Talk Talk is one more whose albums I like listen to again & again and made a big impression on me in the early eighties. Talk Talk was formed around in London 1981. The song was originally recorded by Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis's previous band, The Reaction, as "Talk Talk Talk Talk", on the Beggars Banquet punk compilation Streets. This suberb pop single is an excellent example for new synth-pop, a new style which spread across Europe in the early eighties. They had a string of international hit singles and after ten years, the band split up in 1991, The Party's Over so to speak. "With the exception of a handful of common threads -- chief among them the plaintive vocals and haunting lyrics of frontman Mark Hollis -- there is little to suggest that the five studio albums that make up the Talk Talk oeuvre are indeed the work of the same band. After beginning their career with records virtually epitomizing the new wave era that spawned them, the British group never looked back, making significant strides with each successive album on its way to discovering a wholly unique and uncategorizable sound informed by elements of jazz, classical, and ambient music; their masterful final recordings, while neglected commercially, possess a timelessness rare among music of any genre, and in retrospect they seem the clear starting point for the post-rock movement of the 1990s," (source: AllMusic) - Mark unfortunately passed away in 2019 but his songs will still be enjoyed fifty years from now.
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