Tag Archives: Talk Talk
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
To understand Spirit of Eden, you need to understand what Talk Talk walked away from. By 1986 they were a commercially successful synth-pop act, lazily bracketed with Duran Duran and the New Romantic crowd. Then came The Colour of Spring, a transitional record that replaced most of the synths with organic instrumentation. It generated a […]
COLOURS OF EDEN
A breeze skating a frozen pond. A face that doesn’t match its name. Wonder and anguish entwined. The task of capturing the elusive, strangled beauty of Talk Talk. I could try to net these butterfly phrases, compile them, pin them, offer them to you in a month or two as a display-board eulogy for Mark […]
WHERE TO, MATE?
Having passed 150 posts, written nigh on 100,000 words about some eighty different artists across 200+ albums, I found myself wondering, ‘Where to next?’ Then I thought, why not ask Vinyl Connection readers? The democratic flavour of this strategy appealed. How then, to proceed? Now one way would be to post the entire Vinyl Connection catalogue and ask for suggestions […]
THE DAILY PLANET
Back in the 90s I enrolled in a writing course at the CAE. Confusion Anxiety and Entropy. No, sorry. That was me in the 80s. The course was with the Council of Adult Education and it was in the city one evening each week. I completed ‘Writing for the Stage’, and I finished ‘Writing Fiction’. […]
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