Talk Talk – It’s My Life

“It’s My Life” – Single by Talk Talk from the album It’s My Life, released on January 6, 1984.

“It’s My Life” is a song by the English new wave band Talk Talk. Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, it was the title track on the band’s second album and released as its first single in January 1984. It reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart, but did better in several other countries, reaching number 33 in Germany, number 32 in New Zealand, number 25 in France and number 9 in Italy. In North America, it entered the Top 40 in both the United States (at number 31 becoming their only top 40 hit) and Canada (at number 30). It peaked at number 1 on the US Dance Club Songs chart.

There are two versions of the video for “It’s My Life”. The first, envisioned by director Tim Pope as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from the 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth pointedly shut tight, the latter often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines that occasionally appear in the documentary footage sequences as well.

The second version, recorded at the behest of EMI, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.

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Talk Talk – It’s My Life
De pe albumul “It’s My Life” lansat in 1984, aceasta a fost prima melodie lansta pe single la 13 Ianuarie 1984.
Talk Talk au activat intre 1981 si 1991. Grupul a fost format din Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass).

Talk Talk aa fost creditat cu inventia “post-rock-ului” in ultimele lor doua albume., Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock.

Talk Talk
Mark Hollis – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Paul Webb – fretless bass guitar, backing vocals
Lee Harris – Simmons drums, snare drum

Additional Musicians
Tim Friese-Greene – Oberheim OB-X and Fairlight CMI synthesizers, Roland TR-808 programming
Ian Curnow – Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizers
Robbie McIntosh – electric guitar
Morris Pert – percussion

Lyrics:
Funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I’d pay to lose
One half won’t do
I’ve asked myself, how much do you
Commit yourself
It’s my life, don’t you forget
It’s my life, it never ends (It never ends)
Funny how I blind myself, I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon, afraid to lose
I’d tell myself, what good you do
Convince myself
It’s my life, don’t you forget
It’s my life, it never ends (It never ends)
I’ve asked myself, how much do you
Commit yourself?
It’s my life, don’t you forget
Caught in the crowd, it never ends
It’s my life, don’t you forget
Caught in the crowd, it never ends
It’s my life, don’t you forget
Caught in the crowd, it never ends

Songwriters: Mark David Hollis / Timothy Alan Friese-Greene

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