Clad in tatty and worn clothing, and with his eyes bulging in terror, a lone figure furtively scans the horizon; “The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I’m getting used to it now,” he remarks to himself. Checking his new identity documents (he's had three passports and a couple of visas by this point), our skittish nomad sets off across the decaying, dangerous shell of a city that was once a music-filled utopia.
This ain’t no party - and this ain’t no post-apocalyptic spy thriller - this is in fact the imagery directly painted by Talking Heads’ blistering 1979 single Life During Wartime. An awesome collision of dystopian imagery with one of the Heads’ most seductive grooves.
