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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2019, 07:38:53 PM

Title: Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2019, 07:38:53 PM

Sad news


https://www.post-punk.com/mark-hollis-of-talk-talk-has-passed-away/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyrWwstEMY

Title: Re: Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dead
Post by: ProfessorDavey on March 04, 2019, 01:44:39 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2019, 07:38:53 PM

Sad news


https://www.post-punk.com/mark-hollis-of-talk-talk-has-passed-away/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyrWwstEMY

I put on Colour of Spring on Friday night - still a fantastic record. I really loved Talk Talk's shift towards more minimalist and jazzy stuff.

There was one solo album (that I haven't heard) from 1998 and that was it - he turned his back on the music industry.

Title: Re: Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2019, 03:19:39 PM

The solo album is worth getting but Spirit of Eden is probably my favourite.

Title: Re: Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dead
Post by: ProfessorDavey on March 04, 2019, 03:28:58 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2019, 03:19:39 PM

The solo album is worth getting but Spirit of Eden is probably my favourite.

I'll look out for it. I love Spirit of Eden for its completely stripped down spaciousness.

But Colour of Spring is the one that I always come back to, largely because I bought it when it came out and it has been part of my life (It's my life!!) more than the others. I also love how they decided to add in all those 'real' instruments - to actually want to listen to a song with banks of recorders says something!!

Title: Re: Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2019, 03:36:04 PM

I got Spirit of Eden a year or so after it was released. Happened to be the right thing at the right time.