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You’ve probably heard of 80’s band Talk Talk. But if you are a fool and haven’t, then you’ll at least know their work through No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life, presented for you here in its original form. Note how No Doubt cleverly updated the 1984 hit by... er... making it exactly the same, except not as good, and with some blonde bint singing. Timeless.



Talk Talk – It’s My Life


Sometimes unfairly tarnished with a reputation as a naff New Romantic band, Talk Talk were in fact always pushing themselves musically even whilst still turning out classic singles such as Life’s What You Make It.

Take It’s Getting Late In The Evening as an example of a band pushing their boundaries to produce something a bit different and special. Stick with this one; it starts off quietly and then overlays a bunch of organ after about three minutes that will make your ears go strange. Best played loud.



Talk Talk – It’s Getting Late In The Evening


Of course – as is often the case – the further a ‘pop’ group goes musically, the less radio stations give them airplay and the fewer albums they sell subsequently. Talk Talk are the classic example of this phenomenon as on their fourth album they turned their backs on ‘easy’ singles and instead embarked upon the mad, experimental Spirit Of Eden.

The result was, inevitably and rather heroically, commercial suicide. Indeed, it was to be the death of the group and they split up not long after. That’s what you get for stuffing your album with avant-garde trumpets, seven minute long songs, wailing feedback and barely audible lyrics.

But – and here’s the best bit – Spirit Of Eden is an album of proper GENIUS. Listen to I Believe In You - like a dose, it may not hit you straight away, but when it does, you’ll know all about it, and you won’t forget it for a loooooong time.



Talk Talk – I Believe In You


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