Talk Talk- Taphead REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Song Link: • Talk Talk - TAPHEAD - ...
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Love watching you experience the totally nonlinear moments, like when the bass and drums come in. This album was knit together from literally hours of improvised takes from dozens of musicians. Truly unique, powerful, and strange. One of my favorite albums of all time, there’s nothing quite like it.
This track is like diving into the unconscious.
Yeah, probably the most out-there track on the album. A grower though-full of great “moments”. Next track, New Grass is a nice contrast-perhaps the most accessible. A lot of fans favourite-really beautiful track.
When I hear this song the first thing I remember is the solo of the song It's My life. For me the evolution of the band is one of the greatest in the pop world.
All this anguish carried in the song is brilliantly contrasted in the next track, the optimistic New Grass. When listened to sequentially, it brings us a set of sensations and feelings that few albums can provide. In the future listen to Laughing Stock without pauses, the experience is amazing.
Yes I too love the development
A parallel with The Beatles in terms of development. Quite a feat.
For me, this is the best track on the album. I liked it immediately. Very beautiful and fragile ... like being on the verge of some kind of breakdown or perhaps waiting to rise...
While comfortable, and dry on my little hill, awaiting tonight's second surge of flood waters.This makes me 'pine' for the frozen, bleak of Winter! Spring has sprung, and Fall has yet to fell. It will not stop raining, and we're all wet as Hell! I'll take freezing over drowning, over Summer swelter, heck Winter sounds swell! Loving revisiting this album. Peace and Love.
Some day, if you're interested, Phill Brown, the engineer, wrote in his book -- Are We Still Rolling?-- about the making of this and Spirits of Eden. It will give you an idea about how this was album was created.
Compliments on your reactions to the Laughing Stock tracks. You clearly have good ears, a musical brain and have heard a lot of music. You pick up much on just a first listen. What might, in addition, be mentioned is the influence of impressionist and/or avant-garde classical music, also on Spirit of Eden. Two personal observations: the idea that this is experimental music quickly fades with repeated listening (never mind how experimental the recording process may have been). Secondly, you rightly note that the music is very grounded, yet not dark. For me it is very much a living, natural landscape. Many sections feel as if you're immersed in nature, as if you can *hear* sunlight, clouds, rain, foliage moving in the wind, etcetera. I guess majestic is the word.
Amazing Mark. Rediscovering this album with you, I didn't like it first but then it grows on me and I can fully appreciate it now. Genuis. Rest in peace Mark.
Rebirth…. To rise again beyond the tide. Great music and review, enjoyed it
Taphead is the one track I feel has to be listened to as part of the whole album. It's a bit like The Rainbow/Eden/Desire are best listened to as one entity.
The difference is that those 3 tracks also work on their own. I feel Taphead needs to be listened to as part of the album, it loses context without it and is Talk Talk's most experimental piece on a studio album, so it's weird listening to it on its own and it is the one track that feels improvised, noting that all were recorded that way.
And maybe it's unfair to say but Taphead's bizarreness gives way to the beauty of New Grass.
Basically, in his own way, Hollis was trying to recreate the atmosphere of his favourite music. "Sketches of Spain" (Miles Davis with Gil Evans), "Tago Mago" (Can), Ravel, Delius...
No surprise that Talk Talk stopped touring after "The Colour of Spring". Firstly, the way the last two albums (and the Hollis album too) were created, with that unique working method, it was impossible to perform these pieces live. Secondly, the music is simply too intimate, would not tolerate the stage and the audience but run into a crevice like a small nocturnal mammal.
I loved your reaction to this one. It can be the most challenging to say tethered to at first listen, but you did an amazing job. The payoff comes in New Grass. Talk about contrast of a cold, barren landscape to life once again arriving. Enjoy this... It's a unique experience. For me, only David Sylvian's more experimental work offers some of the same stark contrasts.
8 days since Taphead and I am crying out for New Grass!!
The name comes from Tapiola by Sibelius.
If like me you've been amazed and haunted by this track for some time, it's truly an uncanny experience listening to the first minutes of Tapiola. Like discovering a long lost relative.
This reminds me of the depths of winter when everything feels bleak and dead and slow. And my prior experience of the album means that I also know spring ("New Grass") is coming but winter has to play out first and I must wait patiently and enjoy what is happening here and now simply because it is what is happening rather than wishing it away for something else later on. A very zen-like experience for me.
Very experimental. I liked it.
During an important time in my life this song 👓
I can only say it again: the similarities in aesthetics and mood between these kinds of talk-talk songs and the weirder songs of Sylvian are pretty obvious.
Plight and Premonition, Flux and Mutability, elements of Secrets of the Beehive.
This one took some time to grow on me, but it did. Lovely track.
It would be great to also react to Mark Hollis. Not everyones favourite but I love it. Taking the journey even further.
I love your reactions to this album!
Justin, my comment could be not popular but, for me, the last TT album was "Colour of...".
I listened many times Spirit and Laughing trying to undestard what was Hollis looking for or trying to do on those records. I still wonder why he changed so drastically the fantastic course that the band had until 1986.
A bit like radio head. Dreamy..