Very unique and almost dreamlike

I used to play this record at my work 20 + years ago when it came out. I worked at night in a the stereo department of a department store. We had a record dpartment but this was one of my faves. I listened to everything back then from The Kinks to Sex Pistols to Ultravox to on and on.



This album is still one of my favorite records. The music is almost dreamlike and Mark Hollis voice only adds to the effect. My favorite has to be Mirror Man which to this day is one of my favorite songs after say the Kinks immortal Waterloo Sunset.



I still love this album and I still don't know exactly why.

AWESOME!!!!

My room-mate brought home Talk Talk on vinyl from the music store he worked at. Perfect new wave, but wait...what is up with The Partys Over. For those of you that know what I am talking about, be sure to go to the depths of where this song will take you. From that moment on I got my hands on everything that I could find. My favorite band of the eighty's and still one of my pics for the top three bands that I have yet to hear. I only wish that they would put together a live compilation. In my opinion, its the only thing missing.

Extraordinary, a perfect theme album

Came out in 1982 when I was a senior in high school, and I listened to it over and over and over again. Seems at first like catchy New Wave synth stuff, a la A Flock of Seagulls; the single "Talk Talk" is the hook to start the album. But as you listen to the whole thing you realize it is an integrated work, sad with a haunting finale in the final song "Candy". The CD is short by modern standards (around 40 mins, maybe under), and it is distinctly 80s music; but one of my all-time favorite albums.

Note that the CD unfortunately mixes up the playlist of the original LP release, which disrupts the "theme" album somewhat. Switch songs 3 & 5 ("Hate" should be #3, "Today" should be #5) to get the effect of the original. I don't know why they did that.