Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
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Free Music Notes for Spirit of Eden
Free Music Review: Waking from a Bitterly Joyful Dream in Tears
Hit: 5 Stars
This music will lead you inwards and join you in an excursion through all of your most hidden and private secret landscapes, sharing them with you in the spirit of love, compassion, and humanity. The words are very spiritual and deeply religious with allusions to sacrifice, self-doubt, redemption, forgiveness, humility, holiness, and selfless love. It definitely added fathoms to my already deep appreciation of the music when I hunted down and gathered together all the lyrics, and then submerged myself in their cryptic beauty while listening. Only then did I realize how the thoughts and feelings are organincally woven into the music, creating a synthesis that is much greater than the sum of its parts. It feels to me this music was crafted purely in the service of a greater spiritual vision. It's not just music - it's the perfect expression of the painful surrendering of the mortal human spirit to the infinite and divine. Although the music seems very raw and loose, repeated listening reveals detail and nuance that indicates how carefully composed, structured and executed the album really is. The creative folding of unexpected and textural instrumentation into the gospel-bluesrock-jazzedelic-ballad mix further puts this album outside any attempt to catagorize the style, other than infinitely subtle, deep and moving.Free Music Review: From the shore of Manly and beyond...
Hit: 5 Stars
I know the existence of this album and Laughing Stock in a cold December 2000, when I bought Asides and Bsides (a milking compilation about Talk Talk) and Live 1986 in Tower Records.However, I dug deeper into them when I was staying in Manly, Australia for two weeks when I was visiting my ex-gf. I picked up a copy of Uncut magazine and they talked about Mark Hollis at the very last page. It was very convincing and I wandered to HMV to have a go. I only saw the very last copy (I didn't know about it then) and was still deciding if I should buy it or not. The very next day I came back, it was gone and you have to wait few weeks to get another copy with Laughing Stock as well.
Now, having bought the copy in HMV Singapore and the Laughing Stock cd (also Mark Hollis) and many many hours of divine musical journey, I am very much touched with the simplicity, the beauty and the journey these two cds bring me to.
I have survive a break up and the songs from Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock keep me from drowing in the sea of sorrow. Time rolls over while the music is simply amazing!
Listen to "I Believe In You" or "Eden" and you know what I'm talking about. The serenity, the chill, the stillness of the morning water. You can feel the surrender of a man. Here it is, Spirit of Eden!
Free Music Review: Wonderful and thoughtful! Just an amazing post-rock/experimental/ambient experience!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you were to ask most people if they'd even heard of Talk Talk, I'm pretty sure no one would say they had. Maybe a couple would say yes, but they would only know their new wave hits like "It's My Life", "Talk Talk" or "Happiness Is Easy". While those are great songs, Talk Talk created a masterpiece with "Spirit Of Eden"! Who would've though that a hardcore new wave/pop rock band from the 80's would create such an amazingly interesting and soothing experimental rock album? What's so great about this album is not only that it's soothingly ambient, but also that it has so many influences. There's definitely some Miles Davis, Brian Eno and Yes influences here, with a little hint of new wave in some of the songs. There's a minimal amount of singing, and sometimes guitars kick in loud and fast. What's great about the guitar parts is that they go RIGHT up to the line of too-much-noise, but then right before you're about to not like the sound they slow things down again. They're essentially messing with your mind! This is just a wonderful wonderful album that most people will enjoy, and for anyone seeking a nice soothing ambient album this is a great buy! Highly recommended!
Highlights include:
the entire album!
Free Music Review: The Beatles did it, so did Talk Talk ... evolve quickly.
Hit: 5 Stars
Sure, we revel at how U2, R.E.M. and Duran Duran have changed with the times, but recall how, in the space of 6 years, The Beatles went from "Love Me Do" to "Revolution No. 9". Well, Talk Talk accomplished the same thing in the 80's. Talk Talk steered from the new romantic/synthpop of "Talk Talk" via "It's My Life" to this indescribable album of orchestral-acoustic beauty -- all within the space of 6 years! Clearly, I'm not saying that Talk Talk sounds anything like The Beatles or matches their level of greatness, but Talk Talk released some of the most important music from the 80's in the form of this album and its predecessor THE COLOUR OF SPRING. Mark Hollis' songwriting is painfully introspective (from nature on "Inheritance" to the anti-heroin message in "I Believe in You" to religion in "Wealth"); his vocals both whispered and rapturous. The music is a veritable feast of blues, folk, avant-garde and classical featuring instruments as wide-ranging as the harmonium, double bass, bassoon, oboe, clarinet, dobro and organ. Anyone seeking some degree of sophistication and feeling in "rock" music should seek this out -- it is truly life-changing.Free Music Review: The Beatles did it, so did Talk Talk ... evolve quickly.
Hit: 5 Stars
Sure, we revel at how U2, R.E.M. and Duran Duran have changed with the times, but recall how, in the space of 6 years, The Beatles went from "Love Me Do" to "Revolution No. 9". Well, Talk Talk accomplished the same thing in the 80's. Talk Talk steered from the new romantic/synthpop of "Talk Talk" via "It's My Life" to this indescribable album of orchestral-acoustic beauty -- all within the space of 6 years! Clearly, I'm not saying that Talk Talk sounds anything like The Beatles or matches their level of greatness, but Talk Talk released some of the most important music from the 80's in the form of this album and its predecessor THE COLOUR OF SPRING. Mark Hollis' songwriting is painfully introspective (from nature on "Inheritance" to the anti-heroin message in "I Believe in You" to religion in "Wealth"); his vocals both whispered and rapturous. The music is a veritable feast of blues, folk, avant-garde and classical featuring instruments as wide-ranging as the harmonium, double bass, bassoon, oboe, clarinet, dobro and organ. Anyone seeking some degree of sophistication and feeling in "rock" music should seek this out -- it is truly life-changing.