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geemoneybe
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Jul 6, 2018
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“Laughing Stock” by Talk Talk for all-time; but “Time Will Die & Love Will Bury It” by Rolo Tomassi is my newest obsession. Not for everyone, for sure, but incredible anyway IMO.
CwalkPinoy
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Jul 15, 2018
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geemoneybetalk talk really was amazing after their pop phase.
geemoneybe
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Jul 15, 2018
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CwalkPinoyThey were... Although I can't really listen to their first album, I like the rest to varying degrees, and enjoy the transition from pop to their more unstructured later albums. To me their last three records are without peer.
RRRS
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Jul 23, 2018
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geemoneybeDon'y know whether it was a post of yours or not, but after seeing the TT rec, listened to some samples, did some reading, then went to Discogs and bought LS and Spirit of Eden on vinyl. Love em both. Just wished I understood a couple of the words.;-) Reminds me of Bon Iver in that regard.
Tried the Rolo rec, and found a great song, but some of the other stuff is a bit too hard edged for my tastes. Still, good to try some new music out. Thanks.
Tried the Rolo rec, and found a great song, but some of the other stuff is a bit too hard edged for my tastes. Still, good to try some new music out. Thanks.
geemoneybe
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Jul 23, 2018
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RRRSI agree about the Rolo album... Or perhaps it is best to say that I did, as while I'm no fan of hardcore singing, nor the dark and heavy riffing that usually accompanies it, both have grown on me with this record, which I can hardly stop listening to. That said I listened to it a great deal to get to this point (I'm guessing the song you refer to is Aftermath"). Anyway, I certainly get what you are saying. And I feel the same about most of their work before this record as they are for sure harder, more aggressive, with less of Eva Spence's more melodic signing as contrast. I suspect it's the contrast between melody and harshness that I miss.
So happy you like the Talk Talk that I feel I must thank you: those albums are important to me, I guess, and the fact that I had a part in someone else enjoying them is for sure the high point of this day, and probably week. Mark Hollis (lead singer) was apparently more interested in using his voice as an instrument by the time of Spirit, more interested in how it sounds as opposed to what was said, so I agree that his lyrics are not easy to make out... Not sure if he did this for ironic counterpoint or not, but for some reason he decided to include the lyrics for both Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock with the albums/CDs, but wrote them out by hand, and it's not easy to read his writing, either. That said they are transcribed in several spots on the net.
Hollis has a solo album, by the way, eponymously titled, release five or so years after Laughing Stock, last thing he ever did in music pretty much. It's very good as well.
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So happy you like the Talk Talk that I feel I must thank you: those albums are important to me, I guess, and the fact that I had a part in someone else enjoying them is for sure the high point of this day, and probably week. Mark Hollis (lead singer) was apparently more interested in using his voice as an instrument by the time of Spirit, more interested in how it sounds as opposed to what was said, so I agree that his lyrics are not easy to make out... Not sure if he did this for ironic counterpoint or not, but for some reason he decided to include the lyrics for both Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock with the albums/CDs, but wrote them out by hand, and it's not easy to read his writing, either. That said they are transcribed in several spots on the net.
Hollis has a solo album, by the way, eponymously titled, release five or so years after Laughing Stock, last thing he ever did in music pretty much. It's very good as well.
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