RELEASED: OUT NOW
GENRE: Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Rock
FORMAT: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram
CAT No: 88985459971
RELEASED BY: Columbia
Arguably the Furs finest hour, Talk Talk Talk is the perfect combination of gritty post-punk attack and angular, Bowie-ish art-pop. Pretty in Pink would become the band's signature tune when it was used in the John Hughes movie of the same name a few years later. deservedly so, as it's a winning mixture of romantic desolation and pop-rock drive. The Furs also score with this combination on the explicit Into You Like a Train and I Wanna Sleep With You, Richard Butler's tawdry rasp sounding right at home amid the hook-filled debauchery. Despite all the 'romanticism', the band's iconoclasm is still firmly in place, as seen on Mr Jones, an update of Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man. Talk Talk Talk is where post-punk art and pure pop heart meet in a serendipitous multi-car pileup.
TRACKLISTING:
A1 | Dumb Waiters | 5:09 |
A2 | Pretty In Pink | 3:57 |
A3 | I Wanna Sleep With You | 3:17 |
A4 | No Tears | 3:18 |
A5 | Mr. Jones | 4:03 |
B1 | Into You Like A Train | 4:09 |
B2 | It Goes On | 3:51 |
B3 | So Run Down | 2:52 |
B4 | All Of This & Nothing | 6:26 |
B5 | She Is Mine | 3:50 |