Talk Talk - Laughing Stock - ALBUM REVIEW (Essentials #8) [R.I.P. Mark Hollis]

[@agneschardin9768]

Hello ! I just saw by chance your video and I fall backwards !! You are so young and have already understood everything about this mythical album. You talk about Mark with so much intelligence, accuracy, finesse, respect, but also passion. I'm 53, I'm crazy about Mark and Talk Talk since 1984 ! I have all his albums, which I bought over the years of their releases. In 1991 when Laughing Stock was released, I was 25 years old. At that time, few people understood his music and I was an alien for all the people around me. His music "spoke" to me and I could'nt do without it, I listened to After the Flood billions of times, and I always listen to it. I've been listening to Mark and Talk Talk every day since then, a real drug for me. Impossible to spend a day without hearing her sublime voice, which often pierces me as it is elegant, moving, heartbreaking. Mark himself had such a captivating, magnetic, hypnotic presence. The news of his death has been an incredible violence for me, an inestimable loss. However, I, who is so often found that he was an underrated artist, which always made me very angry, I am very happy to see that he did'nt create all his music for nothing, and that he finally has the recognition he deserves, that his music has gone through time without a wrinkle and that it touches the younger generation today, it's huge, I think even Mark could not have dreamed better. Really, your video and your analysis is an incredible marvel that you carry with the freshness of your youth, you are at the height of the immense talent of Mark, and believe me, to study it myself since 35 years, I know exactly what I'm talking about. Fantastic, THANK YOU.

[@mattgoldman3252]

Reviewing Laughing Stock while wearing a Nirvana T-shirt pretty much sums up the exact moment I discovered this album in 92. Thanks for this!

[@Katehowe3010]

Youth and Talk Talk. What a wonderful anomaly in these dark days!

[@hanspeterroersma93]

I admire your contagious and articulated enthousiasm for this one of kind record, which is so important to me since its release. Thanks.

[@iaincook5835]

Taphead is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. If I die, and if heaven exists, this will be playing. Immaculate.

[@a-hadiary5027]

Your enthusiasm is amazing..and LAUGHING STOCK deserves all our admiration! Do listen to Mark Hollis eponymous album...it's worth a try...hope you like it!

[@YayaBolender]

That’s amazing that such a young man like you understands this album. I have a very strong thing for After The Flood but I love it all. I think Mark Hollis went even further with it compared to Spirit of Eden, it is a little more “dirty” while Spirit of Eden is so clean and pure. I recommend that you try the Mark Hollis solo album, you won’t believe it. It is maybe more intended to people who like classical music. Or not. I’m not sure, as I am not a classical music girl myself and I still love it too. Anyway it warms my heart to see that the young generation got it. Wonderful! Thank you for this great genius who was Mark Hollis.

[@attilasomody9735]

I think if someone got an idea of music making, can hear that this album was an incomprehensibly lot of work Undeniably they were genius !!!

[@Helen_Hafsa]

As a listener of Talk Talk since 82, thank you!

[@saskiakneulman7275]

You made my day! What a heartbreaking tribute to the music of Talk Talk and Mark Hollis, your enthusiasm is such a promise for humanity and Earth! Thank you so much!

[@c11p]

Your synopsis of this album - one I bought on its release date and still hold in the highest regard - instills more hope in your generation. Thanks for this excellent video. Keep 'em coming.

[@duckface524]

I put on this album before going to sleep and then fell asleep while listening to it. When I woke up, I saw this review and smiled.

[@GabeTheCritic]

Hey man, great video! Found your channel a few months ago and I didn't know you did an Essentials on Laughing Stock. The album just clicked for me yesterday and I fully understand where all the praise comes from now.

[@basserman]

I miss this series of videos, hope you bring 'em back whenever you can man, you're an amazing reviewer and person to listen to for musical analysis.

[@mariuszhejmo4662]

Great and apt review. After the flood literally tears my heart. That is nice that someone still comes back to this fabulous music. Thanks!

[@scotturwin1387]

Still such an underrated channel. Glad you’re uploading again man!

[@kaleosh]

Always love to hear what you have to say. Keep it up man.

[@isaackasay5629]

i listened to this a month ago and i acknowledged the innovation and creativity behind it but just didnt click until i re-listened yesterday and its a masterpiece. the emotional roller coaster this album takes you on is amazing and its such filling but simultaneously hallow instrumentation that i havent felt with any other record. and then it ends on the same empty and eerie note(not in an actual, musical sense) it started on with runeii. the record feels like being in an empty out mansion. thank you for putting me on cause this album is easily one of my favorites ever now

[@kaidare503]

You uploaded! Great review!

[@pova-lr6nx]

very good video Louis, makes me want to listen to the album

[@Lectusis1]

Talk Talk last two albums are master pieces. Impossible to get tired.

[@TheDiamond2009]

But let's not forget about Colour of Spring, which sits perfectly between the old and the new. Also a masterpiece in my view.

[@Katehowe3010]

@@TheDiamond2009 Without 'The Colour Of Spring', the latter two albums may not have existed. So you are bang on with your comments!

[@hermanshire]

The two last albums by Talk Talk is two of the best albums released by any band, EVER When they presented the album Spirit of Eden, the record company (EMI) was not very pleased, doubting it would be a commercial success

[@akjak]

I bought this album the same time as Nevermind in Sept 91- which makes your shirt perfect here. While Nevermind had me stage diving, Laughing Stock kept me mystified confounded and obsessed ever since. It remains hands down one of the greatest and under-appreciated albums ever created.

[@Lukas-bb8co]

Great review! If you haven’t heard it already, you should check out “Ágætis Byrjun” by Sigur Rós. Another seminal Post-Rock album.

[@suleymantekingurmen7643]

He should do it!

[@Freeskiingisdabest]

Great and passionate review!

[@nathanieledwards7150]

The amount of times this album has made life worth living.......thanks for this man. I feel it too.

[@suleymantekingurmen7643]

I listened to it 4 years ago and I still think that this is a good album. RIP Mark Hollis, We hope you sleep in peace.

[@Pianistic_Jade]

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space Essential review please

[@suleymantekingurmen7643]

It's Spiritualized's most prettiest album, Jason's vocals are over the top for me. And that 17 minute closer is epic as fuck. He really should do an essential to that album.

[@suleymantekingurmen7643]

That album is gold, TMB should do an essential review to LAGWAFIS.

[@ThomasJester1968]

For the record, if I’m not mistaken, the After The Flood noise solo (The final thing recorded for the album by the way and by extension talk talk) was not a guitar but in fact a wind/sax synthesizer on its last legs cranked through an overdriven vox amp.

[@meredithhopkins1411]

Absolutely greatest band ever out of UK!

[@rand0mletters1]

Would you consider ever letting fans of the channel be guests on future podcasts? Would love to get in on one and talk about some music with the lot of you.

[@beausefdidly8092]

When is the next essentials video coming?

[@motelghost477]

They ran out of tape on Ascension Day, that's why it just stops suddenly.

[@dylanmurphy4342]

Myrrhman is the best song on the album So empty yet so full Very twangy guitars The guitar and horns guide us through the 5:33

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

The whole album is sheer perfection, but 'New Grass' is the defining track!

[@dylanmurphy4342]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 It's almost like a gift from heaven

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

@@dylanmurphy4342 I've always felt that way! 👌

[@dylanmurphy4342]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 its literally God talking to us

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

@@dylanmurphy4342 Absolutely. A balm for the soul.

[@ernestolombardo5811]

Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you REALLY think of Laughing Stock. jk, it's the finest album I've heard in my entire life.

[@mariadefatimateixeirafisch7943]

VC é um gato

[@painpapadopoulos8120]

My favourite song from the record is Runeii