POLL: Best Talk Talk single

I'm going to be CONTROVERSIAL and vote for "Today"

I Don't Believe in You
I Believe In You

Talk Talk is it's own contrarian!

new grass

beautiful

I was as close as Curt1s to voting for 'Today' then I changed my mind at the last minute to 'Living In Another World'.

I think this could be one of the closest polls yet, each song has its own merits.

Living in Another World is another fav for me!

but being the synthpop purist I am, y'know

i voted for new gass but i could just as easily have voted for 5 other songs.

grass

I didn't think anything off LS got released as a single?

this is according to Wikipedia :/

"Dum Dum Girl"

- yeah, I too prefer "New Grass" et al. but as far as Talk Talk singles are concerned, this one has one of their best ever hooks (the chorus just explodes out of nowhere!) and is an incredible opening track to their best-ever POP MUSIC album.

and yeah, there were no official "singles" from Laughing Stock - there's a talk talk singles comp on EMI that has all their singles (i believe) in chronological order, though

Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk

1 Today
2 Talk Talk
3 My Foolish Friend
4 Such a Shame
5 Dum Dum Girl
6 It's My Life
7 Give It Up
8 Living in Another World
9 Life's What You Make It
10 Happiness Is Easy
11 I Believe in You
12 Desire

...which eliminates I Don't Believe in You, plus all the Laughing Stock stuff, and aside from leaving off Mirror Man sounds just about right, but i could be wrong still...

i don't believe in you is amazing, so i'm picking that, though I could just as easily pick almost anything else

^^^ came out before Laughing Stock dude

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(Natural History is my main TT joint fwiw but it's not comprehensive)

you'll also note that it contains "Desire" which wasn't a single

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Life's What You Make It

Vice City memories. Released or not, I wouldn't consider Spirit of Eden or Laughing Stock singles material.

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Oh, I missed this. I would've voted for "New Grass."

Such a Shame 0

:(

such a great band - i love practically every song on here, including the FOUR SONGS THAT DIDNT RECEIVE ANY VOTES.
sheesh!

my favorite use of "Dum Dum Girl":

http://www.rathergood.com/blode/

(obv not really DDG)

Let's sat that they were purposely silly.

I'm such a pathetic stan for Laughing Stock that I picked up one of these on eBay earlier in the year:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Y0UdVf5IL._SY355_.jpg

I'm increasingly coming around to the idea that Colour of Spring is 'the one' but Spirit of Eden is too low (by one)!

Yeah I can't see any argument for Spirit being less than top three (though actually separating then is a task)

The thing about The Colour of Spring is that it is positively inventive but the hooks (and there are so many) mean that you don't have to be fully in the mood, maaaaan.

(Laughing Stock is still No.1 for me.)

spirit of eden towers above the rest

and everybody knows

London 1986 is the one I listen to the most these days, actually. Has an absolutely GODLIKE version of “Tomorrow Started”

Life's What You Make It often pops into my head. A belated vote for that

London 1986 is the one I listen to the most these days, actually. Has an absolutely GODLIKE version of “Tomorrow Started”

Yes, this - and the version of "Renee" is quite amazing as well.

I'm such a pathetic stan for Laughing Stock that I picked up one of these on eBay earlier in the year:

My brother once worked in a record shop and stole got one of those for me - I've got no idea what happened to it though.

Laughing Stock is my favourite, have yet to listen to the albums from the debut to and including Spring in their entirety, but man - Such a Shame is clearly my winner as the best single. Incredible quality song on every possible level.