Road to Nowhere
Song by Talking Heads
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Road to Nowhere".
Sep 11, 2026
JCHOST
However, it contemplates where everything might ultimately be heading, good or bad.
JCHOST
Where are we going? We're on the road to nowhere.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want And the future is certain Give us time to work it out Come on.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Come along and take that ride It's alright, baby, it's alright And it's very far away But it's growing day by day And it's alright, baby, it's alright Would you like to come along And come help me sing this song? It's alright, baby, it's alright We can tell you what to do But they'll make fun of you And it's alright It's on.
JCHOST
Yes, they're talking heads, I say, with a road to nowhere.
JCHOST
A strangely joyous procession towards an uncertain destination which seems inappropriate.
JCHOST
Bangs a mosh way of travelling anywhere.
JCHOST
But we now go back to Britain and a group whose name's considerably used to say once it's been shortened to a three-letter acronym, which we all live by today, OMD.
Mike GrahamHOST
listen uh tony the goon i very much appreciate your thoughts on this but unfortunately the quiz is out of our hands because the quiz questions are all done by independent quiz masters and it's already been done i haven't seen the questions yet but
Mike ParryHOST
what was that song Uh, that was Road to Nowhere.
Mike ParryHOST
Yeah, who's that? Talking Heads.
Mike ParryHOST
Talking Heads, that's
Glenn ReynoldsHOST
No, it's very hopeful.
Glenn ReynoldsHOST
It's like kind of the opposite of Road to Nowhere, right? Yeah,
Jason ConnellHOST
Talking Heads.
Jason ConnellHOST
Also a good title, but maybe that's for the third one, the trilogy.
JasonHOST
Anthony Tonnen, Julia Deans, Diane Swan and James Milne on vocals with Joel Mulholland as musical director.
JasonHOST
Two sets, the full album, plus everything after it, finishing on Road to Nowhere.
JasonHOST
And just a bit of trivia, Talking Heads' last proper concert as a band was in Christchurch, February 1984.
speaker_1NARRATOR
From the Coromandel, for the whole motu, this is The Sweet As Kiwi Show.
SethHOST
Okay.
AjaxHOST
My favorite is a little song by Talking Heads called Road to Nowhere.
AjaxHOST
Just always love the melody to that one.
AjaxHOST
So I'll give you some more instances of people commenting.
AjaxHOST
The number one most mentioned was This Must Be the Place.
AjaxHOST
Coming in at number two, Life During Wartime.
AjaxHOST
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.
AjaxHOST
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.