Album
The Colour Of Spring
1986 · Rock, Pop
50 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Colour Of Spring is a Rock album by Talk Talk, originally released in 1986. On Gatefold: 115 pressings tracked, owned by 50 collectors.
About
Talk Talk snuck into the music industry as part of the New Romantic movement, opening for Duran Duran and recording a debut album, 1982’s <i>The Party’s Over</i>, that fit the emerging music trend. However — and this is a big however — singer Mark Hollis and producer-multi-instrumentalist Tim Friese-Greene had other plans. They quickly moved away from the synthetic washes and began exploring natural atmospherics that created a brand new style of music. <i>The Colour of Spring</i> is the middle ground. It retains the accessible spirit of <i>It’s My Life</i> with the pop snap and crackle of “I Don’t Believe In You” and the white funk of “Life’s What You Make It,” but there is also a touch of the luminous stillness and grandiosity that dominates <i>Spirit of Eden</i> and <i>Laughing Stock</i>. <i>The Colour of Spring</i> is the album most likely to satisfy all comers. The music often has a pulse (“Living in Another World”) and when it does stretch out on “April 5th,” “Chameleon Day” and “Time It’s Time,” it’s with a sweetness that retains its connections to the pop-rock world the band would soon be leaving for ambient lands.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Happiness Is Easy
- A2I Don't Believe In You
- A3Life's What You Make It
- A4April 5th
Side B
- B1Living In Another World
- B2Give It Up
- B3Chameleon Day
- B4Time It's Time
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Art Rock
- lush
- brooding
- cerebral
Talk Talk's third album, released 17 February 1986.
Entered UK albums chart 1 March 1986. Highest position: 8
It became the band's highest selling non-compilation studio album, reaching the Top 10 in several countries. It did not quite match the sales of its predecessor in the US and was their last album to enter the Billboard Top 200.
It was musically a major step away from the synthesized pop of early Talk Talk, with a sound described by the band as much more 'organic' than their earlier records. The improvisation that was to dominate their later works became evermore apparent in the album's recording process.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Mark HollisVOCALS VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY ELECTRONIC WIND INSTRUMENT , ORGAN
- Alan GorrieBASS ELECTRIC BASS
- Children From The School Of Miss SpeakeVOCALS
- Danny ThompsonACOUSTIC BASS DOUBLE BASS
- David RhodesGUITAR
- David RoachSOPRANO SAXOPHONE SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, SAXOPHONE
- Gaynor SadlerHARP
- Ian Curnow
- Lee HarrisDRUMS
- Mark FelthamHARMONICA
- Martin DitchamPERCUSSION
- Morris PertPERCUSSION
- Paul WebbBACKING VOCALS BASS BASS, BACKING VOCALS
- Phil ReisPERCUSSION
- Robbie McIntoshACOUSTIC GUITAR GUITAR RESONATOR GUITAR
- Steve WinwoodORGAN
- Tim Friese-GreeneELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRONIC WIND INSTRUMENT , PIANO ORGAN
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