Would you consider Talk Talk more NW or prog rock?

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[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
<br>Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden are both completely brilliant. It's disappointing but not at all a surprise that so few people get them.
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I liked the albums from It's My Life to Laughing Stock. When I first heard their second album, I heard something a little more interesting going on than the usual, more introspective and slightly experimental that was fully developed on their final two albums.

Spirit and Laughing Stock are not great Afternoon music, but at 2AM...yes!

Good B-sides, too - "It's Getting Late in the Evening" (The B to "Life's What You Make It") stands out.

They may have been Synth Pop on the first two, but even as early as the second album you did hear some Prog trying to get out.

I disagree more with those who love the last two albums and dismiss the first two.

[newyawkdoll]

First two albums are New Wave-Synthpop, with New Romantic touches on the debut. Very Duran Duran/Flock of Seagulls (but with their own touch, certainly not a rip-off).

Third album is still mostly New Wave, but leaning on the Indie/College Rock end of the scale (it was mid-80s, so part of a natural progression many Wave acts were making) with touches of Art Rock.

Last two albums are more influenced by Prog than just being Prog (a la Radiohead), I'd say. I would describe them as Alternative/Art Rock and Dream Pop.

I do appreciate Talk Talk's catalog from top to bottom. The later albums took some getting used to since at the time I first listened to them, I wasn't used to Art Rock/Avant-Garde. But since then I've come around to appreciating some artists in those more "left field" styles such as early Industrial, Krautrock and Dark Ambient. My favorite record has to be The Colour of Spring though. It has a great medium between "artsy" music and accessible Pop.