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Big Daddy — Once In A Lifetime
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SoundThinker
(Denver, CO)
Posted: May 07, 2013 - 01:37
 
Probably the best concert of the close to 2000 I’ve seen was the Talking Heads at Red Rocks the first time. I hate to say it, but that version of “Once in A Lifetime” by Big Daddy might be better than the original!

There! I said it!

And I bet that David Bryne loves this version!

joelbb
Posted: May 07, 2013 - 01:36
 
I think I like it.  Note that it's Calypso, not Reggae.

Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 15:31
 
it was worth a try.....FAIL. 2.

skooba
(The tip of Americas Wang)
Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 21:54
 
Wow, this is different.  Not sure if I like it.  Gonna have to give it a few more listens.
musicology
Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 21:54
 
certainly unusual. unusually horrible. please make it stop.

alicewonderland
(Boulder, CO)
Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 10:14
 
This song stopped me cold in my tracks.  I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's certainly dramatic.  After the "am I hearing what I think I'm hearing...?" moment at the beginning, I pushed away from my desk and started to laugh to kill myself.

Thanks, RP, for the unexpected.   :)

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 10:12
 


casey1024
(Here and Now)
Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 10:12
 
Oddness

Grizzly_old_man
(I'm in the state of confusion on the west coast of Illinois)
Posted: Mar 14, 2008 - 04:07
 
Its to bad the rating system doesn’t have a “that was strange” position.
tiggers
Posted: Mar 14, 2008 - 02:49
 
Some things are just plain wrong. This is one of them!
prickelpit96
(Hannover, Germany)
Posted: Mar 14, 2008 - 02:48
 
Harry Belafonte meets David Byrne?
redfern777
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 15:40
 
Is this a lost track from the Little Mermaid soundtrack....(not that I know what that sounds like).


PeterRigg
(Lancashire, England)
Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 15:40
 
Great! There's something particularly fitting about this song done in a-sort of-African way. They've got the delights of suburban alienation to look forward to. They can go from malaria or whatever to depression as their killer disease.
davin
(Victoria, British Columbia)
Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 15:39
 
Well done and in a different way. WACKY but I respect the madness put into this one.
Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 15:38
 
Wow, I thought I recognized this.
Really out there!
One banana, two banana, three banana, more....
DigitalJer
(Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 15:38
 
I get it :D
MM13
(High in the lo country)
Posted: Jan 11, 2008 - 04:25
 
Kudos to Bill for letting us listen to radically different approaches of well known songs, but as the title says: once in a lifetime.
alanthecowboy
(Lakefield)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 18:54
 
brandog wrote:
Just can't get with it - it reminds me too much of Leonard Nimoy singing "If I Had a Hammer" on too many levels.


Check out the list of other tunes on this album. Some of this stuff would make Nimoy's album seem almost artful. That said, I don't mind THIS.
gekkosan
(Ithaca, NY)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 18:54
 
I consider myself an admirer of David Byrne, the Talking Heads, and the original version of this song (yeah, I like Harry Belafonte too). Somehow that doesn't prevent me from seeing the humor and cleverness in this version. It's well crafted, played and sung. Not te be overplayed, for sure, but amusing all the same.
zogma
(San Francisco, Cole Valley)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 18:52
 
Hilarious! I love it!
gerardjfe
(Barcelona)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 18:51
 

(former member)
(limbo)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 18:50
 
Just can't get with it - it reminds me too much of Leonard Nimoy singing "If I Had a Hammer" on too many levels.
KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:17
 
iTuner wrote:
This isn't genius, it is crap that rips off Belafonte and the Talking Heads.

Any stooge can put two songs together.

I'd be embarrassed to record this and call myself a musician.
Wow! I'd like to hear your version.
mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:16
 
...awesome!..
chyk5
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:15
 
Egads!
iTuner
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:15
 
This isn't genius, it is crap that rips off Belafonte and the Talking Heads.

Any stooge can put two songs together.

I'd be embarrassed to record this and call myself a musician.
davyjrshort
(In The Cloudz)
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:14
 
Daylight come and me wan'go home....


jstrait
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:14
 
HEY MR TALLYMAN!!! TALLY ME TAKINHEADS!!!!
DoctorHooey
(/etc)
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:13
 
Bwahahaha hilarious! Almost as good as Weird Al doing the Beverly Hillbilles theme to the tune of "Money for Nothing".
eastcoast
Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:13
 
not that impressed but not that bad either
panda
(Guatemala)
Posted: Dec 26, 2005 - 14:11
 
this just plain out sucks, whats going on here? I guess they're trying to build the playlist into some african-tropical-dancy mood, but for what purposes I can only wonder....
ddunne
(Liberty Lake, WA)
Posted: Dec 26, 2005 - 14:08
 
A fantastic rendition - brings new character to familiar material!~
olsaltybastard
Posted: Dec 12, 2005 - 02:16
 
Not really my taste, but I do respect the making the song their own, and not a karaoke version.
bkrontz
(Houston, Texas)
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 - 11:13
 
Cool!
islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 - 11:02
 
Relax, it's a nice take on a great song. David Byrne has dabbled in a tone of different types of music, so it fits that his songs should too.
mojoman
(Rocky Mountains, Colorado)
Posted: Nov 27, 2005 - 11:01
 
algodiferente wrote:
they trash a signature TH song. please no more.


Sorry, this is much preferable to the pretentious David Byrne version.
algodiferente
(Southern Cone)
Posted: Oct 29, 2005 - 05:40
 
they trash a signature TH song. please no more.
NoEnzLefttoSplit
(just out of stuttgart, near the woods)
Posted: Oct 14, 2005 - 13:33
 
Is this for real!!! Wow!

It's like some kind of bizarre time warp where DB's lyrics pop out of some kind of pod twenty years earlier and morph into this.. Totally bizarre!! Don't think I want to hear it twice, but this was a good laugh.
huebdoo
Posted: Oct 14, 2005 - 13:33
 
Love it Love it Love ... what a great version... I just need my big oversized suit and jump around

Ladan
(Chicago)
Posted: Oct 14, 2005 - 13:32
 
Hmm. No. I don't know. I mean I guess it's ok. But then again, no.

This version loses the intensity that the original has in unmistakable quantity.
blinkblink
Posted: Sep 29, 2005 - 20:50
 
Great.

I was listening to this thinking I know these lyrics and I do.

:D

rolf
(Frankfurt, Germany)
Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 03:00
 
8O ... hmmmm....interesting...
I still don´t know if I like it. Maybe I should rate it the next time
Filofox
(Nowhere important)
Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 02:56
 
Genuine LOL.
maLeFunKtion
(Scotland)
Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 06:02
 
I like this
beckdog
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Aug 16, 2005 - 09:35
 
And you may ask yourself, "My god, what have I done to deserve this!?" And you may tell yourself "huh, kind of grows on you"
LLMikeJ
(midwest)
Posted: Aug 16, 2005 - 09:27
 
Platypus wrote:
if i were to hear this while sipping a cerveza by the tiki hut, i would laugh briefly at the choice of cover songs and then ignore it. hearing it here, the novelty wears off almost immediately, and it simply makes me cringe. sounds like a cheesy bar band doing a cheesy cover. bah.
me too. off to the LRC.
Platypus
(here, now)
Posted: Aug 01, 2005 - 13:35
 
if i were to hear this while sipping a cereza by the tiki hut, i would laugh briefly at the choice of cover songs and then ignore it. hearing it here, the novelty wears off almost immediately, and it simply makes me cringe. sounds like a cheesy bar band doing a cheesy cover. bah.
cds
(Finger Lakes, NY)
Posted: Aug 01, 2005 - 13:33
 
This is f***ed up, and I don't like. Bah.
Drunkenlilacwine
(almost there)
Posted: Aug 01, 2005 - 13:32
 
This is an very interesting song. THe other version by Talking Heads doesn't comopare.

Which one came first?
rgj13
Posted: Aug 01, 2005 - 13:31
 
Nice.