Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk (Pal) [Import]

Talk Talk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 2, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B000LZ6DM8
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Today

2. Talk Talk

3. My Foolish Friend

4. Such A Shame

5. Dum Dum Girl

6. Its My Life

7. Give It Up

8. Living In Another World

9. Life's What You Make It

10. Happiness Is Easy

11. I Believe In You

12. Desire

13. Today

14. Talk Talk (Version 1)

15. Talk Talk (Version 2)

16. My Foolish Friend

17. Such A Shame

18. Dum Dum Girl (Take 1)

19. Dum Dum Girl (Take 2)

20. It's My Life (Uk Version)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Import only CD/DVD (PAL/Region 0) pressing features 12 tracks on the audio disc, all of them were hits for them in UK while the bonus DVD features music videos to all of their nine singles along with two alternate versions of 'Talk Talk' and 'Dum Dum Girl'. EMI. 2007. * Please note you will need an All Code DVD player to view.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent best hits collection!!, December 25, 2007

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Shiloh Kremer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk (Pal) (Audio CD)

This is a very rare DVD featuring 9 hits of Talk Talk. The videos are clear and the sound quality is real good. There is a menu which allows viewers to jump directly to a specific video or watch all of the videos.
The video for Living In Another World is amazing. Good special effects for its time of release. There is some live footage of the band performing Give It Up. This DVD is worth the price.
I rate this classic DVD with 5 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great w/ video collection, but missing tracks, May 30, 2009

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SRFireside "ZOOM!" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk (Pal) (Audio CD)

Back in the early 90's I picked up a copy of Natural History because that was the only way to get the single My Foolish Friend at the time. I already had the first three Talk Talk albums. This newer release of the compilation is missing two live tracks recorded at the Hammerlsmith Odeon: LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT and TOMORROW'S STARTED. The trade off? You get all of the music videos Talk Talk ever released on a DVD.

That's right. This one and only edition of Natural History that has a separate DVD of Talk Talk music videos. The only other place to get them was a VHS release also called Natural History, and now you have them on a digital hard copy. Better yet the VHS didn't have both versions of the video TALK TALK (just the artsy one with the people talking with their hands). How's that for best bang for the buck? Keep in mind while this is an all-region DVD it is in PAL format (the U.S. standard is NTSC). Make sure your DVD player can run PAL (I can confirm the Playstation 3 does).

This compilation is a really good representation of the band's work on their first four albums. More emphasis is on songs from their most popular albums, It's My Life and Colour of Spring. That's okay because you still get what I consider their two best songs from The Party's Over and the two most accessable songs from Spirit of Eden. I prefer having the individual albums because there are lots of greats songs to enjoy, but if you just want a sampling of the band this is the way to go. I believe the audio tracks are remastered as well so you are getting the same fidelity as the newly remastered albums have.

In conclusion if you like IT'S MY LIFE and want to hear more without investing in their five album collection AND want the best sounding versions of the songs AND like their videos this is the album to get. If you aren't into videos then go for the previously released non-import version. You would only miss the remastering on tracks from the first two albums. Plus you would get two bonus live tracks as well. All you TT fans should get this as well if just for the videos (and one of the few places you can get MY FOOLISH FRIEND) alone.

4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tells you very little, February 3, 2008

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mianfei - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk (Pal) (Audio CD)

Although Talk Talk, aided by Tim Friese-Greene, were to radically alter the music world and make for music on unparalleled power on their last two albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, they began as a New Romantic pop band with a sound totally unsuited to the voice of singer Mark Hollis. In the process, it is true, they had one major hit in Australia with "Talk Talk", a grating, almost noisy dance-pop tune on which Hollis' voice was the worst kind of whine. Their first three albums made Talk Talk almost stars and even got them onto the Billboard Top 100, but already by this time The Colour of Spring they had moved completely away from their Spandau Ballet-like roots onto music that has stood the test of time much better.

When I used to listen to the commercial music of the eighties - before Joe S. Harrington told me the truth about it with his brilliant Top 100 Albums - I had an earlier copy of "Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk" and to be quite frank never got into any stage of the band's work. The later work that I now recognise as passionate I thought slothly slow and in any case there is (due to the original albums issue date) nothing from their amazing final album and only an edited version of one of their finest songs, "Desire". Also missing from "The Colour of Spring" are "April 5th" and "Time It's Time."

All in all, "Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk" tells you nothing about what became - after a slow start - a wonderful and innovative band.