It's not official, but i love this cover of this japanese bootleg live album: Talk Talk - It Never Ends later -1
Tracklist on Discogs is ............ A1 Talk Talk A2 Call In The Nightboy A3 Hate A4 Tomorrow Started B1 My Foolish Friend B2 Mirror Man / Does Caroline Know? B3 Dum Dum Girl B4 Such A Shame C1 It's My Life D1 Renée No reviews though.......
There's a couple negative comments on discogs reviews when I go to that link. This and the Montreux video are fun to watch but that bootleg vinyl sounds kinda stupid to me.
Crikey...I thought it might be about the 1966 Music Machine hit! That being said...I'm glad I got that SACD of Spirit of Eden back when they were (relatively) inexpensive...
Talk Talk – 10 of the best The Guardians '10 of the best' series talks Talk Talk this week. Some very strong choices there.
If there was any justice in the world, Spirit of Eden would have been number 1 for about a year. An astonishing achievement that, for me personally, came out of nowhere despite the promise of The Colour of Spring.
Exactly. For me, SOE is the greatest album I've ever heard. I thought that when I first played it one rainy afternoon in autumn 1988, and my opinion has never ever changed. A truly breathtaking record.
Ten great songs, altough I would have found room for "Tomorrow's Started" and "Time It's Time". I really miss Mark Hollis.
It doesn't even deserve to be called a great music album, but a great piece of work in ANY form of art. It's a literal masterpiece and when I hear it it sounds like total anti-music, just a purely spiritual movement that puts together pieces of influence from every time and location. Nothing else sounds like it, it's from its own parallel universe. I warmed up to Laughing Stock more easily but now having listened to SOE more I think I prefer it. Wealth is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard, it sounds like Mark is giving up hope, but still asking for it and for freedom, backed by a beautiful, church-like organ grind.
Tomorrow Started is great. Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) did a great cover of it a few years back which is definitely worth checking out.
Just picked up the Spirit of Talk Talk book and have started working through it. Lovely book, beautifully done. Would certainly recommend it to fans. Reading it has inspired me to dig out the vinyl, starting with The Party's Over, and give it a fresh listen. Whilst very much of its time it's actually surprisingly enjoyable and consistently strong. Some great tunes on there, even it it doesn't scale the incredible heights of the last few albums.
To me the last two Talk Talk albums feel like the next wave of jazz that never actually occurred, beautifully organic sounding music like the unfolding of a flower. Hollis's solo album had much of the same quality.
I love SOE, LT and the solo records, all 3 are in my top 20 records. PS I've read that Mark Hollis is releasing new music under an alias... How one could find it I'd love to know
I listened to the Mark Hollis album yesterday for the first time in many months and it sounded so good. Then I thought about that thread of which albums should be chosen for this MoFi U1S process for lps and thought, the Mark Hollis album would be a great choice. It's a very long shot, as in not ever gonna happen, but I'd buy it if it did.
