# Life During Wartime guitar solo > Alex Weir's guitar solo on Life During Wartime by Talking Heads (1984) starts at about 2:30. From the album Stop Making Sense. Canonical URL: Talking Heads, 1984, from *Stop Making Sense*. Solo by *Alex Weir*. In the concert film version, Alex Weir's funky guitar lines drive one of the band's most energetic performances. Life During Wartime by Talking Heads is #7 in our ranking of the best Talking Heads guitar solos. The solo is played by Alex Weir and the song was released in 1984. ## In our lists - [The Best Talking Heads Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/talking-heads-guitar-solos/) — #7 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Life During Wartime? Alex Weir played the solo on Talking Heads's Life During Wartime (1984). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)