Wild Wild Life

Cheetahs win this wild Grandpaw catfight

LAKEVIEW, AL - "Wild Wild Life" is a song by the American rock band, Talking Heads. It was released as the lead single from their seventh studio album True Stories in 1986. It was the band's third and last "Top 40" hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Cash Box called it "quirky and typically fun". Billboard said that the Talking Heads "put a minimal post-new wave accompaniment to a bouncy singalong tune". The song is classic Talking Heads and the music video is unique, picking up the "Best Group Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1987. The video is set in a 1960s ambienced cabaret bar where a frantic series of unannounced performers lip sync to the song imitating other singers and movie characters as disjointed images play across a wall of 27 television screens behind them. The video was taken mainly from the band's film True Stories which was released in October of 1986. The video includes band members David Byrne, Jerry Harrison and others parodying Billy Idol, Kid Creole (Ralph Macchio's character in Karate Kid), Prince, Madonna, Meat Loaf and other artists, television personalities and rock stars. Actor John Goodman appears in both the film and video prior to his fame in television and film. And keeping grand kids can be a wild, wild life indeed. In Week 9 of the BDFL, the Cheetahs earned the week's "Top Gun" award with a wild, wild come-from-behind win on Monday Night Football (MNF). The Cheetahs snatched vict'ry from the claws of defeat in the ol' proverbial "Grandpaw Bowl" at Lakeview Park by the score of 40-39 to silence the speechless Wildcats who lost despite Joe Mixon's amazing 27 points. The Cheetahs are now in second place in the rough and tumble Gray Beard Division (GBD) and second in the league in total points at 277.

Wild Wild Life by the Talking Heads (1987)