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12 X 12 Original Remixes
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by Talk Talk
Sales Rank: 395109
Price:$14.49
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Album Details
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1. Talk Talk [Extended Mix]
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2. Today [Extended Mix]
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3. My Foolish Friend [Extended Mix]
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4. It's My Life [Extended Mix]
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5. Such a Shame [Extended Mix]
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6. Dum Dum Girl [12" Mix]
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7. Without You [12" Mix]
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8. Life's What You Make It [Extended Mix]
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9. Living in Another World [Extended Mix]
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10. Pictures of Bernadette [Dance Mix]
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11. Happiness Is Easy [12" Mix]
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12. Such a Shame [Dub Mix]
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A must for '80s/ new wave fans, this is a compilation of 12 original 12 inch remixes of hits by the group during their heyday. Many of the tracks are on CD for the first time! Includes 'Talk Talk' (Extended Mix), 'Today' (Extended Mix), 'It's My Life' (Extended Mix), 'Such A Shame' (Extended Mix), 'Life's What You Make It' (Extended Mix) and 'Living In Another World' (Extended Remix). 1999 release.
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Listener Reviews & Comments
I'm breaking my own rules here and I'm giving a five star rating to a collection. I tend to only buy album releases and singles. I stray pretty heavily from Best Of..'s or Greatest Hits. I find, often times a good amount of the original intent of an album is lost. It may sound eccentric, and it probably is. I usually like songs that are not hits and never show up on those types of releases anyway. (I have a friend, incidentally, if you think I'm strange or rigid. He only buys a bands debut album.) Anyway, I love this "collection". I have the handsomer Orange and Blue cover that the import version boasts, unlike the cluttered newspaper montage American version. The content is the same, either way. I have a pretty substantial Talk Talk collection, I have all of their albums except their first The Party's Over (my tape of it, purchased in London in the Summer of 1988, has long since withered on a Honda's dashboard in the Californian Sun.) I like Talk Talk. It would take me ages to hunt down all of these remixes, if they exist at all, and having them housed all together on one shiny CD is a wonderful thing. The truly standout tracks are the two of Such A Shame (a fantastic version of this also exists on the posthumous London 1986 which is a full concert recorded beautifully at Hammersmith Odeon over 15 years ago); Life's What You Make It; the long and winding Happiness Is Easy; Living In Another World; and of course, the early 80's smash hit Talk Talk, which I assume they've named themselves after. I do know that the first, premixed version of the song Talk Talk was put to record back in 1977 when lead singer Mark Hollis' older brother Ed Hollis (of Eddie and the Hot Rods) produced a compilation album of the up-n-coming punk acts. Mark Hollis band then was called The Reaction and they had two songs under their slim belts, Talk Talk and Talk Talk Talk Talk. That was a longtime ago. The fact that Talk Talk emerged as part of that forgettable Neo-Romantics period in music when things were getting goofier by the minute, and then progressed progressively right at the peak of their prowess, meaning, just when they were getting good, they turned around and got much much better and shunned the music industry and tried their hardest not to have a hit single because they were so progressive they wanted a hit album. They succeeded on both counts. They had two very interesting, classic sounding albums and then quickly broke up. Nobody knew. I knew, simply by chance, as a young teenager, I was snatching up any record I could find by this band and ended up with the good ones without even knowing it. It's nice, therefore, that their is an album like this, this set of remixes, to remind us of what they ran from. Where was this release when I was 15?
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12 X 12 Original Remixes
by Talk Talk
Price:$14.49
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