Compare Spirit of Eden with any other previous release in the Talk Talk catalog, and it's almost impossible to believe it's the work of the same band -- exchanging electronics for live, organic sounds and rejecting structure in favor of mood and atmosphere, the album is an unprecedented breakthrough, a musical and emotional catharsis of immense power. Mark Hollis' songs exist far outside of the pop idiom, drawing instead on ambient textures, jazz-like arrangements, and avant-garde accents; for all of their intricacy and delicate beauty, compositions like "Inheritance" and "I Believe in You" also possess an elemental strength -- Hollis' oblique lyrics speak to themes of loss and redemption with understated grace, and his hauntingly poignant vocals evoke wrenching spiritual turmoil tempered with unflagging hope. A singular musical experience.
Talk Talk. If you came of age in the 80s, you probably best remember them as a "new wave" band - their video for "It's My Life" had to be one of the most-played vids on MTV back when they actually still showed videos. (Let's not even get into the No Doubt version.)I always liked their stuff, but never sought it out or even bought any of their singles or albums. But as my taste in music expanded as
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One of my all time favorite albums. Came out between my Senior year in high school and Freshman year at college (1988). Opened my mind to so called "alternative" music :-) There was nothing like it, that I knew of anyway, at the time....really have never heard anything quite like it since. It was even more surprising to me because I had thought that previous Talk Talk music was much more ne...
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Anger ...This stage came and went and it still comes and goes.It wasn't hard to get over the fact she was doing this when you look back onto our recent years. She was unhappy and I was depressed because she was unhappy and she was unhappy because she thought I got to depressed which made me unhappy and depressed and that int turn got her down which made me feel like something was wrong and I be...
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Thanks to IGIF reader Bryant Heath for once again providing us an exclusive video from Norway (he gave us a video of The National playing a new song a few weeks ago). Here we have Bon Iver covering Talk Talk's "I Believe In You" from their 1988 album Spirit of Eden . Bryant says:I'm pretty sure they started playing this in the UK the other day, but this is the first recording I've seen of it ...
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Talk Talk. If you came of age in the 80s, you probably best remember them as a "new wave" band - their video for "It's My Life" had to be one of the most-played vids on MTV back when they actually still showed videos. (Let's not even get into the No Doubt version.)I always liked their stuff, but never sought it out or even bought any of their singles or albums. But as my taste in music expanded as
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One of my all time favorite albums. Came out between my Senior year in high school and Freshman year at college (1988). Opened my mind to so called "alternative" music :-) There was nothing like it, that I knew of anyway, at the time....really have never heard anything quite like it since. It was even more surprising to me because I had thought that previous Talk Talk music was much more ne...
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| 1 The Rainbow |
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| 2 Eden |
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| 3 Desire |
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| 4 Inheritance |
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| 5 I Believe in You |
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| 6 Wealth |
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