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Saturday, January 05, 2008

 
TODAY'S FAVOURITE SONG

Into 2008 with a long overdue new entry. Today's favourite song is two songs but one of them wasn't a single so maybe it's a bit of an impostor. Only one artist though - they're both by Talk Talk who I've just rediscovered in a whole new light. The song that kicked this off is "Living In Another World To You" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3V6CdsAMGYk. I liked it enough - way back then - to buy the 12" version. As with all TT songs, the vocal gives it this incredible emotive quality yet you never quite knew what the lyrics were saying. A quick online search and I found that the lyrics to this are every bit as powerful as the vocal makes you believe they are, perhaps more so ("Did I see tenderness where you saw hell" for example).

Closer investigation of the back catalogue was in order and thus I unearthed the real song of the day which is "Such A Shame" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pql5eImE9Ck. Can't get it out of my head.

And so, Talk Talk; To the casual observer just a.n.other pretentious synth-y 80s outfit. Oh no - to 'get' this band you have to know about Mark Hollis - a one-off, a musician in every sense and quite possibly a genius.

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