It's My Life

Talk Talk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000007MVK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #47 in Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave & Post-Punk > Post-Punk
  • #71 in Music > Alternative Rock > Hardcore & Punk > General AAS

Track Listings

1. Dum Dum Girl

2. Such a Shame

3. Renée

4. It's My Life

5. Tomorrow Started

6. The Last Time

7. Call in the Night Boy

8. Does Caroline Know?

9. It's You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Like The Original (It's My Life), November 24, 2003

By 

Armando M. Mesa (Chandler, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It's My Life (Audio CD)

No Doubt may have re-recorded the classic It's My Life with their own up-to-date take on it; But this is still the original and only memorable version. It's My Life was very reminiscent of the new romantic style established a few years earlier by Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry with their smash album Avalon.Like Roxy Music Talk Talk created not just a musical soundscape but a rich dramatic atmosphere. The similarities are somewhat uncanny between Bryan Ferry and Mark Hollis' crooning and mystic quality---sometimes the untrained ear can't understand what they are crooning about but you get the meaning. Likewise, some of the instrumentation. However, Talk Talk was very unique, distinct, and original. Some tracks contained such a melancholy and moody atmosphere but not to the extreme to make this a somber affair. Other tracks have a mid-tempo pop-rock feel for the time. After It's My Life, Talk Talk released The Colour Of Spring which sported a more mature and introspective sound. Both of these titles showcased the band at it's artistic pinnacle.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Talk Talk Speaks for Themselves!, August 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: It's My Life (Audio CD)

For those too young to remember, Talk Talk, a band of musicians in the 1980's emerged during the Reagan years with a fresh, unique New Wave sound, played often on video shows with the hit,"It's My Life". I've seen the video for this song, which features various wildlife running about in slow motion, and have always loved it. Just listening to this album is proof positive that the 80's was'nt such a bad decade for music. Best songs on the Cassette/CD include the unforgetable "It's My Life", "Dum Dum Girl", "Such A Shame," "Tomorrow Started", and "Call In The Night Boy". If you like New Wave, reminiscent of soundtracks to movies like the Breakfast Club and 9 and 1/2 Weeks, Talk Talk's sound will take you where you want to be!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of A Kind Voice, One Of A kind Group, May 25, 2005

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Spiritof67 "spiritof67" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It's My Life (Audio CD)

Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis has the most expressively emotional voice to have emerged from the "New Wave" (or whatever pigeonhole you need..) singers. Just hearing the sorrow, the pleading in "Renee" is enough to send you off if you like emotional singers - and I do. This is a fantastic album, atmospheric and yet claustrophobic. Talk Talk were one of the rare groups that really didn't set out to be BS rock stars, and one might say they accomplished that. It is a shame that Mark's voice was destined not to be what the music programmers wanted, so you got Simon Le Bon (and tinny-voiced Gwen Steponme) instead. Hope you're happy about that - I'm not.
And I didn't add the line about "voting buttons" either. Buy this CD.