Talk Talk
 

Decided to start a thread about this amazing band. I'm listening to Laughing Stock and it's amazing. Their stuff is hard to find on the internet though.

Anyway, discuss.

Re: Talk Talk
 

what you need Leon? Pappa Biz will hook you up.

The Mark Hollis solo LP is great too but you'll have to report back on the entire Talk Talk discography before I can share it with you.

Btw, loads of great Talk Talk stuff on YouTube.

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Cool, thanks. My favourite at the moment is "After The Flood". There's something about the nice flowing drums in combination with the ongoing bassline... Just gorgeous. I love the singer's voice as well. Unique and very emotional.

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Spirit of Eden is a great chill-out album, if I recall correctly, although it's been a couple of years since I last listened to it. I must give it another spin.

In that vain, I absolutely adore "It's Getting Late In The Evening", which is just an incredibly mournful, wistful gentle song.

Oh, and the original "It's My Life" is a million times better than No Doubt's recent(ish) cover, and has a quality 80s video to accompany it.

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"Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock" are masterpieces. when you look at modern music you can not ignore their legacy. "spirit of eden" was in 1988, music was few decades ahead of their time. there was one ep on the internet includes left-offs from that era. (amazing "eden" b side, "john cope", another version of "after the flood" etc) i still have the original releases though.

"the colour of spring" still sounds great.

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The Colour Of Spring has a bit of a popmusic touch to it, I love it. Great song writing, very uplifting. Life's What You Make It is still awesome, it's how I got to know them.

I heard their first album is kinda dated and not really worth it? I still have to get It's My Life though.

And I'm also about to get the Mark Hollis solo album. Curious! :)

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'Mark Holis' is an absolutely torturing album, both in its accomplished and wonderful brilliance; yet known by few, and in that it's now ten years old (not dated) and will never be followed up given his leave from music.

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I heard their first album is kinda dated and not really worth it? I still have to get It's My Life though.

And I'm also about to get the Mark Hollis solo album. Curious! :)[/quote]


well, "the partys over" kind of dated but "its my life" still rocks. shame that mark hollis left music. i think he was suffering from mental illnesss or music business made him insane. for fans, i recommend emi's "a sides b sides" complation though.

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Yeah I've heard It's My Life now, it's cool. Not as good as their other stuff though. I'm gonna look for the "a sides b sides" compilation, I want to be sure to have heard every song they have released.

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Even though Laughing Stock and Spirit Of Eden are really "my" kinda thing, I'm currently LOVING the popmusic of Colour Of Spring. Perfect balance between easy listening music and good song writing. It doesn't bore me and it's not cheesy.