Missing Pieces (Talk Talk album)

Missing Pieces
Compilation album by Talk Talk
Released 2001
Recorded 1990–1991, 1998
Genre
Length 55:27
Label Pond Life
Talk Talk chronology
The Collection
(2000)The Collection2000		 Missing Pieces
(2001)		 Introducing ... Talk Talk
(2003)Introducing ... Talk Talk2003

Missing Pieces is a 2001 compilation album by Talk Talk. The first six tracks are the A- and B-Sides of the three CD singles released in 1991 for their final album Laughing Stock. Four of these are versions of album tracks, with the addition of the otherwise uncollected B-Sides "Stump" and "5:09". The final track, "Piano", was recorded pseudonymously by Mark Hollis (as "John Cope", the title of the B-Side of their 1988 single "I Believe In You" from the album Spirit of Eden) for the 1998 album "AV 1" by Allinson / Brown, which was produced by former Talk Talk producer Phill Brown. According to Hollis, it was designed to cycle indefinitely for a Dave Allinson/Phill Brown art exhibition and is presented twice in a row on the CD.[1] Missing Pieces was released in 2001 to a generally mixed to positive reception. It is now out of print.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Leonard's Lair

Leonard's Lair gave 3/5 stars, with "5:09" listed as the album highlight.[2] The mixed score was because "if many more tenuous releases see the light of day there's a danger of that impression being cheapened." AllMusic also gave it a 3/5 star review, despite the review being more positive.[3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
1."After the Flood"Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-GreeneA-Side (Outtake)4:14
2."Myrrhman"Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-GreeneB-Side5:36
3."New Grass"Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-GreeneA-Side9:36
4."Stump"Mark Hollis, Tim Friese-Greene & Lee HarrisB-Side4:45
5."Ascension Day"Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-GreeneA-Side6:04
6."5:09"Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-GreeneB-Side5:14
7."Piano"John Cope (Mark Hollis) 14:40

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ "Such a shame: The Within Without interview with Mark Hollis, September 1998 ..." Within Without. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Talk Talk - Missing Pieces". Leonardslair.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
  3. ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Missing Pieces - Talk Talk". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
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