#78/1245
March 1 1986
Talk Talk
The Color of Spring
Genre: New Wave
5 out of 5
Highlights:
Happiness is Easy
I Don’t Believe in You
April 5th
Time It’s Time
Within 30 seconds of the opening track (and reinforced throughout that song) one thing came to mind:
Without a doubt, Radiohead are Talk Talk fans. They must be. Listen to “Happiness is Easy” and tel me that’s not “15 Steps” from In Rainbows.
So, as I often do, I googled “Talk Talk The Colour of Spring Radiohead.
Sho nuff: From NME, “And so it follows that Radiohead are massive fans; in conversation with Elbow’s Guy Garvey on BBC 6Music, the band’s go-to producer Nigel Godrich called ‘Spirit of Eden’ producer Phil Brown “a father figure to my generation of engineers”.
This is not the previous Talk Talk. This is something different…more delicate but also with more heft. Either TT anticipate the coming sounds from Britain or influenced them in a way heretofore unrecognized by me.
But also, the more experimental gleeps and ambient ponderings of latter day REM, which, without the rock and roll force of nature that was Bill Berry, fell under Stipe’s control. It’s no wonder, as their teeth grew, they were referred to, often, as the American Radiohead.
Guarantee Stipe had this album. (Elbow, too)
