The Very Best Of Talk Talk

The Very Best Of Talk Talk is to be reissued as a newly re-ordered and now career-spanning compilation.

Changes to the original 1997 release puts the band’s greatest hits in chronological order, with a new inclusion from their final album, Laughing Stock.

The reissue will be available on black gatefold 2LP and CD on 14 March.

Post-Rock Visionaries

Talk Talk formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis, Lee Harris and Paul Webb. Starting as a synth-pop group, their first two albums The Party’s Over and It’s My Life reached the Top 40 in the UK charts and produced global hits Today, It’s My Life and Such A Shame.

In 1986, they released The Colour Of Spring which was followed by Spirit Of Eden, the album that shifted their sound towards experimental post-rock. In 1991, Talk Talk released their last album Laughing Stock, from which New Grass was lifted.

The band’s long-lasting legacy has manifested in many ways. Credited with inventing post-rock, cited as influences to an array of artists such as Kate Bush, Tears For Fears and Radiohead with others covering a host of Talk Talk repertoire. Namely No Doubt’s hit cover of It’s My Life.

Talk Talk’s Very Best Of Vinyl

Tracklisting

LP One
Side A
Talk Talk
Today (Single Version)
Have You Heard The News?
It’s My Life
Such A Shame (Original Version)
Side B
Dum Dum Girl
Life’s What You Make It
Living In Another World
Give It Up

LP Two
Side A
April 5th
Time It’s Time
I Believe In You (Single Version)
Side B
Eden (Edit)
Wealth
New Grass

CD
Talk Talk
Today (Single Version)
Have You Heard The News?
It’s My Life
Such A Shame (Original Version)
Dum Dum Girl
Life’s What You Make It
Living In Another World
Give It Up
April 5th
Time It’s Time
I Believe In You (Single Version)
Eden (Edit)
Wealth
New Grass

Pre-order the collection here

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