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postpunk:

The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s

#07: Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

Click HERE to read a really great mini essay on this song/album.

So I used to manage this Subway Restaurant and one day we hired this guy, who was named Michael Ahern who I went to kindergarden-5th grade with. We were friends then and years and years later, when he became my employee we were still friends. He looked exactly the same, just bigger. It was weird.

So one night this song comes on and he stops me and says, “I bet I’m the only Talking Heads fan here, and I’m probably the only one who comes in here who knows all the words to this song.” and he was serious.

Well, he wasn’t the only one.

Mike A. is what we called him, because I was Mike W. If you’re out there somewhere, I hope you’ve got a beautiful house, and a large automobile.