Talk Talk- Talk Talk REACTION & REVIEW

[@MegaFreddie46]

Listen to the whole album, please! Such tracks as "Today", "Hate", "Mirror Man" and "Candy" are bangers, soaked in a melancholy only Talk Talk could mold ❤ The title-track is pure bliss for the ears

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Add 'Have You Heard The News' to that list.

[@bigjapi1]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 and "The Party is Over" too.

[@johnlathwell7667]

You've heard and dissected the subsequent albums, you really ought to cover their starting point. The title track remains one of my favourite Talk Talk track

[@NOOne-im5vg]

Some absolutely fabulous tracks in my opinion

[@MorganMontyMcKeown]

In 1981-2 The record company had them supporting Duran Duran...The double name thing.

[@bjwnashe5589]

First track, first album… And it’s a gem. They kicked things off in fine form.

[@ChasBeauregarde]

I loved this song when it first came out. It introduced me to their music and for that I was very appreciative. At the time, if a DJ played this at the clubs around, it got a lot of kids out on the dance floor.

[@sarahjane8146]

80s, yes, inescapably, but so very, very catchy. I’m thrilled that you’re taking a look.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

Mark Hollis had an amazing voice. Much missed. RIP

[@PipeMan1958]

You must listen to the full album, the rest of the album is just killer!

[@davidsouth9979]

The track “Candy” kind of hints of where the band were heading musically. It’s a great track on its own and I think one of Mark Hollis’s favourites it’s certainly one of his best.

[@PJprog]

What a band !!! At every stage of their career. 😍👍👍

[@creolerican]

Your my fave Song Reaction channel on YT. Great breakdowns the productions of a song. Keep up the great work BTW, What section or email do we use to make song suggestions for your channel?

[@mickdarcy3063]

I was lucky enough to see them in the early 80,s at the Austin Opera House which was not a huge venue but not tiny either. They impressed me withe the wall of sound thing they had going on.

[@jeremyb5640]

I hadn’t realised you’d not done the first album yet! What a great track to launch their debut album and career. This really jumped out when it was played on the radio. Don’t forget this was still the early eighties, so not really derivative at that point. Fantastic keyboard work and drumming too. Mark is on brilliant form with his vocals.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Many talk the talk. But few like Mark, could walk the walk. Spread Peace, Love, and wisdom. For Death is always on the stalk.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Thanks for that. Very touching. ❤️

[@jerkedevries]

Death certainly is. Death and taxes

[@josiepkat]

I LOVE IT!! This was the first Talk Talk song I ever heard and it brings back A LOT of memories from early days of MTV. It's definitely a radio friendly tune of the time.The bigger drums may be due to the style, influence of the other successful bands of the new romantic era like Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow, etc who were bringing in these big tribal beats and heavy drumming. Thanks for finally covering this one!!!!!

[@sphericalharmony1603]

I'm surprised the single didn't chart higher, it's very catchy.

[@SmartCookie2022]

When you say "Eighties" you mean very early 80's. Especially as the 80's still had a really long way to go. Stellar track from a stellar band.

[@blanetalk]

That first album is a gem!

[@manhattenman6075]

And this is where it all started… there’s some great tracks off here, Talk Talk, Today, The Party’s Over, Candy. It’s not bad

[@Kavala76]

You named all my favourite tracks off this album perfectly :)

[@bigjapi1]

Hey bro "Have You Heard the News" ?... FINALLY JP realized that this album existed!! lol

[@PipeMan1958]

Yeah, I'm shocked, but then he said, he's not sure if he'll listen to the rest of the album

[@jerkedevries]

Yea I suppose Justin rarely forgives, but certainly won’t forget great music once he tasted it

[@avanoosterhout8397]

One day, browsing through the 'sale' section at my local record store, I picked up this single. Solely on the basis of the intrigueing "Talk Talk - Talk Talk" on the cover. I was hooked right away and the love for Mark Hollis' music endures till this day.

[@michaelgray5100]

I haven't heard this song in a long time. Nice catchy tune that charted.

[@orla556]

Also love 'Today' from this album

[@stephanieeverett2461]

Ahh the 80's ♥️

[@pianocovers4227]

Justin, U can go on for the whole album !! that's a gem !

[@mattleppard1964]

I remember this being in the UK charts. I was 12 😊

[@gpreactions3194]

Talk Talk entered the UK Top 40 in late November 1982 and peaked at no. 23. The Top 10 this week was: 1 - The Human League - Mirror Man 2 - Eddy Grant - I don't wanna dance 3 - Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing 4 - Wham! - Young guns (Go for it) 5 - Blancmange - Living on the ceiling 6 - The Jam - Beat surrender 7 - Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game 8 - Renee & Renato - Save your love 9 - Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker 10 - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater Also in this week's Top 40 Duran Duran - Rio Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - The girl is mine Donna Summer - State of independence A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I had a photograph of you) Tears For Fears - Mad world Yazoo - The other side of love Culture Club - Time (Clock of the heart) Talk Talk - Talk Talk Ultravox - Hymn Madness - Our house Japan - Night porter Simple Minds - Someone, somewhere (In summertime) I remember this Talk Talk track from the time and it was really catchy. Nice reaction as always 🙂

[@bulliboyz]

80’s school discos ❤

[@TimvanderLeeuw]

I’ve gotta look up some of your reactions to the later Talk Talk albums - I think I haven’t listened to them yet.

[@6581punk]

Now we're talking. Got this album on white vinyl.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

I take it you also dig their latter stuff?

[@jerkedevries]

Now that I’m talking. I think you’d certainly like the Swedish Anna von Hausswolff. It’s pinkfloyd meets goth meets ambient, combined with great original music and songs and vocal and…. church-organ: best success with albums The miraculous; Dead magic

[@MusicandCatLover-vc6jb]

What a great debut album!

[@michaelfrank2266]

Acceptable. Had my foot tapping.

[@msamelienp]

This is my favorite album. The videos are cool too. Lee Harris is the best drummer for me. Fun to watch. Check out the song "Hate" Live in 86

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

A million miles from their latter day majesty, but it's still a nifty pop song! 🦋

[@gaiaeternal5131]

I agree.

[@chrissheldon9427]

You absolutely must listen to the whole album, it may not be as good as the others lacking the often brittle beauty that followed on the later albums, but it's one of the best early 80s pop albums, if not the best. Today, It's so Serious, Mirror Man, Another Word, Candy, Hate...are all great tracks. BTW check out the original version by The Reaction, Talk Talk Talk Talk, they were a garage punk band.

[@carriec.fernandez1781]

RIP Mark Hollis. This is the first album by Talk Talk and they hit just right. LIttle suggestion from a metal fan: Listen to something by Nightwish, sung by either Tarja Turunen, Anette Olzon or Floor Jansen, you'll love it! My personal recommendations are the Live version of Phantom of the Opera, Nemo, The Poet and the Pendulum and Ghost Love score.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

This whole album is excellent, particularly, "Today", and "Hate", I really hope that you'll listen to all of it as it's well worth it.

[@neildavies9351]

New romantic synth pop at its finest. If you don't listen with us to all the songs off it then i plead with you to listen to the whole album by yourself, you won't be disappointed...

[@mightyV444]

Woah! I'd watched an interview with Mark Hollis from the late 90's only the other night! 😀 Would be cool if he _did_ go through the whole album, though; It's the only TT one I've never heard in full! 🙂

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Another great comment worthy of a great band mightyV 👌 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mightyV444]

@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - Thank you, Jay! 😀👍 Yours is a great comment, too! 😊

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@mightyV444 ✊ 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jerkedevries]

Yes how very nice 2 revisit them

[@merlinscat]

I really hope you listen to some more of this album there are some great tracks here

[@tonyburt8863]

They were a fab band, The Colour Of Spring being their best for me. Nice to see Kate Bush at the front of your collection. Time for you to explore some more of her music greatness. Cheers....

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Coincidentally Kate was a huge fan of 'The Colour Of Spring', along with their final two classics.

[@robertgrace6182]

Honestly, it is worth making time for most tracks on the album. Nor ‘S tier’ Talk Talk but still very solid music with some gems (I love the title track).

[@rcmorl6390]

The party’s over…still in the top of my list. Found this album on release shortly after graduating high school. Along with new gold dream, Vienna and rage in Eden, icehouse ,october ,dare ,afos…et al..my weekly addiction to the record store was set in place…people dis this one, but it was yet to be discovered sonics, Colin thurston production perfection… the whole album is the perfect synth pop start to build off of.. and gave them the freedom of success to explore..hints and shades of possibilities to come

[@galier2]

Nice discovery. Thanks.

[@jefferybeckman5231]

A classic '80s extended 12" club spin!

[@geirithorirlong]

This album did put me on the synth wagon permently back in old days

[@Azabaxe80]

I’m not going to comment on how great this album is even if I’m familiar with many of its songs. It is, in fact, the only TT release I have never listened from beginning to end. I’m not a completist. What I will say is that I’m impressed with how great this song is. And how much greater it could be if the arrangement or instrumentation was different. I remember gong to the first Lollapalooza in ‘91 and seeing how NIN took the synth pop of _Pretty Hate Machine_ and turned it into full blown aggressive rock in a live setting. I wonder if anyone has ever done that with “Talk Talk” or “Today”.

[@richardhowlett7398]

Great track , great band , Mark Hollis died far too young .

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

I miss him to this day! 😞

[@karlchensam]

I love "Hate"

[@a.k.1740]

The Party's Over is the only Talk Talk album I really like. I never got hooked on the rest of their discography (and especially not Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, which are in the stripped-down musical style). Well, not everything on this debut album is flawless (especially the weak "Mirror Man" and "Another World" and the electronic drum sound that undoubtedly anchors the record in its time). My favourites are "Talk Talk", "The Party's Over", "Have You Heard The News?" and "Candy". So Justin, if you ever feel like listening to a few more tracks from the album on your channel, choose from the last three I mentioned earlier.

[@steffNewtown]

You should listen to the title track. A little bit…progressive, oh yeah. And is climax at the end, pure bliss 🤩

[@marcharley6465]

Talk Talk were initially marketed by their record label as a generic synthpop band to compete with bands like Duran Duran. This was a hugely short sighted approach which completely failed to recognise the bands' true worth.

[@a.k.1740]

Coincidentally or not, the first two Duran Duran albums and Talk Talk's The Party's Over were produced by Colin Thurston !😉

[@paulcollins5586]

Really meaningful lyrics, talk talk talk talk about fifty times.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

It's called a chorus, and the meaning of the song is clearly detected from the verses. Just an upbeat pop song, nothing more, nothing less!

[@tszirmay]

referring to endless chatter, I presume

[@paulcollins5586]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 Ok .

[@cazgerald9471]

Reminiscing KROQ

[@pentagrammaton6793]

More Talk Talk? No ta. 😛

[@Eduardo-Ferreira1982]

See the right side of it: once JP do it all, there will be no more Talk about Talk Talk. (I like TT, though) 😊

[@pentagrammaton6793]

@@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 oh no! But he did that with all that awful later Genesis!

[@Eduardo-Ferreira1982]

@@pentagrammaton6793 Yeah, I just don't understand. "even the emptiest of nuts, and they order we open it" (something like this, from Nietzsche Zarathustra)

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

This is just a brilliant single , takes me right back , what’s not to like ? I’ve read all the comments though and there ARE some needy folk who object to your choices 😳… lots of other reaction channels they could go to instead - I choose to attend when you play something that interests me , and I def was interested in this one . Cheers JP 🍻 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@victorfenn3142]

not the best vision of talk talk try listen to the vision that was produced by rhett davies it comes in under 3 mins i think its much better

[@jtenaz]

Is not my thing.

[@paulcollins5586]

Not again. Overhyped bland pop. There's better bands out there not this cliched mush.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Nobody over hyped this at the time. As Justin pointed out, it reached a paltry #52 in the UK chart. Anyway, it's about where this band took their music that really matters!

[@bobholtzmann]

True about the better bands on the 1982 pop scene -- at the time, I was more familiar with Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls, and this song falls somewhere between the two.

[@jfergs.3302]

Couldn't you have been curious on your own time... spare us yet more early 80's trash 🙄🥱😱 Just a thought.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

You know where i stand with Talk Talk, but this is nothing more than a typical upbeat eighties tune. Nothing special, but certainly not a bad song!

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 For me, tt's first three albums, crap. The 4th, not bad, best of a bad bunch, and 5, not as good as 4, but better than 1-3. Also for me (again,) it's just a little frustrating that were back with another band we've been beatin over the head with time and time again. With a veritable pacific ocean of music to listen to, try, explore. A vast quantity of sound to dip into, plumb the depths of, so to speak. And to carry on the vast oceans analogy, for a while now the selection of repeated artists, it's like JP's dipped a thimble into that vast ocean and just keeps going back to that, and previous artists over and over... I think it's like the channels in reverse sometimes, hence my 'own time' comment... I'd have thought if he was introduced to a band he liked he would/could explore them more in his own time, while exploring new artists, genres etc for both himself and us. Whereas now it seems more like an oldies channel, fan favourites (using those words lightly), and the newer, more unknown stuff (for me anyway) only appreas in list form on these new-ish monthly vids on what he's been listening to himself. I hope that all made sense :)

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 PS, I hope that all didn't sound a bit too Chris Adams, haha. Good ol' Chris.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

​@jfergs.3302 Cheers mate. To be honest, the fact that Justin has chosen this song, and possibly the rest of the album is neither here nor there to me. Although i do appreciate certain tracks, i could quite easily do without it. It's the last three that i completely idolise. Changing tack, i'm surprised you recognise my real identity! 😉

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 🙂