Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (CD2)
“I want to write stuff that you’ll be able to listen to in 10 years’ time”.
Mark Hollis
Notwithstanding the slightly overbearing 1986 drums Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring was a groundbreaking album for the band signalling the way towards the two jazz rock ambient classics that would follow.
They only made 5 albums but 3 of them certainly achieved Hollis' aim and more.
The Party's Over (1982)
It's My Life (1984)
The Colour of Spring (1986)
Spirit of Eden (1988)
Laughing Stock (1991)
Not a bad discography for a band who were compared to Duran Duran when they first started out (although this was more a marketing ruse than on account of any wishes of Hollis and his bandmates). Indeed many of the closest neighbours on the Talk Talk music map do relate more to their inception than their later albums:
Interestingly though David Sylvian does sneak into the chart over on the left hand side. I hadn't really related the two before this current run of magazine playing but the connection is now very obvious to me - Sylvian's Everything and Nothing is a brilliant retrospective which manages to cover many of his greatest and best known tunes up to the year 2000 (just before he started going much weirder) including some collaborations and Japan pieces, plus some outtakes and unreleased tracks for the dedicated fans too.
The Nitin Sawhney album (his only I possess) makes fleeting appearances at the blog, mainly on account of the marvellous Tides piano track.
Not a bad discography for a band who were compared to Duran Duran when they first started out (although this was more a marketing ruse than on account of any wishes of Hollis and his bandmates). Indeed many of the closest neighbours on the Talk Talk music map do relate more to their inception than their later albums:
Interestingly though David Sylvian does sneak into the chart over on the left hand side. I hadn't really related the two before this current run of magazine playing but the connection is now very obvious to me - Sylvian's Everything and Nothing is a brilliant retrospective which manages to cover many of his greatest and best known tunes up to the year 2000 (just before he started going much weirder) including some collaborations and Japan pieces, plus some outtakes and unreleased tracks for the dedicated fans too.
The Nitin Sawhney album (his only I possess) makes fleeting appearances at the blog, mainly on account of the marvellous Tides piano track.
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