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."Ĭash 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. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached No. 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 6 on the British, German and South African singles charts. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brick box set. " Road to Nowhere" is a rock song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures.
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