Talk Talk
It’s My Life (40th Anniversary Edition) Half-Speed Master
Releasing October 4
LOS ANGELES—In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Talk Talk’s iconic It’s My Life album, it has been cut at Half-Speed by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of Mark Hollis, giving the album a greater depth. The 180-gram black vinyl will be released alongside a CD reissue in new card packaging on October 4.
Originally released in February 1984, It’s My Life is the band's second album, following the 1982 release of their debut The Party’s Over which initially received moderate success in the UK reaching No. 21 in the UK chart and finding some global success.
By the time they came to writing and recording It’s My Life, the band had gone from a four-piece to a three-piece, with Simon Brenner leaving. The album initially found considerable international success. “Such A Shame,” the album's first single, was a Top-10 hit across Europe, and the album’s title track entered the global Top 40 chart, including in the US.
Interestingly, the album and singles from this album were largely ignored in the UK at the time, but their legacy and importance as a band have blossomed since, and they can count Radiohead, Blur, Elbow and St. Vincent amongst their fans. Where the UK didn’t connect with it at first, the rest of the world did, and in time, this infiltrated the UK, and they were eventually embraced maybe in part to covers from Eurodance groups Gigabyte and Scanner but possibly most of all by the Gwen Stafani fronted No Doubt finding huge global success with their cover of “It’s My Life” in 2003.
It’s My Life (40th Anniversary Edition)
Tracklist
LP
Side 1
- Dum Dum Girl
- Such a Shame
- Renee
- It’s My Life
Side 2
- Tomorrow Started
- The Last Time
- Call in the Night Boy
- Does Caroline Know?
- It’s You
CD
- Dum Dum Girl
- Such a Shame
- Renee
- It’s My Life
- Tomorrow Started
- The Last Time
- Call in the Night Boy
- Does Caroline Know?
- It’s You