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REMASTERED 2ND ALBUM FROM 1984 features the singles "Such A Shame", "Dum Dum Girl" + the title track and the beautiful "Tomorrow Started". Issued in jewelcase with upgraded artwork feat. original single sleeves. Mark Hollis, O Rang.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Talk Talk entered the UK music scene in 1982 with "The Party's Over", an album of earnest, overwrought electro anthems in the vein of Ultravox. Though an enjoyable nostalgic listen, it now sounds rather dated and derivative. However, the follow-up "It's My Life" two years later was a different kettle of fish. While incorporating plenty of catchy, up-tempo stompers such as the singles "Such a Shame" and "It's My Life" to keep the New Romantics happy, it also bore witness to a new songwriting maturity on the part of singer Mark Hollis - a kind of geeky, mop-topped Brian Ferry - and producer Tim Friese-Greene. Even though the lyrics are impenetrable, the melodies and arrangements evince real flair and imagination. Not to mention anguish. I've no idea what Hollis is wailing about in "Tomorrow Started", but I hope I never experience it. The significant thing is that it's typical of this album, in having a stupendously good tune.
Talk Talk would take their new introspective style even further in their next two albums, "The Colour of Spring" and "Spirit of Eden", by abandoning synthesisers completely and veering into meandering, ambiguous territory that sounded like no one so much as fin-de-siècle French composer Claude Debussy. Those are both great albums too; but being an incorrigible New Romantic, I retain a special place in my affections for "It's My Life".
Talk Talk would take their new introspective style even further in their next two albums, "The Colour of Spring" and "Spirit of Eden", by abandoning synthesisers completely and veering into meandering, ambiguous territory that sounded like no one so much as fin-de-siècle French composer Claude Debussy. Those are both great albums too; but being an incorrigible New Romantic, I retain a special place in my affections for "It's My Life".
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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Picture this! Your @ your mates house, a crummy suburban terraced house. Their parents are on holiday and you decide to have a party. It's 1984. You stick a 12" LP on called It's My Life and get the party spirit going. It's the year 2000. Your @ your mates house, a crummy suburban terraced house. Their parents are on holiday and you decide to have a party. You stick on a CD called It's My Life band a now defunkt act called "talk Talk". This album is probably, by my choice, their best ever album. Such energy and vibrancy is captured in this album, which was rare caoming from other artists back in the 80's (and probably the 90's too). The party house shakin' tracks are It's My Life, Dum Dum Girl (wicked bassline), Call In The Nightboy, Such a Shame and the epic It's You. The track you'd probably play @ the end of the party would be Renee, a bit of a tearjerker I reckon. If there is one Talk Talk album you buy make it this one. It rocks!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Thanks to No Doubt for recently reviving the title track and letting another generation know about Talk Talk. They were truly an 80's pop band but were also crafted musicians and great song writers. Each song is brilliant and stands the test of time. A must for any collection and proof that in recent years so few group a) write thier own music and b) when they do, actually sound any good!!
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A Good Second Album From Talk Talk
Dum Dum Girl : This still sounds as fresh as it did back in 1984 and there's some great instrumental work.
Such A Shame : A personal favourite from the album. Read more
Such A Shame : A personal favourite from the album. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Richie77777
A classic piece of 80's electronica
Talk Talk were always a different class to most of the synth bands of the 80's. The three last albums they did go down as one of the more extraordinary forrays into breaking down a... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Christopher Hunter
Woof Woof
On its original release in 1984, the reviewer in `Melody Maker' wrote how it "quickly fires vitriolic bullets of passion into your heart, opening up many wounds during its torrid... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by Nicholas Casley
What a difference a couple of years makes
It's My life is the second Talk Talk studio album and it's so much more grown up than the debut. One of the most interesting aspects is the realisation that some of the bands... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2008 by P. Gibson
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