Talk Talk

I've never seen any footage of Talk Talk apart from the video for  the early single "Talk Talk".  It's high time I sought out that DVD.

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: For some reason I really do not like The Colour of Spring. Their last two albums are perfect, though.

Edited by Nov - January 26 2013 at 09:53

kenethlevine wrote: - The Blue Nile - Hats

Talk Talk's contributions cannot be highlighted enough. Truly a game-changer for experimental music.

I always found it coincidental how both post-rock and post-metal were created by bands suddenly drastically changing their style. Talk Talk was new wave, then came Spirit of Eden. Neurosis was hardcore punk, then came Souls at Zero. It's a funny thing.

There's a band called Bark Psychosis. Two of their albums, "Hex" and "Codename: Dustsucker" feature Lee Harris from Talk Talk and have some similarities to late-period Talk Talk.

Ady Cardiac wrote: does anyone know where i can listen to the first album by "orang" on the internet?.....it was the band formed by the other two members when mark hollis split talk talk.

Nov wrote: kenethlevine wrote: - The Blue Nile - Hats I prefer the first album - A Walk Across The Rooftops

Sergey Lenkov wrote: To be true I like 80s sound, but I remember the surprise feeling in time of the first listening to Spirit of Eden. The music is meditative, jazz influences of Miles could be heard (I suppose so). Of course Laughting Stock and Marc Hollis solo album also impressed me. I think the manner of singing by Hollis much influenced Steve Hogarth (Marillion).

Have you heard the Blue Niles' album Hats? It's got Marillion written all over it. Clearly Hogarth is a Blue Nile fan, and has modeled his voice on Paul Buchanan's. Check out the track "Let's Go Out Tonight": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQx-6cUyHVo

The thing about Talk Talk's last 3 albums was that they anticipated the sound of the 90s and 00s. I can totally hear Radiohead in some of their tracks...

Sergey Lenkov wrote: Thank you for recommendation - I didn't heard Blue Nile.

Hogarth often mentions them in interviews through the years. In one I've found online, the interviewer asks him who he's inspired by, and he says, "The Blue Nile is a huge inspiration and their singer Paul Buchanan."

In a Time Out interview, Hogarth talks about his love for both the Blue Nile and Talk Talk:

Q: Have you ever been so passionate about any band that you would’ve chipped in to pay their way across the ocean, or bought several records in advance?

Hogarth: I think the only band I might have done it for—and I didn’t, and they never asked—had they been American, I would have probably put my money in to bring the Blue Nile over here. But as it turns out, the Blue Nile were from Edinburgh in Scotland, and they never asked, and they’re here anyway. Part of the reason I would have paid for the Blue Nile is because they were extremely uncompromising, musically. They were just doing their thing; they had nothing to do with the music business per se, really. They did have a deal with a major label for one album, but really they weren’t a band whose music was tailored to the mass market. Maybe Talk Talk, in their later years, had they said, “We’ve made this most incredible, strange record and we can’t get a label to put it out—we could do with help, how’d you feel?” I would’ve been probably in the queue with my money.

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/interview-steve-hogarth-of-marillion-rock-pop-hip-hop