Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
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Artist: Talk TalkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-11-19
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Myrrhman
- Ascension Day
- After the Flood
- Taphead
- New Grass
- Runeii
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Free Music Review: You haven't heard MUSIC until you've heard this album !
Hit: 5 Stars
It's a big statement I know, but Talk Talk's last three albums are landmarks in modern music. From their new romantic beginnings ( and they were very good at it ) this album see's a band charting their own course with no room for passengers.
Certain songs on " It's My Life " from 1984 pointed towards a change in direct ( especially with the track " Renee " ), but it wasn't until the 1986 album " The Colour of Spring " that we really saw the band spreading it's wings. Following with " Spirit of Eden " ( close to the greatest album of the 80's ), the band were really in full voice. The final album " Laughing Stock " leaves where Spirit left off, but the great thing about all three albums, is that there is still a faint thread of a pop song in them all. These albums need and deserve repeated listenings, as there is so much depth and colour to the music. There are few bands in the 80's that pushed the envelope as hard as this !
Mark Hollis sounds like a wounded man, Lee Harris's drumming is hypnotic and Paul Webb's melodic textural bass playing was exactly that......a web that spins and spirals around you. Webb had departed after Spirit of Eden, and was admirally replaced by the amazing Danny Thompson. I implore you to discover this album, and go back to the previous two....you won't be disappointed !
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The band's final album, originally released in 1991 on Polydor. It was promptly deleted three months after it's release due to wrangling with the record company. Now available on the band's own label Pond Life. Standard jewel case.Dreamy and loose, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock turns 180 degrees away from the '80s pop sound of It's My Life and runs headlong into a web of Brian Eno, avant-garde, jazz, and experimental structure. The songs ache with languid phrases and the naked, vulnerable voice of Mark Hollis, the only element of the band that remains perceptible from their verse-chorus-verse past. The bashing, off-time clatter of "Ascension Day"; the impossibly patient organ motif snaking into a wailing guitar string in "After the Flood"; the terrifying, beautiful silences that engulf "Runeii" and "Myrrhman"; and the teetering, defenseless vocal Hollis lays down on "New Grass"--it all adds up to a stellar, shockingly original work that shreds all pretense of genre limitations, finding a transcendence in the light and shadow of musical color. --Matthew Cooke
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