purchase [Once In A Lifetime]
The Element: Water redux
I really thought Retropath was headed down the right path
when he started out to list the entire table of elements. I was seriously
looking forward to the full 118.
Then again, considering the amount of time and energy
involved in his somewhat quixotic endeavor, I was more inclined to simply
complete the table of medieval elements along the lines of what J. David referred to.
Back at the time of the “It's Elemental” theme, I posted
Hot Tuna's "Water Song" (Which I have since learned to play!). Without making
distinction on the theme of the element
of water - since the two songs are in rather different musical categories,
I now realize I might well have posted Talking Heads' “Once In a Lifetime”.
For almost a decade, back in the 90s, I collected and re-re-listened
to David Byrne and the band. I later relished Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Arcade Fire (although I haven’t seen anyone else group them with Talking Heads, I
think so) as re-incarnations of the Talking Heads’ genre.
Still, Talking Heads would still take my category prize as
the elemental band of its style. And critical to that catalogue would be “Once
In a Lifetime” – not least for its relevance to “Plato and Aristotle’s”
Elements: there's water running all the way through in its original MTV version
here:
