Once in a Lifetime

Once in a Lifetime refers to two compilation albums by the American rock band Talking Heads, being a one-disc set released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand by Sire/Warner Bros. in 1992, and a three-disc set released in the United States of America by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino in 2003. The single-CD The Best Of (Once In A Lifetime) (1992) is a fourteen-track collection released at the same time as the double disc anthology Sand in the Vaseline w... more

Once in a Lifetime refers to two compilation albums by the American rock band Talking Heads, being a one-disc set released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand by Sire/Warner Bros. in 1992, and a three-disc set released in the United States of America by Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino in 2003. The single-CD The Best Of (Once In A Lifetime) (1992) is a fourteen-track collection released at the same time as the double disc anthology Sand in the Vaseline was released in the United States of America. It covers the Talking Heads most well-known songs as well as including two lesser-known tracks, "Sax and Violins" and "Lifetime Piling Up". The comprehensive three-CD box set Once in a Lifetime also includes a DVD, an expanded version of the music video compilation Storytelling Giant. The discs are packaged in a wide horizontal book that recalls a CD longbox, featuring paintings by Russian artists Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov and by art directed by Stefan Sagmeister (for which he... less