I've mixed feelings about posting a Talk Talk selection; I have this, plus another C90 collating songs from 1981 to 1988, and I've never been entirely happy with either. Little wonder, given the painstaking and shattering effect recording and honing the two albums in question - 1988's Spirit Of Eden and 1991's Laughing Stock - had on the band and the musicians involved.
The title is a song from the Spirit Of Eden album, which didn't actually make it onto this selection's final running order. Contrary? Moi?
By necessity of space and song balance, I went for the single edits of I Believe In You and Eden and included only one older song, the incredible remix of Happiness Is Easy from 1986, as a nod to the original C90 B-side, Paul Webb and Lee Harris' subsequent .O.Rang project.
An imperfect selection, to say the least, but the songs themselves more than make up for it.
1) The Rainbow (1988)
2) Myrrhman (1991)
3) I Believe In You (Single Version By Tim Friese-Greene) (1988)
4) Ascension Day (1991)
5) Happiness Is Easy (12" Mix By Paul Webb & Lee Harris) (1986)
6) Desire (1988)
7) Eden (Edit By Tim Friese-Greene) (1988)
8) John Cope (1988)
1986: I Don't Believe In You EP: 5
1988: I Believe In You EP: 3, 7, 8
1988: Spirit Of Eden: 1, 6
1991: Laughing Stock: 2, 4
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