Talking Back to the Night

Steve Winwood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B000001FT0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,986 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this 1982 album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Steve Winwood's third solo album, May 27, 2007

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Dark Star-The Other One (The Bus To Never Ever Land) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talking Back to the Night (Audio CD)

This is Steve's third solo album and second with Will Jennings as co songwriter. The main problem with this album is that Steve chose to go it alone instead of using a band. Many of the songs on here would come across better if he was using real players but just about everything is done with synths which gives the album a very dry feeling to me. Several of the songs would come across pretty well had he used a band-Valerie, And I Go, While There's A Candle Burning, Still In The Game and Help Me Angel shows signs of being really good songs.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sounds like he sat down and just played, October 19, 2005

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Darren S. Wools "duke 1980" (minneapolis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talking Back to the Night (Audio CD)

This album is interesting (1982). It sounds like he sat down at a keyboard and drum machine and simply recorded the entire album. It's very raw and simple (complex at the same time) with little production and it is almost entirely steve winwood, a drum box, and keyboards. There's good stuff on here includinghelp me angel, valerie, and talking back to the night. Chronicles(1987) features versions of those songs listed above and are much more produced and much more powerful. Valerie, from chronicles, has been played on mainstream radio since then. I love winwood's vocal range and his keyboard patterns and it's interesting to hear a rock album so stripped down. This album is much better than 1980s arc of a diver (while you see a chance). Winwood is also renound for doing many different things and this album was much different than back in the high life (1986) which was much more organic but still electric. Overall, good album and a must for winwood fans.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Presenting The New Improved Steve Winwood!, April 16, 1999

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Jim Traweek [e-mail] (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Talking Back to the Night (Audio CD)

Talking Back to the Night hearalds the reemergence of Steve Winwood to the fold of innovative music. Many of his prior albums deserve recognition and naturally, Back in the High Life is a stellar offering, but Talking Back is a special high mark for Winwood and music. The release is clothed in the innovation, preparation, feeling and mastery which comes once in a musician's lifetime. It is his masterpiece. The beautiful, introspective compositions supercede the melodic ante of the time and the brilliant chord progressions offer new material to a decade which was largely blaise and repetitive. Steve raises his head from the safe bilk of 80's money music to create, sing, play and deliver a major contributor. I had to have it from the moment I heard it. Especially enjoyable is Steve's keyboard. He is intimate with it in a way that no mainstream keyboardist has been since (Ray Manzarek?) the Door's Light my Fire. Don't expect intricate ten-thousand-note lead rides. Expect the most soothing inspired keyboards and vocals of the decade. This is MUSICIANS' MUSIC. You won't be disappointed. Dim the lights a little before listening to it. You've discovered a truffle hiding in the mulch. You heard it from ME first!