Introducing

Introducing Artist: Talk Talk
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724358416725
EAN: 0724358416725
ASIN: B00009V3OK


Release Date: 2003-07-31

Introducing


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Tracks:

  1. Have You Heard the News?
  2. Candy
  3. Ren
  4. Tomorrow Started
  5. Call in the Night Boy [Piano Version]
  6. For What It's Worth
  7. Happiness Is Easy
  8. April 5th
  9. It's Getting Late in the Evening
  10. Desire
  11. John Cope
  12. I Believe in You

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Superb introduction to this band.......2005-12-17

A collection of songs from all phases of Talk Talk's career, an overview; but this is not a typical "best of" album. Not one of the songs on this album was a single: if you listen to this album you will not hear any of their songs that you've heard before on the radio.

You know how it seems like most good albums have at least one great song, that you love, but that is not released as a single and never appears on a band's best-of album? This CD is a collection of THOSE songs. Starts off with my favorite song from their first album, downbeat but very beautiful. Track 4, "Tomorrow Started", is my favorite song from their second album (also a little downbeat); the single was "It's My Life", the song No Doubt covered last year. "Happiness Is Easy" comes from their great 3rd album The Colour of Spring; the single from that album was "Life's What You Make It". The song "It's Getting Late in the Evening" was the B-side to that single, a haunting song I've been looking for on CD for 15 years or more. "Desire" is the most powerful song from their 4th album, Spirit of Eden (1988); that was their commercial suicide, an album without any song that could be released as a single. The last two songs are rarities: "John Cope" is a B-side from the Spirt of Eden / Laughing Stock era.

This is an extremely intelligent, thoughtful, well-chosen selection. Talk Talk's catalogue (basically 5 albums, plus some collections of rarities) is all over the map stylistically. Someone who likes their self-titled debut, with its catchy synth-pop, might not like the avant-garde art music of their later albums; and vice versa. This collection manages to choose stuff from each album, that manages both to hang together as an album and to represent the overall feel of the band's output: the rich instrumentation and reflective mood (evocative but often sad or wistful), with the touch of atonality and experimental music.

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  1. Massive Party Hits ~ Various Artists
  2. Still Building ~ The Kind Strangers
  3. Makeshift Grey ~ Unjust
  4. That's What I'm Talking About
  5. Full Upright Position ~ Actionslacks
  6. Somersault ~ Decoder Ring
  7. Over the Rainbow ~ Livingston Taylor
  8. Full Isaac ~ Lotion
  9. Monarchs of a Fallen Society ~ Agents of the Sun
  10. Slaves and Masters ~ Deep Purple

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Soul Shoutin' ~ Shirley Scott

Don't Let It Go ~ Vincent Herring

Christmas Presence ~ Kevin Gibbs Trio

Big Band Legends ~ Woody Herman

Jazz: 100 Famous Melodies ~ Various Artists

Miniatures: Masterworks For The Armenian Duduk ~ Gevorg Dabaghyan

Futarino Orchesta ~ Toshinobu Kubota

Cuban ~ Various Artists

Touchia ~ Orchestre Andalou d'Israel

ShalOM: Ancient Mantra for relaxation, yoga, and chanting meditation ~ Sigal