Like the highly visual NYC art-rockers themselves, this collector is smart and beautiful at the same time in terms of both sound and art. From the band's early days, in the late 1970s, Once In A Lifetime contains raging, urban tracks like Don't Worry About The Government and Pulled Up. From the city, the setting shifts to wider spaces with Take Me To The River, the Al Green cover that marked their
… breakthrough, and the rural strum of The Big Country. The second disc shows the pinnacle of their fruitful collaboration with Brian Eno, while frontman David Byrne reached a new high, both lyrically and experimentally, with the iconic title track. The third disc draws on the band's later years and features their most accessible songs (And She Was, Road To Nowhere and Wild Wild Life) along with the previously unreleased In Asking Land. A nice overview of the constantly resourceful and restlessly energetic ensemble that the Talking Heads once was.more
