Life During Wartime

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What's it like to play a song like Life During Wartime today?

Oh, boy.

We do it and, uh, it, yeah, it seems too real and too, too close almost.

Just the four of them doing their thing with a handful of session players.

It included tracks like Life During Wartime that displayed tight funk grooves mixed with punk urgency.

And The World Turns, an early example of art punk experimentation.

Critics described it as quirky, unsettling, yet surprisingly coherent.

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In this film, there's a scene with the girls walking down the street in Times Square to "Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads and just dancing down the street with peop- It's fucking awesome.

It's a great movie.

It's a really cool movie, especially if you wanna see New York in the late '70s.

... is that it's a bit of a yin and yang situation.

The first one is Life During Wartime by Talking Heads.

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And the reason for that is that it's kind of talking about the, um, the uncertainty and the kind of, I won't say panic, but the, what's kind of going on at the moment.

right.

It's Life During Wartime.

So it's like just, it's this whole song about like going through all of these different things that people during a war and a conflict are going through and just like doing it in a very mundane way.

Like just these are all the things that we have to do.

The number one most mentioned was This Must Be the Place.

Coming in at number two, Life During Wartime.

And we had that giant five-way tie for third between Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime, Born Under Punches, Psycho Killer, and Road to Nowhere.

So some of the other ones mentioned, Nothing But Flowers, Pulled Up, Television Man, Girlfriend Is Better, The Girl I Want, Slippery People, And She Was, Cities, Artists Only, Heaven, Great Curve, Little Creatures, Take Me to the River, and what seems to be like the last two.

But this was, this to me epitomizes all that.

yep i agree and uh yeah one thing he didn't write about a lot was anything you would say a political usually it wasn't like a political guy like that but this next one at least by the title uh we could talk about what it's uh what it's about here but let's listen to this next track this is youth of nation on fire Yeah, I was thinking this one, maybe his sort of, like the Talking Heads, Life During Wartime, like that type of thing, you know, watch the space, kill that sound, time to move underground.

I always saw it as more of a cultural thing, actually.

Like... you know, appealing to the youth of today to the, you know, you're the ones that are going to take it over.

You know, if it is a life during wartime thing, well, it's not me that's going to do it.

It's you guys that are going to do it.

And it's your time to make a move kind of a thing.