Did anybody pick up that live record? Somewhat curious about that one...
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
The only sucky song on Missing Pieces is the crappy 15-minute piano minimalist crap thing at the end. WITHOUT A DOUBT it is hands down my least favorite Talk Talk song of all time.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/Real.htm
The description provided is:
"Mark Hollis talks about Laughing Stock (RealMedia) -- Interview with Mark Hollis from Verve promo tape."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/IntMM070991.htm
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/IntMM261091.htm
The second is a technical interview with both Hollis and Phill Brown, and makes for excellent reading.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch™ (haitch), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not sure what the result of the court case was, Haitch, but as the various repackagings have continued over time I think that answers that. This said, I don't believe a remix album is currently in print. (Pretty much all you need from the EMI days are -- the first four albums, the A-Sides/B-Sides double disc comp and the Live 1986 disc if you're really obsessed.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I remember being very disturbed by the fact that the lyric sheet in the CD was incomprehensible (maybe only to me) - it didn't really assist you with deciphering what Hollis was singing. I think that made it all the more powerful as a listening experience.
― Brakhage (brakhage), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mart, Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I guess though that if you listen to Hex and 'O'Rang's Herd of Instinct and split the difference you get something approaching Laughing Stock.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
with hex i often have a problem with that so totally inoffensive voice. most of the time it drives me nuts as it totally lacks emotion. in a way that projects back on the music. there seems to be something wishy-washy about it. nice sounding but i don't feel the depth i feel in laughing stock or spirit of eden. it's a little like a body without blood.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I got a promo CD of the solo album, back when it was (untitled).
I can't remember a thing about it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
Shake my headTurn my face to the floorDead for respectSo respect for be bornLest we forgetWho lay
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/06963-talk-talk-laughing-stock
“There’s no way at the point when we go in (to the studio) that we know what this album will sound like,” Hollis commented in an interview recorded for a promotional cassette by journalist John Pidgeon for Verve around the album’s release. “All you ever know – and this would be true of the previous album – is you just go in knowing what the attitude is you want and that’s it. There’s no way I think you can go wrong on that because there is no right or wrong; the right and wrong is an internal thing.”
Does this cassette exist anywhere online?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
Yup
http://withinwithout.dk/Real.htm
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Thank you, Ned!!!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
that tectonic bass in “After the Flood”
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
I went so long before I even really noticed it was there.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link