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Talk Talk / Mark Hollis

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  • #32
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    thegreengoblin wrote: »
    Confirmed by a family member it seems.

    https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1100077058372366342
    Damn :(

    RIP


  • #33
    NapoleonInRags
    Registered Users Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    I listened to Colour of Spring three times over the weekend- having just bought it on vinyl in Freebird last week. Terrible news


  • #34
    Rothko
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    RIP. Love Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. Two albums unlike anything else I've ever heard.


  • #35
    Owl.
    Registered Users Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Owl.


    Awful news.


  • #36
    AhrSkidar
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭AhrSkidar


    There was always the vague hope of something new - sadly not to be. The pop stuff was great and the later work was pure genius. RIP.


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  • #37
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,708 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    He was only 64. Particularly sad as he'd retired from music to live a quiet life with his family.

    Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are rightly lauded as groundbreaking albums, but I also think The Colour of Spring is as good an alt-rock album as any released in the 80s. If you haven't seen it, check out their performance at the Montreux festival from 1986 on YouTube, they were a cracking live band and Hollis is a great vocalist/frontman.


  • #38
    Richard Roma
    Registered Users Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    Where’s a good place to start with Talk Talk?


  • #39
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,708 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Richard Roma wrote: »
    Where’s a good place to start with Talk Talk?

    the "Natural History" compilation is a good chronological summary of their career.

    of their actual albums, probably "The Colour of Spring" which is the midpoint between their poppy early material and the more experimental direction they went in afterwards.


  • #40
    return guide
    Registered Users Posts: 631 ✭✭✭return guide


    Damn I was sure when his family were raised we would here from him again.
    A great loss, RIP.


  • #41
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Brilliant band. Condolences to his family and hopefully this opens his work up to more people.


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  • #42
    bullpost
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    Watched their performance at the Montreux festival from 1986 on YouTube over the weekend.

    Its just a fantastic concert with some brilliant performances.


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