His mumbling style would on later albums be taken to inordinate - and ultimately for this reviewer - repulsive lengths.Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads.
![]() Try again. Accept Cookies Customise Cookies. To Add to List, choose from options to the left classa-button-group a-declarative a-spacing-none data-actiona-button-group roleradiogroup. To Add to List, choose from options to the left classa-button-text a-text-left rolebutton. This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. After your purchase, you will receive an email with further information. ![]() That accolade belongs to either The Colour of Spring or The Spirit of Eden (I cant quite decide which), but its still a cracking album with the amazing voice of Mark Hollis raising it above the ordinary. It beats more successful albums by the likes of Duran Duran hands down. They were far better than most of the bands from that period and their music has a timeless quality while other music from back then has dated. When Talk Talks debut album first came out in 1982, Melody Maker described it as, Somewhere between Duran Duran and The Moody Blues. It was probably meant as a put-down, but since I liked both groups - the former not as much as the latter - for me, this was a compliment. Record Mirrors review described it as, The bland leading the bland down a foggy thoroughfare of synthesised nothingness. One can perhaps understand the sense of exhaustion at the prospect of another synth-led band on the pop scene of that year, but bland is not really a word I would use for Talk Talk. This is the Colin Thurston-produced, pre-Tim Friese-Green Talk Talk. Thurston is not credited due, apparently, to a falling-out with the band, but his production is very imaginative, such as the oriental touch that appears midway through the title track. There are echoes of other 1980s bands such as OMD (in the feel of the repeated background arpeggios of Its So Serious) and the hit Today bears the hallmarks of what would become the sound of A-Ha. There is even an echo of Duran Duran in the opening to Have You Heard The News. Mirror Man is the odd one out on this album, betraying its early origins in the bands development with its basic electronics. Did they also upset the band Most of the songs are likeable; none are really loveable. Four - tracks five to eight - are adequate: Hate lacks subtlety, Have You Heard The News is tedious in its chorus, whilst Another Word (the only track without a co-writing credit of Mark Hollis) feels like a sing-along. His lines tend to be personal and obscure as to their meaning. The Party'S Over Talk Talk Full Of RageHe is sometimes melancholic, more often full of rage, with lots of moralising thrown in to the mix.
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