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"It's My Life" is a song by the English band #TalkTalk. Written by #MarkHollis and #TimFrieseGreene, it was the title track on the band's second album, #ItsMyLife (1984), and released as its first single on 3 January 1984. It became a moderate hit in many countries, reaching number 46 on the #UKSinglesChart, number 33 in #Germany, number 32 in #NewZealand, number 25 in #France, number nine in Italy, and number 30 in #Canada. In the United States.
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Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
There's not a lot to say about this masterpiece without sounding like a douche, so instead here's an article about it by the Music Aficionado:
https://musicaficionado.blog/2018/09/13/spirit-of-eden-by-talk-talk/
New half-speed master, and good pressing. Given the dynamics involved, the pressing *matters*.
One video of an edited track, to give an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilvJkYY1G7Q
#nowplaying #vinyl #artrock #postrock #TalkTalk #MarkHollis #PaulWebb #TimFrieseGreene #LeeHarris
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Jsou hudebníci, kteří zůstávají přítomní i tehdy, když se odmlčeli. Dnes se vracíme k archivnímu textu o #MarkHollis – lídrovi #TalkTalk a autorovi jednoho z nejkřehčích sólových alb devadesátých let. Text o akustice, rezonanci tónu a odmítnutí rutiny. Jeho pozdní tvorba nenápadně otevřela dveře celé generaci kapel, které se nebály ubrat, ztišit a hledat význam mezi tóny.
#Music #PostRock #DoporučenoPanemPudinkem
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Než zahrajete dvě noty, naučte se zahrát jednu — a tu nehrajte bez důvodu. Skica o kapele Talk Talk, která zvolila ústup místo expanze, ticho místo jistoty. Připomínka 35 let od rozpadu bez sentimentu: hudba jako rozhodnutí, ne povinnost.
#Music #NewWave #SynthPop #PostRock #MarkHollis #TalkTalk #DoporučenoPanemPudinkem
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>#TalkTalk - Living in Another World (Live at Montreux 1986)<
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Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (1991, UK)
Our next spotlight is on number 908 on The List, submitted by arratoon.
It’s odd when you think you know a band, think you’ve heard all the albums…and then realize that you perhaps don’t and definitely haven’t. I thought I knew Talk Talk. I’ve been listening to the brilliant The Colour of Spring (1986), their third, for something like 15 years after an older wiser friend had turned me onto them. Colour of Spring was the album I absolutely latched onto, the album I recommended when singing Talk Talk’s praises, the album I defined their sound by (well, that and the title track of the previous album, It’s My Life [1984], a cover of which is how the band first entered my consciousness).
And so, when Talk Talk came up next for a spotlight, the last before my planned month-long blog break, I was both happy and relieved – familiar ground, I could bang out a post real quick. Since it had been a while though, I decided to give the entire Talk Talk discography a quick spin first, all of five albums, maybe try and figure out why arratoon had picked Laughing Stock and not, imho, the more obvious The Colour of Spring.
Reader, I did not know Talk Talk, and had not heard all their albums. As it turns out, I: (a) had not heard their entire debut, the rather commercial synth-pop The Party’s Over (1982) that doesn’t have any of the experimental art pop/rock I was familiar with; (b) had somehow forgotten all about their fourth, the moody, jazzy, pre-post-rock The Spirit of Eden (1988), a copy of which I was surprised to find in my record collection (and which, according to Discogs, I purchased the day we learned founder, principal songwriter, and vocalist Mark Hollis had left us); and (c) had never heard any of their final, decidedly uncommercial, bare, free-form masterpiece.
And so, after finishing the full discography listen-through yesterday and being blown away by what was inexplicably my very first listen of Laughing Stock, this morning I’ve gone back to Spirit to see if we had warning of what was to come (yep, sorta), and now am relistening to Laughing and reading a whole load of articles about it.[1] The studio (Wessex Sound Studios) essentially served as a multi-month-long drop-in session for something like 50 musicians (with only 18 of them making it on the final album), each allowed to hear only a small section of a track to riff off of (never the full thing), studio windows blacked out, clocks not allowed, the space lit only by oil projectors and strobe lights (the same studio and ambience was also used for Spirit). And, though it came out of the same improvisational and deconstruction/reconstruction processes first used in Colour and then in Spirit (the final parts selected and rearranged by Hollis out of countless hours of tape), and though it’s credited alongside Spirit as also being a seminal pre-post-rock album, Laughing to my ears is really nothing like the others. For that matter, whereas before I had defined Talk Talk’s sound by Colour of Spring, I would now say that, from Colour on, none of the last three albums really sound like the others. The Talk Talk sound I thought I knew? Turns out, all I could possible mean by that is Mark Hollis’ voice – utterly unique and somehow simultaneously soothing and fragile – on top of fantastic music lovingly stitched together by a genius with an uncompromising vision.
If you think you know Talk Talk but haven’t heard Laughing Stock yet, give it a spin. Better yet, give the entire discography a spin, and in any order at that. And then we’ll all be up to speed for a later spotlight, when we’ll dive into Mark Hollis’ solo record that we also have on The List.
Happy listening, and I’ll see you all in a month.
- E.g., The Quietus piece is great: https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/anniversary/talk-talk-laughing-stock/ ↩︎
#1990s #ambient #artRock #experimental #improvisation #LeeHarris #MarkHollis #PhillBrown #postrock #TalkTalk #TimFrieseGreene
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Remembering Mark Hollis from Talk Talk
(January 4, 1955-February 25, 2019)
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#AlternateFridayMusic
Jan 31 2025
The prompt is ColourTalk Talk, “The Colour of Spring” 1985
Oh man - where to begin? #MarkHollis’ feathery vocals, synths and guitars sprinkled throughout, gentle melodies anchored with aching rhythms that made them stealth-catchy, slipping into the listener’s subconscious.
For years I regarded this album as one that would work for any mix of folks - a musical skeleton key. But this is not bland, least-common denominator stuff; the effect here is evoked by this music having elements of different styles but none that overwhelm the whole - rhythmic but gentle, celebratory but controlled, pretty but not saccharine, synth driven but organic - glints of shiny metallic or crystal bits against a deep organic ground.
This album finds the #TalkTalk transitioning from upstart #synthpop purveyors towards something approaching symphonic. Hollis would continue down this road in subsequent efforts, towards intricate #ambient.
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Talk Talk - The Color of Spring
Talk Talk pivoted hard into “real” instruments here, with a really great set of songs, a couple of key session players (Steve Winwood, Robbie McIntosh, David Rhodes), and an open, lovely production style.
Probably their most approachable album, with their hit “Life’s What You Make It”, which was pretty ubiquitous for a while…
#nowplaying #vinyl #pop #artpop #talktalk #markhollis #paulwebb #rustinman
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Mark Hollis - s/t
The culmination of the journey of Talk Talk, even if not a Talk Talk album.
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"It's My Life" is a song by the English #newWave band #TalkTalk. Written by #MarkHollis and #TimFrieseGreene, it was the title track on the band's second album, #ItsMyLife (1984), and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached number 46 on the #UKSinglesChart, but did better in several other countries, reaching number 33 in #Germany, number 32 in #NewZealand, number 25 in #France and number 9 in #Italy. In North America.
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April 5th , een van de mooiste @OndergewaardeerdeLiedjes van Talk Talk. Daarom is het vandaag Mark Hollis Dag 🧡 en luisteren we weer naar de podcast op Kink
https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2023/05/04/ondergewaardeerde-playlist-talk-talk/
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My God, this record is absolutely stunning.
Listening to it, I feel like I'm standing naked on a frozen lake with evergreens and funereal quiet around me, but feeling a radiant warmth instead of freezing.
#music #markhollis #talktalkMark Hollis (album)
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#NowPlaying Unedited footage of an interview with #MarkHollis (of #TalkTalk) for Danish TV in 1998. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQzJ6ezdLs
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#NowPlaying: #TalkTalk - Spirit of Eden
European #CD reissue.One of two Talk Talk albums to turn your lights off for was released #OTD in 1988. Side A of this album, i.e. track 1 to 3, is one of the best pieces of music ever composed. The songs segue into each other. The Rainbow might be my favourite track. It's desolate, murky, and vast, and the two piano chords that play on the especially silent bits always strike me as odd and captivating.
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@Edgecontrol Mark Hollis, un genio incomprendido en su momento.
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If you've ever felt chased by the spectre of "potential," drop a vote on my #marchxness essay below. If you vote by 9am California time on Tuesday morning, maybe we can advance to the Sweet 16! Plus, every vote comes with a killer Talk Talk song from 1984. Check it out.
http://marchxness.com/2ndround-deadvstalk/
#talktalk #marchfadness #marchxness #markhollis #80s #80smusic
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Gen X Music Lover: Talk Talk - It's My Life
https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2023/02/talk-talk-its-my-life.html?spref=tw#1980s, #1984, #80smusic, #MarkHollis, #newwave, #synthpop, #TalkTalk
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Sono già passati quattro anni dalla scomparsa silenziosa e invisibile di #MarkHollis
https://pensierosecondario.wordpress.com/2019/02/26/silenzio-mark-hollis-1955-2019/
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At the request of @Coachmark here be an uplifting up and at 'em or maybe just chill and sing along Sunday anthem for anyone who cares to listen 🎵🎶
Featuring one of the most incredible guitar licks of all time by the one and only #DavidRhodes
#TalkTalk #MarkHollis #LifesWhatYouMakeIt #Music #Eighties
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iWTHXaFtRSMhd5OLpYD7f?si=FUiBw6kRSo-3EDgx0heFqg&utm_source=copy-link
