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Talk Talk, Laughing Stock
Audio CD
Disk ID: 445061
Disk length: 43m 35s (6 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1991
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Myrrhman | 5:36 |
| 2. Ascension Day | 6:02 |
| 3. After The Flood | 9:41 |
| 4. Taphead | 7:39 |
| 5. New Grass | 9:41 |
| 6. Runeii | 4:51 |
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Review
Dreamy and loose, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock turns 180 degrees away from the '80s pop sound of It's My Life and runs headlong into a web of Brian Eno, avant-garde, jazz, and experimental structure. The songs ache with languid phrases and the naked, vulnerable voice of Mark Hollis, the only element of the band that remains perceptible from their verse-chorus-verse past. The bashing, off-time clatter of "Ascension Day"; the impossibly patient organ motif snaking into a wailing guitar string in "After the Flood"; the terrifying, beautiful silences that engulf "Runeii" and "Myrrhman"; and the teetering, defenseless vocal Hollis lays down on "New Grass"--it all adds up to a stellar, shockingly original work that shreds all pretense of genre limitations, finding a transcendence in the light and shadow of musical color. --Matthew CookeThe band's final album, originally released in 1991 on Polydor. It was promptly deleted three months after it's release due to wrangling with the record company. Now available on the band's own label Pond Life. Standard jewel case.
Other Versions
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Tracks: 6, Disk length: 43m 30s (-1m 55s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 43m 17s (-1m 42s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 42m 49s (-1m 14s)
Tracks: 6, Disk length: 42m 49s (-1m 14s)
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