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
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
C
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TALK-TALK-Rare-Promo-Laughing-Stock-Wooden-Pencil-Case_W0QQitemZ390063733119QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE?hash=item5ad19c397f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:12|66:2|39:1|72:1687|240:1318|301:0|293:1|294:50
― d90 (D90), Friday, 3 July 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
How very random. Nice, though.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 3 July 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! I need a new copy of that CD as it turns out.
― akm, Friday, 3 July 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It was mentioned on that other TT thread that not many women were posting on it. Well, if it helps, SoE got me through several hours of labour with my second son. It goes very well with gas and air.
Haven't heard LS, though -- I love love love SofE so will check it out.
― Meg (Meg Busset), Friday, 3 July 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Or you can save it for your next labour? j/k
Like someone else upthread, I love Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden equally, so enjoy.
― Lostandfound, Friday, 3 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
He's stopped making music?
― djh, Saturday, 4 July 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Talk Talk fans, I insist you listen to Movietone's The Blossom Filled Streets. It's like Laughing Stock yet somehow even prettier and dreamier.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 10 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.badabingrecords.com/products-page/talk-talk-mark-hollis/
"Laughing Stock" and "Mark Hollis" re-released on LP, next month.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:06 (twelve years ago) link
I spend a fucking fortune (well £80) on my copy of 'Laughing Stock' a few years ago. Will probably pick up the reissue nonetheless. The Mark Hollis album I found second hand for something stupid like £6.
― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:26 (twelve 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 (four years ago) link
I went so long before I even really noticed it was there.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link