Talk Talk’s Very Best Of is to be reissued as a newly re-ordered and now career-spanning compilation. Changes to the original 1997 release puts Talk Talk’s greatest hits in chronological order and with a new inclusion from the band’s final album, Laughing Stock.
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 Talk Talk, 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.
The band’s long-lasting legacy has manifested in many ways. Credited with inventing postrock, 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.
1. Talk Talk
2. Today (Single Version)
3. Have You Heard the News?
4. It's My Life
5. Such a Shame (Original Version)
6. Dum Dum Girl
7. Life's What You Make It
8. Living In Another World
9. Give It Up
10. April 5th
11. Time It's Time
12. I Believe In You (Single Version)
13. Eden (Edit)
14. Wealth
15. New Grass
