It's My Life (album)

It's My Life
Studio album by Talk Talk
Released February 1984
Recorded 1983
Genre
Length 43:26
Label EMI
Producer Tim Friese-Greene
Talk Talk chronology
The Party's Over
(1982)The Party's Over1982		 It's My Life
(1984)		 The Colour of Spring
(1986)The Colour of Spring1986
Singles from It's My Life
  1. "It's My Life"
    Released: 13 January 1984
  2. "Such a Shame"
    Released: March 1984
  3. "Dum Dum Girl"
    Released: 1984
  4. "It's My Life"
    Released: 1985 (reissue)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Mojo[3]
Q[4]

It's My Life is the second studio album by English rock band Talk Talk, released in 1984.

Recording

Mike Oldfield's bass player, Phil Spalding made an uncredited appearance on the album, substituting for Paul Webb on "The Last Time" – "Paul was exclusively a fretless bass player and they needed a fretted bass on this particular track." Spalding admits to having played the whole session while disastrously hung-over, and that – foreshadowing the approach Talk Talk would take on subsequent recordings - Tim Friese-Greene and Mark Hollis insisted that he record a whole afternoon and evening of multiple takes, despite the simplicity of the part. Ian Curnow adds "we always had to go all around the houses to get next door, just in case there was anything that turned up on the other side."[5]

Cover

The cover to the album was produced by James Marsh, incorporating elements of The Boyhood of Raleigh by John Everett Millais.

Release

It's My Life was released in February 1984 by record label EMI.

It's My Life was a top 5 hit album in several European countries, thanks to the big international success of its singles (notably "Such a Shame"), and was particularly successful in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany where the album peak-charted at numbers 2, 3 and 4, respectively.[6] In the Netherlands, the album stayed in the charts for 64 weeks between 1984 and 1986.[6] It also reached number 35 in the UK albums chart.[7] In the United States, the album just missed the top 40, reaching number 42.[8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dum Dum Girl"
3:51
2."Such a Shame"Hollis5:42
3."Renée"Hollis6:22
4."It's My Life"
  • Friese-Greene
  • Hollis
3:50
5."Tomorrow Started"Hollis5:57
6."The Last Time"
  • Ian Curnow
  • Hollis
4:23
7."Call in the Night Boy"
3:47
8."Does Caroline Know?"
  • Friese-Greene
  • Hollis
4:40
9."It's You"Hollis4:41

Personnel

Talk Talk
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1984–86) Peak
position
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[6] 3
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[10] 27
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[11] 49
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] 2
UK Albums (OCC)[7] 35
US Billboard 200[8] 42

References

  1. ↑ Woodstra, Chris. "It's My Life – Talk Talk". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2009). "Talk Talk". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-199-72636-1. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Eccleston, Danny (May 2012). "Lost Horizon". Mojo. London (222): 100. ISSN 1351-0193.
  4. ↑ Roberts, David (October 2000). "Talk Talk: It's My Life". Q. London (169). Archived from the original on 11 October 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  5. ↑ 'Talk Talk - It's My Life' story on Phil Spalding homepage
  6. 1 2 3 "Dutchcharts.nl – Talk Talk – It's My Life" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Talk Talk Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Talk Talk – It's My Life". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Talk Talk – It's My Life". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Talk Talk – It's My Life". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
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