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| From | "Max Power" <poatway@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Much Talk Talk about nothing? |
| Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:54:39 -0500 |
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The journey of Talk Talk from the new-wave dance band of "The Party's Over"
through their more "serious music" phase of "Laughing Stock" and "Spirit Of
Eden" to the solo "Mark Hollis" release reminds me of the transformation of
another band/artist of the same era, namely Japan/David Sylvian. Sylvian
started out as a glammed-out, gravel throated New York Doll impersonator,
changed to Bryan Ferry sound-alike crooner and ended up as a new-age,
ambient "artist".
Back in the days when music video was new and everything was innovative
simply because it hadn't been done (to death) before, the video for "It's My
Life" somehow stuck out. One lasting memory for me was seeing that video on
"The New Music"'s year-end best-of show. One John "J.D." Roberts introduced
it as "Not the best video of the year, but maybe the most important".
>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:54:02 -0700
>From: Shawn Huckaby <tikiking@att.net>
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Much Talk Talk about nothing?
>Message-ID: <403EA33A.5030608@att.net>
>
>I have to disagree about the general dismissal of their work;
>especially the absolutely masterful "Laughing Stock", which was the
>band's swan song in 1991. Although about as far from power pop as you
>can possibly get, I still highly recommend anyone who likes adventurous
>music to give this one a try. Really hard to categorize, but definitely
>a heady brew of classical, ambient, and prog-jazz textures, with very
>emotive vocals. It just about demands your full attention (preferably
>with headphones) to take in all of the complexity and beauty. I would
>venture this album is one of those that influenced a lot of artists to
>really push themselves to express something new.
>
>It's kind of sad the band will always be remembered for their one dance
>hit when there was so much more going on in their music at the end.
>
>Shawn Huckaby
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