LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD/TALK TALK

Better parted
I see people crying
Truth gets harder
There's no sense in lying

Help me
Find a way from this maze
I can't help myself

When I see tenderness before you left (Forget)
That even breaking up was never meant (Forget)
But only angels look before they tread (Forget)
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you

Better parted
I see people hiding
Speech gets harder
There's no sense in writing

Help me
Find a way from this maze
I can't help myself

When I see tenderness before you left (Forget)
That even breaking up was never meant (Forget)
But only angels look before they tread (Forget)
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you

Help me
Find a way from this maze
I'm living in another world to you
And I can't help myself

Did I see tenderness where you saw hell? (Forget)
Did I see angels in the hand I held? (Forget)
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell (Forget)
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you
Living in another world to you

ALBUM: THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IT'S MY LIFE/TALK TALK

Funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I'd pay to lose
One half won't do

I've asked myself
How much do you commit yourself?

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends

Funny how I blind myself
I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon
Afraid to lose

I'd tell myself what good you do
Convince myself

It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends

I've asked myself
How much do you commit yourself?

It's my life
Don't you forget
Caught in the crowd
It never ends

ALBUM: IT'S MY LIFE (1984)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DESIRE/TALK TALK

Desire, whispered, spoken
In time
Rivers, oceans

That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
I'm just content to relax
Than drown within myself

Of mind
Sheltered, broken
Denied, gifted, stolen

That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
Ain't got a bed of excuse for myself

That ain't me babe

That ain't me babe
Ain't got a bed of excuse for myself

That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
That ain't me babe
I'm just content to relax
Than drown within myself

ALBUM: SPIRIT OF EDEN (1988)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GIVE IT UP/TALK TALK

From the place that I stand to the land that is openly free
Watching rivers run black by the trees
That are vacant to greed

Gotta give it up
Gotta get a second chance
And the tunes just started
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?

How can I learn if I don't understand what I see
If I'm giving this mess
Take a walk through a nightmare so real

Gotta give it up
Gotta get a second chance
And the tunes just started
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
When you've never been without?

Give it up, give it up
Give it up
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Tell me if I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?
Or tell me if I'm so wrong
Where does luck come from
When you've never been without?

ALBUM: THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I BELIEVE IN YOU/TALK TALK

Hear it in my spirit
I've seen heroin for myself
On the street so young laying wasted
Enough ain't it enough
Crippled world
I just can't bring myself to see it starting

Tell me how I fear it
I buy prejudice for my health
Is it worth so much when you taste it
Enough there ain't enough hidden hurt
A time to sell yourself
A time for passing

Spirit

How long

ALBUM: SPIRIT OF EDEN (1988)

PARALLELI: TALK TALK/RADIOHEAD

La scorsa estate, nel mio vecchio, delirante blog, avevo scritto che, negli anni '80, i Radiohead erano i Talk Talk, anche se in molti non se ne sono accorti. Già, perchè il cammino delle due band, per certi versi, è stato molto simile, per fortuna non fino alla fine. Ma andiamo per gradi. Da piccolo ero un ascoltatore precoce: se ripenso a quando avevo dieci, dodici anni, ed acquistavo album come It's My Life e The Colour Of Spring, mi sento quasi un predestinato. Certo, all'epoca, mentre mettevo le cuffie e consumavo vinili, mi lasciavo cullare dalle melodie perfette di Such A Shame e Living In Another World senza approfondirne le ritmiche, i testi, e tutta l'introspettiva complessità di quelle canzoni. Tanto che, quando uscì The Spirit Of Eden rimasi, giustamente, piuttosto spiazzato. Ora, a distanza di 25 anni, il percorso intrapreso dai Talk Talk non è più un sentiero misterioso, ma un viale lastricato di grandi intuizioni, ed è qui, all'incrocio con la musica odierna, che naturali confronti con i Radiohead si fanno strada. Dal disco d'esordio, con qualche concessione alle mode del momento (pop new wave per Mark Hollis e compagni, post-grunge rock per la band di Oxford) e soprattutto alla casa discografica (in entrambi i casi, purtroppo, la EMI), ma che lasciava comunque intravedere tutto il talento potenziale, al secondo lavoro, che metteva subito le cose in chiaro (cos'altro aggiungere su It's My Life e The Bends?) ed al terzo che li consacrava stelle di prima grandezza (The Colour Of Spring ed OK Computer), pur mantenendo un atteggiamento di basso profilo. Ma non è finita qui: si, perchè proprio sul punto più alto e luminoso della notorietà, i Talk Talk escono con un disco difficile (The Spirit Of Eden, appunto), di soli 6 pezzi dalle melodie rarefatte ma ricchi di dettagli incredibili, ed altrettanto fanno i Radiohead con Kid A, album straordinario e straordinariamente controcorrente, nel quale esplorano e rielaborano territori nuovi e distanti tra loro, dall'elettronica al jazz, rinunciando persino a far uscire dei singoli. Risultato: l'industria musicale mainstream si dimentica di loro, mentre la scena alternativa li elegge ad icone. Ed i successivi Laughing Stock ed Amnesiac non fanno che rafforzare questa convinzione. E se le somiglianze tra le due band sono notevoli, quelle tra i relativi frontman lo sono ancora di più: Mark Hollis e Thom Yorke appaiono entrambi bruttini, a dire il vero, con il loro campionario di orecchie a sventola e denti storti, ma traboccano fascino quando sono chinati su di un pianoforte, ricurvi come se volessero cantare direttamente nei tasti, oppure quando si agitano appesi all'asta di un microfono come buste di plastica in balia dal vento. Tutti e due hanno anche all'attivo un notevole album solista (intitolato semplicemente Mark Hollis, per il primo; The Eraser per Thom Yorke), ma le analogie, e questo è il lieto fine, si fermano qui: a questo punto, infatti, i Talk Talk spariscono improvvisamente nel nulla, senza lasciare più alcuna traccia (se si eccettua la collaborazione del bassista Paul Webb con Beth Gibbons dei Portishead nell'album Out Of Season del 2002, sotto lo pseudonimo di Rustin Man), mentre la storia dei Radiohead, grazie al cielo, non ha ancora finito di essere scritta...


TALK TALK


LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT

THE PARTY'S OVER (1982)
IT'S MY LIFE (1984)
THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986)
SPIRIT OF EDEN (1988)
LAUGHING STOCK (1991)

MARK HOLLIS/MARK HOLLIS (1998)


RADIOHEAD


ALL I NEED

PABLO HONEY (1993)
THE BENDS (1995)
OK COMPUTER (1997)
KID A (2000)
AMNESIAC (2001)
HAIL TO THE THIEF (2003)
IN RAINBOWS (2007)

THE ERASER/THOM YORKE (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TOMORROW STARTED/TALK TALK

Don't look back until you've tried
A line so openly a lie
Outside of you, it's just tomorrow starting

I've said I'm wrong when I've been right
I've seen times when I've been sure but still I find
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use

It's just tomorrow starting

Don't look back until you've tried
With time you'll endlessly arrive
Outside of use
With just tomorrow starting

See my eyes tell me I'm not lying
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use

It's just tomorrow started

ALBUM: IT'S MY LIFE (1984)