Isn't that the guitarist from the Blockheads?
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
http://youtu.be/NS5bxk89gQg?t=17
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Same guy, right? That mullet is something else.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah same guy!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
looks like curnow and black played synths on that tour too! i wasn't excited for this tribute before but i've watched montreux so many times that my mind pretty much considers them members of the band
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
I *finally* purchased Spirit of Talk Talk (shipping costs and all that) and must second how lovely it is. Amazingly put together.
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 August 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/08/25/aquarium-drunkard-presents-a-tribute-to-talk-talk-los-angeles-8-26/
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 26 August 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Mark Hollis' solo album is getting a vinyl repress, you can order it at Burning Shed, and presumably elsewhere.
― akm, Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
I think I pre-ordered this a long time ago. When is it being released?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Looks like I also have the internet. The release date is November 11.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Armistice Day seems apt
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Nice little interview with James Marsh over on the Test Pressing site:
http://testpressing.org/magazine/soun-and-vision-james-marsh
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 December 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
just listening to Pass The Mic by the Beastie Boys, and it sounds like they're rapping over Talk Talk.
― fetter, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
Aren’t they rapping over Edie Brickell?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Listened to the Mark Hollis solo album today. It’s only flaw is that it comes last in a trilogy of perfect albums.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
it's so good
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
A perfect album.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 January 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Various - 'Elegy for Mark Hollis - A Life (1955-2019)'1982-200001 [0:00:00] David Sylvian - "Brilliant Trees" ('Brilliant Trees' 1984)02 [0:09:05] Rachel's - "Full On Night" ('Handrwiting' 1995)03 [0:15:40] Neil Young - "Guitar Solo #4" ('Dead Man' 1996)04 [0:19:45] The Durutti Columm - "Without Mercy (Stanzas IX-XII)" ('Without Mercy' 1984)05 [0:26:45] The For Carnation - "Moonbeams" ('The For Carnation' 2000)06 [0:36:05] Scott Walker - "Sleepwalkers Woman" ('Climate of Hunter' 1984)07 [0:40:05] Robert Wyatt - "Maryan" ('Shleep' 1997)08 [0:46:15] Paul Motian Trio - "India" ('It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago' 1985)09 [0:53:35] Low - "Landlord" ('Songs For A Dead Pilot' 1997)10 [1:00:15] The Comsat Angels - "Pictures" ('Fiction' 1982)11 [1:04:40] Dif Juz - "Marooned" ('Extractions' 1985)12 [1:08:35] Shelleyan Orphan - "Supernature on a Superhighway" ('Humroot' 1992)13 [1:15:30] Danny Thompson - "Till Minne Av Jan" ('Whatever' 1987)14 [1:20:15] Stina Nordenstam - "Dynamite" ('Dynamite' 1996)15 [1:24:35] Haruomi Hosono - "Trembling #1" ('The Endless Talking' 1985)16 [1:27:40] Dead Can Dance - "The Host of Seraphim" ('The Serpent's Egg' 1988)17 [1:33:25] Yasuaki Shimizu - "Stir In This Way" ('Kakashi' 1982)18 [1:35:35] Mick Karn - "Dreams of Reason" ('Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters' 1986)19 [1:39:15] Arthur Russell - "Not Checking Up" ('World of Echo' demo 1986)20 [1:43:40] This Mortal Coil - "The Lacemaker" ('Blood' 1991)21 [1:46:45] Peter Gabriel - "With This Love" ('Passion' 1989)22 [1:50:05] The Blue Nile - "Regret" ('Tinseltown In the Rain' single 1984)23 [1:53:30] Talk Talk - "It's Getting Late in the Evening" ('Life's What You Make It' single 1986)
[Total Time: 1:59:17]
Downloadable or streamable here: https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-elegy-for-mark-hollis-a-life-1955-2019/
― Soundslike, Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:38 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just want to say I've been back to this mix numerous times over the last year, I think it really is something special.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Sunday, 12 January 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUaj8rHN2x/?igshid=29d5ab1a075t
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
great :)
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Paul Webb’s IG is a treat, thanks for posting it
― and i can almost smell your PG Tips (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
This week has been perfect for Hollis' solo album - the shortening days, the gathering gloom. It's a cliche to say it but it's such a mysterious album, so spare and obtuse that one is driven to look for clues. I keep coming back to the final verse of Westward Bound, which - particularly coming off the back of the Roland Leighton homage of A Life (1895-1915) - carries the weight of an engraving or an inscription:
MigrateJob on the threshing lineMute I walkIdle groundWestward bound
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 30 October 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
That's the sparest song on a spare album.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 30 October 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
westward bound is my favourite. the voice barely
― plax (ico), Saturday, 31 October 2020 06:30 (three years ago) link
Various - 'Elegy for Mark Hollis - A Life (1955-2019)'1982-200001 [0:00:00] David Sylvian - "Brilliant Trees" ('Brilliant Trees' 1984)02 [0:09:05] Rachel's - "Full On Night" ('Handrwiting' 1995)03 [0:15:40] Neil Young - "Guitar Solo #4" ('Dead Man' 1996)04 [0:19:45] The Durutti Columm - "Without Mercy (Stanzas IX-XII)" ('Without Mercy' 1984)05 [0:26:45] The For Carnation - "Moonbeams" ('The For Carnation' 2000)06 [0:36:05] Scott Walker - "Sleepwalkers Woman" ('Climate of Hunter' 1984)07 [0:40:05] Robert Wyatt - "Maryan" ('Shleep' 1997)08 [0:46:15] Paul Motian Trio - "India" ('It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago' 1985)09 [0:53:35] Low - "Landlord" ('Songs For A Dead Pilot' 1997)10 [1:00:15] The Comsat Angels - "Pictures" ('Fiction' 1982)11 [1:04:40] Dif Juz - "Marooned" ('Extractions' 1985)12 [1:08:35] Shelleyan Orphan - "Supernature on a Superhighway" ('Humroot' 1992)13 [1:15:30] Danny Thompson - "Till Minne Av Jan" ('Whatever' 1987)14 [1:20:15] Stina Nordenstam - "Dynamite" ('Dynamite' 1996)15 [1:24:35] Haruomi Hosono - "Trembling #1" ('The Endless Talking' 1985)16 [1:27:40] Dead Can Dance - "The Host of Seraphim" ('The Serpent's Egg' 1988)17 [1:33:25] Yasuaki Shimizu - "Stir In This Way" ('Kakashi' 1982)18 [1:35:35] Mick Karn - "Dreams of Reason" ('Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters' 1986)19 [1:39:15] Arthur Russell - "Not Checking Up" ('World of Echo' demo 1986)20 [1:43:40] This Mortal Coil - "The Lacemaker" ('Blood' 1991)21 [1:46:45] Peter Gabriel - "With This Love" ('Passion' 1989)22 [1:50:05] The Blue Nile - "Regret" ('Tinseltown In the Rain' single 1984)23 [1:53:30] Talk Talk - "It's Getting Late in the Evening" ('Life's What You Make It' single 1986)[Total Time: 1:59:17]Downloadable or streamable here: https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-elegy-for-mark-hollis-a-life-1955-2019/― Soundslike, Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:38 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglinkJust want to say I've been back to this mix numerous times over the last year, I think it really is something special.
I've come back to these Hollis tribute mixes a lot, too. Thank you--really glad you dig them.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Should probably post this one here, too--not specifically a Hollis tribute, but certainly inspired by him (especially solo album) and trying to find that sparer-than-spare sound. 'Westward Bound' is the kick-off and the cornerstone:
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/musicophilia_00__various_-_pith-echo_1968-2019_cover-a.jpg?w=768 Various – ‘Pith & Echo’ 1968-2019 Part I 01 [00:00] Mark Hollis – “Westward Bound” (‘Mark Hollis’ 1998) 02 [04:10] Low – “It’s All Been Done” (‘Double Negative’ 2018) 03 [07:40] David Sylvian – “The Only Daughter” (‘Blemish’ 2003) 04 [12:55] The Knife – “Still LIght” (‘SIlent Shout’ 2006) 05 [16:00] Areski – “Liberte” (‘Un Beau Matin’ 1971) 06 [17:55] Melanie De Biasio – “Brother” (‘Lilies’ 2017) 07 [21:00] Brian Eno – “By This River” (‘Before And After Science’ 1977) 08 [24:00] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Sealand” (‘Architecture & Morality’ 1981) 09 [31:40] Yves Jarvis – “To Say That Is Easy” (‘The Same But By Different Means’ 2019) 10 [35:50] Jansen / Barbieri – “The Insomniac’s Bed” (‘Stories Across Borders’ 1991) 11 [39:40] Tor Lundvall – “Falling Trees” (‘Sleeping And Hiding’ 2005) 12 [42:45] Anja Garbarek – “It Seems We Talk” (‘Smiling & Waving’ 2001) 13 [47:20] Grouper – “Blouse” (‘Grid of Points’ 2018) Part II 14 [49:40] John Martyn – “Small Hours” (‘One World’ 1977) 15 [58:35] Nico – “Frozen Warnings (Alternate)” (‘The Marble Index’ 1968) 16 [62:55] Arthur Russell – “All-Boy All-Girl” (‘World of Echo’ 1986) 17 [66:35] Richard Skelton – “Votive” (‘Border Ballads’ 2019) 18 [69:05] Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – “Show” (‘Out of Season’ 2002) 19 [73:25] Bonnie Prince Billy – “Banks of Red Roses” (‘When We Are Inhuman’ 2019) 20 [79:05] Bjork – “All Is Full of Love” (‘Homogenic’ 1997) 21 [83:20] Colin Self – “Once More” (‘Orphans’ EP 2019) 22 [90:05] Yosuke Tokunaga – “Table” (‘8 Furnitures’ 2019) 23 [93:50] Duendita – “Bury Me” (‘direct line to My Creator’ 2018) 24 [98:25] Moses Sumney – “Doomed” (‘Aromanticism’ 2017) [Total Time: 1:42:50]download/stream here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/pith-and-echo/
https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/musicophilia_00__various_-_pith-echo_1968-2019_cover-a.jpg?w=768
Various – ‘Pith & Echo’ 1968-2019
Part I
01 [00:00] Mark Hollis – “Westward Bound” (‘Mark Hollis’ 1998) 02 [04:10] Low – “It’s All Been Done” (‘Double Negative’ 2018) 03 [07:40] David Sylvian – “The Only Daughter” (‘Blemish’ 2003) 04 [12:55] The Knife – “Still LIght” (‘SIlent Shout’ 2006) 05 [16:00] Areski – “Liberte” (‘Un Beau Matin’ 1971) 06 [17:55] Melanie De Biasio – “Brother” (‘Lilies’ 2017) 07 [21:00] Brian Eno – “By This River” (‘Before And After Science’ 1977) 08 [24:00] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Sealand” (‘Architecture & Morality’ 1981) 09 [31:40] Yves Jarvis – “To Say That Is Easy” (‘The Same But By Different Means’ 2019) 10 [35:50] Jansen / Barbieri – “The Insomniac’s Bed” (‘Stories Across Borders’ 1991) 11 [39:40] Tor Lundvall – “Falling Trees” (‘Sleeping And Hiding’ 2005) 12 [42:45] Anja Garbarek – “It Seems We Talk” (‘Smiling & Waving’ 2001) 13 [47:20] Grouper – “Blouse” (‘Grid of Points’ 2018)
Part II
14 [49:40] John Martyn – “Small Hours” (‘One World’ 1977) 15 [58:35] Nico – “Frozen Warnings (Alternate)” (‘The Marble Index’ 1968) 16 [62:55] Arthur Russell – “All-Boy All-Girl” (‘World of Echo’ 1986) 17 [66:35] Richard Skelton – “Votive” (‘Border Ballads’ 2019) 18 [69:05] Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – “Show” (‘Out of Season’ 2002) 19 [73:25] Bonnie Prince Billy – “Banks of Red Roses” (‘When We Are Inhuman’ 2019) 20 [79:05] Bjork – “All Is Full of Love” (‘Homogenic’ 1997) 21 [83:20] Colin Self – “Once More” (‘Orphans’ EP 2019) 22 [90:05] Yosuke Tokunaga – “Table” (‘8 Furnitures’ 2019) 23 [93:50] Duendita – “Bury Me” (‘direct line to My Creator’ 2018) 24 [98:25] Moses Sumney – “Doomed” (‘Aromanticism’ 2017)
[Total Time: 1:42:50]
download/stream here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/pith-and-echo/
― Soundslike, Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
Another winner imo, right up my alley.
Just out of curiosity: you're not compiling these as playlists too, are you? Like a mixtape instead of a mix, on Spotify or Tidal or whatever. What is the appeal for you of a mix instead of a mixtape/playlist with the songs from beginning to end? (not that I've ever come across a ruthless cut/break in a song in a mix of yours, just curious)
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
It can be subtle in mixes where they're closer to "compilations" than mixes (though many of my mixes are more heavily mixed), but I spend a sort of silly amount of effort on getting the levels right, getting the segues (even if small) right, on the flow/sequencing, etc. Also, as I make these downloadable, I want them to be a single mp3 (like a podcast) instead of individual tracks, so there's no misunderstanding I'm bootlegging music. Also, I've never really checked, but it's likely Spotify wouldn't have a lot of the tracks I mix.
Really, my intent/hope is to get people to go buy music--I don't personally use or support Spotify et al, and their 0.007 cents per stream bullshit.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
Oh shit I can’t wait to listen to these! I listened to all 5 of their albums yesterday, it’s such perfect fall music. I also threw in Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy bcz it is basically a Talk Talk album
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 1 November 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
Feel like there's an early Lilys' song or two that would make a very nice Hollis-inspired mix...
maybe "The Turtle Which Died Before Knowing"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 November 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
Sarah McLachlan performed Give It Up from The Colour of Spring when I saw her in 1991. The big influence that Hollis seems to have had on her later work is taking years between records.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 November 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
So this was Tim Friese-Greene's big hit before Talk Talk, you can see why Mark Hollis wanted to work with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WScEJKNMdgI
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Friday, 4 December 2020 09:37 (three years ago) link
The colour of spanx
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Friday, 4 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Strong Brenda Bristols vibe to the brunette.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 4 December 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
A trial run before the video to 'Life's What You Make It', clearly.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
I can no longer claim to be a Talk Talk completist.
― doug watson, Friday, 4 December 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Not fair, TFG had also produced Wang Chung's first record (Huang Chung) as well as Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" during that same stretch.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
No. 1 single though! Also he seems to have been quite closely involved with the 'band' Tight Fit in a way he wouldn't be again till Talk Talk:
Later in the year, record producer Tim Friese-Greene recorded a version of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" with another group of session singers. The singer was Roy Ward, the former drummer and percussionist from the British 1970s band City Boy. The song was released in early 1982, again under the name Tight Fit. The song gained instant attention and so a new group was formed to front it. Dancer, singer and model Steve Grant was teamed with female singers Denise Gyngell and Julie Harris. The song reached No.1 in the UK for three weeks in March 1982 and the line-up was catapulted into sudden and unexpected stardom.[4]Satisfied this line-up could actually sing in their own right, Friese-Greene produced their next single, "Fantasy Island" – a song by The Millionaires which had been in the Dutch Eurovision Song Contest heats. The song, in a very similar vein to the pop group Abba, was also a success, reaching No.5 in May 1982.[5]
Satisfied this line-up could actually sing in their own right, Friese-Greene produced their next single, "Fantasy Island" – a song by The Millionaires which had been in the Dutch Eurovision Song Contest heats. The song, in a very similar vein to the pop group Abba, was also a success, reaching No.5 in May 1982.[5]
LOL he also produced the Nolans!
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Goodness I remember that Tight Fit song. I'm old.
― Duke, Friday, 4 December 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
The B-side is called "Rhythm, Movement And Throbbing".
I can just picture Hollis getting hammered in an after hours studio sesh and cranking out a cover of it.
― Position Position, Friday, 4 December 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
Just started
Time to listen to Spirit of EdenNo tweets from me, no guests. Just the music Use #TimsTwitterListeningParty if you would like to share memories pic.twitter.com/PDh0O09h2O— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) January 25, 2021
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Still struggle to read the writing though 🤔 pic.twitter.com/c7bH6XQNQK— Peter Bale (@ftodg) January 25, 2021
Backwards-sloping handwriting is so weird.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
he writes his lyrics like he sings them
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
The cassette had typed lyrics!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Left handed?
― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
"The cassette had typed lyrics!"
Made me laugh, not really sure why.
― djh, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
I guess it's an unexpected bonus of buying an inferior format.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 29 January 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
Tonight at 8pm (U.K. time) pic.twitter.com/TcvRgaci0P— Tim's Listening Party (@LlSTENlNG_PARTY) February 25, 2021
― groovypanda, Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
I keep hearing boomer tracks that remind me of "The Colour of Spring"-era Talk Talk. The first one was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpXG23PlvF4
Which I guess makes sense, given a) Winwood is kind of a ground zero vocal reference, from Gabriel to Hollis, and b) he actually plays on "The Colour of Spring." But the other was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Omu_QYb4Q
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
The Winwood seems like it has more similarities to the It's My Life era, with the fretless bass and a funkier rhythm than they used on the next album. The biggest similarity with the Plant song is using the piano as bass, as in "Life's What You Make It"; I guess there is a general aura of sonic luxury and heavy studio expense to both.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 October 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link