Spirit of Eden

I am getting to the point where I question why I’m continuing with the user list, then every so often I get a glaring omission from the list I hadn’t thought of, this talk talk album is one of these masterpieces that was ignored from the list and make this user list all the worth while.

Nice early post-rock. Never knew Talk Talk produced anything besides their well known (and certainly not bad synth-pop).The nasal singing voice of Hollis still annoys me after a while.

This should have been the pick over "Laughing Stock."

I was waiting for something to kick in but it never did.

I LOVE “It’s My Life” and “Life’s What You Make It”, and we already had the album with “Life’s What You Make It”, so I assumed I’d be hearing “It’s My Life” on this. This was not the 80s confection my palette was expecting. Instead Talk Talk has served up a moody, low-key sort of album that has more in common with experimental jazz than those 80s songs I love. As this was totally out of left field it took a few minutes to adjust, but once I did I really got into this. It was pretty cool to lie back and loll around to this. Really interesting and at the same time quite soothing to me. What a terrific suggestion for the list!

This did not sound like I thought it was going to. Atmospheric, occasionally dipping into things like jazz and blues. It reminded me of later Pink Floyd, which I mean in the best way possible. This smacks of "The Division Bell". But also... I'm not sure if it's essential in the way that this list *tries* to be. It definitely is at least as good as like... 400 albums on the real list, though, so why not.

At first I thought this was gonna be some lame ambient music but then the blues hit and it got much more interesting. Didn’t stick around the whole time but it was an overall pleasant experience.

Slightly better than last time I listened to it

Post-rock, art rock, experimental rock, ambient. Ni fu ni fa.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Desire

This was a solid album and impressive given Talk Talk’s popular 80s hits. This was like a prog rock/jazz 80s album that had instrumental range while being a cohesive album. Wild definitely listen to this again as it’s front to back a really good listen and is pretty seamless between tracks and with the instrumental depth it’s got plenty of layers. 7.6/10

Apple Music liner notes begins with ‘Spirit of Eden is one of the most powerful and singular experiences in modern music’ My liner notes ‘It was fine’

Surprisingly somber and contemplative. Very interesting. 3 stars.

Late 80s serviceable adult contempo

Very experimental. Was fine to listen to, but not to special

A little heavy on the Art for my tastes, but decently interesting anyway.

I feel like I would have called this boring if I didn't bother to say "don't I know these guys"? Wikipedia told me I did but they dropped the 80s synth and invented post rock. Well, ok. Good on them.

Enjoyed it enough.

Not quite my tempo 2

There are some beautiful melodic moments on this LP, but the surrounding space in each track is so sparse that it feels more like reaching an oasis in a desert than any sort of musical epiphany. Couple that with the ho-hum intermediary songs sandwiched in between tracks stretched well beyond their attention-carrying capacity and the whole album just drags – if the dead space that populates most of this LP was filled I think I would have enjoyed it much more.

I listened to the full first song before I looked up this album on Wikipedia and it already felt improvisational. I don't rate improvisation when it comes to this kind of music. I think it's good for jam sessions, but it's not good for creating full rock music albums. This was okay. I have no real feelings towards it one way or the other. 2/5.

Some parts of Spirit Of Eden worked for me, the first two tracks created some atmosphere and a decent sound, but it was hard going and didn't last very long before fading into nothingness. 2/5.

Not at all what I was expecting. Found it rather underwhelming.

Ethereal but never really goes anywhere or shows me something good

Pretentious garbage

Dear lord, this is a terrible album. Sure, it's nicely produced with a fair degree of dynamic range - but it is a tepid to the point of discomfort.