Talk Talk (RIP Mark Hollis)

what the fuck, oh no

Fuck, this is horrible.

hope his last 20 years were peaceful tbh

Well this is a horrible shock, Spirit Of Eden was a gateway record for me into jazz, ambient and more (not that it was anything other than sui generis really). RIP to one of the innovators.

Holy shit.

:-(

I'm so sad.

i have never wept for the death of someone i did not know personally. but when i just put on the solo album and listened to the following lines of the first song:

"I've lived a life
For wealth to bring
And yet I'll gaze
At the colour of spring
Immerse in that one moment
Left in love with everything"

there was no way to stop the tears. this is so unbelievably sad. what a loss.

i definitely have not listened enough to that album. i always found it too depressive, too uninviting. but it is absolutely breathtaking, of course.

ugh this sucks, rip

So sad to hear this, RIP

Celebrity death notices tend to leave me cold, no matter how much I appreciate the singer/musician in question, but this time I just can't shrug it off. He made some of the most meaningful and moving music I will ever hear in my life. RIP.

Tim Pope also saying it now. He'd know.

Goodbye to Mark Hollis of Talk Talk. Condolences to his lovely family. We had many, many laughs together. This is us being the nightmare interview from hell https://t.co/xzqfQnN4P6

— Tim Pope🎥 (@timpopedirector) February 25, 2019

Heaven bless you in your calm,
My gentle friend.

wtf? How?

Thanks for some fucking incredible records Mark, I hope you enjoyed a good life on your own terms.

in actual tears here. rest well my friend

Fucking fuck

RIP

westward bound

:(

I had been listening to his music more these past few months than ever before. Something finally clicked and it made much more sense than it did before. Even before, it was obvious that his music had a lot of depth and would endure.

RIP Mark Hollis.

fuckkk

v sad news, laughing stock is one of the best albums ever made

Versed in Christ should strength desert me.

One of my all-time favourite voices, and what a songwriting legacy.

RIP

so few ppl in music are truly sui generis but he was, when i first got the cd reissue of spirit of eden it was all i wanted to listen for a while...really nothing like it

Ah shit. It's easy to fall into an ecstatic register when writing and thinking about music, but it's the right tone for the later Talk Talk and Hollis in particular. For the first time in ages, I find myself softly wishing for an afterlife, in the hope that he might write back and tell us it's not so bad after all.

NOOOOOOO

a guy who truly united almost all (indie) music fans, I think. RIP.

oof

I took speech class as an elective my freshman year of high school, which (to date myself) was 1993 - 1994. My (former '80s teen) speech teacher and myself bonded together over a shared admiration/love of Talk Talk, and while I was one of the ones who preferred their earlier synthpop sound over their more esoteric latter-era works I do still quite enjoy said latter-era works, as they're not that far removed from what my beloved David Sylvian has put out throughout the years. It's next to impossible to get me to cry but I'm crying right now. RIP.

worst news

My dog died yesterday and last night and this morning I was singing spirit to myself to console myself, not playing it out loud just playing it in my head. I can’t believe this.

This has come up on my feed. Not heard it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARC2TU7VjI

I am in the bathroom at work listening to I believe in you and silently sobbing

Gutting and unexpected. While he may have retired two decades ago, his music has remained a huge ongoing influence and joy to me. There are so many of my current obsessions that can be traced back to his work. RIP, Mark.

hugs to you Jon not Jon <3

this fucking sucks. greatest voice. genius too. damn

I always thought he had a sometimes hidden (but present if you knew where to look) sense of humor.

I've often recalled how #MarkHollis made us weep with laughter from the back of our maths class at Southend Tech. I've always found it kind of mind boggling that I was around someone for a short while who went on to make such achingly gorgeous music.

— jojo90 (@jonathanjo90) February 25, 2019

RIP. This one hits hard. Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock has meant so much to me, and there's still a sense that he hasn't gotten the recognition he deserved.

Totally shocked and saddened by this news. I still love every era of Talk Talk unreservedly. RIP.

Pretty distraught right now :(

So terribly sad.

Message from Paul Webb, Talk Talk’s bassist, posted about Mark Hollis on Facebook 😔 pic.twitter.com/zcCPmRa5pX

— Martin Belam (@MartinBelam) February 25, 2019

Heartache :(

i give complete credit to the ILX collective for my endearing love of this music ! i probably would have never known them beyond It's My Life if it weren't for this board .

^^^ the same is true for me.

My wife got to meet him a few years back, helping him curate the last TT 'best of', he was friendly but very shy and reserved, she says they would talk about football until the cows came home but he never, ever had the energy or interest to talk about music, let alone the business of music.

so sad. RIP

Absolute end of an era today. Innovation and beauty were rarely as in perfect unison.

Is Glenn McDonald still posting? I have The War Against Silence to thank for nearly two decades of losing myself in Laughing Stock.

My dog died yesterday and last night and this morning I was singing spirit to myself to console myself, not playing it out loud just playing it in my head. I can’t believe this.

All my love to you during this exceptionally difficult time.

BTW, Richard Blade of SiriusXM's First Wave channel paid tribute to Mark Hollis this afternoon.