![]() Spirit of Eden, released in 1988, is an album like no other. The Colour of Spring was a big success for Talk Talk, producing the hits Living in Another World and Life’s What You Make It.īut as different as The Colour of Spring was from their previous records, nothing prepared the music world for their next album, a milestone not only in 80s music, but to many the album that started post-rock. ![]() He loved the abstract nature of their compositions and revealed that the use of synths in Talk Talk’s first two albums was only a necessity to reduce recording costs in order to realize rich orchestrated songs. Hollis was listening at that time to modern classical music and composers such as Bartok and Debussy. ![]() Some of the songs on that album, such as April 5th and Chameleon Days, indicated that there is a lot more to the band than good synth-based songs. The real story started to unfold with the release of The Colour of Spring, an excellent transitional album that employed many acoustic instruments and a larger palette of sounds. In the beginning of the 80s he released with his band Talk Talk great pop albums that yielded hits such as Today, It’s My Life and Such A Shame, all with unusual accompanying music videos. Sharp-eyed listeners and viewers could notice that behind what seemed like another synth band was a smart and unique musician who reluctantly filled the role of a pop star required in the MTV age. Mark Hollis must be one of the biggest enigmas in music history. But if someone held a gun to my head demanding that I blurt out my ten desert island albums or else be locked in a room listening to Kenny G all day, I think that Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden would be one of them. Why listen to all the rest then? Rest assured, no lists on this blog. The best singer/band/guitarist/drummer/song/yodeler. Even worse, today’s short attention spans drive ever-shorter lists, reaching the pinnacle – lists of one. ![]() These lists are here today, gone tomorrow, and at best spark some useless discussion where folks try to replace or rearrange the list to accommodate each reader’s preference. Rarely these lists include phrases like ‘In my opinion’ or ‘My personal favorite’. The ones I don’t care for are music lists that seem to be floating around in the ether endlessly each time some pseudo-authoritative figure, magazine, webzine, fanzine has an urge to share with the world the top, best, most, worst (name your genre) songs, albums, recordings, performances ever. I don’t mean grocery shopping lists, those are handy. ![]()
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