It's My Life (studio album) by Talk Talk

It's My Life by Talk Talk
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 1,499th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 262 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (22nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (235th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,499th)
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Talk Talk It's My Life CD Black Face UK pressing new wave synth pop
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TALK TALK LP It's My Life EMI US 1984
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Talk Talk bestography

It's My Life is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Talk Talk on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Talk Talk is Spirit Of Eden which is ranked number 127 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,241.

Talk Talk album bestography « Higher ranked (421st) This album (1,499th) Lower ranked (4,245th) »
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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 262 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.

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75/100
From 05/12/2024 17:40
Its my life... yeah
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85/100
From 08/28/2023 20:59
Has one towering cut (the title track) and then a few strong highlights, but beyond that, a decent new wave album that you wish was a bit punchier and more focused.
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From 08/07/2020 08:44
Love that voice. Side A of the LP is great, the other side solid
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70/100
From 06/28/2020 21:01
Talk Talk's artistic ambitions get ahead of their songwriting abilities on It's My Life. Mark Hollis and co. would eventually go on to write some amazing pieces of music, but I always feel like skipping this album except for the title track.
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85/100
From 10/07/2019 14:07
Great and amazing album with beautiful voice of Mark Hollis
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From 03/09/2019 15:13
Best track: "Such A Shame"
Weakest track: "Renee"
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90/100
From 02/07/2019 04:41
Boasted a trio of powerful art-pop songs in Such a Shame, It's My Life, and Renee. Marillion meets Peter Gabriel. Fantastic stuff - and a sign of great things to come.
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80/100
From 02/16/2018 20:56
An excellent album. I have only got into Talk Talk recently. Bought this on new vinyl. 'Such a Shame', Tomorrow Started' and 'It's My Life' are my favourite tracks. I love the blend of subtle synth washes which accentuate the amazing voice of Mark Hollis.
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80/100
From 12/16/2014 22:25
An album full of strong straightforward pop songs, they now stripped away the Duran Duran synthesiser sound and a sense of urgency replaced it in the performances. The production (the first with Tim Friese-Greene) is sympathetic and he lets them wig out a bit on side 2. You can start to tell that some kind of intelligence is at work in this band here...
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From 04/10/2014 13:29
the most uninspired work from talk talk - is it due to or because of the two chart crashing killers on it?
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