By the time Hollis penned this work of genius he had already accelerated beyond the constricting boundaries of pop\rock and had moved way into the void beyond.
It took the very best of the rest around a decade to catch up.
Hey everyone, our recently launched music blog has a post about late-era Talk Talk we’re trying to get out there and hope you might enjoy. Just search SongStacks on Twitter.
Extraordinary how I am listening to this on tiny tinny speakers on this laptop after playing Colour of Spring through a good valve amp/speaker, yet it still sounds wonderful. That is the sure sign of a great recording of great music.
I thought I was all "cool" in the mid 90s listening to all these so called "genius" post cock bands. How wrong was I. Same thing goes for Neu and Fela Kuti.
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...
so brave of talk talk to stick 2 fingers up to the record bosses and record an album with no 'singles' on it ......nice one guys cos instead we got an album of staggering beauty and intensity
They are vastly under rated and and under appreciated. It's a shame that they're only known for a handful of hits and not these hidden gems. TT are musical sages.
This is the most futuristic song ever written. Mostly because this was crafted in 1988. 23 years later it's 2011, and post-rock is still waiting for its time. Only The Alan Parsons Project could come close.
@fluence51 what the hell about that is trolling? I like the first APP album (the rest are trash), but their sound is not much different than say Arthur Brown...futuristic is just you interpreting the music how you want, they are not any better at creating a setting than a band like Rush; I just have to think that you seriously lack any understanding of music
alguien debería moler este disco ponerlo en una jeringa e inyectarlo a todos los "músicos" actuales a ver si de esa forma cambia el horrible panorama musical actual ...
Haven't heard this album for so long. Used to crash out to it every night after a heavy session of bongs and buckets. Still sounds great after all these years.
God, take a chill pill. People take everything so literally on the internet. Why is youtube filled with hatred and I mean in the real sense of the word.
Hate in this context is just a silly word I use out of laziness. I don't hate the harmonica in this song basically. I don't usually like harmonicas...is that sufficient?
All bands should be given this album, told to piss off and dont come back until they have something even half as good. Then they should be told to piss off and try harder..Mark Hollis, Genius.................
@sfb211 Hit the nail on the head there my friend. Another album I love is also Blue Nile's Hats, especially From A Late Night Train track - so haunting. Blue Nile, Talk Talk - must be the greatest ever. Also the amazing David Sylvian too. Now listening to artists who've continued the post-rock or shoegaze sound even like Auburn Lull, Northerner, Tears Run Rings - excellent to check out.
There's few stranger career trajectories in popular music than Talk Talk's (maybe Scott Walker's?). Their first album was an entirely unremarkable sub-Duran Duran new romantic/new wave effort. But it did contain a few hits. I suspect that album is the reason they're not lauded now. From then they ploughed their own furrow, virtually inventing so-called "post rock". There is NOTHING around like "Spirit of Eden" or "Laughing Stock". Wherever Mark Hollis is now, I hope he's OK.
It's pretty easy to find in the net, but I'd advise you to buy this rare jewel.
It's one of those things that you absolutely have to own. A treasure. A piece that sets your mind in peace, makes you realise the irrelevance of so many things that're getting glorified nowadays. And the utter importance of these small moments, listening to such a great piece of art on a lone evening.
wow...ive only just discovered talk talk...theyre kinda like a really cool older brother i never had. amazing how mark hollis just quit music uncondtionally. guess he had had enough. why the f*** aren't there bands like that now? makes me sad :(
me and my best friends used to drink magic mushrooms and listen to spirit,it was a total experience,i couldnt explain to you how it sounded but it took us to musical hearing places i had never been to and never will again.very very very special times,talk talk IS a religion,a musical one!
Talk Talk just purge my mind of the inane, refresh my spirit and remind me that mankind is capable of good and virtuous things. They are a reference standard that few bands of today if any can even compare with.
quanto mi era piaciuto questo album, diversi dai loro precedenti ma l'ho amato da subito e non avevo mai trovato qualcuno pe condividere questo piacere, l'ho in cassetta a casa
you look at simon cowell or celebrity big this or that ,im a cook,and all the plastic general bullshit of today that passes as talent and then you sit down in a dark room and listen to this,faith in humanity restored
Damn, I remember whan LS was released, we rolled a number that took us the entire side 1 of the album to smoke....... According to Mr. Hollis himself, SoE was the album he had been trying to make with the three others, and LS was a result of a need to experiment.... but I agree, you can't really say one album is worse than the other....
6'10" to 6'47". Obviously it's part of the whole, and the tracks all run into one another but it's impossible to move when you hear it. Very very very very very very good.
I remember loving this band, their early stuff had hidden delights, songs like "Candy" (no pun intended), and Pictures of Bernadette, Such a Shame, Living in Another World... Then they released the last 2 provocative gems, and the music world went "huh!!!!", but us Talk Talk fans knew, KNEW THIS music is the genie out the bottle, Joe mentioned Radio Head, if Radio head released "The Rainbow" out now(oh, they did!!!!!), everyone would be, musing about their brilliance..god, i LOVED this band.
goddamn i´ve been trying to get a vynil copy of bof´s music has the right to the children and it starts at 50 bucks (euro) haha..probably gonna get it someday nevertheless.
ps: just realised your channel picture. awesomeness haha
@populvuh02 Of course, that must be why they're so critically and commercially successful ¬_¬
Simply put, I'd say that trying to claim one band is merely a combination of other bands' sounds is silly, but dismissing Radiohead is just as ridiculous. All 4 artists are brilliant in their own right, have strong elements of originality and a powerful influence on their respective genres.
Today is probably my favourite Talk Talk song, but I haven't really listened to their later stuff yet. I'll probably like it but not as much as there earlier stuff since the early 80s is my preferred musical period.
Always good sound...I like this album because I like also sax music jazz ecc...but in eccept to the populair music the last time ago...he changed too much base of his music ..and too early...that 's way i think with this song I didn't have a lot of succes for those mode...and also not so interesting as funky ....jazz ecc ..He's a genio he can make better..
I think it's a shame that nobody seems to mention Tim Friese-Greene who had a huge part in the evolution/sound/writing. I'm sure I remember reading how he brought CAN albums into the picture. There is a good interview with him somewhere on his website. I also like the Golden Age of Wireless which he produced, I think he brings a 'feel' to the music. Nevertheless I love all Talk Talk beyond the 1st LP, and I don't mind that one too much :) The music is a gift.
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no one cares about your essoteric babble, buddy......live on in your world.........it will always be the same prison,lol,I'm not a dick, just think I'm doing you a favor,truly, wake up, your speaking to be heard.....go get a community of people and freiends that actually give a shit about what your expressing, its healthier
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
Completely agree. This album, but also "Laughing Stock" and Mark Hollis' self-title solo album, recorded in 1997, I think, are all works of musical art.
Musically their artistic peak. It's funny how a band who used to make shitty synth pop songs would change theur musical direction 180 degrees and produce this type of music.
Nothing they did was ever "shitty" and they were never just about synth pop songs. To me, the faint traces of what they eventually became were present from the beginning. Tho' some may prefer their later work or their early work, it's all part of an organic whole, IMHO. Theirs was a natural evolution.....
I've read that they only did synthpop because it was cost-effective for their ideas; when you're starting out as a band you probably can't afford to rent a string and horn section. But as this shows they got there eventually.
This is a wonderfully haunting piece of music. While this band never produced a dud, I think this track has the edge on all others! thanks so so so much for posting it!
No it's there. As if Mark's experiment in music, was meant to follow on. Each track a conclusion of the last or a beginning of the next. Like the bands history really. Early 80's synth band on par with Duran without the good looks , which suddenly blossomed into a beautiful sound without the synth which later bands would suddenly pick up on. Enter Thom Yorke to the fray.
Mark Twain wrote of a Jimmy Finn, the town drunk who burned to death in the village jail using a set of matches supplied by the author , who was subsequently plagued with guilt. Jailer (with the keys) could not be found so the townsfolk rigged a battering ram in an effort to save him to no avail. Finn eventually lent his last name to Twain's character Huck Finn.
this is probably my all-time-favourite album. i listended to talk talk since 1983, and was very sad because i thought they split up. until one day in 88/89 a friend of mine told me about this new weird album. i immediatly bought it and fell in love with it. i tried to play it to my friends who denied it. until one night - we were all totally wasted and lying around, i put it on. from that time one they were addicted too.
we used to get high or whatever and listen to it at least twice a day during the night. this music makes you feel life in all kinds of faces: from sadness to happiness, from desperation to glory and hope. buy it! and listen to it on your back, eyes closed, using a real good hi-fi soundsystem. relax, enjoy and see waht's coming up - pjure feelings and emotions.
There are very few covers of Talk Talk except other than an English pub band and a group called Shearwater who play some nice stuff and they cover "The Rainbow". Hard to compare with anything but the recorded T.T. but sounds good for live. Search YOUTUBE "Shearwater - The Rainbow"
Ditto the poster below me. This CD is stunning. It just floats from beginning to end, and I float when listening to it. It's been in my collection for years, and it's one of my favorites for complete meditative escape. Love it, love it. LOVE IT!!
I remember the first time I heard this, at the 3:59 mark it put an absolutely bizarre feeling on my mind. I had never been high at the time, but for a moment I was out of my mind.
This is no music for YouTube (sorry). It belongs on a high-end stereo at high volume. It should be enjoyed with the best of wines and eyes shut. It's is one of the best music ever written and performed.
Of all songs existing, this is the one that inspired me the most. My life wouldn't be the same, wouldn't the [i]Spirit of Eden[/i] be around. I used to listen to it to just about every opportunity. Other ppl like to meditate. Whenever I'm tired, I listen to the [i]Spirit of Eden[/i] and feel better afterwards. I'd sure like to get to know to Mark Hollis one day in my life, that's one of my greatest dreams.
As i sit enthralled on the crest of the wave on second 5.48, these aliens purposely and delightfully pause the instant and replay it like a suspended ferris wheel. Behold Talk Talk, masters of the wave and kings of pulse. 7.33 sweeps over and i finally go under. Bravissimi.
About the the best track off this album but they are all fantastic to my ear and so they should as they spent 2 years in a studio recording 6 tracks. Good for them and good for us. Spread the message as it is a bit lost in music space.
I don't think it is really. Whenever I talk to musicians, they all know the "Spirit of Eden" and they all agree it is one of the best albums ever. It's not so much lost in music space, but of course it ain't mainstream. Never ever listened to it on the radio, which is a shame indeed. Talk about Talk Talk, most ppl would know "Such a shame", but they would not know how beautiful the music was Mark Hollis did before his commercial success, which he has well deserved.
Spirit of Eden was so ahead of its time and still sounds fresh even today. Genius album, so under rated, a must in anyone's collection!
MrBallair 2 weeks ago
Ce n'est pas 1 vidéo ! alors pourquoi écrire "vidéo" ???
c'est seulement un mp3
Nul ! zéro !!! :-((
FelipeElGringo 3 weeks ago in playlist Talk Talk
By the time Hollis penned this work of genius he had already accelerated beyond the constricting boundaries of pop\rock and had moved way into the void beyond.
It took the very best of the rest around a decade to catch up.
Most haven't even to this day.
ialwtttiywtrar 4 weeks ago
This Is Gorgeous!
CaptainShtuff 4 weeks ago
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Extraordinary how I am listening to this on tiny tinny speakers on this laptop after playing Colour of Spring through a good valve amp/speaker, yet it still sounds wonderful. That is the sure sign of a great recording of great music.
Jlipnicki 2 months ago
Why do great videos like this always have the silliest comments with the most likes on them?
MikeAdupont 2 months ago
How the hell did these guys make such a good album? It's revolutionary!
BruisedEyeSockets 4 months ago
Brilliant. Total classic!
srn1962 4 months ago
Fuck Simon Cowell. This rules.
honestjohntellsit 4 months ago
talk talk?stupendi!
makittu 4 months ago
Stunning. I love Mark Hollis and Talk Talk, timeless...
jerinzat 4 months ago 2
A fantastic album that created the genre of post rock!
lyonslaforet 4 months ago 2
I thought I was all "cool" in the mid 90s listening to all these so called "genius" post cock bands. How wrong was I. Same thing goes for Neu and Fela Kuti.
redshaftedflicker 5 months ago
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KlementinaLT 5 months ago
only a stand pic, its not awesome for this outstanding tune
SurrealSamui 5 months ago
A musical stairway to heaven and beyond... Zeppelinesque.
aquamarine094 6 months ago
oh my god this doesn't suck.
buttgolem 6 months ago 4
Open door to Post Rock...
fabiogbg 7 months ago 2
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
LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEE
titamelodi 7 months ago
Well, Lady Gaga, listen to this music. And shut up, please.
metaluranium 8 months ago 2
so brave of talk talk to stick 2 fingers up to the record bosses and record an album with no 'singles' on it ......nice one guys cos instead we got an album of staggering beauty and intensity
callicolady 9 months ago 5
One of my favourite bands of the 80s.They were and still are so under rated.
bobbymurphy71 9 months ago 11
@bobbymurphy71 Totally agree with you on that.
lovecraft36 8 months ago
@bobbymurphy71
They are vastly under rated and and under appreciated. It's a shame that they're only known for a handful of hits and not these hidden gems. TT are musical sages.
n8tureboy 2 months ago
@n8tureboy
...I think you are confused as to what "underrated" means as they had nothing but praise from critics and fans throughout their recording years.
evilsnakes1 2 months ago
apparently they like birds?
Anytime99 10 months ago
This is the most futuristic song ever written. Mostly because this was crafted in 1988. 23 years later it's 2011, and post-rock is still waiting for its time. Only The Alan Parsons Project could come close.
fluence51 10 months ago
@fluence51 how many bands have you listened to, five? what a joke of a human being
CaptKirby18 9 months ago
@CaptKirby18 Says Troll Face...
fluence51 9 months ago
@fluence51 what the hell about that is trolling? I like the first APP album (the rest are trash), but their sound is not much different than say Arthur Brown...futuristic is just you interpreting the music how you want, they are not any better at creating a setting than a band like Rush; I just have to think that you seriously lack any understanding of music
CaptKirby18 9 months ago
@CaptKirby18 Think what you want. At the end, it is just an interpretation.
fluence51 9 months ago
@fluence51 just an incredibly inaccurate interpretation made with vehemence; yeah my bad for reacting to a stupidly "strong" statement
CaptKirby18 9 months ago
This is a greet meditative song, but not the old Talk Talk.
szatmaryp 10 months ago
Minimalism at its finest. Soothing, edgy, and very subtle harmonics.
PabzGLRP 10 months ago
who the heck disliked this?
ApacheLabel 11 months ago 2
This recording doesn't do the band justice, or the song. where is the vinyl?
ApacheLabel 11 months ago
Gracias Mark Hollis / Talk Talk por trasmitir musicalmente la belleza del arte.
ArgCaro 11 months ago
Talk TAlk's songs...especially those on "Colour..." and "Spirit"...are not just written, but crafted. They are works of art.
PositiveLastAction 11 months ago
pure magic - casts an invisible spell on me.
I'm litterally breathless
phyl1610 1 year ago
Just incredible music. One of the best bands of all time, so underrated.
ThePeterMathews 1 year ago 2
1 dislike???
bassmanjoe 1 year ago
just beautiful!
meandmehousetramp 1 year ago
oh yea! the world's turned upside down
jason25k 1 year ago
fantastic !!
alguien debería moler este disco ponerlo en una jeringa e inyectarlo a todos los "músicos" actuales a ver si de esa forma cambia el horrible panorama musical actual ...
faunoram 1 year ago 3
Haven't heard this album for so long. Used to crash out to it every night after a heavy session of bongs and buckets. Still sounds great after all these years.
padstar70 1 year ago
The Venerable Henry Lowther on trumpet, y'all.
xx
FreddieSausage 1 year ago
this shit seems like it's chilling
but it's fucking intense
Bastardoc 1 year ago 3
God, take a chill pill. People take everything so literally on the internet. Why is youtube filled with hatred and I mean in the real sense of the word.
Hate in this context is just a silly word I use out of laziness. I don't hate the harmonica in this song basically. I don't usually like harmonicas...is that sufficient?
Meh.
Shardsy1 1 year ago
@Shardsy1 Really It´s very very difficult, sorry don´t worry be happy!
hunderok 1 year ago
What's my problem? I'm saying I love the harmonica.
Shardsy1 1 year ago
@Shardsy1 what does HATE mean or you don´t read what you write
hunderok 1 year ago
That harmonica...and I hate harmonicas.
Shardsy1 1 year ago
@Shardsy1 it´s your problem!!!!!!!!
hunderok 1 year ago
Bluesy as fuck
Ctraltdefeat 1 year ago
All bands should be given this album, told to piss off and dont come back until they have something even half as good. Then they should be told to piss off and try harder..Mark Hollis, Genius.................
sfb211 1 year ago 51
@sfb211 Hit the nail on the head there my friend. Another album I love is also Blue Nile's Hats, especially From A Late Night Train track - so haunting. Blue Nile, Talk Talk - must be the greatest ever. Also the amazing David Sylvian too. Now listening to artists who've continued the post-rock or shoegaze sound even like Auburn Lull, Northerner, Tears Run Rings - excellent to check out.
dunning1977 1 year ago
@dunning1977 ..Thanks for your comment. Havent heard of Auburn Lull and Northerner will check them out.
MrSusiebee 2 weeks ago
@sfb211 no, just tell hollis to come back..
makArtscorner 1 year ago
@sfb211
Agreed!
n8tureboy 2 months ago
@sfb211 yeah mark hollis is god......god fuckin awful!
ReturnFire121 2 weeks ago
@ReturnFire121 Must have taken a long while to come up with that witty response...Bell End.
MrSusiebee 2 weeks ago
Spirit of Eden (1988) is one of these albums whose reward reveals itself after numerous hearings!
lyonslaforet 1 year ago
@leeoskar1 are you masaokis? Because you sound exactly like him.
Skervacious 1 year ago
This is the one and only i-Doser. Forget the rest.
baellicom 1 year ago
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Glamissas 1 year ago
There's few stranger career trajectories in popular music than Talk Talk's (maybe Scott Walker's?). Their first album was an entirely unremarkable sub-Duran Duran new romantic/new wave effort. But it did contain a few hits. I suspect that album is the reason they're not lauded now. From then they ploughed their own furrow, virtually inventing so-called "post rock". There is NOTHING around like "Spirit of Eden" or "Laughing Stock". Wherever Mark Hollis is now, I hope he's OK.
Glamissas 1 year ago
I can not find this ALBUM ANYWHERE :i... Damn do i love this album like the others they have released... Long live TALK TALK !!!
dumdumfriend 1 year ago
@dumdumfriend found it on amazon used 4 bucks...
roneugenius 1 year ago
@dumdumfriend
It's pretty easy to find in the net, but I'd advise you to buy this rare jewel.
It's one of those things that you absolutely have to own. A treasure. A piece that sets your mind in peace, makes you realise the irrelevance of so many things that're getting glorified nowadays. And the utter importance of these small moments, listening to such a great piece of art on a lone evening.
Avalaros 1 year ago 2
capire e darsi piacere dall'ascolto di questi pezzi dei TALK TALK denota una sensibilità spirituale e musicale superiori!!!
fitobal 1 year ago 2
what a motherfuckin masterpiece. no other way to put it.
hawkmoon666 1 year ago
the Beatles of the 80's - love it , the more you listen -you have to wonder
shinytinhead 1 year ago
wow...ive only just discovered talk talk...theyre kinda like a really cool older brother i never had. amazing how mark hollis just quit music uncondtionally. guess he had had enough. why the f*** aren't there bands like that now? makes me sad :(
daner31 1 year ago
me and my best friends used to drink magic mushrooms and listen to spirit,it was a total experience,i couldnt explain to you how it sounded but it took us to musical hearing places i had never been to and never will again.very very very special times,talk talk IS a religion,a musical one!
thebillgrundyshow 1 year ago 2
@thebillgrundyshow I hear you. People who love music are in touch with their souls.
Sparky1002 1 year ago
Talk Talk just purge my mind of the inane, refresh my spirit and remind me that mankind is capable of good and virtuous things. They are a reference standard that few bands of today if any can even compare with.
This track hugs me like a friend I've missed.
turboslag 1 year ago 4
Whenever I feel overwhelmed by everything, I turn to Talk Talk. They truly are the Beatles of the 80s
JustOneMeatPuppet 1 year ago
who the fuck disliked this song haha
TheMickeytoll 1 year ago
CAZZO.
MrGarudes 1 year ago
part of the soundtrack of 1988, accompanied altered states, up all night, in pursuit of eden
fastn1 1 year ago
quanto mi era piaciuto questo album, diversi dai loro precedenti ma l'ho amato da subito e non avevo mai trovato qualcuno pe condividere questo piacere, l'ho in cassetta a casa
rominamerc 1 year ago
damnnn 1988???????? wow. shit has not aged attttt allll
skateNappreciate 1 year ago
AMAZING!One of the most sensual songs ever.Full of loving and quiet passion under your skin
queennaive 1 year ago 2
best hArmonica solo ever.. !!!!
ateh1 1 year ago 5
I agree with marty9040. Mark Hollis/Talk Talk have certainly earned a place in the Rock Hall of Fame!
westy1958 1 year ago
thx llewcat for agreeing with me regarding mark hollis/talk talk.
marty9040 1 year ago
bought the album when it was released and it still blows me away today .....totally stupendous
peewiffin 1 year ago
psychedelic flash
leonjarosch 1 year ago
its about time mark hollis/talk talk were in the music hall of fame
marty9040 1 year ago 4
hell yeah..
llewcat 1 year ago
Wenn es etwas Göttliches gibt, dann steckt es ganz sicher in diesem Lied.
juandoful 2 years ago
Si, Si, Siii, Siiiii, Siiiiiiiiiiii, Siiiiiiiiii Uffff SIIIIIIIIII, ARGGGGGGG, uff, GUAU
lalovg1971 2 years ago 2
you look at simon cowell or celebrity big this or that ,im a cook,and all the plastic general bullshit of today that passes as talent and then you sit down in a dark room and listen to this,faith in humanity restored
leeoskar1 2 years ago 80
You sir hit the nail exactly on the head with that !! But in the underground world of music, there is still so much good stuff out there !!
WalshNo5 1 year ago 2
@leeoskar1 shUT UP you eLf
Iamcola65 1 year ago
@Iamcola65 what a normal bloke
leeoskar1 1 year ago
@leeoskar1 never a truer word spoken ;)
callicolady 1 year ago
@leeoskar1 never a truer word spoken, good on ya mate!!
callicolady 1 year ago
@leeoskar1 Heeey, what's wrong with Simon Cowell? He weeds out the untalented- I'm sure he'd appreciate later Talk Talk.
Ivar366 9 months ago
@leeoskar1
thanks for finding the right words. just what i was thinking/feeling.
rnrdemon 5 months ago
@leeoskar1 absolutely damn right :) switch that sodding telly off dudes and listen to this beautiful music
callicolady 5 months ago
screaming harmonica on here by mark feltham,met him once at a blues gig ,top bloke
leeoskar1 2 years ago
22 years! and still the template for anything even near a good album.
Yes its a quantum leap even form colour of spring, but as an album its totally staggering. genius! hollis and friese-greene.
jimboid74 2 years ago
22 years after i first heard this album, it still brings chills to the spine.... I dont think a better album ever can be made
dgfutg 2 years ago
@dgfutg spot on genius
leeoskar1 2 years ago
I would say that Laughing Stock is damn near close if not equal. ;)
TheMilford 2 years ago 3
Damn, I remember whan LS was released, we rolled a number that took us the entire side 1 of the album to smoke....... According to Mr. Hollis himself, SoE was the album he had been trying to make with the three others, and LS was a result of a need to experiment.... but I agree, you can't really say one album is worse than the other....
dgfutg 2 years ago
This song is very bluesy now that I think about it.
degree7 2 years ago
perfection
YonderVillas 2 years ago 2
what a jump from "it's my life" to "spirit of eden"!!!
"the colour of spring" is a good album too
gronda85 2 years ago 4
absolutely sublime
doctortrog83 2 years ago 4
the immense tension that is created starting with that puff at 6:56 always gets to me.
agentoranges 2 years ago 2
beautiful music, breathtaking.
lukeashmoore 2 years ago 3
6'10" to 6'47". Obviously it's part of the whole, and the tracks all run into one another but it's impossible to move when you hear it. Very very very very very very good.
onehelluvaname 2 years ago
I remember loving this band, their early stuff had hidden delights, songs like "Candy" (no pun intended), and Pictures of Bernadette, Such a Shame, Living in Another World... Then they released the last 2 provocative gems, and the music world went "huh!!!!", but us Talk Talk fans knew, KNEW THIS music is the genie out the bottle, Joe mentioned Radio Head, if Radio head released "The Rainbow" out now(oh, they did!!!!!), everyone would be, musing about their brilliance..god, i LOVED this band.
Mega80schild 2 years ago 3
great music for a band out of the 80's
jaredpistoia 2 years ago
WOW. How did I overlook these guys? Now I know where Radiohead came from.
joe44850 2 years ago 49
@joe44850
radiohead was influenced both by talk talk and the talking heads. their name even came from a talking heads song.
all three are incredible bands, but talk talk holds a certain place in my heart.
FFScantgetadamnname 1 year ago 4
@FFScantgetadamnname
also the album 'hail to the thief' comes from the song by Can another major influence,
3Stans 1 year ago
@joe44850 radiohead = talk talk + aphex twin + boards of canada!
makArtscorner 1 year ago
@makArtscorner radiohead is those three artists all done poorly, yes
populvuh02 1 year ago
@populvuh02 me like.
goddamn i´ve been trying to get a vynil copy of bof´s music has the right to the children and it starts at 50 bucks (euro) haha..probably gonna get it someday nevertheless.
ps: just realised your channel picture. awesomeness haha
makArtscorner 1 year ago
@populvuh02 Of course, that must be why they're so critically and commercially successful ¬_¬
Simply put, I'd say that trying to claim one band is merely a combination of other bands' sounds is silly, but dismissing Radiohead is just as ridiculous. All 4 artists are brilliant in their own right, have strong elements of originality and a powerful influence on their respective genres.
AdamLloyd128 1 year ago
@AdamLloyd128 agree to disagree. popularity or general universal acclaim does not make an artist appealing to me
populvuh02 1 year ago
@populvuh02 Alright, though I would say the general universal acclaim is usually there for a reason...
AdamLloyd128 1 year ago
Genius.
julesplym 2 years ago
Just downloaded this album off of iTunes XD
Soooooo excited!
degree7 2 years ago
Rightly so - quite possibly the best record ever made.
kettlezone 2 years ago 4
Quite possibly so!
fistofonan 2 years ago 3
Today is probably my favourite Talk Talk song, but I haven't really listened to their later stuff yet. I'll probably like it but not as much as there earlier stuff since the early 80s is my preferred musical period.
ajs41 2 years ago
Always good sound...I like this album because I like also sax music jazz ecc...but in eccept to the populair music the last time ago...he changed too much base of his music ..and too early...that 's way i think with this song I didn't have a lot of succes for those mode...and also not so interesting as funky ....jazz ecc ..He's a genio he can make better..
9MIRELLA 2 years ago
I think it's a shame that nobody seems to mention Tim Friese-Greene who had a huge part in the evolution/sound/writing. I'm sure I remember reading how he brought CAN albums into the picture. There is a good interview with him somewhere on his website. I also like the Golden Age of Wireless which he produced, I think he brings a 'feel' to the music. Nevertheless I love all Talk Talk beyond the 1st LP, and I don't mind that one too much :) The music is a gift.
HGSounds 2 years ago 4
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no one cares about your essoteric babble, buddy......live on in your world.........it will always be the same prison,lol,I'm not a dick, just think I'm doing you a favor,truly, wake up, your speaking to be heard.....go get a community of people and freiends that actually give a shit about what your expressing, its healthier
shitbag139 2 years ago
Huh?
HGSounds 2 years ago
who are you talking to?
chumbscrubber42 2 years ago
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 2 years ago
Completely agree. This album, but also "Laughing Stock" and Mark Hollis' self-title solo album, recorded in 1997, I think, are all works of musical art.
hogtown 2 years ago
Amazing music.
sockmonkeynumber1 2 years ago
Musically their artistic peak. It's funny how a band who used to make shitty synth pop songs would change theur musical direction 180 degrees and produce this type of music.
icetroll00 2 years ago
Nothing they did was ever "shitty" and they were never just about synth pop songs. To me, the faint traces of what they eventually became were present from the beginning. Tho' some may prefer their later work or their early work, it's all part of an organic whole, IMHO. Theirs was a natural evolution.....
aviatrix911 2 years ago 6
I've read that they only did synthpop because it was cost-effective for their ideas; when you're starting out as a band you probably can't afford to rent a string and horn section. But as this shows they got there eventually.
SolarionSeadragon 2 years ago 7
I listen to this song everyday at work, headphones on. Gets me into a nice state of flow.
atmos111 2 years ago
class
harrylivermore 2 years ago 2
:') Mark Hollis is GOD
annyahush 2 years ago
great,great....professional music
I will never forget them
sandordeak 2 years ago 8
Friggin amazing!
HikiLuoma 2 years ago 4
This is a wonderfully haunting piece of music. While this band never produced a dud, I think this track has the edge on all others! thanks so so so much for posting it!
Toyboy789 2 years ago 4
Anyone else notice the first few strains of "Desire" at 6:11? Or am I imagining it?
aviatrix911 2 years ago 2
"Rainbow" and "Desire" are connected on the album - that's why there's no distinct ending to "Rainbow".
jeffalangreenway 2 years ago 3
No it's there. As if Mark's experiment in music, was meant to follow on. Each track a conclusion of the last or a beginning of the next. Like the bands history really. Early 80's synth band on par with Duran without the good looks , which suddenly blossomed into a beautiful sound without the synth which later bands would suddenly pick up on. Enter Thom Yorke to the fray.
How can that be fair at all?
copeyattamsworth 2 years ago
Interesting coincidence.
Mark Twain wrote of a Jimmy Finn, the town drunk who burned to death in the village jail using a set of matches supplied by the author , who was subsequently plagued with guilt. Jailer (with the keys) could not be found so the townsfolk rigged a battering ram in an effort to save him to no avail. Finn eventually lent his last name to Twain's character Huck Finn.
Great song, btw.
aviatrix911 2 years ago
this is probably my all-time-favourite album. i listended to talk talk since 1983, and was very sad because i thought they split up. until one day in 88/89 a friend of mine told me about this new weird album. i immediatly bought it and fell in love with it. i tried to play it to my friends who denied it. until one night - we were all totally wasted and lying around, i put it on. from that time one they were addicted too.
schusterfeste 2 years ago 5
we used to get high or whatever and listen to it at least twice a day during the night. this music makes you feel life in all kinds of faces: from sadness to happiness, from desperation to glory and hope. buy it! and listen to it on your back, eyes closed, using a real good hi-fi soundsystem. relax, enjoy and see waht's coming up - pjure feelings and emotions.
schusterfeste 2 years ago 4
I heard this at a friends in Santiago de Chile in a ' party ' . I am form northern Chile I inmediately went out and bought this fantastic album ..
xylotone0110 2 years ago 5
sounds like my kinda party!
nubient 2 years ago 3
I so love this music, the voice the ambience, one of a kind.
Hakon275 2 years ago 6
There are very few covers of Talk Talk except other than an English pub band and a group called Shearwater who play some nice stuff and they cover "The Rainbow". Hard to compare with anything but the recorded T.T. but sounds good for live. Search YOUTUBE "Shearwater - The Rainbow"
shotalot 2 years ago 2
2:20 - the apocryphal "they only saved the sound of the trombone player cleaning the spit out of his instrument" story? Is that where it is?
This is a pretty good track but I always liked the intro more than the rest of the song, BTW.
wrs6565 2 years ago
Ditto the poster below me. This CD is stunning. It just floats from beginning to end, and I float when listening to it. It's been in my collection for years, and it's one of my favorites for complete meditative escape. Love it, love it. LOVE IT!!
shadowtoia 2 years ago 2
I remember the first time I heard this, at the 3:59 mark it put an absolutely bizarre feeling on my mind. I had never been high at the time, but for a moment I was out of my mind.
grands1am 2 years ago 2
The birth of Post-Rock!
OkWin32 2 years ago 2
It belongs in a museum.
This is without peer.
radnomadic 2 years ago 2
This is no music for YouTube (sorry). It belongs on a high-end stereo at high volume. It should be enjoyed with the best of wines and eyes shut. It's is one of the best music ever written and performed.
stanleybimish 2 years ago 5
Or some fine cheeba.
The best "stoner" music known to man.
tobreakcustom 2 years ago
Dissemination.
SilverBuddha 2 years ago
like your style Stanley , gonna try that in my French farmhouse and blow it down the valley through the stylus
shinytinhead 2 years ago
The very best of music; the very best of art; the very best of humanity; the very best of earth; the very best of existence; the very best.
WhackaWhacka 3 years ago 2
Truly remarkable
spectrum99122 3 years ago
...i spend all night listening to this album 20 years ago....one and only trip in my life.....hard to tell how beautiful this album is........
marcingorzelak 3 years ago
The most dynamic band since Can
matowana 3 years ago
Of all songs existing, this is the one that inspired me the most. My life wouldn't be the same, wouldn't the [i]Spirit of Eden[/i] be around. I used to listen to it to just about every opportunity. Other ppl like to meditate. Whenever I'm tired, I listen to the [i]Spirit of Eden[/i] and feel better afterwards. I'd sure like to get to know to Mark Hollis one day in my life, that's one of my greatest dreams.
phkoester 3 years ago
As i sit enthralled on the crest of the wave on second 5.48, these aliens purposely and delightfully pause the instant and replay it like a suspended ferris wheel. Behold Talk Talk, masters of the wave and kings of pulse. 7.33 sweeps over and i finally go under. Bravissimi.
booridley 3 years ago 2
E x c e l l e n t album.
They broke up at the perfect time.
LunaSeaSane 3 years ago
About the the best track off this album but they are all fantastic to my ear and so they should as they spent 2 years in a studio recording 6 tracks. Good for them and good for us. Spread the message as it is a bit lost in music space.
shotalot 3 years ago
I don't think it is really. Whenever I talk to musicians, they all know the "Spirit of Eden" and they all agree it is one of the best albums ever. It's not so much lost in music space, but of course it ain't mainstream. Never ever listened to it on the radio, which is a shame indeed. Talk about Talk Talk, most ppl would know "Such a shame", but they would not know how beautiful the music was Mark Hollis did before his commercial success, which he has well deserved.
phkoester 3 years ago