| "Road to Nowhere" | |||||
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| Single by Talking Heads from the album 'Little Creatures' |
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| B-side | "Give Me Back My Name" | ||||
| Released | 1985 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | October 1984-March 1985 | ||||
| Genre | New Wave | ||||
| Length | 4:19 | ||||
| Label | Sire Records | ||||
| Writer | David Byrne/Chris Franz/Jerry Harrison/Tina Weymouth | ||||
| Producer | Talking Heads | ||||
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"Road to Nowhere" is a song by the Talking Heads, from the 1985 album Little Creatures. 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. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached number 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 6 in the British singles chart. The video, released to promote the single, features the band and various objects revolving, as if in their own "road to nowhere," and it was nominated for "Best Video of the Year" at the MTV Video Music Awards 1986. According to the sleeve of the Talking Head's compilation Once in a Lifetime, Byrne added the choral intro after deciding the song in itself was embarrassingly simplistic and monotonous.
In popular culture
"Road to Nowhere" is heard during the ending of the 1989 film Little Monsters. It was also featured on an advert for the 2006 final of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
| Talking Heads | |
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| David Byrne | Jerry Harrison | Tina Weymouth | Chris Frantz | |
| Discography | |
| Studio Albums: Talking Heads: 77 (1977) | More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) | Fear of Music (1979) | Remain in Light (1980) | Speaking in Tongues (1983) | Little Creatures (1985) | True Stories (1986) | Naked (1988) | |
| The Heads Albums: No Talking, Just Head (1996) | |
| Live Albums: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982) | Stop Making Sense (1984) | |
| Compilations: Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites (1992) | Once in a Lifetime (2003) | The Best of Talking Heads (2004) | Brick (2005) | Bonus Rarities and Outtakes (2006) | |
| Filmography | |
| Stop Making Sense (1984) | True Stories (1986) | Storytelling Giant (1988) |
