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  • I was 16 when this album was released. It changed my life...I love it today at the age of 42. Thank you, thank you, Mark Hollis, you genius. This one song encapsulates so much of my life.

  • Radiohead's Uncle certainly showed them a thing or two on the trick of making truly beautiful music (as in NOT POP SHITE) and absolute absorption of the human psyche within the dimension of sound. We are all alone.............together. hello.

  • Great song! They don't make them like they used to...

  • I miss you.....lots of love....

  • fantásticos anos 80/90.

  • Best mouth organ EVER !!!

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  • yes..........yes

  • danke.

  • HOLLIS IS GOD!!!

  • The Colour Of Spring is very scary...scary good. Not often an artist (or group of artists) delivers so complete and integral a concept. A perfect package; beginning to end. God! I love this album so fucking much...Mark Hollis is quite obviously a musical genius. Wish they were still recording.

  • @WasabeJoe

    Well said and I agree with your keen observance. This album is a masterpiece of musical intelligence. It's a shame that they're mainly known for a couple of hits, because they are so obviously more deserving of accolades and appreciation. A tight, complex, enigmatic band. Genius is right!

  • living in youre own little world, its oke! they know me here and accept me here!

  • This is Talk Talk's White Album,but it's better.Hollis where are you?

  • theer ant no band like them =]

  • Amazing, amazing, truly amazing song, it gets to the core of me every time still and never ages ever since I bought the single back then are hurried home excited as fuck to play it on my turntable. : )

  • klasse.

  • I want to see this guys together again! please God!!

  • In my late 30's I would shout up to my 14 year old son's bedroom " turn that !$£*! noise down !" Gradually I became hooked and now he's older than I was then and moved on but I'm still playing Talk Talk !

  • helps me through hard times

  • The classic twelve inch Maxisingle version ... Mark Hollis' Masterpiece of the 80s.

  • Tops..simply tops of the upper echelons of fantastic music.

  • Anyone know who mixed this album?

  • tune.

  • Wow, great record.

  • I was 28 - My life was in a shambles and I was trashed, every night. What I wouldn't give for those days again, and this music....The best years of my life. A passion one seldom finds, in music or anything else, these days. Everything's become so safe and formulaic and smug and cynical and remote-controlled - The corners and sharp edges have all been padded. Life's about all the fuck-ups, paper-cuts and ass-kickings that let you know you're still breathing and above-ground. Simply. Lovely. Song.

  • @WasabeJoe

    Yes... you have to agree... this is one of the best albums of all time... believe it and you will be free..

  • @martyfromleeds  ahahah xD

    ''belive it and you will be free''

  • @WasabeJoe

    I`m 48 and still love this album, my life is still a shambles and great fun! You only have yourself to blame if you`ve got sensible, there are no rules, roll a fat one and turn it up

  • @WasabeJoe Couldn't agree more son. The I Pod generation are suicidal if they haven't receive a text message for thirty seconds. Richer materially, poorer spiritually. And they missed out on music before it was prepacked.

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  • This song sounds as fresh as it did the first time i heard it, another timeless talk talk classic, a band before there time

  • @Catherine04 ur a fking idiot

    

  • @empxl Yeah sorry about that, I apologize, but it scared the crap outta me! lol

  • Was für großartige Musik!!!

  • @TheLottie1999 ur a fking idiot too

  • when music was music

  • Indeed It has 2 be 1 of the best numbers ever made!

    Shivers down my spine.

    And it comes so close 2 me! I got PDD-NOS and yes I AM LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD!! HELP ME!! I cant help myself!!

  • Springtime 1986.

    Beautiful Time.

    Until...

    ...Chernobyl...

    ...Fukushima...

    ...where is the better world? The other world?

    I miss it very much!

    "Help me find a way from this maze. I cant help myself."

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  • My friends have quite a laugh when I trace lexuses with Yes.Talk Talk comes up quick on my side. The TT musicians found Common Ground !

  • just an amazing band...pure genius and magic.

  • I Love this song!

  • This has to be one of my mose favourite pieces of music EVER! astonishing album i never tire of listening to the colour of spring. Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful! The use of the hammond organ is truly spine tingling and Marks mesmerising vocals are astounding

  • This has to be one of my mose favourite pieces of music EVER! astonishing album i never tire of listening to the colour of spring. Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful!

  • oh, I just agree to all these comments.

    Thank you Talk Talk

    Thanks.........

    Muc , Ba

  • This has not aged a day, such a powerful song by this truly great band. And that Hammond shakes me to the core every time.

  • oh my, my youth reignited. Perfect band. They don't make shit like this anymore :(

  • Even better now than 25 years ago.

  • love this tune reminds me of when i was younger

  • wot away to chil out

  • I love this band and this album was so underrated was cool to see that Steve Winwood did all the hammond work on this album

  • ....this is an amazing peace of music...it is timeless and i will listen to it again and again for the rest of my life....

  • i bought this when it first came out and played it over and over on my record player...good old 7 inch vinyl!!!!

  • 80,s at its best

  • mm horse fuckers eh my reputation proceeds me then oh and yeah ur mum sucks a fine tune on my pink oboe arseole

  • Enormissime, pureté de voix, perfection musicale, de quoi nous faire vivre quelques minutes dans un autre monde :)))

  • SPINETINGLING I discovered TT quite late 1991 but they rank up there with the best of them

    and this band is seriously underrated pure genius love them.

    Linda ;-*

  • SPINTINGLING I discovered TT quite late 1991 but they rank up there with the best of them

    and this band is seriously underrated pure genius love them

  • World class...

  • 3 horses ass lickers

  • @codern get a life

  • @Chgo00 funny how i just came home from a fantastic studio session to read your comment.

  • Best Song ... wow, genial! Immer wieder gut!

  • mir fehlen die worte einfach genial

  • 3 horse fuckers

  • very underrated band

  • @cezayir37 thesse guys are just genious ,they cant help that you are a miserable dork

  • This music encourages me to make suicide

  • @cezayir37 hope you dont "make" it

  • one of my top most fav's

  • amazing group/music - great memories, never forgotten!

  • What a tremendous tune. That key change is just something else....

  • What a great song! Whether you like it or not, it's so well composed! Brings back the 80's vibe!

  • una de las mejores rolas de talk talk que tiempos aquellos preparatorianos jaja.

  • What an album , what a song , so under-rated , so under-played , so perfect , Mark Hollis , where are you now

  • And that harmonica sounds sooooooo fine!!! This song has a lot of soul. Interesting how there's a poignancy and a cool groove happening simultaneously. Love this track - thank you for posting!

  • one of the best songs ever

  • One of the best songs ever,

  • When I listen to this song I often find myself Livin' in another world!!

    One of the best songs ever

  • same with me; despite being quite monotonous, it's almost impossible to get tired of. The small details; the cymbals, the electr guitar in the background, the modulations, the lyrics, the acustic guitar harmonies... I think they have gotten way too little credit for this one. One of my absolute favourites

  • This album is classical and this fantastic Hammond organ is so typical for Steve Winwood - maybe that could be a reason why the songs of this album works so great - I'm never going tired to listen to this songs - they are perfect. Greetings from slideede

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  • One of the ten best songs of the 80´s...no doubt!!!

    24 years after releasing, it sounds incredibly fresh and ageless...

    Thanks for uploading, COLOUR OF SPRING, although here we are in winter...

    Bye!

  • Others have said it, but I'll just reiterate it once again. This WHOLE album is good from start to finish.

    No..let me rephrase that. Great. monumental,epic,awesome, pick any adjective you want , but this collection of music is one of the finest you'll find any where-bar none!

  • @n8tureboy

    i absolutely agree with you on that, all the songs are good

    somehow, i lost track of this band; but never this album cause it's part of the soundtrack of my life; i was 24 in 86;i still listen to it!

  • @galnic61

    Hello my friend. "Soundtrack of my life"...I agree mine too. It's such a great album that I never get tired of it. Brilliant lyrics, awesome music, it just simply has everything. Talk Talk is/was a phenomenal group. I was 19 in 86' and I can relate totally.

    Cheers.

  • Talk talk, in spite of their name, are unspeakable true/best in their doing.

  • As stunning now as it was to me when i was 16. I appreciate this track even more today and i can't help listening to Colour of spring almost every day.

  • I just love this song .Im 41 now and this can still gives med the chill down my spine as well.I guess is heís voice is just so awesome .Been hearing them live in copenhagen in the eighties ,with Depeche mode as well,it was awesome :)

  • wow! thanks so much for that

    it brings me back to 1986, and i tell you, this album helped me get through the hell i was in!

  • This is THE!! sound to feel the anxt of being young, fun and full of........ the 80's. Thee best band ever....

  • I still have this very version somewhere in my loft, has to be one of my favourite songs & bands from the 80's, doesn't get any better, sends me to heaven & back.

  • A brilliant song. Always a bit of a heartbreaker to hear, though. Thanks for the post.

  • what a great, great album - has to be up there with the ceast of th 80's...brings back so many memories of some great fun times!!!

    thanks for posting

  • god only knows what kind of tale youd tell

  • I LOVE mp3iffy it WORKS just google mp3iffy.

  • @ErnestoKingable1

    mp3ify - one "f"

    mp3ify.com

  • Vielleicht das beste Lied aller Zeiten. Grossartig!

  • Any way we can talk 90% of the great bands of the 80's into coming out of retirement and getting rid of these autotune goofballs of today?

  • @MrMusicman488 Sure, but Justin Bieber rules the world..LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! Seriously though, I'm from the 80's generation so I know what you are talking about. I don't know HOW they make music these days without any riff or melody. My favourite band is actually Simple Minds. 

  • Great song but the snare ruins it all in my opinion, as in so much music from the 80's.

  • Better than the single version as you get more of the superb harmonika. Think this and Life's what you make it are by far their best tracks. I used to like the track "It's my life" until it was played to death on the radio stations.

  • @chunkyhugo2 Spirit of Eden

  • In 1986 I was posted to Port Stanley for 4 months. This album was on my sony walkman and kept me going for one of the most boring periods of my life!! Great band, hope the do a reunion tour like all the others.

  • МУЗИКА  І СЛОВА НЕ ВИМАГАЮТЬ КОМЕНТАРІЇВ!!! РОКІВ 30 Я ЇХ СЛУХАЮ!!! ЛЬВІВ !УКРАЇНА!

  • best 80s band!

  • Best 80s song people don't know? Definitely.

  • the fcuking best hial hial

  • its about time mark hollis/talk talk were in the music hall of fame.

  • Shivers down my spine when the Hammond organ joins. And shivers again when they change key at 'help me... find a way from this maze.

    I was too young to recognize the sheer beauty of this song back in 1985. Now i'm 36 and this song keeps me awake with its haunting harmonica, the subtle acoustic guitar and the vocals that go straight into the core of any being..

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  • @rocktechstudio dont forget the bass!!

  • I agree with you friend!!!!!

  • @rocktechstudio Couldn't agree more. Bought the album on holiday in Portugal in '82, I think. It blew me away. Wore the cassette out in the end. Now have it on CD. I'm 48 now and still listen to it. Nothing better than switching off the light, putting this track on loud and being transported off to another world. Gives me goose bumps and makes me come over all emotional!

  • @rocktechstudio

    That Hammond organ is haunting isn't it? The changes in tempo, the harmonica. My goodness could a song be any better. These guy's are criminally underrated. I'd put Talk Talk against most any band and feel that they would blow the others away musically! I agree with your comment. In 1985 I was to immature to realize the genius of this music, but I've come around for certain. I have all the TT 'albums'.

    Get their Live In Montreux DVD, you won't regret it.

  • Musik und vor Gesang der absolute Hammer !!!

    Das war noch Musik ! :-)

  • Can anyone tell me what was Steve Winwood's overall relation to this band???

  • @hannibalsdisco Winwood is famous for his organ playing. He is not only a solo artist but also works as a studio musician. So maybe he was booked and played the hammond organ for them? At least he did it for Phil Collins ("All of my life").

  • wonderful

  • I agree. My favorite as well. It brings back great memories.

  • The best of the best . Tank Talk Talk

  • Still my favourite song and it never gets stale ... even though it's 24 years since I first heard it.

  • Probably my favorite from Talk Talk

  • I hate how I relate to this song.

  • god only knows what kind of tale youd tell

  • A True Masterpiece. Never gets Boring.

  • Brings me to tears.....

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  • Yes, me as well. but it has duality....could be either e "breaking up" song or a "making up" song. In any case it is still a great song!

  • Un des meilleurs de Mark Hollis, du Talk Talk

    personne n'est indifférent. Merci les gars pour votre musique de musicien!

  • This is definitely one of the best songs ever written !!!

    This is definitely the best use of harmonica in a rock song !!!!

  • One of the best songs ?

    It´s simply THE best ! !

  • Sheeeeerrrrrr Heaven. It doesn't get any better !

  • Spot on.

  • One brilliant song from the 3rd & best album from TT.

    Maybe what I like the most from them is how well they blended magnificent lyrics & wonderful music and also the fact that they never sold themselves but instead were more creative & experimental in each new album (just hear "Laughing Stock" to know what I mean)

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  • bring back proper music fed up with all this modern crap,these so called bands ,they need to take listen to this , its proper music

  • This Band was fantastic ! I hope they will come together again. I like the Bassplayer and especially the singing of Mark Hollies

  • Maybe the most perfct song ever. Stunning.

  • @guv859 you have good taste my musical friend.

  • Magnificent! Talk Talk are beyond wonderful - Simply stunning! One of the greatest bands of all time.

  • Simply - one of the greatest songs of all time.

  • Ten years old when i decided, 'i like this Man singing' i said to my dad.' I was born in 1986, and to this day i think; WOW - there is such a greatness about Hollis that i find so hard to shred and find the same feeling in today's rubbish.

  • what a voice....what a tune...talk talk were different class...

  • Listen to this then AF's "neighborhood #3." Thievery.

  • Perfect Thing!

  • One of the best albums in existence.

  • The whole album takes you on a trip!! So goooood!

  • @hectormckelly

    It´s not the album only, ist the music, the music is magic, it´s the voice, a trip into my holy soul without any drugs

  • @freuers best commentary in youtube in a long long time

  • This takes me back to living in Southend-on-Sea, just broke up with a fantastic girl, walking the sea front listening to this amazing album on my Walkman and realising that life could still be good, bitter-sweet i think. Thanks for posting.

  • The Best of the Best.

  • AWESOME SONG!!!

  • Surprised nobody has pointed out how amazing Mark Feltham's harmonica playing is on this. Guess it goes without saying

  • I heartily second that! This is one of the most awesome harmonica riffs I've ever heard--it gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it!

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  • One of their best.

  • i agree, and it sounds very 80's which is why i like them so much.

  • It's been twenty years since I've heard this song and my god I have to admit I'm trembling. Makes me want to run out and get the CD and a good set of earphones.

  • I've always loved this song,but never really knew the words.Thank you so much for making the lyrics available because it truly made it hit home...

  • ma génération!

  • epoustouflant!!!! toutecette magie de la bonne musique qui vous donne envie d'en vouloir non stop!!!! a decouvrir ou redecouvrir de toute urgence!!!!!

  • wahnsinn

  • Absolute Quality....end of.

  • Fantastic song!!!

    Awesome...

  • Did I see tenderness where you saw hell

    Did I see angels in the hand I held

    God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell

    I'm living in another world to you...........

    Sounds like a onesided relationship......

    Love the song!!!!!!

  • ...only angels look before they tread. What a truly wonderful song - and for me still evoking the agony, complexity and questions left when a deep relationship has gone wrong.

  • La chanson parfaite !!!!

  • Fantástica, grandiosa, Talk Talk es soberbio = fantastic, great, Talk Talk is superb

  • God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell

  • did you ever have a favourite song when you were younger ??

    for me a favourite song would always have been something recent, which i'd soon discard and forget. this, however, has always remained my single favourite track over 20 years later.

  • This song is Immaculate Sonic Perfection, much like the entirety of Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock.

  • Sounding better with each listen.....

  • Still listening...still sounding good.

  • Fantastic song, my favourites in the eighties, absolutely fantastic