Road to Nowhere

About Road to Nowhere

Written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached #25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and  #6 on the UK, German and South African singles charts. It also made #8 on the Dutch Top 40. About the song, David Byrne says: "I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom, at our deaths and at the apocalypse... (always looming, folks). .

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About this song

Credited to

Talking Heads

Album

Popular Favorites 1976 - 1992 / Sand in the Vaseline · Track 23 of 33

Released

October 13, 1992

Duration

4:19

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403,098 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Popular Favorites 1976 - 1992 / Sand in the Vaseline