Missing Pieces

Talk Talk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pond Life
• ASIN: B00005KKAY
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,608 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. After the Flood (Outtake) [Alternate Take]

2. Myrrhman

3. New Grass [Edit]

4. Stump

5. Ascension Day

6. 5:09

7. Piano

Editorial Reviews

'Missing Pieces' picks up where EMI's 'A's & B Sides' left off. After leaving EMI the band signed to Polydor to producetheir final album 'Laughing Stock'. This CD is a collectionof the A and B-sides of the singles issued during the Polydor era. Also inclu --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing pieces, September 13, 2007

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F. Ceric (Amsterdam, Holland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missing Pieces (Audio CD)

The songs on this CD were obviously collecting the dust in the secret archives of Polydor, after they released "Laughing stock" and discovered that Mark Hollis and the crew can not be categorised as "pop music", and certainly not as high potential marketing product. Obviously some smart people decided to earn some money by adding three "new" tracks (they are not new, it's clear that they are all recorded during LS sessions, and in my humble opinion, the are not as good as already released songs from those sessions) and try to earn some money anyway. Real fans (including myself) will probably buy it anyway, so at the end of the day we can say that this complete marketing swindle worked well(at least in my case), because "Missing Pieces" is not the real enrichment in my music collection. Four songs can be found on LS, and the missing pieces we can certainly affort to miss (it doesn't suprise me they were "undiscovered" for almost ten years), so this CD should be better called LS revisited.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars After this, what's left to release?, November 26, 2001

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Josh M. Slifkin "jms" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missing Pieces (Audio CD)

It's quite interesting to hear the edited versions and alternative takes of the LAUGHING STOCK selections. Even in their shorter and variously edited versions, they still sound quite amazing. Mark Hollis's songwriting is tremendous and Lee Harris's drumming is quite effective. The instrumental B-Sides are nice cut-and-pastings of various selections. The odd piece is "Piano," recorded by Mark Hollis for the Allison/Brown's AVI release. It's quite long, and save for moments that resemble the works of Erik Satie and Arvo Part, it goes mostly nowhere. (How's that for a veiled compliment?) Still, it's quite a worthwhile collection of their later work (and hopefully the last one I'll have to buy for a while).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Historical Document ....., March 17, 2004

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Joren A. Lindholm (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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I am a long time fan of the band, and just got this CD to be complete with Talk Talk in the music library. (Thanks to the previous reviewer here of this item). Initially this is a let-down because there's not much new at all. The instrumental B-side 'Stump' is interesting, and if not totally then just less than .... original. The B-side "5:09' is a composite of instrumental parts from 'Taphead' and 'New Grass' with part of the long dual-sax solo from Laughing Stock's 'After the Flood' spliced-in with dubiously successful mix-editing. Three tracks here are virtually just as they are on Laughing Stock. The rest display a rougher sense for composition. Well, listening to this may grow on me. But besides the concept of this being an assembly - I suppose due to lack of any liner notes on this CD issue - of the (3) Polydor singles as they originally appeared a decade before, this CD barely holds itself together.