Life During Wartime

Single by Talking Heads

Life During Wartime is a single by American rock band Talking Heads, released in 1979. It combines driving funk‑influenced rhythms, angular guitar lines and insistent, talk‑sung vocals, and signalled a shift towards a more rhythmically focused, politically charged direction that helped bridge the band's art‑punk origins and their emergence within the late 1970s new wave scene.