The song was featured in the 2008 documentary Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko uses the lyrics and composition to end her song 'Over & Over' on her 2009 album As Day Follows Night.

The French band Nouvelle Vague recorded a cover for their 2009 album 3.

The French band Indochine recorded a cover to support Reporters Sans FrontiГЁres.

The British a cappella group The Flying Pickets covered the song on the album The Original Flying Pickets.The Kalamazoo, Michigan based bluegrass band Greensky Bluegrass recorded a version of this tune on their 2007 release Live at Bell's.Musician David Byrne sues Florida governor over campaign song.Tina Weymouth вЂ“ bass and backing vocals.Jerry Harrison вЂ“ organ and backing vocals.David Byrne вЂ“ lead vocals and backing vocals, electric guitar.It was nominated for Best Video of the Year at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, losing out to ' Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits. Director Johnson re-used some of the effects techniques in award-winning videos for Peter Gabriel the following year: ' Sledgehammer' and ' Big Time'. Some parts were shot in the back yard and pool of actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who was co-writing Byrne's film True Stories at the time. Johnson and features the band and various objects revolving, including boxes revolving around David Byrne's head, as well as a couple growing older, masked businessmen pummeling each other with briefcases and a runaway shopping cart, as if in their own 'road to nowhere'. The video for the song was directed by Byrne and Stephen R.

So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it.'Д¬ash Box said that 'this marching single which features David Byrne's soothing lead vocal is a curious and circus-ride look at life.' Billboard said that within the song ' a cappella gospel leads into Louisiana hootenanny.' Music video The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough. 'I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom,' recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads.

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