Look for a shame
| Look for a shame | |
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| Talk talk | |
| publication | March 1984 |
| length | 3:59 6:54 (12 "single, A-side) 5:43 (12" single, B-side) |
| Genre (s) | New wave , synth pop |
| Author (s) | Mark Hollis |
| album | It's my life |
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Such a Shame is a song by Talk Talk from the year 1984 , that of Mark Hollis was written and produced by Tim Friese-Greene. It appeared on the album It's My Life .
history
For the lyrics, Mark Hollis was inspired by Luke Rhinehart 's book Der Würfler , which was one of his favorite books. In the text, which is kept linguistically simple, the protagonist reflects on his experiment in making important decisions by rolling the dice : Actually, it is a shame to evade responsibility in this way. Each eye on the cube stands for a different life plan. A new number should be rolled quickly - but the urge to want to change constantly is a shame. At some point the death number eight will be called as a conclusion. Hollis said of the novel: "A good book, not a lifestyle that I would recommend."
The song begins with a unique synthesizer sound that is reminiscent of an elephant call. At the end of the chorus, a Progrock- like organ sound can be heard, the drums are punchy and the bass is played in slap technique according to the era .
In the video for the song that the band shot with Tim Pope, Mark Hollis plays the dice player in changing clothes, whose facial expression constantly slips away. From time to time an animated cube is shown. According to Hollis, the attempt was made to use the video to mime the 500-page novel in four minutes.
The release took place in March 1984, unlike its predecessor It's My Life , this synth-pop song became a top ten hit in many countries and even made it to number one in Switzerland.
In 1990 the song was released again. This version reached number 78 in the UK.
In France, the song was used in an advertisement for the Peugeot 205 .
reception
Richard Cook from NME magazine slating the piece in March 1984, described it as "faceless regret, the Lurex elicits -Mülleimer."
The song is played in the Austrian film Die Muse des Morders from 2018.
Cover versions
In 2002, Sandra recorded the song for her seventh studio album, Wheel of Time , produced by Michael Cretu and Jens Gad . This version was able to place itself at number 76 in the German charts. In the same year, a trance version of the Moonwalker formation made it to number 35 on the Austrian hit list. Further cover versions were sung by the following artists:
- 1984: James Last
- 1997: Fancy
- 2002: Markus Güntner
- 2004: Jackie Moore
- 2005: X-Perience
- 2007: Crew 7
- 2008: Atrocity
- 2008: Matthias Vogt
- 2009: Nouvelle Vague
- 2011: Solar Fake
- 2012: Michel Schmied
- 2013: Carlo (van Putten) and Robert (Smeekers); as a duo outside of their actual project White Rose Transmission
- 2013: Delain
- 2018: Unplaces
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
- ^ A b Philipp Krohn: Talk Talk: “Such A Shame”. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Henrik H. Aakjaer: Such a Shame . Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ↑ Talk Talk - Such a Shame , Hitparade.ch
- ↑ https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/such-a-shame-%7B1990%7D/
- ^ Richard Cook: Singles . In: NME . March 31, 1984, p. 18 .
- ↑ https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-8511
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Moonwalker-Such-A-Shame/release/1283041
- ↑ https://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Moonwalker&titel=Such+A+Shame&cat=s