Talk Talk
Talk Talk was a British band that began in the early 1980s synth pop and from around 1986, especially between 1988 and 1991, the post-rock turned towards. TalkTalk are considered one of the most influential pop bands of the 1980s.
Band History
Talk Talk were established in 1981. The highlight of his commercial career she reached the mid-1980s. The group produced pop music, which has a slightly more serious tone struck as many contemporary synth - pop bands, which they reached cult status. Dating from the 1984 song search a Shame was influenced by the novel The cuber by Luke Rhinehart.
The keyboardist Simon Brenner was eliminated after the first album. For Tim Friese- Greene was a permanent member of the band, although he was never named as such. He composed with singer Mark Hollis and played above all, various keyboard instruments. The album Colour of Spring 1986 was a great commercial success and so the band got a free hand for future productions. 1988 was the artistic avant-garde work of Spirit of Eden, in which, inter alia, jazz greats like Henry Lowther, the violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy and instrument - inventor Hugh Davies mitmischten. This ambitious project was unable to match the previous commercial successes by far. Therefore, the last album Laughing Stock was released in 1991 on the jazz label Verve. Later, this new style was referred to as post-rock. EMI was 1991, a remix album History Revisited out, which led to disputes with the band, because this was against the will of the musicians. Finally, the band broke up.
Mark Hollis introduced in 1998 as a solo artist, a self-titled album out, but has retired from the music scene ever since. One last extremely minimalist piece was by him under the pseudonym John Cope - named after an eponymous song by Talk Talk - released on the album AV1 by Dave Allinson and Phil Brown. Paul Webb and Lee Harris have brought out in 1994, in which they propagate diverse soundscapes without common song structures together as ". O.rang " (or " ' O'rang " ) two albums in 1994 and 1996 and an EP. Even at this time, they worked together with the still unknown musician Beth Gibbons. Lee Harris was hired by various bands such as Midnight Choir or Bark Psychosis as a drummer. 2002 under the pseudonym Rustin 'Man with Portishead singer Beth Gibbons Paul Webb published the album Out of Season. Together with Lee Harris and some Portishead members they went on tour. For the two ex- Talk Talk members it was the first stage presence since 1986.
Discography
Singles
Albums
Concert albums
Bootlegs
Compilations
- 2008: Natural History - The very best of (11 videos)
- 2013: Natural History - The very best of (12 videos)