Shnootz - Reaction Video (Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- What's shaking, folks! I'm back with another Talk Talk reaction from their 1986 album The Colour of Spring, and this time we listen to "Life's What You Make It," a song I enjoyed a great deal and that had me thinking about genres and descriptive labels. So join me as we listen to another compelling tune from Talk Talk. Cheers!
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that piano playing the bassline is highly addictive
Absolutely! The album is *beautifully* produced (by Tim Friese-Greene), and has so many exquisite little touches like that. Another example is the rhythm guitar on Living In Another World, which is acoustic rather than electric; then there's the wonderful percussion of the semi-legendary Morris Pert, which enhances most of the songs. And that guitar riff here is *stinging* isn't?
This one is an absolute classic. It has so many great sonic flourishes and vocal touches. The guitar work and the organ synth work is just so good.
I remember my mother loved this tune. Although she was never taught English, she got the message and she used to sing along. She was most into Jazz music and Tom Jones was her absolute favorite, but because of me she learned to know Depeche Mode and Talk Talk.
One of my favourite songs of the 1980’s. Great vocals and Instrumentally fantastic!!
The lead “hit” single from the album and did the business in raising the profile of the album. All the ingredients are there, making it such a classic, immediately identifiable but unique track; the deep screech of the guitar, underscored by the smooth Hammond organ chords, the rhythmic piano riff and percussion, all rounded off by Hollis’s vocals - fantastic.
Love this. I'm pretty sure I read their label had received the songs for this album and told them there wasn't really a single that would be good for radio. So, they came up with this song to add on.
Love, love, love this one! ❤️
Another of my favorite cuts from the band. The extended mix is incredible, but then, like New Order, the extended mixes are amazing!
There are a number of Talk Talk "hits" which didn't quite make it - I think this peaked at 16. Thing is, this is an enduring track that anyone who has a hankering for 80s music is very familiar with.
God, they're brilliant! If you'll excuse me, I can't possibly wait until your next Talk Talk video so I'll go and play the whole album right now.
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Legendary song...
My favourite from this band 😊
5:11 😅 Nice one! Great choice of music!
This is another one, like It's My Life, that I find very emotional and hits me in deep ways. Possibly because it's message is delivered in such a straightforward and direct way. No metaphors, no fancy allusions, it's like someone has lost patience and it just telling it like it is, no frills. With that softer background "everything's all right" like a comforter. Apparently the drum pattern was loosely inspired by Running Up That Hill and the Mark was playing Booker T's Green Onions on organ over the top and the track was formed from that, and the organ gives it a gospel- preacher vibe. I love the piano in the mid-section too.
And like It's My Life, the video features animals, this time the band are playing at night in a wood and we see nocturnal animals, a fox, a badger, owl, rodents etc. - just the beauty and danger of nature, of living in the moment.
One of my favorite songs from the 80s... Unique and memorable! Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the entire Talk Talk catalog. But one thing is certain, for the time, the excellent singer and musician Mark Hollis and his group stood out for their original musical proposal and very different from what was popular. For me, A-HA (❤), Tears For Fears (😍), Talk Talk (🥰) are the musical groups whose musical atmosphere I appreciated the most in my early twenties... and still today, a few decades later! Amazing and great musicianship!
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Thanks Matt ! One of my all-time favorites. As much as I love this version, I slightly prefer the Fluke remix. Talk Talk were very hands-on about choosing remixers - and it shows. They included the Fluke remix on their compilation of favorites called "History Revisited - The Remixes".
Classic tune. Love the piano line driving it. Odd video full of creepy crawlies
Good morning where you are. Thank you for reviewin Talk Talk. One of the best 80s bands , highly influential. This song is just superb. Another track on that exact album is Living In Another World. Their final two albums are sublime. Mark Hollis, the singer has sadly passed away. But there is a great album, withe the two musicians, made an album with Beth Gibbons, lead singer of Portishead (Portishead same kind of feel as Massive Attack.) The band of Talk Talk then became Rustin Man. Few albums out there of them going solo
Yes, that album by Beth Gibbons and Paul Webb (aka "Rustin Man") is called Out Of Season, and it's gorgeous.
You must look into a band with amazing musicians and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Trashcan Sinatras 'Best Day on Earth'
Hypnotic and beautiful. If you return to The Beloved , I would recommend The Sun Rising which is similarly haunting.
Oh nice, they had slipped off. Cheers for the reminder, will get back to the Beloved soon.
When you started doing Talk Talk I said there were a few songs by them I really liked, and this is one of them. 😉 And it may even be my favourite from them. On the other hand, after a few listens it may sound boring, it's maybe a bit too repetitive. It's like a really excellent dish or dessert with a very strong flavour, you only need to take a little piece of it and be careful not to overdo it. 😅
Seriously, I love what they're doing here, but I feel it needed a bit of change in rhythm at some point, some kind of break, so that I wouldn't get this sense of plodding along all the way through it.
Oh, almost forgot to mention I loved to see Lucca again! 😍 She was so sweet and calm on your lap. And then she seemed to want to take your top off. 😂
Hi Sofia! 😁 You have great musical taste! 😉🥰🎶
I agree that there's not too much to this song by some measures, but I think sometimes less is more, and this is such a good vibe that it should be much longer.
@@sylvieouellet212 Hi Sylvie! We obviously have something in common. 😁😉
@@DadgeCity You have a point, too, and I get it. It would be hard to make this better than it is, that's for sure. 😉 But I can't deny that something in me keeps expecting something else at some point.
Might be a controversial opinion, but its probably the track I like least on this album.
By no means a bad track, it's got a lot going for it, I just find it a bit too monotone.
One would hope, you'd start watching videos some time - the video to this is truly visionary: in the midst of 1980s neon color studio backdrops and shoulder-padded artifice, we find Hollis in a forest with nocturnal critters...
Oh indeed I have and will continue to expand that part of my channel, but in many cases, I'd like to go through most of a group's catalog (or at least what I have access to) before beginning the music-video journeys. But eventually, yes, that's the plan.
What treats you have in front of you :)
Listening to it now, knowing that Mark passed from cancer (I believe), makes it even more meaningful. 🥹