically abusive and controlled her every move. The ONLY one she saw before she passed. I still think about it today. He wasn't in the room. She saw this in it's entirety. I cry because I gave her happiness. So did this video. Much love. Thank you for reading.
Yes. Thank you for sharing this.
Connie Webster You're very welcome. She was the kindest elderly woman. The little things gave her joy. "And She Was" part of my life.
Heart wrenching and beautiful.
Wow wipes tears, happen to be missing Mom n me Gramzz'ss today Love ya Ladies ps Thank You PnL StLM
That is really sweet
I'm 65, good music never gets to old.
Nor does grammar.
@@Pahakyy 😁
Ditto’ ~. That era. Cannot be duplicated
old ass fuck damn
@@Pahakyy your welcome
61 year old, and this song has new meaning: it's about my wife, multiple sclerosis has stripped away her ability to do anything but lift her right hand to her face, but her mind is still intact. She loves all that she senses: wind, bird song, sun's warmth, music, stories, humour, food and drink, being touched.
Just beautiful. Strength to you both.
My wife died back in July of this year. About 5 months before she died, she discovered the Talking Heads. Man she really loved this band!! I think she watched or listened to the Stop Making Sense album every day until she died.
Toby, I'm really sorry to hear that. A friend's wife was diagnosed with it, and she's 35 with two small daughters. Stay strong.
God bless you and your wife.
So hard to discern the plan or purpose, yet all the joys of life still hers deliberately.
What else do we have Toby as human incarnations? All of it everything to you both.
63 here. The Taljing Heads exist because of Tina's baselines. David Byrne was a performance artist. He was their appearance. Tina and her husband were their substance.
In 1980, my wife described them as" Punk-Funk", which I think describes them perfectly.
@@gorrilaz-ck8xs
That's why it's art. We don't all get the same thing when we study it.
@@h.s.thompsonduke8105 💓
Tina formed Tom Tom Club with her sister and husband. The band made a Huge impact on me because of the sound and the lyrics without any filter! Amazing
I was an eighties teen and it still amazes me that we took all this for granted back then. But I suppose that's youth for you.
Ya me too, was a world I absolutely loved, late 70s and early 80s punk, ska, and new wave the best time to be alive especially in the UK :) We 'owned' Punk and Ska. ;)
You live and learn
“Youth is wasted on the young” -
I was in my older teens til 86, t these guys were played at every hay burning we did! Along with Zeppelin and so many other awesome band s from the 70’s-80’s.
@@STeALtHsVidzwell, this music is neither buddy
You can tell at the end of the song they knew they had an amazing hit: cowbell clanging away, guitar riffs come in, silly and obnoxious vocals. They're having so much fun, and their music is pure joy.
one of their best for sure... I'd be honored if some Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) ruclips.net/video/ufAJixCpGZU/видео.html on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Peace and stay safe.
......AND SHE WAS!!!!! AWESOME!
More cowbell!
MORE cowbells
Was in England in 1986, and my boyfriend and his band used to do this song to perfection when they played pubs and social clubs. Its still one of the songs on their list that i remember vividly. Inwas 25, am 61 now and this brings back awesome memories 😊
Did you and Boyfriend split?
@@JH-mi2vw unfortunately, we did. But we were both young, in our 20's, so it isnt that surprising. I loved England, not the young man.
Cool story
@cernegiant398 thx 😀
@cernegiant398 I will be 63 in December :)
I'm 24, both me and my Mrs love 80's music. I've always said I'm an old soul born too late. Will forever cherish this song and have it on my playlists
Child of the 80’s here, David’s vision and of the future was wildly correct. Now that we got it what are we gonna do with it? Maybe we’ll keep ruining it! Sorry we missed the warning signs too!
You both have great taste in music
I’m. 26 and the 80s brings me such a nostalgic wonderful happy feeling idk why and it all is so familiar it’s so weird lol but I love it can’t beat 80s music none can idc what generation were talking bout lol
And the fashionable clothing 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Teenager in the 80s here. It was better than you could ever imagine ❤
Without the Talking Heads, '80's Mtv just wouldn't have been the same. It was like each of their song's videos was a trip inside the mind of David Byrne. Artistic expression at it's best, I believe..
This video still blows my mind. The colors all look washed out and similar grainy because they used old school photographs copy/pasted together and put through a Color Xerox Copier to create the images for what is basically a cartoon made with photographs. Crazy stuff.
Im 45 years old from New-Zealand and grew up listening to them on the radio, I still listen to them now, and they are still being played on the radio - LOVE TALKING HEADS!!!
Same here. Love them.
Kiwi here, yes they're awesome!
Got to see the David Byrne/Heads 2 times in Seattle Bumbershoot. During Burning down the house, David Byrne changes his wardrobe into a flaming suit of fire. Awesome! Long live the Heads!
61 and remembering how great the music used to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss it! I'm 49
Their stuff is so amazingly fresh that I keep forgetting how old these songs are.
Imagine, all of us young'ns during this time are going to be listening to this, Sid Vicious, the Ramones, and punk in our retirement homes. Can't wait!!!
Rock on
This song never gets old.
My favorite TH song
Talking Heads was a GREAT band, consisting of four GREAT creative musicians lead by the indominatable incredible David Byrne! Miss them & their fun music!
I was 27 in 1984. I thought mtv and all our hot damn best music 70s 80s era would last FOREVER!! I can't believe im freaking 67 yeara old!! I feel young!!
Same here 😊
I know what you mean!
I was 4 in 1984 ...
@@davidchill79
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I izgledate mlado, svaka čast na mladom duhu, da ste živi i zdravi još dugo dugo dugo, uzdravlje.
Hey!
And she was lying in the grass
And she could hear the highway breathing
And she could see a nearby factory
She's making sure she is not dreaming
See the lights of a neighbor's house
Now she's starting to rise
Take a minute to concentrate
And she opens up her eyes
The world was moving she was right there with it and she was
The world was moving she was floating above it and she was
And she was
And she was drifting through the backyard
And she was taking off her dress
And she was moving very slowly
Rising up above the earth
Moving into the universe and she's
Drifting this way and that
Not touching the ground at all and she's
Up above the yard
The world was moving, she was right there with it and she was
(Hey, hey)
The world was moving, she was floating above it and she was
(Hey, hey, hey)
She was proud about it, no doubt about it
She isn't sure about what she's done
No time to think about what to tell him
No time to think about what she's done and she was
(Hey hey, hey hey, hey)
And she was looking at herself
And things were looking like a movie
She had a pleasant elevation
She's moving out in all directions oh, oh oh
Hey, hey, hey
Hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey-hey hey!
Hey, hey, hey
Hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey-hey hey!
The world was moving, she was right there with it and she was
(Hey, woo hoo)
The world was moving, she was floating above it and she was
(Hey, hey)
Joining the world of missing persons and she was
Missing enough to feel all right and she was
And she was
And she was
And she was
And she was
And she was
Hey!
And she was!
And she was
And she was!
Thanks !!!
Thanks for posting
Thank you
Hi! can someone tell me the right sense of "and she was" while translating the lyrics into Spanish? thanks!
G C . . 🥳👍 , Thank - You ! 👏 Good Health to you & Yours !
Seen David in a shopping cart in a parking lot in a rainstorm, giving a interview with MTV when this song came out. Over the top funny, I'm still gigglin... long live talking heads - I'll keep listening forever...
seeing so many people comment on this music video with their own experiences is so amazing to me. this band united so many different people and this song still means a lot to them to this day. i love this song so much and always will!
Trying to get my mind off the plague right now. This is exactly what I needed. I'm smiling and tapping my feet.
me too
From Canada. all the best to you
Me too. 😂😂✌🥰
Me too.... all the best from Australia!
Isa virus...
She was, and still is, in my rapidly fading memories of the 80's. Great song, great times.
I bought the 7" single of this when it came out in early 1986. I've probably still got it - definitely still have the copy of Once in a Lifetime that I bought five years before that.
I thought this was about a girl he knew who did her own thing and went her own way,however eccentric or unconventional,and came in and out of his life on her wander through life.
This reminds me of flying dreams that I used to have.
I was singing this song to myself when I was riding my bike today. It always makes me ride in long swooping curves while I belt it out. Thank you David Byrne.
...and she was singing this song.
and she was riding her bike.
and she was belting and swooping.
and she was thanking David Byrne.
...the world was moving and ....
This song was in the charts while I was captured in the John Radcliffe hospital in Feb 1986, I was pregnant and my baby wasn't growing properly because I couldn't stop dashing around , this tune saved my sanity, and even now in 2020 "and she was" relates to my baby girl who is 34 and beautiful ♥️
Lovely,I hope both of you stay healthy and happy.
I was sent to the Radcliffe in 2012,for an angiogram. There were banks of screens on either side of me so it was possible to see my heart and what they were doing in the procedure - only I crashed out asleep for most of it. I'd felt a bit nervous but they put me at ease and were very good to me all the way through. I was supposed to be collected and taken back to Milton Keynes Hospital,only between the two of them they forgot! So the Radcliffe put me up for the night in a good single room,like being in a 3 or 4 star hotel,with a nice view from several floors up over a leafy part of Oxford.
Right on! Stay righteous!
Beautiful
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yes I was working for the BBC in Shepards Bush going out a girl named marion
I am sixty-nine and I've been rocking to the Talking Heads for,..forty years at least
The most original band of all time.
Same with the Beatles too
@dread true The B52's are alright, but compared to the Talking Heads, their songs are gimmicks.
The B52's songs are fun, Talking Heads however are on a whole other plane of existence, their songs were profound and meaningful.
Music is art. Art is subjective. What about this band makes them more original than any others? Your statement is an opinion with nothing to back it up. All musicians are influenced by someone else. What is deep and meaningful to you may mean absolutely nothing to someone else. There is no need to disparage or put someone else's favorite music down because it doesn't resonate with the same way with you as it does with them. To not realize or understand this is ignorance in it's purest form.
@dread true My statement was made to the original post by GRADSKA BOY "The most original band of all time." and the conversation that followed. I was in a way actually defending what you said about the B-52's to Luka Baljkas' reply stating that B-52's songs are "gimmicks" or tricks. When clearly the B-52's mean more to you than they mean to Luka. I said "art is subjective." art is subjective to the person who experiences it. That is not an opinion. That is a truth. I was not being arrogant and I displayed no personal tastes for any music at all. I asked what makes them more original than any other band because I am curious.
"Blah blah blah, voicing an opinion may hurt someone's feelings, so you better not have one and just shut up, blah blah blah."
That's you Higgins, in case you dont recognize yourself.
Do you realize how empty inside and boring you sound?
This band is gonna be big! I just know it.
GB89 this album was from 1985...
Yuuki Goku You don't understand comedy
Yes, and I was born 1989, not yesterday.
GB89 👍
You know what Yuuki Goku, I'm sorry. I don't want to be that guy who's a jerk in the comments section. I think we can both agree this is a great song from a great band and shouldn't squabble with each other.
Tina Weymouth's amazing bass phrasing is what gives this song such a loose, funky and fun vibe. Such a great bass player.
LOVE DAVID! GENIUS! ♡♡♡
Here we gather in the world of missing persons, doesn't it feel lovely?
I didn't appreciate any 80's music in the 80's, and now I search it out!
I was at a wedding and this was played by the dj. Never seen so many youngsters dancing very weirdly to this and knowing all the words. 👍👍
😂 my niece is 15 and is mad into them and she loves the Smiths, anything 80s ,70s 60s and even 50s music..dresses in dungarees and a nirvana t shirt ❤ love it
@@brilafableAWESOME 😎!!!! ❤❤❤ My daughter just turned 16 and she's been the same way ... Elders look at her like " how do you know who that is ?" Lol.... Bless our babies 💞 happy turkey day ☺️
Funny thing.....I was always a big fan of the talking Heads, and knew their songs well. When my Mom died, amid all the sadness....someone said "She is...I mean, "She Was'. So This song, and video came to mind! Bizarre I know....But I looked at it, and it all seemed to fit a woman, that died and moved up and on, and out in all directions'...liberated of her old body and life, moving into so much exciting and new. It just made me feel good and Happy for her.....like her soul was happy, and letting us know as much. Weird Eh?
I never listened to the words of this song too closely till I read your comment. Now I gotta tear in my eye thinking of my own mother who is gone. You nailed it. Awesome. Thank you.
That's a beautiful thought about your mom! It's very Interesting! It's probably the truth
The same goes for me man, I lost my mom last year, I think about her everyday. Thank you for giving me one more thing to remember her by:)
How sweet, bawling my eyes out...why do I feel I know your Mom??
@@debralynnneidenthal-davis7107 Thank you Debra....Who knows. : )
I was born in 1967 and the 80's were the best without a doubt. Peace 🚂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👌
The band that not only was so so so successful but also FULL OF GREAT IDEAS , lyrics and kick ass videos ,
The most original band of all time.
Every person I know who loves The Talking Heads is weird.Including myself.
This song envokes such a strange sense of nolstalgia even if you haven't heard it before
Exactly! I've been listening 2 this song since early 80's. I love this band.
Well said about yourself
I see you!
My daughter, all of 8 years old use to dance around to this mid 1990s. Now she's a Mom with her own kids. I STILL see her moving to this . She can't help it 😆😆
Im 50 years old and I can say without hesitation that this band was tops in my childhood!
So much this 😃
Me too…(same age) it sounds even better now
Happy 73rd Birthday Charton Christopher Frantz May 8, 1951.. Fort Campbell, Kentucky..
The Talking Heads were this really fantastic band that came out of the whole N.Y.C. C.B.G.B.'s scene.
It took time but they caught fire and then everyone was burning down the house..
I always thought they were a British band
@@omegajrz1269 David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. The rest of the band members are US born.
Something about listening to old upbeat songs like this that just makes you feel like your a main character in your own little movie or something.
this band helped us understand the future we are living in.. they was ahead of the game..
She sees so clearly. Visions prove truths waiting proves true....thank my God as always
That was one the songs that impacted me as a college student at 18. When you get in touch with original material at that age, it will stick. The rest of your days. Thank you, David.
I was in an abusive relationship and would creep out onto the trampoline in the dark in my pajamas. This song always reminded me of me and the joy I was able to feel in the middle of lunacy. Love it.
Hope your situation better now
Nasmate
I had a trampoline
Whats with all the abuse stories?
This song always reminds me of hypergamy and the milkman.
Not abuse, but lo-fidelity, nonetheless.
@@frankyw8803 😂😂
I'm sorry for what you had to endure. I hope that you're in a better situation now.
What a masterpiece! Killer drum track. Solid groove with perfectly timed snare roll fills.
I was born 1954. listen to old and new music still. so many levels ones are recorded in my mimd
Paul Lashley 1964 for me still listen too😘
@@karolinesmail489 hi I'm 1964 too! Hope you're having a good life. PS: this is Sonya, Alan's wife
I was born in 1951 and still crave good loud rock and roll!
@@judithdorsey1179 Me too. I remember when Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, the Beatles changed the world forever,
Really great song.The power ending is brilliant.
David byrne, fecking genius, all these these songs still sound fresh , one of the most underrated bands of the 80s
Its ok, im from your era too, i met my grandson a month ago, he was born on my birthday, November 1st, All Saints Day, a message from God for sure,
First Talking Heads song I had heard, back in 1985. Was the introduction to what is now my favourite band.
David doing his thing. Love it!
I remember loving this as a kid. I'm going to play this song for my grandkids, you can't be anything but happy listening to The Heads.
The David Byrne show last Friday at Roskilde Festival in Denmark was out of this world. Byrne is just amazing
0:44 is just pure art
Yes
I’m a carer at an old folks home, my favourite resident said this was his favourite song, it could be mine now too, I’ll always remember him now ☺️
And we "old folks" are still fans of the Talking Heads. We were there for David Byrne in the mid-80s and many of us are still here in our 80s still listening and thinking "When are we going to wake up this 2020 clusterflock?
There will never be another song like this one. So unique. Brilliant.
Love the video Jim Blashfield did for the Talking Heads...
The penny tiles, the tinted photography, Byrne crooning
from an old TV... Just pure genius in genius company!!!
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I'm 62 years young and still listen and dance to them crazy,just like them all good though 💯❤❤❤
Still loving the music of the Talking Heads in 2022 Heading into 2023!😁❤
I'm 53 now and everytime I hear this song it takes me back to being about 17 and all the stuff I had going on in my life at that time. Love it.
I'm the mabuti, I'm from the planet Zaboobia, and I agree with you.
We get old, music doesn’t!!!
Hey, speak for yourself! :)
Brilliant music - David Byrne was and is a Genius
Def one of my most fav Talking Heads songs/music videos... perfectly captures the magical essence of 80's music.
i’m so glad I was raised on talking heads
Con razón Cerati en "Pic Nic En El 4to B" decía "She Was". Un genio total Gus.
Claro. Porque Doble Vida tiene un sonido muy Nueva York. Y Talking Heads en los 80s era una de las bandas mas grandes de Nueva York
One of the best songs about tripping on acid ever written....so joyous.
Thank you David Byrne
The most original band of all time.
I'm 20 today, Thanks for all the good music dad. He died same time last year. Good song.
First song I heard from them . I was young and the older cool kids played it . Always takes me back
This song along with most of their music has always lifted my spirits and made me happy!!
It's not a coincidence that we have the best music decade after decade to listen to, and now instantly access via RUclips and other platforms. The world is here, for us.🙂
We are here to experience, learn and grow, spiritually. No time for worry, or regret. It's all happened the way it was supposed to.
This song was, is, and always will be a part of my inner soundtrack. ❤
Same with me. One of those songs I love so much. How are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe out there?
Gotta remember that, 'inner soundtrack'
Part of my 77 y.o. soundtrack, too, along with many other tunes by Byrne, Talking Heads, and Tom Tom Club. Numerous comments here reminded me of Greg Khin’s immortal hit from the same era, “The Breakup Song”: ruclips.net/video/vjWd_7OzO84/видео.html. I hope that some you from later generations will hear this for the first time 🥰
ruclips.net/video/vjWd_7OzO84/видео.html
lyrics that at first confuse . . . .then inspire . . . .one of the few groups to consistantly pull the same ruse time after time . . . .what amazing talent !
One of the most brilliant songs ever written. This video is genius. Love you, David Byrne; we are kindred spirits.
This was the first music video I ever saw, and I will never forget the feelings I had while watching: confusion, elation, excitement, guilt, happiness, etc. I was only 11, so I couldn’t have known expressed those emotions at the time. But now, almost 40 years later, I can. And it’s still so freakin cool!
guilt?
Hello David, I just woke up and got my guitar and started playing "Once In A Lifetime". Great music. Thank you for the beautiful songs all this time. A hi from Brazil.
Being a 68 Year Old Hispanic from San Antonio, Texas, I danced to this Song at Night Clubs during the New Wave Music of the 80's. What a mesmerizing, blissful, splendid moment in Time.
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Talking Heads. Two of my favourite bands
Haven't seen this in years and still the piece of absolute genius as I remember it. Happy, happy days...
Thank you David Byrne
Stop Making Sense is quite possibly the best rock and roll concert film ever made.😊
This was one of the first songs I put on my cd in 4th grade in like 07 song still stood up then, and still stands up today. Masterpiecee
This is going to be my exit song at my funeral. It's in my advanced directive.❤ It's my love letter to all who attend to let them know that I'm happy and I'll be waiting at "The Bridge" for them when it's their turn to go.
That's amazing one of my older sisters loved this song as do I she passed in 2000 and your comment just made me smile so thank you!!!
isn’t this song about LSD though
@sci_pain3409 your mind is very tiny.
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My brother put talking heads on one day when i was 12- never looked back since now 49.
Great artist.
Same here , 71 and Im listening!🥰
Oh had totally forgotten this song by them. One of my favorites and such a great group. Their music videos and songs were some of my favorites from the 80s . Timeless music Thanks so much for the upload David!
"True Stories" is one of my favorite films though I always fall asleep. Dallas was so small in the 80's. Jamming "Dream Operator" right now.
Just learned this on the bass today, love Talking Heads!
very cool!
Tina!
There is a wonderful eccentricity and surrealism about Talking Heads, in their music and wonderful videos. This is such a cool idea... a story as well as a song, that a woman was able to just float off into space one day and become a missing person just because she felt like it; using the power of her mind. This kind of stop-motion animated video was very trendy in the 80's. Another in this style was "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel. I've always loved Talking Heads and David Byrne's edgy, slightly mad-sounding vocals. I've never forgotten seeing him dancing insanely on stage in that rubber yellow suit. So original and so entertaining. 😍
Heard this song playing in a grocery store today; lately I will hear an oldie like this and will somehow develop a new appreciation for it for some reason, over and above when it originally charted. Nostalgia, I guess, and it can sneak up on one when least expected. I just may add this to my YT song favorites.
ANOTHER TIMELESS CLASSIC!! 80"S MUSIC RULES!! the dj
I was 9 when this song came out and adored it then. I'm now 44 and still feel the exact same about it. There's certain songs that I call 'lifey' songs in that I have always loved them and if you were having a life review or your life was a film these songs would be the soundtrack at certain times. It's a different feeling to just another song I like, a goose pimply bigger picture thing. This is one of those songs. I have recently been listening to lots of accounts of people having near death experiences and although I'm not sure of the original meaning of this song and video it seems to be just that.
I agree. I was in my early 20s when this song came out. I remember having MTV on all the time and when this song came out I couldn't get it out of my head. It's so good to this day. I'm in my late 50s now and watching this video again I'm more aware of the work that went into putting this video together. Unlike today when you can create the same visuals in a computer back then I'm sure most if not all of this video was produced practically with some photographic fx. Videos like this and Sledgehammer are more art forms than just music videos.
I don't think this _insane_ music video is getting the appreciation it deserves. I mean, the amount of effort of photographing things moving, then printing them, then laying them out on top of each other _physically_ and perfectly matching the song is astonishing. Why isn't this one of the most iconic music videos ever??
Three most under rated bands of the 80's - Talking Heads, The Cars, and Cheap Trick.
I heard a lot of all of them when I was a kid in the 80s! But maybe my parents just had good taste haha
@@oxfordpictionary underrated !!! first i heard of it ,,, by who
Fun fact I know all of those bands.
ilove this song i hope this is played at my funuralyl
hey 👋how are you doing today??