Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk

mianfei — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:14:42 GMT

Author: mianfei

Posted: 09/23/2022 03:14

DommeDamian wrote:

First post-rock album and arguably best post-rock album ever. It's so beautiful, oh so beautiful.

I recall how mystified critics in the 1990s were by Spirit of Eden. Rolling Stone in 1991 gave in (and all of Talk Talk's albums) one star, but a history of rock music said it was very different from that.

I did here two tracks on the 1990 Natural History compilation I bought in the late 1990s, but at first they seemed to underlie that what Rolling Stone had said back in 1991 was correct. How wrong I really was! When I kept reading different critical works, it seemed to say something very different about Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and a second listen really showed that they possessed remarkable power, depth and a type of orchestration entirely alien to the music world of the time, as you might gather from my all-time chart here.

Re: Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk

craola — Sat, 3 Sep 2022 01:33:47 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 09/03/2022 05:33

the elusive “perfect” album. nothing about this falls short, and it gets better with every listen.

Re: Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk

DommeDamian — Fri, 2 Sep 2022 16:29:28 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 09/02/2022 20:29

First post-rock album and arguably best post-rock album ever. It's so beautiful, oh so beautiful.

Re: Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk

MadhattanJack — Fri, 2 Sep 2022 16:18:45 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 09/02/2022 20:18

Hard to categorize, that's for sure... 🤔

This is one of those records that I thought was boring and self-indulgent at the time, but everybody kept telling me how great it was, so I'd put it on once every few years and eventually I started to appreciate it, and even like it. So I guess it's a lot like a celebrity sex tape, in that respect.

Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk

BestEverAlbums — Fri, 2 Sep 2022 16:00:31 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 09/02/2022 20:00

Today's album of the day

Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1988.
Country:
Overall rank: 138
Average rating: 84/100 (from 921 votes).

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Tracks:
1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.