Talking Heads edit

"Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads was definitely edited on the DJ 45 (3:27), but was it the same on the commercial? Does anyone know where the edit points in the song are? I've never been able to find anything except the (4:19) LP version on CD.

There's a small edit at the end as well. Byrne says "time isn't holding us, time isn't after us, same as it ever was, same as it ever was" and then there's an edit into Byrne's "letting the days go by" vocal. Since I don't have the 45, I tried recalling the video, which uses the single edit, to make the cuts (I did okay, but could've done better :) ).

Please feel free. As I said, I did an OK job but could've done better (for me the trickiest edit was the one in the middle).

yeah, yeah... good music is good music.

OK, here's the edits:

The first one happens at (1:46). This is a tricky one because it doesn't happen on the first count of the measure. Right after the last "same as it ever was," it cuts past the verse about the "water at the bottom of the ocean." You should cut to about (2:19) where the chorus repeats for a second time. Again, you have to make the edit right before the word "letting" and not on the first count of the measure.

There's one other edit that is also somewhat abrupt. It's at (3:41) on the LP version, which cuts to the first count on the measure at (3:57), right after "here comes a twister." The reason it sounds abrupt is because the "s" in the word "was" is cut off at the 3:41 mark.

To be honest, the LP version has some awkward sounding edits. I've actually made an edit myself just to get rid of the bad hatchet job that someone did to that song. The one that always threw me is right at the beginning before the first verse starts; there's an edit right in the middle of a cymbol hit. This is how it is on both the 45 and LP version.

Sorry to drag this thread up again, but I need a point clarified: the version of the song you are talking about editing is the STUDIO version from 1981's "Remain In Light," correct?

Because THAT version failed to even make the Hot 100 in the U.S.; it was the live version from "Stop Making Sense" that made it to #91 in 1984.

...Anybody know the length of the 1984 promo; was the live version edited for the single release, or was the album version the single version as well?