the albums i like a little too much #1

talk talk – it’s my life (1984)

on a personal note, it was the first album i ever purchased as a vinyl record. needless to say, the text is going to cover a formative experience 

you know, some records constitute a kind of generational or journalistic canon. if we to apply it to talk talk, it would be laughing stock. hell, talk talk is a band that loses its own music value in epistolary context and becomes a symbol for recognition in other instances after all those years. sure buddy, bark psychosis sounds exactly like them! and yeah, the smile also adapts something. and another post rock band as well. the point is that everyone knows that mark hollis had a pretty austere public image. fans know that he used to beat the shit out of simple minds members. there’s not too much to talk about

however, i believe that the unworldly detachment attitude started with synthpop phase. the pop structure became a tool to convey the very same idea of musical finitude that reached its climax on laughing stock and continued its subtle presence on hollis’ solo album; even though the latter shows that there exists a quiet intimate inner working after the end nevertheless

a perfect example of previously mentioned attitude is tomorrow started, one of the best songs that came out of 80s new wave scene imo 

are there reasons everybody pays?

they never seem to be any use

i always loved that line because it seems to be a criticism of post-traumatic growth but there’s an antecedent to that

i've said i'm wrong when i've been right

i've seen times when i've been sure

but still i find

i'm just the first that you take...

while the first quote is about how one unspecified character may feel, that one hints at interpersonal relations which are common to address in pop music. however, the approach itself internalizes the exchange and collides those two subjects into one system, while also shifting the spotlight from immersion in that exchange to its mere stating just because, then again, lyrics about interpersonal relations happen to be genre-specific clichés

the way humanity breaks through the sound in spite of its systematization into a hollow symbol is what makes this album not so different from later works