Talk Talk Talk

1,2,3,4 repeat. I think the lead singer's voice was wanted with uninspired music.

🎧Decent, not great. Richard Butler’s vocals kind of annoying at times. I like No Tears.

Like many 80's albums, it's somebody's jam. Pretty in Pink is the defining track. The rest blend into sameness for me.

Not for me. I don’t like the singer. Some cool dark new wave stylistic instrumental parts but I didn’t really enjoy it.

Bleh. Hard to listen to. Pretentious.

Awful, toneless singing with the surface level lyrics to match. The brass work is one of the few reasons to give this a spin. Listened to: on a train in New England. Favorite tracks: it Goes On, All of This and Nothing

Agree with the monotone voice. Grating Love Pretty in Pink

Ick I appreciate their very obvious influence on Brit Pop, but this was a bit to raw / unpolished for me

Mediocre music to play in that one store in the mall that sells "punk" paraphernalia, sandwiched conveniently between H&M and The Gap.

Regular album, it did not click with me.

Mmmmm nah new wave not for me

Alkuun jaksoi fiilistellä mukana ja loppua kohden alkoi toistamaan itseään, sekä uk-rockin vakiomuotin soundi laulajalla tökkimään.

Meh

I really wanted to like this one, but that just wasn't the case.

Vocals are so, I don’t know, monotone or monotonous? Or both. Couple songs go a long way with me.

Is no one going to talk about how Pretty in Pink sounds so pretty because it's just the hook from Born to Run without the melody? I'm certain it was a case of parallel thinking but I can't unhear it. All in all, Talk Talk Talk is the definition of good, not great. Dumb Waitress, So Run Down, and She Is Mine are all good tracks. Pretty in Pink would also be a highlight if not for the Born to Run ear worm. But compared to their contemporaries I don't see what makes them special enough to warrant an inclusion on this list. We're talking about the same era of The Talking Heads, The Smiths, Joy Division, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Birthday Party, The Jam, The B-52's, and Television. Fur are a good genre band, but nothing special here. Post punk is a genre I love and I'd probably go see this band live if I had the opportunity, but as a selection on the 1001 Albums to Listen to before I Die, this one falls way short.

Not bad, but completely forgettable

Shitty in Pink

This is definitely what the druggo guy from The Breakfast Club listens to

Normally a big fan of 80s new wave so was excited to check this out but it just didn't do it for me at all

A nice blend of punk into the classic 80's style. Nothing particularly grabbed my attention but not a bad listen. 2.5/5

This album was very early 80s pop....not the kind of album I would choose to listen to again. Best song: She is Mine

Op zich prima muziek, maar ook net niet bijzonder genoeg. Als het wat sneller was, was het misschien lekkere punkrock. Maar aan de andere kant is het ook net niet catchy genoeg om pop-muziek te zijn. **

I am a big fan of post punk/new wave/modern rock. Having said that, aside from "Pretty in Pink" and "All of This and Nothing", the Steve Lillywhite produced Talk Talk Talk is a long dirge of samey sounding punk/post punk that has not yet quite made the turn toward the more interesting sound of modern rock. They also have not stopped mimicking the sound of The Sex Pistols and truly created their own sound yet. The album that the algorithm pointed to was the remastered album re-released in 2002 instead of the original. This is relevant, because not only is it remastered, it is also longer because it includes all kinds of bonus tracks, and for some weird reason that re-ordered all the tracks which I don't think suits this album at all. I recommend listening to the 10 track original that was released in 1981 and is available on most streaming services. Alas, there is not much memorable here. Talk Talk Talk didn't even make my top 50 for albums released in 1981, much less make my top 1001 for all time. Personally I feel their best album are to come over the rest of the 1980s, even though others criticize them for being over-produced. I don't buy this BS that somehow less production makes an album more sincere or authentic.

Álbum del que no tenía referencias. Suena bien y hay algún tema destacable pero que está lejos de arrebatarme.

yet another instance of the first song or two being solid and then the rest being a bunch of filler

Yet another British post punk/alt band from the 80s. I’m torn here because there’s nothing bad (except the first song and its out of tune main riff), there’s just nothing here I really want to hear again. Best song: She is Mine

I liked Pretty In Pink but no other songs really stood out. It all felt kind of the same.

The more I listened to this the less I liked it. Kinda hate it now, actually. But it did start to give me Stone Roses vibes at some points, so there’s that…

So emo

Yeah, no.

Very samey. Quite fun but songs blurred into one

Sounds muted when it feels, maybe should raise the volume

Ja ach, ik kan hier nou niet heel veel mee. Het is een rock album, niet meer, niet minder. Niet echt iets wat er uit springt voor mij hier. Ik vind hier gewoon niet zoveel aan.

I like the sound, though it gets a bit repetitive. Frontman seems to have swallowed an asphalt truck 👀

Furs just never did anything for me, in one ear out the other, a xerox of better bands

Maybe you caught me on a bad day, but not a fan. Some of these tracks sound like a table saw, but without any of the charm. I've made better sounding demo tapes on a tascam 4 track recorder. No.

I enjoyed the live instruments and some tunes are catchy, but I really don't like these 80's saxophones.

I’m not a big fan of this kind of music and with these guys, singing in particular doesn’t appeal to me nor the subjects of the songs. The music itself isn’t bad. Listens: 2 Fave Track: All Of This And Nothing

Not a huge fan of this unfortunately.

Hmm

Extremely British, but not in an endearing way

Having their song Pretty in Pink featured in the movie Pretty in Pink does not render this album worth listening to. There's something about The Psychedelic Furs' sound that gives me a headache.

This is underground rock with slight punk influences. But it doesn't move me. For an album on this list, this is a litte underwhelming. 2/5

Nothing really special. It seems indicative of early 80s English rock. I was left, meh.

Not for me

Ei kauheen hääppöstä. Vähän punk henkistä brittipoppia. Laulajan ääni rasitti. All of this and nothing EHKÄ ok

Gear: Meze 109 Pro Mische: treble-tastisch Hi-Hats und recht offensive Vocals Musik: nach dem beeindruckenden Opener bestenfalls nur noch belanglos Wertung: 2/5

Not bad for a punkish album. Nothing stands out as too special or ear-catching.

Just not my era

I remember this band from back in the day and back then I thought they were OK but I wasn’t a huge fan. Not much has changed over the years.

The Furs certainly were one of the better post-punk, new wavey groups in the early 80s and this album features probably their biggest single. Richard Butler actually has a great voice for this genre, but like others have noted most of the album after the first two songs sounds very samey.

Its alright but nothing special that had my flabbergasted. Solid Record but ive listened to so much english rock music in general that it needs more to flash me. I wish they actually did psychedelic music on this record.

Neither psychedelic nor furry

I was looking forward to this one because I love the song Pretty in Pink, but I was disappointed to find the remainder of this album a cacophony of noise. Too much dissonance in the sound, too much faux punk attitude. I just… I feel letdown I guess. Thought this would be my jams, but alas, it is not.

ok. The Brit pop sound doesn't resonate with me entirely.

Execution was fine instrumentally and there were a few Melodie’s that caught my ear, but nothing stuck with me after the fact. Not bland per se, but not exactly memorable either.

Not my favorite new wave album artist boring album

Nothing more than fine. Grating voice and ok 80s pop.

The instrumentals were really good and captured the elements of what people like about 80's music. However the singer's voice was hard to listen to.

It had moments. I liked the first song. It could maybe grow on me. But alas, it will never have the chance

This list is plagued with 80s British post-punk/new wave records. This one was no different. The singer's voice got on my nerves as the record went on, which is typical of these records. I did like the instrumentals.

not much to say. se rajoute a la liste d'albums qui ne me fait aucun effet 5/10

2.5

I can tell from the album art alone that this is going to be british pop/punk. According to their wiki this album is actually pretty highly rated.... so far it sounds pretty standard. Has a much brighter and happier undertone than I was expecting, so far I don't dislike it but it's kind of disappearing into the background. These songs seem a bit too long for what they are, and it really doesn't envelope the feel of british punk.

This is way heavier than I expected based on the band name and cover art. I really like the aggression of the vocals and the weirdness of the instrumental. As the record went on, the vocals started to wear me down. I also didn't find the songwriting very memorable.

Vocals and monotonous songwriting ruin it for me

For a band named Psychedelic Furs I was hoping for something a little more... colorful? Imagine Green Day meets Smashing Pumpkins. Vocals were uninspiring, guitar was bland (only time it stuck out was on It Goes On), and the tempo stayed more or less the same front to back. Listening to this album was like eating a plate of unseasoned chicken and rice. I like chicken and I like rice. But I need some more flavor in there to make it interesting.

New wave, postpunk, psychedelisk rock - det okay

Super doorsnee jaren '80, niks aan als je het mij vraagt.

I liked the songs mostly but didn’t get on with his voice. He sounds like an American doing a bad English accent but he’s English.

Meh

"Pretty In Pink": it starts with an interesting verse, with some nice instrumentation supprporting a raucous vocal performance. Then a promising pre-chorus surges. And then... No chorus. Then nothing much, really. We're back to the verse, played by a band that basically goes through the motions. The song cycles on itself--a little hypnotic, but not enough to justify all the repetitive patterns in it. Being a single, "Pretty In Pink" is supposedly one of the most striking tracks on the album. But to be honest, it's a bit of a letdown, as is everything else in this record--especially compared to other post-punk acts around 1981 (Wire, Gang Of Four, Siouxsie And the Banshees, Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine...). As for the supposedly "psychedelic" and proto-punk influences on this LP, they might give some whiffs of originality to the whole thing, but sadly, *Talk Talk Talk*' compositions are nothing compared to the ones of, say, The Soft Boys' *Underwater Moonlight*. Now here was a record owing to prepunk times that could leave an imprint on your mind from the very first listen. Pretty sure that ten listens in, it's still impossible to hum or whistle Psychedelic Furs songs in your shower. Not that all "essential" albums need to be whistled or hummed. Post-punk / new wave was not *all* about that, considering you could relate The Psychedelic Furs to that early eighties subgenre. But if you can't hum or whistle a band's output, what you need from them is some real groove (Gang Of Four), some cinematic atmosphere (Wire, The Cure), some real tension (Joy Division), or some strong gothic flavours coupled with truly memorable harmonies and a vocal performance for the ages (Siouxsie And The Banshees). And *Talk Talk Talk* has none of those. To put it in a nutshell, the music in this album is not inherently bad. It's just that it's not "essential". 2/5 for the purposes of this list, translating to a 7/10 grade for more general purposes. Next, please... Number of albums left to review: 423 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 266 Albums from the list might* include in mine later on: 141 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 176 (including this one)

Sumt mjög gott, annað arfaslakt. Söngstíllinn er ekki allra en passar vel í sum lögin.

Yeah. Nah.

certainly music of a certian era; "of a time' - like opening a box of cassettes from those awkward teens, some familiar stuff a bit whinier , and bleeker, than I remembered. whistful but kind of melancholic, so bye furs! definitely music with which to mix psychadelics if wanting st and setting to be conducive. pull up, pull up!

Het is een 2 sterren maandag; weer 2 sterren uitgedeeld voor een net-niet plaatje.

Waarom ga je zingen als je zo’n stem hebt?

4/10

Meh

Post-Punk meh

Unremarkable 🤷🏻‍♂️

I thought this was weak. A few good songs though.

A little more guitar heavy than I would have thought from an 80s album like this. Still not my favorite though. Kind of boring.

Actually loved the first song, but it all went a bit meh from there. Can hear Joy Division on some tracks.

2.5

Well, that was 80's British post-punk album number 126 on this list. At least that's what it feels like. Nothing new, nothing interesting, next.

This kind of tuneless caterwauling is not really my bag. I know some people like it, but it seems to me like Music for People With Lazy Minds.

Atrocious vocals, and the songwriting was never as interesting as it was trying to be. Boring and annoying, plus I'm getting massive new wave fatigue from this list

This dude sounds like he's on the verge of death while singing, I hate it. 1/5

Nah

🤷🏿‍♀️ I got nothing

Checked multiple times to see if album was ending soon

Not for me

I don’t know if I hated this or just really disliked it. It’s very distinctly the eighties music that I never liked.

No thanks. 1

1. dumb - 0 2. pink - 1 3. zleep - 1 4. tearz - 1 5. jonez - 2 6. train - 1 7. goez - 2 8. run - 1 9. nothing - 2 10. mine - 1

More of that terrible droning crap that I hate.

Relatively uninspiring 80s indie-punk rock. The singer isn’t the easiest to listen to. 1

A cacophony of noise throughout the album. There didn't seem to be any quieter sections. I also didn't like his voice. It was a bit too gruff for me.

20. 더 사이키델릭 퍼즈 - 톡 톡 톡 총 10곡 수록, 41분. 너무 베이직해요 너무 마일드해요 나는 이제 장르하나로는 만족할수없는 인디락 힙스터 홍대병이 되어버린거야~~ 지루함... 아쉽게도 한줄평: 인디락이 없는 시대에 태어났을 뿐인 범부여... 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★☆☆☆☆

No thank you. Not a fan of British

2/10 Pretty forgettable

pastiche mode.

Rubbish

More english rock that doesn't inspire me at all

yeahhh no, those vocals are too talky and the music doesnt make up for it enough

wish.com David Bowie, boring af

This is really not my style of listening at all. I really tried with this one and struggled at any moment in the album to find enjoyment. It’s a miss …

I think this is technically post-punk but it retains much of what I don't like about the punk genre. Repetitive drum beats with little variation and what I describe to myself as the 'bored punk singing style'. Flat vocals with little tonal variation sung in a way that sounds like the singer is bored with life and just wants to get the sone over.

Distractingly British s n o o z e f e s t. Lead singer sounds like Fred Armisen trying to do a fake New Wave song on SNL. You'd get the semblance of a cool sound with the saxophone here and there and then the lead singer would come right back to smack you in the face with SOME PIE AND MASH!!!

whenever my siblings and I would howl "singing" in an awful kid concert growing up, my mom would always say "at least they're better than that Psychedelic Furs guy, he's the worst ever" She was right.

felt very boring, not bad per se, but I didn't want to listen to any of the songs again

would be a 3 if the lead singer wasn't so shit, it's amazing how his voice is more aggravating than all the ragebait scream-core music on this list.

Crap

Overall: not a fan of this style of music

Simple. Boring. "Music". How can you go wrong with songs with amazing titles like "Dumb Waiters" and "I Wanna Sleep With You"? Oh yeah, you make it work with a boring and monotonous lead singer and dull clangy baking rhythms that sound like every other band from the early '80's.

A bit weird

I am not a fan of this type of music. I always give it my best shot though.

Já ouvi muitos álbuns repetitivos, mas esse tá num patamar elevado. Parece uma longa e cansativa música de 50 minutos. Vocal tenebroso. Péssimo mix de bateria. "All of This And Nothing" foi a única música que fez algo de criativo e interessante, no começo e no final (no meio é a mesma merda). Resumo: terrível. Melhor do álbum: "All of This and Nothing". Pior do álbum: Todas as outras, porque são identicamente patéticas.

Rock britanico generico, monotono, lo mas creativo a mi parecer fue Dumb Waiters. Niun brillo jajaja

I am sure someone likes this.

I can see how this could be an iconic album for someone who caught it at the right age/point in life.

Not a fan, i like drugs as much as the next person but at a certain point you need to stop. Theres was before this album

Didn’t liked from the first song.

Punk - no Rock - not really New Wave - not really Need to hear before I die - NOT AT ALL

vilset trevande i musik form, de verkade inte kunna bestämma sig för vad de ville göra. det här var dåligt.

Not for me. Absolutely no appeal.

These songs have no teeth and are immediately forgettable. There’s a feeling of energy that never reaches it’s potential

Not all New Wave is good

All samey, and I don't enjoy this guy's voice. It's like what I don't enjoy about punk. Did this deserve to be here? Probably not.

eh ... it's okay for a minute, but pretty repetitive after a while - it just isn't working for me.

Not really my vibe, to rock for my liking but I appreciate the art the album entailed.

Yeah, New Wave, Post Punk Euro pop rock. I've only heard Pretty In Pink before listening to this but its pretty much same as all the othe bands of the ilk during the early 80's

Not my cup of tea, but I’m sure others would enjoy

Was this more than one song?

Incomprehensible album, just like the band name.

This is not good. Repeating boring instrumental breaks. The singer sucks. Some of the lyrics are creepy. I had written more at one point, but I must not have saved it. And this album honestly doesn't deserve me writing those thoughts again. Favorite Song(s): -

Sounded more like harsh noise at times than something coherent. Very chaotic, more than I like.

I tried to like this, but I just, I didn't like it.. Sorry guys =(

I guess maybe I’m bringing preconceptions of what this music is supposed to sound like, but wow, the stuff on the first track was super out of tune. Couldn’t hang.

Had high expectations based on how much other artists that I like revere the Furs but it was kind of awful. The vocals I mean

Not for me

What a boring album! The singer really is unbearable, it sounds so amateurish it is ridiculous. He projects the image of someone who woke up and was forced to sing the lines. And when he hold notes (or attempts to) it just sounds garbage, what a drag. Removing the singer from the equation couldn't save this record though, everything sounds uninspiring and the same to me. This will have to be one of those records that gets a one star because of how boring it is, and failing to evoke any kind of positive emotion.

Grating voice. Modern English did it better.

Reforça para mim que é muito disco, assim não percebi nada interessante, foi irrelevante.

Vomitrocious

Sehr generisch gefällt mir nicht so richtig hab nach 3 Liedern aufgehört

Ok

1 st

Ugh. Damn my completionist morals, I really wanted to turn this off. The singer has a truly awful 1/10 voice. He at times sounds like he's a trolling drunk at karaoke seeing how many people he can get to close out and go to a different bar. And it's just a monotonous CD overall too - few exciting moments, long stretches stuck in the same moment, nothing interesting sonically and not much variety. I have a pretty high tolerance for offensive, but I'll also point out that a handful of songs, like "I Wanna Sleep With You" and "Into You Like a Train", are more offensive lyrically than I think anyone who might potentially like this kind of music would enjoy, and not really in the service of any kind of redeeming message.

The most irritating of all the new wave voices, a genre of which I already don’t appreciate. I couldn’t stand this album and considered turning it off half way through, but I regrettably persevered. I Wanna Sleep With You was the worst of the lot, akin to nails on the chalkboard.

Jesus, this is fucking terrible.

This sucks

This was lazy.

My body rejected this completely. Annoyingly British garbage.

Next

not a lot of variation in the first 8 songs on the list...

new wave post punk albumi jonka keskiarvo arvosteluineen päivineen on 2.98-3.04, jep! tämä on maailman mitäänsanomattomin albumi. tyypillistä rock mällätystä ilman mitään syytä ja päälle banaalia lyrisismiä jota ei jaksa edes yrittää kuunnella. ei talenttia... ei ollenkaan talenttia. jos haluatte nähdä talenttia niin siirtäkäämme katse 2020-luvun hittiartisteihin.. mielestäni huonoin kymmenen vuotta musiikille oli 1340-luku (bubonic plague in eurasia) 1980-luku varmistanut kakkospaikan tällä saatanan tempulla.. puuduttavaa, puuduttavaa, puuduttavaa, psykedeeliset turrit. albumi nappasi meikäläisen huonona päivänä, vai tekikö albumi päivästä huonon? heh vähän filosofeille mietittävää, kotitehtävää filosofian opiskelijoille, vähän tekemistä, puuhaa pikkusen filosofiasta kiinnostuneille... mr jones

He is way too British, and altogether too horny, for this album to be good. Across a forty minute runtime, he may have sung four different notes and none of them well. I hate that this mediocrity plagues the 1001 albums list when there are so many albums and artists that deserve the recognition. Here, it's just another horny British artist that can't sing backed up with vaguely psychedelic instrumentation that ends up being way more post punk, not that the recategorization makes it any more intereresting.

Boring, and obscure. Not something I needed to hear before death

One of those albums I wish wasn't on this list. Incredibly same-y songs, very repetitive instrumental phrases backing up a monotonic and boring singer. I Wanna Sleep With You is a turn-off for me. I realize I'm listening to this album 40 years out of its context, and I read about the influence of the Psychedelic Furs during their 80s hey day, but in my mind an album on this list should hold up no matter what era you're listening to it in. I was bored by track #1.

Yep, they put out an album and I have unfortunately listened to it.

I can see the appeal, I'm just not into New Wave.

A painful listen

No.

Was this supposed to be a Talk Talk album instead?

Disappointing! Thought I’d like it because of their song from Pretty in Pink; nope! The guy is either yelling or talk-singing. Not good!

Boring. Singer has no range. Not punk, just soft rock

Meh fell flat for me.

"Talk Talk Talk" No. Stop talking. As this album has interesting instrumentals, but is utterly ruined by that voice. It activates my fight and flight response.

I was never a fan.

Combination of my two least favourite types of music: punk and 80’s.

Not for me

1.5