@MrShuggieTodd Well said;to refer to it as a suicide...it might have been nice if they had as many lives as Scott Walker though. He has several mesmerizing suicides...
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This song is incredible. You can hear elements of they're 80's pop even though it's such an experimental song. talk talk knew what they were doing all along.
i was familiar with their earlier stuff, but when i stumbled upon this and spirit of eden it was like a religious awakening. truly special music, made by and for truly special people.
Great band! I discovered them only lately and felt a bit bad because I had never heard of their existence before. Such unique music should be appriciated in a bigger scale. :)
I was watching Radiohead on Colbert tonight and it suddenly occurred to me that Laughing Stock kinda sounds like something Radiohead would do, so I had to hear it again! This was one of my Desert Island albums (albums I would take if I could only take 10.
@oneerc I KNOW RIGHT? Ive been saying to everyone, The King of Limbs, and even In Rainbows to a certain extent, sound influenced by this. Not surprised though.
@Planettelex99 this is so weird, I was just about to post this on my facebook wall, and write just that :P It's true, this song is what heaven mush be made of
The evolution of Talk Talk as a band often puts me in mind of how Radiohead have developed. From massive hits, radio-friendly and very accessible to albums like SOE and LS which were moody and very experimental. Two of the best albums of that era. Pity they had to break up...
@Beelzebubbbbles i agree , i got into them at towards the late 80s but often wondered what happened afterwards to them , given how original and unique they were they always struck me as being a group that must was already a legend unto itself before even he heard them.
The albums 'Spirit Of Eden' and 'Laughing Stock'.... beautiful masterpieces of TT. Today, we are 20 years later, and I haven't found other bands that can reach the same level of TT and these masterpieces.
of all their magnificent canon this is the one I always come back to. for me it is Hollis' magnum opus. a stunningly beautiful piece, it is as if everything he was striving to achieve with the previous four albums. As hard as it was to take at the time, it was very unsurprising to see him break the band up following the release of "Laughing Stock".
Muziek van een zeldzame schoonheid: de breekbaar gezongen teksten door Mark Hollis, het respect voor leegtes en stiltes in de muziek, de zorgvuldig opgebouwde spanningsbogen en onverwachte wendingen maken deze pareltjes na elke nieuwe luisterbeurt steeds beter...
AT first when bought this album i thought the songs wheren't there best but now these are some of the best songs they have produced. TALK TALK ROOLS!!
OK I have an admission. I should not have put down your band slint. My bad. I definitely think they suck but no good can come of me saying that. ROCK ON (or whatever slint fans say), good on you!
bigger, im like not saying this lightly, ive wrenched the laughing stack album since 91. its ultramint like nothing else. comparisons are feeble but these dudes on that and this album said, "hey imagination is this way."
Anyone else just blown away by the percussion? It seems simple, but there is this really subtle low miked high tom echoing the bass drum. Not a drummer so I prolly got all the names wrong, but just listen for it.
if you want a laugh listen to two slint fans define slint. oh dude theyre like neo progressive punk bronzed out. No dude they are stainless metal pre-goth unpunked neo-classical binge rock mind jumper music. AND THE ONE WHO MANAGES TO SOUND most obscure wins!
@uxoriousNO Good gravy! I just made the most amazing discovery, guaranteed the rock the very foundations of the Earth. The quality of music is completely subjective! People can like Slint and not like Led Zeppelin. Hell they can not like both! Or they could shut up!
@uxoriousNO Good gravy! I just made the most amazing discovery, guaranteed the rock the very foundations of the Earth. The quality of music is completely subjective! People can like Slint and not like Led Zeppelin. Hell they can not like both! Or they could shut up!
"redefining the genre of rock" hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha. dont you have to be heard by at least ten people to redefine what everyone listens to? only a slint fan would let a statement like slint "redefining rock" escape their lips
the beatles came from the heart, were 100 times more creative, their crushes slint. and they never had to tell a lie about how they turned down big money. slint was signed to a major record label and had radio air time. they had their shot. but they suck ass so no one but the wanna be elite everpretend any more. this song is garbage a three year old could do better
maybe the fact that no else likes slint is a clue not a coolness cue. maybe just maybe their teeny tiny little audience is evidence of how much they suck. or maybe you three hundred are the uber cool elite and all these critics and billions of people dont know music at all. WHO KNOWS? ITS A MYSTERY!
@uxoriousNO I see your point of view. But you are extremely ignorant for thinking audience matters. As a matter of fact, it appears you think the scene and audience surrounding a band is all that matters. Not the actual band. There's a lot more going on than the scene, the band, even the music. Maybe a Slint fan gave you shit when you were a kid? Maybe you're just mad at your parents for not giving you enough allowance? Wise up.
bands like led zepelin are just too popular dude. oh except that they were ten times more creative but in a way that was cool. really great bands were great then and are great now. slint doesnt figure into the equation unless you are some douche at the coffee shop trying to impress his friends.
oh no, born flippy really zinged me. look at me I am a slint fan! I know about a band that is so cool, so obscure dude, you have to really know music to appreciate some retards that should have practiced in moms basement another ten years before signing to a label, getting popular air time, then instantly disappearing to the shitty disc graveyard
Listen to this and you understand what a musician is. Bought Colour of Spring and Laughing Stock when they were released and they expand my mind as much now as they did back then. Truly mesmerising, utter brilliance.
the reason people like gay ass slint is because no one else knows about them. people think they are cool when they have a secret. the reason gay ass slint never made it big (yeah they fought against fame and fortune, what a convenient excuse) is because crappy dialogue off key screaming and ripped off guitar riffs dont sell.
@uxoriousNO Time for a life lesson..you will need to pull that head out of your ass first. The reason a person like you uses the words "gay ass slint " is because you are afraid ..afraid of being a "gay ass slint" guess what Gas-man you are that which you fear most! now come back and post nicely when you have something other than ignorant drivel to spew. dismissed.
@bornflippy1 look at me fellas I am a slint fan. they are my super special secret fellas! oh you are so dismissed if you dont like slint. yes you are! oh I just love to put on my jumper, a slint record and just DANCE DANCE DANCE. they are so the opposite of square OMG! you are triple dismissssed mithter!
@uxoriousNO wow it took you 3 posts to say absolute fuck all! Looks like I hit a nerve!,,keep yappin asshat ..you prove your ignorance with every word.
@bornflippy1 you are a clown and all the world is your circus bornfloppy. not a funny clown. just a guy with an excuse to put on makeup and clown panties. DITHMISSSED BORN FLOPPY oh you are SO dismissed
@bornflippy1 one of the funniest things about you is how you come out the gate a super liberal rainbow defender. then your next post devolves into appearing to have been authored by a tough guy grade 8 dropout. I guess you just flippy from one persona to the next?
@uxoriousNO Damn man ..enough already ..you are having a fucking psychotic break over a youtube post..get a life! seriously..no one cares what you think do or say ..angry sociopath with nothing better to do than troll and spit hate..now fuck off!
@bornflippy1 you were mildly amusing before. not so much anymore. I will always remember you for your . super faggy "dith-missssed". hahahaha you kill me with that shit. the funniest part was you thinking you were cool saying it. good times
unplug the sodding telephone, switch off all mobiles, get the incense lit, candles lit, and whatever mood enhancing chill-out medication of your choice, turn the lights off and listen to this late at night - barring love-making it's the best f***ing night - in ever :)
What a brilliant song. TalkTalk proves to be one of the finest and most gifted bands ever. Pure music in the most perfect sense. Fans of this music should also listen to Orang: a project of TalkTalk members
I can't put into words how incredible this piece of music is. Genius, just genius. And for all those people who keep referring to Radiohead... um, why?? Completely different bands, completely different vibes, completely different sounds. If you guys were critics I'd call it lazy journalism; snap out of it guys.
I was in my library yesterday, checking the dicography of Talk Talk. Thank to Colour of Spring I now have all their songs in chronological order. And yes, there are people out there like me who are from the 80s. We have to endure ridicule and constantly justify our taste in music. Perhaps, if everyone was made to listen to; The Party's Over, It's My Life, The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock the non-believers might know where we come from. Thanks again Colour of Spring.
to answer most of the comments saying that these guys should be bigger.. the answer is they didn't want to, and those who don't want to be big and famous make the best music 'cause it comes from their heart and soul, not from the corporate machine spitting the same useless music every time...
@jonasbacklund not to say that rh is run by the corporate machine of course... right? because that would be ignorant, Kid A was brilliantly original, no doubt. it definitely has its influences, but there's no way in hell some fat cat record company took the reins on that album, nor the ones that followed
@jonasbacklund Their label exerted intense pressure to replicate the more commercial sound of The Party's Over and It's My Life, instead they chose to push forward the boundaries of what rock could be - redefining the entire genre- paving the way for Radiohead, at no small cost. They alienated (most) fans and their label, and in doing so they created some of the most brilliant, lasting and uncompromising music of the 20th century. What they left is a high watermark most only dream of attaining.
Arrivati troppo tardi per essere come Duran Duran & c., arrivati troppo presto per essere come i Radiohead....Senz'altro dei grandissimi precursori, molto spesso snobbati e guardati con sufficienza sia quando facevano pop-music, sia quando si son spostati nei territori del jazz e dell'avanguardia raffinata...Tuttavia, credo che raggiungere questo terrirtorio fosse il sogno di Mark Hollis....
holy mother of god! this is stunningly beautiful. WHY wasn't it picked by radio? - or the general population for that matter? this planet's on a downward spiral...
@headforthetropics They had a few hits in the begining that were played in radio and clubs etc. ( "Life's what you make it "i.e.) but as they luckily chose to let their true self out on the afterfollowing albums, comercially they lost interest, too intellectual and tracks too long for radio. Sooner or later they'll be rediscovered, they are too big to be forgotten
@headforthetropics i played it a lot...you probably didn't hear it though...it was on local radio in ireland...maybe my favourite album...if you haven't,listen to the previous 2,they're brilliant....
not a real big fan of this but i can't believe how ahead of its time it was. Sounds so much like more modern bands, and its amazing they were doing this stuff in 1991!
Ummm....okay. The atmosphere of this album sounds much like a Mogwai or Godspeed You Black Emperor. Of course it's not EXACTLY like modern bands, but you can clearly see and influence, my point was it was very much ahead of its time and influenced a lot of the music of today. Get your dick outta their butt for five seconds and maybe you could see that!
No shit it influenced those bands, but personally I think neither GYBE or Mogwaii ever reached their level. The only band that is up there with Talk Talk that I can think of is Cul De Sac and 70s krautrock bands, which you can say were "ahead of their time".
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Okay so did I ask if you think they are on the same level, you smug little puke? I don't even like this ambient cunt rock in the first place I was merely saying that its amazing how this came out at this time, and I can see the influence and apparently so can you so what exactly is your counter? Next time you decide to open that condescening mouth of yours better have a reason.
i see people saying about lots of bands "they were ahead of their time etc" all the time, but I don't really see how that makes any sense in music and art, where sometimes earlier stuff are better. Talk Talk basically started all the post-rock thing, so they were the first.
Of course earlier stuff is better. I rarely listen to new music myself so I can attest to that. The point is bands are influenced by previous generations bands and absorb elements of their sounds, whether they are better or not is irrelevant. Do you just open your mouth to make yourself feel intelligent?
True to some things you've said there mate about earlier stuff being better and Talk Talk are one group that have gone completely against that. One big example IMO of a group who were good and went poor after about 1984/85 was the Eurythmics who went poor after they ditched their New Romo/Electronic songs for stuff like Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves etc.
I think, because they they pre-empted their record company's reaction to it. What happened to our nice 'pop' band? Suddenly we have something that sounds disturbing and unsaleable!
I read somewhere that the picture on the album cover for this and Spirit of Eden shows wildlife that are free - as they were allowed to do what they wanted on Polydor (?), whereas EMI wanted them just as a New Romo band. On EMI, they released a Greatest Hits with a canary in the cage - signifying that they were constrained - genius !!!
The song was also used in the german film "Ein Freund von mir" (A friend of mine) with a great Daniel Brühl (known from Inglorious Basterds) and an even greater Jürgen Vogel, while both actors are speeding over the Autobahn at night in two new Porsches...the song was just SO wellfitting...it totally supported the atmosphere in this particular scene!!
This is the first song i heard with Talk talk, must be like 4-5 years ago. I absolutely loved it from the first note. And Talk talk is one of my favorite bands. The sound is so true and so extremely expressive, what music should be all about. Mark feltham who plays the harmonica is a big favorite so gentle in his playing so perfect. And the orchestration, so perfected.
It's amazing, how when I first heard this album, I absolutely hated it. To me it sounded like nothing but dull silence.
But then, one day, I picked up Spirit of Eden, and the whole thing just clicked, like someone flicked a switch in my head.
And now I've come back to Laughing Stock (it took me a few listens of Spirit of Eden to warm myself up for this one) and now I've realized... this could be the greatest album ever recorded in the past 20 years.
God I remember getting into Talk Talk a bit late in my life - 1997 when I was 20. I heard the song 'It's My Life' then and never knew it was Talk Talk. Then bought the Greatest Hits (with the bird in the cage on the front) and only liked the earlier electronic stuff; now I just find their later stuff - Spirit, Colour of Spring and Laughing Stock absolutely amazing - the best music ever made !!
I remember when this came out, almost nobody cared for it all, except for a clerk at a record store that clued me in to it. I have to say it was probably up there with My Bloody Valentine's Loveless or Swervedriver's Raise. These are different kinds of bands but they take you on a journey with the albums, they also happened to release about the same time.
Yep Swervedriver were amazing, so too were My Bloody Valentine - from what I've heard of them as don't have any of their albums, but have some of Kevin Shields's solo stuff - but aren't they more Shoegazing than Post-Rock ? However, yes they take you on a journey, just like The Cure's Disintegration album.
The most mesmerizing and fascinating commercial suicide in the history of pop music.
MrShuggieTodd 3 days ago
@MrShuggieTodd Well said;to refer to it as a suicide...it might have been nice if they had as many lives as Scott Walker though. He has several mesmerizing suicides...
arash402003 1 day ago
amazing album
sotool76 5 days ago
Happy B'Day, Mark Hollis !
bodoboi 3 weeks ago
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That intro melody sounds similar to Rooster / Alice In Chains. This came first. Holy shit.
BruisedEyeSockets 1 month ago
@BruisedEyeSockets sounds nothing like it wtf
DethThrasher1 1 month ago
@DethThrasher1 That beginning melody. C D Eb with a root of F.
BruisedEyeSockets 1 month ago
@BruisedEyeSockets i love both the songs i really dont hear the similarity at all but ok
DethThrasher1 1 month ago
este es un disco de los buenos
nadienosdijoesto 1 month ago
@DustAndNoises "Fuckiest?"
MrSickWilly 1 month ago
This song is incredible. You can hear elements of they're 80's pop even though it's such an experimental song. talk talk knew what they were doing all along.
backyardbeachbum 1 month ago
i was familiar with their earlier stuff, but when i stumbled upon this and spirit of eden it was like a religious awakening. truly special music, made by and for truly special people.
tatbags 2 months ago 2
better than sex.
DanieLatzanich 2 months ago
Thumbs Up is MATT GOOD sent you here.
iamthemightypeanut 2 months ago
4:02
ahpap 2 months ago 6
@ahpap Yes !
TonWEP 1 month ago
Beautiful song and ambience. Heavily inspired by Robert Wyatt sound and Drumming. especially in the early ' The end of an Ear'.
LookHorizon 2 months ago
I am listening to this for the first time and about a minute in. I am excited to know if it is good as everyone says
BallsScuck 2 months ago
Great band! I discovered them only lately and felt a bit bad because I had never heard of their existence before. Such unique music should be appriciated in a bigger scale. :)
ScaredHare 3 months ago 3
If you like this music but you like heavy music too then check Choirs of the Eye (album) by Kayo Dot.
alexmonro83 3 months ago
Can I cry please?
JOSEPPPPHHHH 3 months ago
This record is the pique of human achievement.
BruisedEyeSockets 4 months ago 16
@BruisedEyeSockets you used pique incorrectly
bionicgiblets33 3 months ago
@BruisedEyeSockets umm i think you mean peak
dictionary definition of 'pique'
n.
A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride.
tr.v. piqued, piqu·ing, piques
1. To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
2. To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity.
3. To pride (oneself): He piqued himself on his stylish attire.
quirkj01 2 months ago
@quirkj01 I don't, thanks though.
BruisedEyeSockets 2 months ago
@BruisedEyeSockets Hahaha, did you actually misspell 'peak' as 'pique' in an attempt to sound profound?
SclafaniBagni 1 month ago
I was watching Radiohead on Colbert tonight and it suddenly occurred to me that Laughing Stock kinda sounds like something Radiohead would do, so I had to hear it again! This was one of my Desert Island albums (albums I would take if I could only take 10.
oneerc 4 months ago 2
@oneerc I KNOW RIGHT? Ive been saying to everyone, The King of Limbs, and even In Rainbows to a certain extent, sound influenced by this. Not surprised though.
415BAY415 4 months ago
@oneerc cunt
Mronesummer 3 months ago
@Mronesummer
You can cut that shit out, dickhead.
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@swampthing20 will do
Mronesummer 3 months ago 2
I am almost certain this song is about the great flood (Noah's Ark).
I love way this song fades in and then fades out again so gradually. It makes me feel like the song is a passing storm that brings rain.
Read the lyrics and you shall understand!
engeladam409 4 months ago
DEAD TO RESPECT
TO RESPECT TO BE BORN
LEST WE FORGET
That broken feedback thing is just so awesome. I love how they stumbled upon it.
wrs6565 4 months ago
It just does not get much better than this.
Planettelex99 5 months ago 27
@Planettelex99 this is so weird, I was just about to post this on my facebook wall, and write just that :P It's true, this song is what heaven mush be made of
Dereck89 2 months ago 2
masterpiece!!!!!!!
gouvyrock 5 months ago
The evolution of Talk Talk as a band often puts me in mind of how Radiohead have developed. From massive hits, radio-friendly and very accessible to albums like SOE and LS which were moody and very experimental. Two of the best albums of that era. Pity they had to break up...
Beelzebubbbbles 5 months ago
@Beelzebubbbbles i agree , i got into them at towards the late 80s but often wondered what happened afterwards to them , given how original and unique they were they always struck me as being a group that must was already a legend unto itself before even he heard them.
way ahead of their time
kinkabala 5 months ago
The albums 'Spirit Of Eden' and 'Laughing Stock'.... beautiful masterpieces of TT. Today, we are 20 years later, and I haven't found other bands that can reach the same level of TT and these masterpieces.
laforzaflandria 6 months ago 3
a like the album !!!!
tonitram1 6 months ago
of all their magnificent canon this is the one I always come back to. for me it is Hollis' magnum opus. a stunningly beautiful piece, it is as if everything he was striving to achieve with the previous four albums. As hard as it was to take at the time, it was very unsurprising to see him break the band up following the release of "Laughing Stock".
CONSIDERABLYMORE1 7 months ago
the start sounds like 'light through veins' by jon hopkins. did he rip talk talk off?
leisurelydinner 7 months ago
Muziek van een zeldzame schoonheid: de breekbaar gezongen teksten door Mark Hollis, het respect voor leegtes en stiltes in de muziek, de zorgvuldig opgebouwde spanningsbogen en onverwachte wendingen maken deze pareltjes na elke nieuwe luisterbeurt steeds beter...
laforzaflandria 7 months ago
AT first when bought this album i thought the songs wheren't there best but now these are some of the best songs they have produced. TALK TALK ROOLS!!
andyhsleeds 8 months ago 2
OK I have an admission. I should not have put down your band slint. My bad. I definitely think they suck but no good can come of me saying that. ROCK ON (or whatever slint fans say), good on you!
uxoriousNO 8 months ago
After The Flood, there is still a troll named uxoriousNo living under the bridge..sad sad little Troll.
bornflippy1 8 months ago
bigger, im like not saying this lightly, ive wrenched the laughing stack album since 91. its ultramint like nothing else. comparisons are feeble but these dudes on that and this album said, "hey imagination is this way."
DavidFloat 8 months ago
este cancion es como un sentimiento arrancado de una mente brillanta.
iscariotesrock 9 months ago
Anyone else just blown away by the percussion? It seems simple, but there is this really subtle low miked high tom echoing the bass drum. Not a drummer so I prolly got all the names wrong, but just listen for it.
wiflyangler 9 months ago 3
@wiflyangler I am a drummer, and the percussion is unbelievable on this record.
Amazing attention to detail. If you listen carefully, the constant ride cymbal pattern is actually alternating between
two ride cymbals. Lee Harris... You genius...
engeladam409 4 months ago 3
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Mronesummer 3 months ago
We'll (We All) Get Past Thing's...The Older The More...After The Flood, Embrace The Tide That Comes Naturally.. Great Song.
tetesolitaire 9 months ago
Intense & stunning !!!!!
xtstevie 9 months ago
one note guitar solo, with more soul than anything a shredder could muster.
BlackPowWowFilms 9 months ago 4
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if you want a laugh listen to two slint fans define slint. oh dude theyre like neo progressive punk bronzed out. No dude they are stainless metal pre-goth unpunked neo-classical binge rock mind jumper music. AND THE ONE WHO MANAGES TO SOUND most obscure wins!
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO Good gravy! I just made the most amazing discovery, guaranteed the rock the very foundations of the Earth. The quality of music is completely subjective! People can like Slint and not like Led Zeppelin. Hell they can not like both! Or they could shut up!
grahamehb 9 months ago
@uxoriousNO Good gravy! I just made the most amazing discovery, guaranteed the rock the very foundations of the Earth. The quality of music is completely subjective! People can like Slint and not like Led Zeppelin. Hell they can not like both! Or they could shut up!
grahamehb 9 months ago
@grahamehb Good Gravy!!!
Mrowlshoes 9 months ago
"redefining the genre of rock" hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha. dont you have to be heard by at least ten people to redefine what everyone listens to? only a slint fan would let a statement like slint "redefining rock" escape their lips
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
the beatles came from the heart, were 100 times more creative, their crushes slint. and they never had to tell a lie about how they turned down big money. slint was signed to a major record label and had radio air time. they had their shot. but they suck ass so no one but the wanna be elite everpretend any more. this song is garbage a three year old could do better
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
maybe the fact that no else likes slint is a clue not a coolness cue. maybe just maybe their teeny tiny little audience is evidence of how much they suck. or maybe you three hundred are the uber cool elite and all these critics and billions of people dont know music at all. WHO KNOWS? ITS A MYSTERY!
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO I see your point of view. But you are extremely ignorant for thinking audience matters. As a matter of fact, it appears you think the scene and audience surrounding a band is all that matters. Not the actual band. There's a lot more going on than the scene, the band, even the music. Maybe a Slint fan gave you shit when you were a kid? Maybe you're just mad at your parents for not giving you enough allowance? Wise up.
BruisedEyeSockets 8 months ago
bands like led zepelin are just too popular dude. oh except that they were ten times more creative but in a way that was cool. really great bands were great then and are great now. slint doesnt figure into the equation unless you are some douche at the coffee shop trying to impress his friends.
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
oh no, born flippy really zinged me. look at me I am a slint fan! I know about a band that is so cool, so obscure dude, you have to really know music to appreciate some retards that should have practiced in moms basement another ten years before signing to a label, getting popular air time, then instantly disappearing to the shitty disc graveyard
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
Listen to this and you understand what a musician is. Bought Colour of Spring and Laughing Stock when they were released and they expand my mind as much now as they did back then. Truly mesmerising, utter brilliance.
turboslag 10 months ago
the reason people like gay ass slint is because no one else knows about them. people think they are cool when they have a secret. the reason gay ass slint never made it big (yeah they fought against fame and fortune, what a convenient excuse) is because crappy dialogue off key screaming and ripped off guitar riffs dont sell.
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO Time for a life lesson..you will need to pull that head out of your ass first. The reason a person like you uses the words "gay ass slint " is because you are afraid ..afraid of being a "gay ass slint" guess what Gas-man you are that which you fear most! now come back and post nicely when you have something other than ignorant drivel to spew. dismissed.
bornflippy1 10 months ago
@bornflippy1 look at me fellas I am a slint fan. they are my super special secret fellas! oh you are so dismissed if you dont like slint. yes you are! oh I just love to put on my jumper, a slint record and just DANCE DANCE DANCE. they are so the opposite of square OMG! you are triple dismissssed mithter!
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO wow it took you 3 posts to say absolute fuck all! Looks like I hit a nerve!,,keep yappin asshat ..you prove your ignorance with every word.
bornflippy1 10 months ago
@bornflippy1 you are a clown and all the world is your circus bornfloppy. not a funny clown. just a guy with an excuse to put on makeup and clown panties. DITHMISSSED BORN FLOPPY oh you are SO dismissed
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@bornflippy1 one of the funniest things about you is how you come out the gate a super liberal rainbow defender. then your next post devolves into appearing to have been authored by a tough guy grade 8 dropout. I guess you just flippy from one persona to the next?
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO Damn man ..enough already ..you are having a fucking psychotic break over a youtube post..get a life! seriously..no one cares what you think do or say ..angry sociopath with nothing better to do than troll and spit hate..now fuck off!
bornflippy1 10 months ago
@bornflippy1 you were mildly amusing before. not so much anymore. I will always remember you for your . super faggy "dith-missssed". hahahaha you kill me with that shit. the funniest part was you thinking you were cool saying it. good times
uxoriousNO 10 months ago
@uxoriousNO Shut the fuck up and enjoy the music.
Onimyst 9 months ago 3
No te mueras nunca Mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ArgCaro 10 months ago
unplug the sodding telephone, switch off all mobiles, get the incense lit, candles lit, and whatever mood enhancing chill-out medication of your choice, turn the lights off and listen to this late at night - barring love-making it's the best f***ing night - in ever :)
callicolady 10 months ago 6
@callicolady exactly what this music needs! Beautiful words!
mientje6 5 months ago
Elbow sell out stadia and sell squillions..Great individual band but TT esp last two albums are a massive influence.
jonevanswhu 10 months ago
As long as i can say they did it: They did It!
tetesolitaire 10 months ago
Read album producer Phill Browns book "Are We Still Rolling?" Great stories about the making of this and ...Eden. These guys went deep.
salmoneye1 10 months ago
@salmoneye1 Thanks for recommending that Phill Brown book - it was a great insight into the making of a masterpiece
callicolady 9 months ago
4 retards...not bad
jason25k 11 months ago 3
What a brilliant song. TalkTalk proves to be one of the finest and most gifted bands ever. Pure music in the most perfect sense. Fans of this music should also listen to Orang: a project of TalkTalk members
mientje6 1 year ago 3
This band is nothing in comparison with Twelfth Night the best neo progressive band ever!
darakuT 1 year ago
@darakuT, Talk Talk was never Neo-Prog and has nothing to do with your cheap Marillion cover band 12 Night.
bellyofanarchitect 9 months ago
This ought to be released in Australia right now, with the floods we've been having recently. :-S
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
amazing after a few listens , then yourll get it , Hollis genius
zane1961 1 year ago
Like Björk Wonderful..
ragnsku 1 year ago
@ragnsku this is not bjork
cooneylorena 1 year ago
@ragnsku Who is Bjork Wonderful?
MartiW 1 year ago
love it ! defo a two fingers up to commercial record labels :)
callicolady 1 year ago
How the hell do they make that sound that starts around the 5 minute mark?
It sounds incredibly creepy, is it some sort of guitar feedback?
wordupassholes 1 year ago
@snortbrick haha good call
mikevileNZ 1 year ago
I can't put into words how incredible this piece of music is. Genius, just genius. And for all those people who keep referring to Radiohead... um, why?? Completely different bands, completely different vibes, completely different sounds. If you guys were critics I'd call it lazy journalism; snap out of it guys.
RichGWalkRun 1 year ago 4
the tape loop playing backwards that starts at 5:15 is akin to some kind of aural exorcism, just incredible.
agentoranges 1 year ago
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agentoranges 1 year ago
At 03:15 i started drowning in a sea of emotions. For a while I entered the goodbye zone.
There will never be a substitute for TalkTalk. And so be it.
bolderiks 1 year ago
@bolderiks 3:15 is the start of my favorite part too :)
alitamf84 1 year ago
@alitamf84 so this must be the reason we both are great ;)
bolderiks 1 year ago
@bolderiks agreed 100%
alitamf84 1 year ago
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through304 1 year ago
guitar solo shreds through most numbness I feel all the time every time I listen to it and that means this is classic for me....
honeybozo 1 year ago
I love the keyboard/organ sound in this song
flojofilms 1 year ago 3
I was in my library yesterday, checking the dicography of Talk Talk. Thank to Colour of Spring I now have all their songs in chronological order. And yes, there are people out there like me who are from the 80s. We have to endure ridicule and constantly justify our taste in music. Perhaps, if everyone was made to listen to; The Party's Over, It's My Life, The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock the non-believers might know where we come from. Thanks again Colour of Spring.
jonahmj 1 year ago 4
@jonahmj Colour of Spring was the best album of the 80s
tomalbrighton 1 year ago
to answer most of the comments saying that these guys should be bigger.. the answer is they didn't want to, and those who don't want to be big and famous make the best music 'cause it comes from their heart and soul, not from the corporate machine spitting the same useless music every time...
jonasbacklund 1 year ago 37
@jonasbacklund not to say that rh is run by the corporate machine of course... right? because that would be ignorant, Kid A was brilliantly original, no doubt. it definitely has its influences, but there's no way in hell some fat cat record company took the reins on that album, nor the ones that followed
BeauSylvester47 1 year ago
@jonasbacklund Bingo.
gulskjegg 10 months ago
@jonasbacklund Their label exerted intense pressure to replicate the more commercial sound of The Party's Over and It's My Life, instead they chose to push forward the boundaries of what rock could be - redefining the entire genre- paving the way for Radiohead, at no small cost. They alienated (most) fans and their label, and in doing so they created some of the most brilliant, lasting and uncompromising music of the 20th century. What they left is a high watermark most only dream of attaining.
Dallasdeckard 10 months ago
@jonasbacklund
lol
justinephilistine 4 months ago
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jonasbacklund 1 year ago
demaciado musica celestial
cris24587 1 year ago
Arrivati troppo tardi per essere come Duran Duran & c., arrivati troppo presto per essere come i Radiohead....Senz'altro dei grandissimi precursori, molto spesso snobbati e guardati con sufficienza sia quando facevano pop-music, sia quando si son spostati nei territori del jazz e dell'avanguardia raffinata...Tuttavia, credo che raggiungere questo terrirtorio fosse il sogno di Mark Hollis....
sidsoaoli 1 year ago
Merci Mark Hollis d' avoir ete ce que vous etes.Precurseur de groupe tel Radiohead.
mikinauda 1 year ago
bueno
cris24587 1 year ago
holy mother of god! this is stunningly beautiful. WHY wasn't it picked by radio? - or the general population for that matter? this planet's on a downward spiral...
headforthetropics 1 year ago 9
All the beauty in the world lies here.
spremeel4 1 year ago
@headforthetropics all the beauty in the world lies here.
spremeel4 1 year ago
@headforthetropics
The planets finished , most of it's brain dead population could never
appreciate genius like this. Feel privileged you have found it and can
appreciate it.
turboslag 1 year ago
@turboslag sadly too true, been a fan since 82
TheBReTwallace 1 year ago
@headforthetropics They had a few hits in the begining that were played in radio and clubs etc. ( "Life's what you make it "i.e.) but as they luckily chose to let their true self out on the afterfollowing albums, comercially they lost interest, too intellectual and tracks too long for radio. Sooner or later they'll be rediscovered, they are too big to be forgotten
Martinarvelind 1 year ago
@headforthetropics i played it a lot...you probably didn't hear it though...it was on local radio in ireland...maybe my favourite album...if you haven't,listen to the previous 2,they're brilliant....
tkshots 6 months ago
i was hight listening to these guys. Mind was blown
happyhappy85 1 year ago
Fantastic!
Harno3 1 year ago
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love the 2minutes guitar or drone synth solo ... it's weird, unexpected, like a parasite and it brings an emotional drama-tension ! marvelous
rockycontrolo 1 year ago
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rockycontrolo 1 year ago
One of the greatest songs and albums of all time.
gsquizzared 1 year ago 3
no es un solo de guitarra es un variophon
alucinado73 1 year ago
I bow in reverence to these guys
FlorrieRocks 1 year ago 3
yep!!!
xxlminus 1 year ago
its about time mark hollis/talk talk were in the music hall of fame.
marty9040 1 year ago
Tasteful organ tone...
thatsprettygood 1 year ago
zenith of rock music
fromunder73 2 years ago 2
Nothing rewarding ever came easy.
chameleonday 2 years ago
it speaks to me.
natschavez 2 years ago
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societ39 2 years ago
ascension day,AFTER THE FLOOD (the cleansing),taphead, and new found hope, New Grass....talk talk's legacy is unmatched.
agentoranges 2 years ago 4
@agentoranges too be a hairy gee
societ39 2 years ago
@agentoranges
societ39 2 years ago
@agentoranges Counter melodic, clashing, rythmic, detail oriented, deep rooted, complex, jazzy, classical. What else can one say.
jlforyou 1 year ago
@jlforyou ..and THAT'S why it was not picked up by the radio!!!!
Mega80schild 1 year ago
not a real big fan of this but i can't believe how ahead of its time it was. Sounds so much like more modern bands, and its amazing they were doing this stuff in 1991!
Bootyboy4life 2 years ago 2
what modern bands sound like this?!!! they are ahead of everyone, there is no band that can be compared to them dude
Ellionart 2 years ago 6
Ummm....okay. The atmosphere of this album sounds much like a Mogwai or Godspeed You Black Emperor. Of course it's not EXACTLY like modern bands, but you can clearly see and influence, my point was it was very much ahead of its time and influenced a lot of the music of today. Get your dick outta their butt for five seconds and maybe you could see that!
Bootyboy4life 2 years ago
No shit it influenced those bands, but personally I think neither GYBE or Mogwaii ever reached their level. The only band that is up there with Talk Talk that I can think of is Cul De Sac and 70s krautrock bands, which you can say were "ahead of their time".
Ellionart 2 years ago
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Okay so did I ask if you think they are on the same level, you smug little puke? I don't even like this ambient cunt rock in the first place I was merely saying that its amazing how this came out at this time, and I can see the influence and apparently so can you so what exactly is your counter? Next time you decide to open that condescening mouth of yours better have a reason.
Bootyboy4life 2 years ago
i see people saying about lots of bands "they were ahead of their time etc" all the time, but I don't really see how that makes any sense in music and art, where sometimes earlier stuff are better. Talk Talk basically started all the post-rock thing, so they were the first.
Ellionart 2 years ago 3
Right they started post-rock, so they were "ahead of their time" as I said. What is your point?
Bootyboy4life 2 years ago
Of course earlier stuff is better. I rarely listen to new music myself so I can attest to that. The point is bands are influenced by previous generations bands and absorb elements of their sounds, whether they are better or not is irrelevant. Do you just open your mouth to make yourself feel intelligent?
Bootyboy4life 2 years ago
@Bootyboy4life wanker
societ39 2 years ago
True to some things you've said there mate about earlier stuff being better and Talk Talk are one group that have gone completely against that. One big example IMO of a group who were good and went poor after about 1984/85 was the Eurythmics who went poor after they ditched their New Romo/Electronic songs for stuff like Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves etc.
WalshNo5 2 years ago
this is the best album i've heard, fucking mind blowing.
natschavez 2 years ago
I was just wondering though... why is the album called 'Laughing Stock'?
degree7 2 years ago
I think, because they they pre-empted their record company's reaction to it. What happened to our nice 'pop' band? Suddenly we have something that sounds disturbing and unsaleable!
zenburger49 2 years ago
Bastard record companies.
degree7 2 years ago
I read somewhere that the picture on the album cover for this and Spirit of Eden shows wildlife that are free - as they were allowed to do what they wanted on Polydor (?), whereas EMI wanted them just as a New Romo band. On EMI, they released a Greatest Hits with a canary in the cage - signifying that they were constrained - genius !!!
WalshNo5 2 years ago 3
The song was also used in the german film "Ein Freund von mir" (A friend of mine) with a great Daniel Brühl (known from Inglorious Basterds) and an even greater Jürgen Vogel, while both actors are speeding over the Autobahn at night in two new Porsches...the song was just SO wellfitting...it totally supported the atmosphere in this particular scene!!
KingSams0n 2 years ago
I love their last 3 albums, timeless unique music.
7lartceps 2 years ago 5
Austere music for the few who make the effort to find the beauty, not like the pablum daily spit up on the radiowaves....
Paulgrabec 2 years ago 2
This is the first song i heard with Talk talk, must be like 4-5 years ago. I absolutely loved it from the first note. And Talk talk is one of my favorite bands. The sound is so true and so extremely expressive, what music should be all about. Mark feltham who plays the harmonica is a big favorite so gentle in his playing so perfect. And the orchestration, so perfected.
Jimmy445edji44h 2 years ago 3
love that guitar feedback...
jcabb1 2 years ago
It's amazing, how when I first heard this album, I absolutely hated it. To me it sounded like nothing but dull silence.
But then, one day, I picked up Spirit of Eden, and the whole thing just clicked, like someone flicked a switch in my head.
And now I've come back to Laughing Stock (it took me a few listens of Spirit of Eden to warm myself up for this one) and now I've realized... this could be the greatest album ever recorded in the past 20 years.
degree7 2 years ago
It can take a while, but better revelation than missed opportunities. I ts a killer album.
psyne000 2 years ago
Yes, I agree with everything you said. I had the same experience with S of E. I accidentally clicked thumbs down but meant thumbs up.
MyNameIsShelby 2 years ago
God I remember getting into Talk Talk a bit late in my life - 1997 when I was 20. I heard the song 'It's My Life' then and never knew it was Talk Talk. Then bought the Greatest Hits (with the bird in the cage on the front) and only liked the earlier electronic stuff; now I just find their later stuff - Spirit, Colour of Spring and Laughing Stock absolutely amazing - the best music ever made !!
WalshNo5 2 years ago 2
the ultimate song to listen to before drifting off to dreamland..:)
skingerskanger 2 years ago 2
I have no words. This song, this album, is a masterpiece. I can't hear it enough. I love it!
dianna2911 2 years ago 2
Lyrics are wrong at the end of the 2nd verse... should be:
To respect to people
blessed with forgetfulness
antonyhilliard 2 years ago
my heart hears better than my ears
bigdt87 2 years ago 29
Please come back!!!
severiinna 2 years ago 3
@severiinna Their music lives forever. That should be comforting to you.
spremeel4 1 year ago
I remember when this came out, almost nobody cared for it all, except for a clerk at a record store that clued me in to it. I have to say it was probably up there with My Bloody Valentine's Loveless or Swervedriver's Raise. These are different kinds of bands but they take you on a journey with the albums, they also happened to release about the same time.
econogate 2 years ago 5
Yep Swervedriver were amazing, so too were My Bloody Valentine - from what I've heard of them as don't have any of their albums, but have some of Kevin Shields's solo stuff - but aren't they more Shoegazing than Post-Rock ? However, yes they take you on a journey, just like The Cure's Disintegration album.
WalshNo5 2 years ago
Hey if you like Swervedriver, try out Tears Run Rings as a band - amazing !!
WalshNo5 2 years ago
that guitar 'solo' is just breathtaking. words fail.
supergoing7 2 years ago 4