Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk
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- Posted: 09/02/2022 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4275): Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk
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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.
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MadhattanJack
Just to end the list
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- Posted: 09/02/2022 20:18
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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.
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
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Location: where the flowers grow. 
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craola
crayon disciple
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- Posted: 09/03/2022 05:33
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the elusive “perfect” album. nothing about this falls short, and it gets better with every listen.
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mianfei
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- Posted: 09/23/2022 03:14
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| 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.
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