While I also think that this sounds better than "Laughing Stock", in terms of structure, "Spirit of Eden" could score a theatrical performance. SoE is a better storyteller than LS, to be frank.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

interesting. I disagree obviously, but that's a really fascinating way of looking at it

fascinating

I used to disagree too..."Myrrhman" and "New Grass" are better by themselves than anything on this record but LS just doesn't have that awesome consistency.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

i havent listened to this beyond The Rainbow and I Believe In You in a while... maybe ill try that again

'the rainbow' is among my favorite songs


ever

Album Rating: 4.5

These guys have the sweetest chord progressions

Album Rating: 5.0

"Overshadowed by Laughing Stock"?? nonsense. While they are both phenomenal, I consider SoE to be one of the top 5 albums ever made. ever.

Laughing Stock is better

i think theyre about equal; laughing stock is a lil better

Album Rating: 4.0

Laughing Stock is much better, no question

Edit; Laughing Stock is slightly better.

Album Rating: 5.0

the rainbow is insanely good

While Spirit of Eden is a post-rock influenced record

Album Rating: 5.0

Wealth is probably the greatest album closer of all time.

erasedcitizen:
"I used to disagree too..."Myrrhman" and "New Grass" are better by themselves than anything on this record but LS just doesn't have that awesome consistency."

I agree with quite a lot of what you say in that I think Spirit of Eden is far better as a whole than Laughing Stock. I would also pick 2 songs as standing out from LS, they being Myrrhham, but the other would be Taphead. Also I wouldn't simply say they are superior to anything on this album, I'd just say they are different. Also I think their 84 album is great, it may not be post-rock but that doesn't make it inferior to me, it's just different. I thought their 86 album was disappointing.

This album to me is important simply because it is good music, not because people look back retrospectively and see it as starting a genre, that doesn't matter to me. Post-rock was pretty much a continuation of progressive anyway in some ways. Progressive perhaps just wasn't as high profile in the 80s as it had been earlier.

Album Rating: 5.0

Colour of Spring is nearly as good as this and LS to me

The Colour of Spring didn't seem to have that memorable ideas to me, though the production can be interesting and it has some good energy at times. Life is What You Make It for example sounds a bit like the later smoothed over US rock style that Simple Minds and other British groups adopted in their later music (some suggest to get into the American market). Tears for Fears did it the best in their 85 album I think.

Album Rating: 5.0

I just love the artistry with which the album was made with. Some of the finest pop music I've heard. And as you mentioned, the production is fucking mint.

Album Rating: 4.0

You love Talk Talk? Here is an album to listen to. It starts like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4fFsrnC0ZA

Edit: Check out for Mark Hollis as well.