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"Once in a Lifetime" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their fourth studio album ''Remain in Light''. The song was written by David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth, and produced by Eno. It received critical acclaim, and was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by National Public Radio.〔(NPR 100 )〕 At the time of its original release, the song gained modest chart success, peaking at #14 on the UK Singles Chart and at #31 in the Dutch singles chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Talking+Heads )〕 While the song failed to chart on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, various American 80s format radio stations have come to programming it in their playlists over the years.〔http://1015thepoint.com/lsp/〕 It was also an early MTV staple〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1867 )〕 and was one of the most heavily played videos upon MTV's debut in August 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.thetop13.com/videos-from-mtvs-first-day-L65/ )〕 A live version of the song taken from Talking Heads' concert film ''Stop Making Sense'' was released as a single, peaking at #91 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in May 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1986-05-03 )〕 The studio version is widely regarded as their signature song, along with "Burning Down the House". Kermit the Frog performed the song on a 1996 episode of ''Muppets Tonight''. The song is featured in the films ''Down and Out in Beverly Hills'', ''Rock Star'', ''Hot Tub Time Machine'' and ''Reagan'', and in trailers for the films ''The Family Man'', ''W.'' and ''Wreck-It Ralph''. The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.〔http://rockhall.com/exhibits/500-songs-that-shaped-rock-and/〕 ==Production== Brian Eno introduced Fela Kuti's multiple rhythm music style to the band, and during production Eno used a different rhythm count for some members of the group than others, starting on the "3" instead of the "1." It gave the song what Eno called "a funny balance within it. It has really two centers of gravity: their '1' and my '1.'" This rhythm imbalance was exaggerated in the studio, and is present throughout the song.〔("Once in a Lifetime" ) National Public Radio broadcast, 27 March 2000 (The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century )〕 Jerry Harrison developed the synthesizer line and added the Hammond organ climax, taken from the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On".〔 Eno sang nonsense verb sound blocks, which Byrne then converted into lyrics in the call-and-response style of American radio evangelists on the theme of moving through life with little awareness or questioning. This speaking style was also the basis for his approach of starting several consecutive lines with the same phrase. Eno wasn't particularly fond of the song, and it was almost dropped from the album before Eno came up with the vocal melody for the chorus which "saved" the song.〔 As the song essentially consisted of a repetitive two-bar groove (with the pattern reversed between the verse and chorus) Eno decided to approach the production by allowing each of the band members to record overdubs of different rhythmic and musical ideas independently of each other, with each member being kept blind to what the others had recorded on tape. In the final mix, Eno faded between these independent ideas at different parts of the song. This is very much in keeping with his production technique of Oblique Strategies. "We used to have so much fun playing this song live," Chris Frantz remarks in the liner notes of ''Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads''. "It was a soaring feeling, and the audience was right there with us." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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