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Talk Talk — Talk Talk
Album: Natural History
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Released: 1982
Length: 3:10
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Hey

Well, did I tell you before when I was up?
Anxiety was bringing me down
I'm tired of listening to you talking in rhymes
Twisting around to make me think you're straight down the line

All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk

If every sign that I see is complete
Then I'm a fool in your game
And all you want to do is tell me your lies
Won't you show the other side, you're just wasting my time

All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk

When every choice that I make is yours
Keep telling me what's right and what's wrong
Don't you ever stop to think about me
I'm not that blind to see that you've been cheating on me

You're laughing at me when I'm up
I see you when you're crying for me when I'm down
I see you when you're laughing at me when I'm up
I see you when you're crying for me

All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
All you do to me is talk, talk
Talk, talk, talk, talk
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 misterbearbaby wrote:

A perfect example if the blazingly awful music of the 1980's. I did a little math and if you took all the LP's sold in the decade of the 80's and laid the 12" square jackets neatly side by side they would cover roughly 44,000 acres-- the size of Brooklyn, NY coincidentally. Submitted for your approval in the Twilight Zone, a music-lover could crawl over that landscape DAYS AND DAYS before finding a record worth playing. 




  massively disagree with all of this, but it's funny.
Posted 10 months ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 tripp1 wrote:


Yes they S L O W E D down and became dark. Their early stuff was the best of it all. 



IDK. I like ALL of their stuff!  Thanx RP!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
I am always going to love Mark Hollis' vocals. 
Posted 1 year ago by kcatalina    [ Reply ]
 Jay-tee wrote:

This got me into Talk Talk back in the day.  Their style changed massively over the years,  but I remain grateful to this pop classic for opening the door. 



Yes they S L O W E D down and became dark. Their early stuff was the best of it all. 
Posted 1 year ago by tripp1    [ Reply ]
The song Talk Talk, by the band Talk Talk from the album, Talk Talk!  The 80's baby. The BEST music!
Posted 1 year ago by tripp1    [ Reply ]
I'm tired of listening to you talking in rhymes
Twisting around to make me think you're straight down the line
Posted 1 year ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
This got me into Talk Talk back in the day.  Their style changed massively over the years,  but I remain grateful to this pop classic for opening the door. 
Posted 1 year ago by Jay-tee    [ Reply ]
 NotShakespeare wrote:

Ah, the memory of me as a college DJ thinking it was amusing to say "Now here's Talk Talk from Talk Talk's album Talk Talk." Eventually, I realized that sounded really stupid.


You were right the first time. It is amusing.
Posted 1 year ago by doco    [ Reply ]
 misterbearbaby wrote:

A perfect example if the blazingly awful music of the 1980's. I did a little math and if you took all the LP's sold in the decade of the 80's and laid the 12" square jackets neatly side by side they would cover roughly 44,000 acres-- the size of Brooklyn, NY coincidentally. Submitted for your approval in the Twilight Zone, a music-lover could crawl over that landscape DAYS AND DAYS before finding a record worth playing. 




If you don't like it Zippy, hit the "skip button"! Problem solved!  ....and spare us from your long winded B.S.!!  
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
A perfect example if the blazingly awful music of the 1980's. I did a little math and if you took all the LP's sold in the decade of the 80's and laid the 12" square jackets neatly side by side they would cover roughly 44,000 acres-- the size of Brooklyn, NY coincidentally. Submitted for your approval in the Twilight Zone, a music-lover could crawl over that landscape DAYS AND DAYS before finding a record worth playing. 
Posted 2 years ago by misterbearbaby    [ Reply ]
This is just fantastic music from fall 1982.
 
It's been played a lot but thankfully I don't really think the 80s throwback stations wrecked it like they did a lot of other music from that era.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
Ha. I see what they did there.
Posted 2 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
"I'm not that blind to see that you've been cheating on me...' 
Posted 2 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
A band at the peak of their powers.

Just kidding, still pretty good though.
Posted 2 years ago by murrayn    [ Reply ]
 NotShakespeare wrote:

Ah, the memory of me as a college DJ thinking it was amusing to say "Now here's Talk Talk from Talk Talk's album Talk Talk." Eventually, I realized that sounded really stupid.


"And before that we heard 'Bad Company', by Bad Company from the album Bad Company"
Posted 3 years ago by jkamm14    [ Reply ]
More bands need songs with the same name as the band.
Posted 3 years ago by zinzarin    [ Reply ]
They had early success as a pop band, then they cheated the record company, took a path no one could imagine, "started" the so-called post rock, made three masterpieces and finally disapperared. Genius.
Posted 3 years ago by nicknt    [ Reply ]
a true great artist!
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
The original version of this song  was more political, with the lines:

Society was bringing me down
Well, politicians, they keep talking in rhymes

And:
In this song, Mark Hollis of Talk Talk sing sings about the anxiety and torment that is bearing down upon him. Communication, especially talking, is a common theme for Hollis, who was notoriously terse and enigmatic in interviews.

-- from: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/talk-talk/talk-talk
Posted 3 years ago by darshan    [ Reply ]
 NotShakespeare wrote:

Ah, the memory of me as a college DJ thinking it was amusing to say "Now here's Talk Talk from Talk Talk's album Talk Talk." Eventually, I realized that sounded really stupid.


To me it sounds pretty funny.   Gotta admit that adolescents and young adults spend a lot of time..... talking.  
Posted 3 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
Can't believe this genius is gone. Hopefully we'll still be playing his music 100 years from now.
Posted 3 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
Hollis = Genius
Posted 3 years ago by stevearthale    [ Reply ]
This song should be followed by "Talk to you later" by the Tubes...
Posted 3 years ago by boffyflow    [ Reply ]
NO plays in the last 30 days?! wth?
Posted 3 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
Sounds like classic Elton John on piano 
Posted 5 years ago by A_Radio_Head    [ Reply ]
Just about perfect 80's pop song.  9
Posted 5 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
 cuatrot wrote:
RIP Mark Hollis. 
 
Yep. That's one of the ones that bites deep for me. 
Posted 5 years ago by enkay    [ Reply ]

I saw them open for Elvis Costello 1981 at the Landmark Theater.  Cool show. I was there for Elvis, but Talk Talk won me over.
Posted 5 years ago by Retrograde-orbit    [ Reply ]
Ah, the memory of me as a college DJ thinking it was amusing to say "Now here's Talk Talk from Talk Talk's album Talk Talk." Eventually, I realized that sounded really stupid.
Posted 5 years ago by NotShakespeare    [ Reply ]
The eponymous Talk Talk song... Finally!
Thanks Bill!
Posted 6 years ago by changodelaplaya    [ Reply ]
{#Music}
Posted 7 years ago by spiritfla    [ Reply ]
the 80s were a lawless time
Posted 7 years ago by Decoy    [ Reply ]
 molson wrote:
In my mind one of the under appreciated great bands, they were genius!

 
Especially in their later albums...  Spirit of Eden. OUTSTANDING work
Posted 7 years ago by slickdh    [ Reply ]
Fun from the 80's!  Not high art but likable.
Posted 7 years ago by xtalman    [ Reply ]
In my mind one of the under appreciated great bands, they were genius!
Posted 8 years ago by molson    [ Reply ]
 arnimf wrote:
Hey Bill, the UK itunes link actually links to Talk that Talk by Rhianna ...

 
oh for god's sake
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 wolverine wrote:
FYI: Another  band with a song named after themselves
Bad Company - Bad Company {#Ask}

 

Or did the band name themselves after the song?  
Posted 8 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]
There must have been a shortage of lyrics on the day they wrote this track. 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
FYI: Another  band with a song named after themselves
Bad Company - Bad Company {#Ask}
Posted 8 years ago by wolverine    [ Reply ]
Nice pop tune.

The later stuff is still so much better. 
Posted 8 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
For some reason I never expected to hear this on RP.  Then again, nobody would have expected to hear it coming out of car radios in 1980whatever in the little California oil/cowtown I used to live in.
    
Posted 8 years ago by Cueburned    [ Reply ]
Top air-piano tune.
Posted 9 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
Hey Bill, the UK itunes link actually links to Talk that Talk by Rhianna ...
Posted 9 years ago by arnimf    [ Reply ]
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I actually like it okay these days. Not so much back then. I think I can hear the direction they'd take in their future. What do you call 20/20 hindsight when it's your ears?

 
contentment
Posted 9 years ago by oldviolin    [ Reply ]
I actually like it okay these days. Not so much back then. I think I can hear the direction they'd take in their future. What do you call 20/20 hindsight when it's your ears?
Posted 9 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
Way.
Posted 9 years ago by MilesW    [ Reply ]
I guess you just had to be there.
Posted 9 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
yes, this works for me, gets me boppin in the right places
Posted 9 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Me likey like, very much!!
{#Bananapiano} 
Posted 10 years ago by ljoergen    [ Reply ]
gillespp wrote:
For those of us who grew up in the 70s: The song Bad Company on the Bad Company album by Bad Company.
Great Big Sea did it. Big Country almost did.
Posted 16 years ago by coldatlantic    [ Reply ]
coentje wrote:
Shut up Shut up - Shut up Shut up
I'm shocked! I really am. A record where I agree with coentje. Unbelievable.
Posted 18 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
i am happy to have the chance to hear Talk Talk again, especially this song, after... er, ages...
Posted 19 years ago by Dante_Angelo    [ Reply ]
Spliff wrote:
That's it. Time for Onion River Radio.
To quote Molly Ringwald from the movie Sixteen Candles, Sounds major.
Posted 19 years ago by veegez    [ Reply ]
:umbrella.gif: It's raining here, but for a moment it's raining and I'm twenty years younger.
Posted 19 years ago by lostindetroit    [ Reply ]
Ah, SHADDUP already!!! j/k I like this song! Shades of the old KROQ in LA.
Posted 19 years ago by beatlechick    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
On a related note: They have enough songs for a greatest hits CD?
Actually, in a word, yes. I have this album, and once in awhile I listen to a number of cuts off it. Actually, now I have it on my ipod, but anyway...
Posted 19 years ago by Mugro    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
On a related note: They have enough songs for a greatest hits CD?
OF COURSE NOT. Except, it exists. Makes the brain go, "huh?"
Posted 19 years ago by reedifus    [ Reply ]
yashpheh wrote:
:D/
What he said.
Posted 19 years ago by Steve    [ Reply ]
\\:D/
Posted 19 years ago by yashpheh    [ Reply ]
A bit repetitive...
Posted 19 years ago by Nebben    [ Reply ]
Shut up Shut up - Shut up Shut up
Posted 19 years ago by coentje    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
I always remember seeing that on the MTV credits and thinking "This is a bad sign, when the band, the album AND the single all have the same name!"
For those of us who grew up in the 70s: The song Bad Company on the Bad Company album by Bad Company.
Posted 19 years ago by gillespp    [ Reply ]
I love the way they play with the gloomy atmosphere, effortlessly and how they sometimes seem to rise above it. The voice sounds like one of the instruments, which also adds to the dramatic, theatrical effect. British bands are often good at that.
Posted 19 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
On a related note: They have enough songs for a greatest hits CD?
Yep. And a good CD it is. The Colour of Spring is excellent.
Posted 19 years ago by kaupmees    [ Reply ]
Darlington wrote:
Great song too. Interesting aside, name of the band is "Talk Talk," name of the Album is "Talk Talk," and name of the song is "Talk Talk." Not sure how many times that has ever happened.
I always remember seeing that on the MTV credits and thinking "This is a bad sign, when the band, the album AND the single all have the same name!" On a related note: They have enough songs for a greatest hits CD?
Posted 19 years ago by g-rod    [ Reply ]
8) (poppy wavy early TT)
Posted 19 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
Saw these guys open for Elvis Costello and the Attractions in Atlanta, think it was in the Omni, Waaayyy back in the day. Think it was on the Imperial Bedroom Tour. Remember that we had to park something like a mile from the venue and walk through a driving rain. Got there just in time to see Talk Talk play this. Ah, the memories..... Great song too. Interesting aside, name of the band is "Talk Talk," name of the Album is "Talk Talk," and name of the song is "Talk Talk." Not sure how many times that has ever happened.
Posted 20 years ago by Darlington    [ Reply ]
Suddenly I am 19 again. And that is quite all right with me. Thanks whoever uploaded this!
Posted 20 years ago by ChardRemains    [ Reply ]
rls wrote:
No one is making you stay. Later.
Posted 20 years ago by FilmSurgeon    [ Reply ]
rcurrier wrote:
Geez, did Bill get replaced by Richard Blade? Quite the '80s set. Now all we need is a little Human League.
That would SOOO rock!!
Posted 20 years ago by SiniLMan    [ Reply ]
Geez, did Bill get replaced by Richard Blade? Quite the '80s set. Now all we need is a little Human League.
Posted 20 years ago by rcurrier    [ Reply ]
Freaking YUCK. Man...
Posted 20 years ago by reedifus    [ Reply ]
Tux wrote:
I like Talk Talk in general, but I don't like this song.
What are you talk talking about?
Posted 20 years ago by phineas    [ Reply ]
I like Talk Talk in general, but I don't like this song.
Posted 20 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
cool song which doesn't sound quite like it's 20 years old
Posted 20 years ago by orpheus    [ Reply ]
The only song that says 80's more than this is Tainted Love. Woohoo!
Posted 20 years ago by rumplestiltskin    [ Reply ]
Spliff wrote:
That's it. Time for Onion River Radio.
No one is making you stay. Later.
Posted 20 years ago by rls    [ Reply ]
Sheesh! I like this. Another one of the few good tunes from the 80s.
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
That's it. Time for Onion River Radio.
Posted 20 years ago by Spliff    [ Reply ]