Once in a Lifetime (Boxed set) (2003)

Assembled with all of the band members' participation, ONCE IN A LIFETIME offers plenty for longtime fans as well as those just discovering the band. The three CDs provide the most comprehensive overview of the band ever released, compiling all the hits as well as album cuts and rarities. In addition to songs like "Psycho Killer," "Take Me To The River," "Life During Wartime," "Once In A Lifetime," "Burning Down The House," "And She Was," and "Wild Wild Life," the set holds fan favorites like "Pulled Up," "Artists Only," "Heaven," "Houses In Motion," "Slippery People," and "Creatures Of Love."

The audio discs include five previously-unreleased tracks: alternate versions of "Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town" (with steel drums throughout the song), "New Feeling," "Cities" (with additional lyrics), and "Drugs" (featuring Robert Fripp on guitar); and "In Asking Land," an outtake from the Naked sessions. The set also includes "A Clean Break (live)," previously available only on the 1982 double live LP The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads, and never before available on CD. Very early cuts like "Sugar On My Tongue," "Love ® Building On Fire," and "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That," are also featured, as well as "Sax and Violins," which was originally released on the Until The End Of The World soundtrack.

Talking Heads always used a strong visual element to complement their music and created some groundbreaking music videos. Their multimedia orientation is reflected by the inclusion of a fourth disc, a DVD of Storytelling Giant (Expanded), which compiles all of the band's music videos on DVD for the first time. The disc offers three videos never before on DVD (and which were not part of the 1988 VHS release of Storytelling Giant)-"Blind," "(Nothing But) Flowers," and "Sax And Violins"-as well as previously unseen additional interstitials.

Tracks:

CD1

1. Sugar on my Tongue
2. Love -> Building on Fire
3. I Wish you Wouldn't Say That
4. Don't Worry About the Government
5. Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Version) *
6. New Feeling (Alternate Version) *
7. Pulled Up
8. Psycho Killer
9. Warning Sign
10. Artists Only
11. Tentative Decisions
12. No Compassion
13. Stay Hungry
14. I'm not in Love
15. The Book I Read
16. Thank you for Sending me an Engel
17. Found a Job
18. A Clean Break (Live)
19. Take me to the River
20. The Big Country
21. Heaven

CD2

1. I Zimbra
2. Cities (Alternate Version) *
3. Life During Wartime
4. Air
5. Memories Can't Wait
6. Drugs (Alternate Version) *
7. Once in a Lifetime
8. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes on)
9. Listening Wind
10. Houses in Motion
11. Crosseyed and Painless
12. Burning Down the House
13. Making Flippy Floppy (Extended Version)
14. Girlfriend is Better (Extended Version)
15. Slippery People (Extended Version)
16. Swamp
17. This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)

CD3

1. And She Was
2. Stay up Late
3. Creatures of Love
4. The Lady don't Mind
5. Road to Nowhere
6. Wild Wild Life
7. Love for Sale
8. People Like Us
9. Puzzlin' Evidence
10. City of Dreams
11. Blind
12. Mr. Jones
13. The Democratic Circus
14. (Nothing but) Flowers
15. In Asking Land (Outtake) **
16. Sax and Violins
17. Lifetime Piling Up

DVD "Storytelling Giant" (Expanded)

1. Once in a Lifetime
2. Wild Wild Life
3. Stay up Late
4. Blind *
5. Crosseyed and Painless
6. Burning Down the House
7. And She Was
8. Sax and Violins *
9. This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)
10. The Lady Don't Mind
11. Love for Sale
12. (Nothing but) Flowers *
13. Road to Nowhere

*) Previsouly unreleased
**) Early version of "Carnival Eyes", released on David Byrne's "Rei Momo" album