[kj] OT -- EATB

[Alexander Smith]

I've been staying out of this, but I'll vouch for the utter brilliance 
of Talk Talk.

Alex in NYC



On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 01:23 AM, Matthew Burke wrote:

> Now that the Furs have been mentioned, I'll be bold enough to suggest 
> a dumb topic that I thought of earlier.
>
> In the midst of all this EATB talk, my mind drifting backward, today I 
> happened upon a website in which an author referred to Talk Talk as an 
> 80's hair band.
>
> My suggestion:
>
> Since a bunch of gatherers seem to be in agreement about the 
> significance of EATB, what other bands can you think of that have been 
> maligned or otherwise written off just because they were victims of a 
> fad or a superficial era in history?
>
> I'll take Talk Talk and offer the albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing 
> Stock as proof of brilliance dwarfing any commercial success they may 
> have enjoyed earlier in their career, hair or no.
>
>
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