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“Talk Talk” is Talk Talk’s second single, featuring as the opening track to their debut album The Party’s Over. The song describes a tense relationship with someone who… Read More
"Talk Talk" is a 1982 song by the English band Talk Talk. The second single from their debut album, The Party's Over (1982), it peaked at no. 52 in the United Kingdom upon initial release. A remix of the song was released later that year, peaking at no. 23 in the UK and no. 75 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (also entering the Top 40 in the ...
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- 5 April 1982
- 3:23
- Synth-pop
- Talk Talk
- It’S My Life
- Renée
- Living in Another World
- April 5th
- It’S Getting Late in The Evening
- The Rainbow
- I Believe in You
- After The Flood
- New Grass
The opening track on the band’s patchy 1982 debut, The Party’s Over, dated back to Mark Hollis’s previous group, the Reaction. It even appeared – titled, rather brilliantly, Talk Talk Talk Talk – on a Beggars Banquet compilation called Streets. The track was strong enough to survive the transition from scratchy post-punk to Hollis’s shiny new ventu...
The departure of Brenner and the arrival of Tim-Friese Greene as producer, co-writer, keyboard player, sound-shaper and de facto fourth member in the studio was just one shift than informed Talk Talk’s second album, It’s My Life. The music had thickened and become more stylised, but, although Talk Talk seemed to be a band transitioning between a pe...
Talk Talk’s first truly epic exercise in melancholy – although Have You Heard the News? was a decent first draft – Renée integrates touches of Roxy Music’slush grandeur, the Cure’s glowering angst, Simple Minds’ dreamy elegance and Kate Bush’s ECM experiments. Caught between bitterness and affection, Hollis relays the home-town tale of a girl he ca...
The Colour of Spring, released in 1986, was a major breakthrough, commercially and artistically. Gone were the synths and the icy bombast. In their place came big, woody textures, an organic sensibility more obviously suited to Hollis’s evocations of shifting seasons and inner change. The pounding, krautrock-on-the-farm groove of Life Is What You M...
Emerging from a steamy concoction of hisses, squeaks and sighs, this fragile ballad contains The Colour of Spring’s title phrase. Personifying the newly arriving spring as a woman – “here she comes, fresh upon the ground” – it is built around a lovely, but ominous, piano figure. Singing at the bottom of his register, Hollis bids farewell to winter ...
Alongside the similarly chimeric April 5th and Chameleon Day, the B-side to Life Is What You Make It became a bridge between the more formal structure of The Colour of Spring and the looser, more experimental terrain of Spirit of Eden. While there is still a commitment to conventional song shapes on It’s Getting Late in the Evening, at times the fo...
Talk Talk played their last live show in September 1986. Freed from commercial and creative constraints by the success of The Colour of Spring, they spent most of 1987 in Wessex Studios, making improvised music, throwing in elements of jazz, electronica, classical, folk, blues and prog rock, hyper-aware of the power of silence and hypnotic rhythm. ...
In the 1970s, Hollis’s older brother, Ed, worked as a manager-producer-songwriter for Eddie and the Hot Rods. Not only did Ed’s industry contacts prove helpful, but he also co-wrote the band’s first hit, Talk Talk. By the mid-80s, Ed had become entangled in hard drugs, eventually dying from his addictions. I Believe in You, perhaps Talk Talk’s sadd...
Having parted acrimoniously with EMI and signed to Polydor, who put them on the venerable jazz label Verve, Talk Talkreleased their final album, Laughing Stock, in 1991. It was another six-song meditation, an even deeper immersion in experimental sound than Spirit of Eden, with rougher, bluesier, more confrontational textures. After the Flood – whi...
A post-rock Madame George, with its simple, gently circular chord sequence, liquid guitar lines and mesmeric drum pattern, New Grass is the spiritual centrepiece of Laughing Stock. It begins like the first day of summer rising over the hill, both ecstatic and profoundly sad, and sets 10 minutes later with the “evening sun recedent”. “They’ll come, ...
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Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981, led by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984), reached top 40 in the UK and produced the international hit singles " Talk Talk ", " Today ", " It's My ...
lyrics. Songfacts®: In this song, Mark Hollis of Talk Talk sing sings about the anxiety and torment that is bearing down upon him. Communication, especially talking, is a common theme for Hollis, who was notoriously terse and enigmatic in interviews. Mark Hollis first recorded this song in 1977 when he was in a band called The Reaction.
