It's My Life

[HighPlainsDrifter]

No, not The Animals, Talk Talk.

Perhaps the best thing to come out of new wave/synth-pop. Dated sound or not, a great song is a great song.

[monkeyboy]

Agreed. I dig a lot of Talk Talk.

Also, I'm glad you're not referring to the Bon Jovi song.

[mookie]

Always loved that song. Remember hearing it for the first time on "Rock Over London", which was the greatest radio show ever and gave me a head start on my friends on knowing what was cool across the pond. Discovered New Order and Psychedelic Furs that way too.

Here's another good one from that era.....

[BirdBrain]

Great song but prefer their later, post-rock sort of stuff ...'Laughing Stock', basically

[HighPlainsDrifter]

Nice one, mook. Not a well-remembered band, but that stands up well with just about anything else from the time. That chorus.

Need to hear that album, BirdBrain. Got a friend who thinks very highly of it. Pitchfork did too on their '80s list. Maybe also Spirit of Eden.

[George Murray]

Always loved that song. Remember hearing it for the first time on "Rock Over London", which was the greatest radio show ever and gave me a head start on my friends on knowing what was cool across the pond. Discovered New Order and Psychedelic Furs that way too.

Here's another good one from that era.....

I love this...I love Ian's music. He's a good friend of mine and I've seen him play live many times. Did you know he made an album with Crazy Horse?

[howard]

Definitely Talk talk were great. For a genre that produced so much disposable stuff, there were surprisingly some real gems. I always liked:

[Bowood]

Good call HPD..

digging deeper , singer and co-writer Mark Hollis released a classic solo album Mark Hollis in 1998. Unfortunately it didn't sell, a little too avante-garde, lo-fi, non-commercial perhaps, but a beautiful piece of work.



Talk Talk producer and co-writer Tim Friese-Greene is still active with various projects, also pretty avante garde and chilled.

Good stuff.

[Kizmiaz]

Tim Friese-Greene did a pretty decent song with Nick Cave for some Batman soundtrack.

[track11]

I like Billy Joel's version.

[paulhead]

This thread needs parachute pants. Good stuff. I'm always finding new stuff in this style of music. You have to dig a little but there's some really great tunes.

[Bowood]

Awesome...1980 I think

[Ranchhand]

"Laughing Stock" is Radiohead, pre-Radiohead. Really quite brilliant. And virtually unknown, at least in the circles I ran in.

[Bowood]

I love this...I love Ian's music. He's a good friend of mine and I've seen him play live many times. Did you know he made an album with Crazy Horse?

I remember that Factory In The Desert song, quality. And then of course years later this cool Ragged Glory-ish gem...



the other one