Talk Talk - EDEN - 1988

[fat8622]

lol fuck the beatles

[Apoopinthepoop]

It's just when you think you've heard everything good you can found in a music movement that arrives that band for which you realise you are doing something that doesn't have nothing to compare with music itself: Talk Talk. And you listen to it, amazed.

[mynameny94]

Flea brought me here

[fat8622]

@mynameny94 you know, for a guy who makes such terible music, Flea has pretty good taste

[jessimanga1]

This is what love feels like....

[ColdOasisU2]

mesmerizing

[birdisdaword96]

flea333 brought me here

[pashtettRB]

Flea!

[birdisdaword96]

@pashtettRB YES

[liebeleber1]

Super und großartig!!!

[furiousfingers27]

There's a quote I remember from an anime where a character says, "If you can't enjoy saki, there's something wrong with you." It's similar for me with this. If I can't enjoy Talk Talk, I know that there's something wrong with me. :)

[doctorwintercold]

...they never  ment 4 me 2 fight back...!

[lingsbord]

seems they went from a perfect 80s synth-pop band through cerebral electro shoe-gazing of the very best kind, and eventually left off a beautiful siren-song of a final note that was cast upon the sea, only for Sigur Ros to pick it up and apply their Icelandic fairy-dust to it and deliver a Nordic version of what Talk Talk might have been if they had still been with us. Talk Talk - very important to me and my musical journey. Humbling at times.

[laforzaflandria]

Bizarre groep, begonnen als synth-pop groepje van niemandal, en dan: album na album steeds beter geworden. Met als absolute hoogtepunten de laatste twee platen: Spirit of Eden en Laughing Stock. Absolute meesterwerken zijn dat. En dan, op hun hoogtepunt, zijn ze gestopt, om te janken!!! TT, my all time favorite!! En met het verstrijken van de jaren... wordt het gemis aan nieuw werk van TT alleen maar groter....

[McHaggis62]

A brilliant recording. I feel ecstatic when I hear this.

[marty9040]

its about time mark hollis/talk talk were in the rock and roll music hall of fame with the fab four the beatles.

[DJMimzy]

@marty9040 the Beatles wish they could be as good as Talk Talk

[SOYUZ1968]

At the beginning was Franco Battiato, in the middle the Talk Talk, afterward were Sigur Ròs!

[redshaftedflicker]

19 fuckin' 88.  Where can I find anything sounding remotely this great regardless of genre now or even in the last 10 years? TIMELESS.

[CVJM12]

For me what they did is all what music is about ... timeless ....

[friedegg44]

i saw talk talk at the milton keynes bowl in 82, supporting genesis, they got absolutely hammered by the crowd. what have genesis done since 82, abacab, illegal alien, we can't dance, basically a load of crap, and what have talk talk done, sorry but i can't think of any crap songs..................still thinking........many thanks for posting this timeless classic.

[supercooleden]

my names eden!!!!!

[symbiologic]

superunderrateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iscariotesrock]

this song is a feeling ripped from a brilliant mind.

[MrCristoir]

I have listened to many bands and artists from tom waits, leo sayer, led zepplin,metallica,andrea bocelli, u2, kenny rogers, pink floyd, bob dylan, james taylor, talkin heads, radiohead,kate bush i could go on and on all night............WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD THIS BAND in my 34 years on this great planet....i think i've just found 1 of the very very few 80's bands that i actually like(due to 90%of them being strung out on synthesizers).

[slaphaddalztick]

@MrCristoir Welcome to the party, even if you are a little late!

[SuperCp12]

My favorite TT album...

i do miss them terribly.

[chucku00]

A British prayer...

[laforzaflandria]

Radiohead heeft hier overduidelijk naar geluisterd en de mosterd gehaald!!

[MsCaptainlee]

this one is for someone I care about.

[dartmoor1963]

blijft elke keer geweldig...

[meandmehousetramp]

pure art!

[Jaybrucken]

thank you Talk Talk....

ever after, my friend Igor...

[vinniehond]

great song

[zeka755]

Respect ! (º_ª)

[hunderok]

According to your song, don´t you think that all your fans needs you to live by ?

Beautiful song beautiful and so true.

[andyhsleeds]

talk talk rools i wished they still going MARK HOLLIS ROOLS!!!!!!

[doctorwintercold]

I love you talk talk...

[LAMBDABIAL]

wow Poland

[mayek43]

Chyba pujde i przypale sobie blanta!!!! to niesamowita muza!!!

[mayek43]

Chyba pujde i przypale sobie blanta!!!! to niesamowita muza!!!

[freuers]

Einfach nur genial, ein Gesang, eine Melodie die mich in jede Faser meines Lebens trifft

[ArgCaro]

Que canción sublime, lograda como pocas. Gracias por esta creación Talk Talk.

[LAMBDABIAL]

lambdabial

[carllevasseur1]

I searched for this particular song for many, many years. It is part of a very important period in my past along with many other Talk Talk songs. So glad to have finally find it.

This band was unique. In my humble opinion, they are right beside Pink Floyd and the likes.

[damonjon]

i always knew I loved this band but for some reason i really, profoundly accepted them as one of my all time favs next to 'The Smiths' when i listened to Spirit of Eden while driving through Joshua Tree

[LittleMissLativa]

OMG MY NAME IS EDEN!!!!!OMG!!

[Freerealmslover7789]

eden i meant Eden

[Freerealmslover7789]

my name is ede! :P not lying look meh up on goole

[TheBReTwallace]

music is still trying to catch up to the brillance that is talk talk. I'm so thankfull that was born in 1970 so that when they came around i was ready. they are still and always will be my favorite band of all time. thank you talk talk for being the soundtrack of my life.

[dumdumfriend]

'Everybody needs someone to live by'

[flojofilms]

their music truly has the 'spirit of eden'

[emmacramshaw]

I had the Talk Talk album - loved it, craved it, lent it to someone. Never got it back. I didn't realize the depth of my bereavement at it's loss until listening again. I'm going to freakin' buy them all AGAIN!!

[rogoldomedonfors]

this band sounded nothing like anything else around in the '80s and fascinated me then ... still there's nothing to quite compare. the only songs i can think of where the silence is as important as the sounds ... wierd and majestic stuff.

[christiannandres]

@rogoldomedonfors what about some pink floyd from the 80s?they were just as good an pouted out some good stuff back in the 80s too...

[shinytinhead]

we knew they were before their time but didn't get it

[cris24587]

q bello todo este disco lo mejor, no hay palabra,salr de lo normal, mientra mas escucho me gusta mas

[greiper]

my name is eden... lol

[sharkaholic]

when ever I need to find peace in myself. this album and Colour of Spring brings me to it

[bezz65]

Talk Talk didn't become stadium rockers, they chose a fer more interesting road.

[Littlechinaquail]

amazing song

[fluence51]

I wonder if people in 1988 knew this would eventually become the sucessor of rock music... The reign of post-rock is about to begin.

[Lacanau1988]

hallo

[wenbv]

i am alive thanks to this

[psyne000]

astounding.

[marty9040]

its about time mark hollis/talk talk were awarded into the rock n roll music hall of fame.

[MrSatoV]

@javierdamien No, he's retired. I know, I know. He's recently worked on projects with people, so maybe eventually someone will talk him into doing an album. Its funny, the recent stuff he's done is just musical accompaniment... rather than sing. I want to hear his voice again.

[javierdamien]

where is mark hollis today?he is deat?...

[slaphaddalztick]

No thank God! He's alive and well and living in London.

[javierdamien]

yes,but and your music?today?

[Noizemaker31]

To reach just a little further would be to brush God on the chin...

[slaphaddalztick]

It's Sunday evening and the weekend is almost over. Tomorrow at 6am I'll be standing on a cold, dark and fucking miserable station platform with a load of other sad bastards, and d'ya know, listening to this now, I don't give a shit!

[bottecchia1927]

@slaphaddalztick ^^

[Mega80schild]

@slaphaddalztick and i will be standing next to you with MY headset on thinking you are a sad bastard

[Mega80schild]

@slaphaddalztick (i mean that in a good way slap lol.)

[beowulven]

@slaphaddalztick

You are my brother.

[slaphaddalztick]

@beowulven ( ;

[serloinz]

@slaphaddalztick i feel like that now and its saturday nite :( 2 days out of 7 is too little time for humans to have to do the things that makes life worth living!

[slaphaddalztick]

@serloinz too right friend!

[roneugenius]

@slaphaddalztick That's the hands down best comment on youtube! air high- fiving you where ever you are Sir !!

[slaphaddalztick]

@roneugenius Thanks pal,I'm flattered!

[callicolady]

@slaphaddalztick totally love that comment :) this is 'escape' music!......right-on!!! x

[slaphaddalztick]

@callicolady thanks!! You cheered me up on a Monday morning ;)

[callicolady]

@slaphaddalztick you are most welcome

[callicolady]

@slaphaddalztick you are most welcome, i actually worked as assistant enginner with the guy (Phil Brown) who recorded this album. I didn't work on Spirit Of Eden itself but another project/different band. He said everything on Eden was distance miked - 12 feet away for drums/amps, 6 feet for acoustic stuff

[slaphaddalztick]

@callicolady I haven't a clue what difference that would have made, but it obviously worked, it's an incredible album. Great to chat with you! x

[callicolady]

@slaphaddalztick that is the best fucking comment i've ever read on YT :D LMFAO

[djsaturnin]

@slaphaddalztick

It's sunday evening here too..

Can i come with you tomorrow morning and we'll listen

to this song together...

[slaphaddalztick]

@djsaturnin  we just did pal....

[n8tureboy]

@slaphaddalztick

Your comment just made my day. Here, here! When the musics this good it transports a person straight into another dimension, one where every care dissolves into meaningless thought.

I have every TT album and after 20+ years of listening they're still as fresh as day one!!! Music that stands the test of time!

[slaphaddalztick]

@n8tureboy I have a lot of kindred spirits out there. It's good to know!

[n8tureboy]

@slaphaddalztick

It's Sunday evening again my friend. Be of good cheer though, at least we have jobs right? LOL!

[slaphaddalztick]

@n8tureboy Indeed, let's be thankful for small mercies!

[n8tureboy]

@slaphaddalztick

I am,.....Keep your chin up bro!

[ladyfuschia]

@slaphaddalztick Great visual. My heart bursts and sends out warm muffins and coffees to all of you...and then later, when you need it the most, a gentle touch, a warm hug, a knowing smile - one that propels us both away to a place where Mother Nature rules and all is well. There is no more powerful tool than the imagination. A single soul, thousands of miles away, nameless and faceless, is reaching out to make a golden arc of unconditional love, from needing and wanting to give and to receive.

[slaphaddalztick]

@ladyfuschia Blimey, you certainly warmed up a chilly morning!

 " Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere" - Albert Einstein.

[ladyfuschia]

@slaphaddalztick Oh yeah.....

[slaphaddalztick]

@ladyfuschia I'm not sure where this is going, but it's interesting (;

[ladyfuschia]

@slaphaddalztick As an artist and child trapped in an adult's body, imagination is a huge part of my world!! I will also be writing a couple of books as soon as everything is "set"! Now tell me about you??

[gomachols]

@slaphaddalztick so are you two married with three kids yet?

[2licht83]

@slaphaddalztick

every morning, dude...

[xNotverynicex]

This is almost ritual music...Hollis was tryind to find spiritual illumination through "Spirit of Eden" (and "Laughing Stock" is really amazing, too). It's evident on the lyrics...think he borrowed the idea from Popol Vuh and, of course, John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"...

[JadedArtisan]

This album is something special.

[jairheart]

Many , many Thanks to Colour of Spring for keeping this timeless music alive for all of us to listen and think about how amazing this music is. I am over 50 and I started listening to Talk Talk when I first heard "It's your LIfe and have been listening ever since

[Darrell9029]

I am 40 now, when this music was new, I used to come down off mind bending acid listening to this album, with very special friends

[bertftm]

what an unbelievably amazing band.

[TheDoooooz]

Talk Talk fans in Alb. NM!!! Cheers! Mark Hollis was the best. I thought i was the only Talk Talk fan in the burque.

[DolittleAdam]

I signed on because of this memory...My sister's name is Eden, her boyfriend gave her this LP because he named his band Taste of Eden....we loved this music then,

a whole clan in Albq. New mex.

[TheBobbygee]

try rustin mann and beth gibbon(portishead) blow ya away..your welcome..

[copeyattamsworth]

A wholly unique and uncategorizable sound informed by elements of jazz, classical, and ambient music; their masterful final recordings, while neglected commercially, possess a timelessness rare among music of any genre, and in retrospect they seem the clear starting point for the post-rock movement of the 1990s.

[jaredpistoia]

A well-versed statement. I'm in total agreement.

[Hotdogdoperwtje2]

I'm 14 and I can't stop listening Talk Talk. Best music ever made for me.

[ruralgraffiti]

Thats really good to hear. Keep it up, they are like a fine wine, gets better with age.

[slaphaddalztick]

you've got great taste there dude, better than mine at your age !

[Hotdogdoperwtje2]

thank you (:

[brisquez]

a precious treasure.... a real album...no doubt! jaja....

[markfoot]

Man, this song could kill a man if that person was depressed. But if you are happy, yur the whealtiest man alive. This song can amplify emotions so much. Beautifull

[lollipoppigz]

I lived through this era and more as a result of ignorance I was listening to other things - having listened to these guys for just one evening (already having heard the obvious hits some times over previously) I just wish I had listened sooner than now - I am now catching up and boy they are pure class!!!!!!!

[psyne000]

When it rains it comes Lolli, nice to have you on the ride.

[TheBobbygee]

let it flow through your veins,

[rabaul186]

Wenn man die passende Herbstzeit-Stimmung hat, ist diese Musik klasse anzuhören.

[matternicuss]

Talk Talk, at this stage in their career, created a quality of music that is seldom heard today. in one song, they could convey more emotion and thought than most artists do in entire albums. truly extraordinary

[aviatrix911]

...more emotion and thought than most artists do in entire careers, in fact....

[faurby999]

Muik für Herbst und Winter. Zeitlos, genial, grandios.

[julesplym]

The 'best' album ever committed to vinyl? I agree. Any one disagree.

[jmedia1]

Agreed; wouldn't sell this record for California even.

[boabyp]

Thanks for postin these dude. I have these albums on vinyl and it doesnt do them justice due the minimalist style. My favourite band. Period. Ta.

[julesplym]

I was going to say the same thing but you did it for me! cheers mate.

[MrSuperweed1]

haha holdin d wife after love makin,that is seriously hilarious .i agree best comment ever,haha,i usualy somke a splif and fall asleep.love his honesty.

[rezlerken]

terence trent darby theres honesty ; )

[rezlerken]

this song ,always reminds me of holding my wife after making love,! beautiful i

[robbiejrichards]

Dude, that's one of the funniest comments I've ever read on youtube! Brilliant

[copeyattamsworth]

Critics often view Spirit of Eden as a departure from Talk Talk's previous albums. Compared to their 1986 hit The Colour of Spring, it was commercially unsuccessful. Many critics, however, praise the album and consider it influential to the post-rock movement of the 1990s.

[copeyattamsworth]

Spirit of Eden has not dated; it's remarkable how contemporary it sounds, anticipating post-rock, The Verve and Radiohead. It's the sound of an artist being given the keys to the kingdom and returning with art

[copeyattamsworth]

They shook off their early Japan/Duran name tags and surpassed both of them with the passing of each album.

And in doing so lay the ground for experimental type music for bands like radiohead and the like.

[WalshNo5]

I adore Talk Talk and even Hollis' solo music. Yes they shook off the Duran name tag, but Japan were good too. David Sylvian's solo music is immense.

[harrylivermore]

class

[dspone]

beautiful song!

[weemitch74]

nice track!!! takes me back to my childhood

[HikiLuoma]

Yeah and the reason why the songs of Spirit of Eden remind me of some pictures is because the cover of this album is similar to them. Plus these are so good songs.

[HikiLuoma]

Listening to this album always reminds me of some pictures that we had on the walls or somewhere in my home of my childhood... Not that anyone's interested of that thing, but I like these songs very much :P

[meddle71echoes]

I'm interested.

Don't doubt me.

[Toyboy789]

Talk Talk cd do no wrong - and the brilliance is in this music's timelessness

[patriccocci]

I love rhis song .. bellissima !!

[inisch]

best best best ever ! ! mark please come back !!!!!!!!

[demonfire456]

if you like this, talk talk produced another similar album after this entitled "laughing stock". After that mark hollis went solo, releasing a self entitled album in 1997.

(yeah, so the latest album is called "mark hollis" by "mark hollis")

[wrs6565]

This is the best song on SOE. Massive massive catharsis.

I always thought of this album as sort of a cross between "The Joshua Tree" and ambience.

[0066bond]

such an under estimated band from the 80's!!

[lizbetitamas]

Wow, I' m in love with Talk Talk, beautiful song!!

[Darrell9029]

I'll have this one played at my funeral, nice to see sso many other people moved by a secret genius

[gjs123]

My daughter asked me last week which Talk Talk track I wanted played at my funeral. Not which song I wanted played, just which particular Talk Talk track.

Best band ever

[spectrum99122]

How did this album go under my radar 20 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus H. it's genuinely awesome.

[hansmenck]

Great music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[acrpeter]

1:40 to 1:50 and again further in the song. damn it, one of the most fuckin' amazing 10 seconds of music I've ever heard..

[atmos111]

Damn right. Sounds like the Velvet Underground's song Heroin, when it gets really cranked up...so to speak :)

[WalshNo5]

Beautiful song, but to me I love it just at 1:50 when it goes quiet and downtempo away from the guitar crescendo - fantastic !!

[OneColonel]

As I posted on the Spirit video Genius the greatest album ever recorded.

I heard that most of the tracks were recorded live in a church and then embelished slightly in post production. A landmark record that in time will be played in schools and used as an example of how mankind can achieve greatness, without selling out or following trends

[djdtpackers]

This is where it all started. every post rock or modern art rock band from Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor to Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky owe thier lives to this band. One of the most influential albums ever made.

[galuidi]

Love this album. I usally listen to it in the bath. It's quite old now ('80s) but you wouldn't think so by listening to it. Love the harmonica and the drums on this album.

[LunaSeaSane]

I don't worship them. But this whole album is other worldly.

[jmedia1]

So good to revisit this on the net...

[jvmacias]

A song ahead of its time, strange but great

[mvd191]

Always reminds me of Islands by King Crimson

[gloggolyt]

I don't think that I have ever listened to a more melankolic record than TT's Spirit Of Eden. I had just finished High School and started in the army when the LP was released in the autumn of 1988. It was a good record to listen to when you felt sorry for yourself :-) Today it's just one of the best records in my collection.

[Garmez120]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I used to jokingly refer to this album as 'music to slit your wrists to' (I never did). But when I was down I would often put this album on.

Its as though you were in the company of an empathic friend who new what you were going through. Maybe thats what all melancholic music does and why people play it, though this work is in a league of its own.

[gloggolyt]

Thank you for your nice words. And for showing me how melancholic is spelled :-)

[Toyboy789]

Truly extraordinary . . . A wonderful track. By an equally wonderful band!

[tschak909]

music to cry to. *tear*

[JohnoEAL]

Colour of Spring is such a masterpiece - then you listen to this song and it sounds so far removed, so worlds apart from that album it could be another band! Yet it's the same band, just 2 years later. Extraordinary.

Put Colour of Spring & Spirit of Eden side by side... 2 of the most inconceivably evocative albums in history. These 2 alone demonstrate the incomparable brilliance of this band. And when you factor in the rest of their work...

Without peer, they're just... without peer.

[skrason]

Amen.

It saddens me that most people have no clue who Talk Talk is. But it makes me so happy to know that just about everyone I've ever met that HAS heard them, completely worships them.

[JohnoEAL]

I was on holiday in London when I first read your post 2 weeks ago, and it put the biggest smile on my face. Absolutely agreed. I have yet to meet one intelligent person who has listened to them, and who does not completely worship them.