It’s a cold a dreary day, and the recession blues are biting everyone to the bone. The grey gloom clouds of fiscal misery hang over every head around here and amidst the layoff’s and cut backs the ugly face of greed has risen from the sewers.
Take away a mans overtime and he tries to screw the company for cash any other way he can. It’s a really sad sight to see and can pull down the happiest of souls and the biggest of companies. What ever happened to dignity?
So solemn the weather and sad the mood, something is needed to raise the soul to a higher place.
Get back to the office, plug in the headphones and search under Talk Talk for the track “Happiness Is Easy’.
Most people think of Talk Talk as an early eighties pop band, with a couple of edgy high viz pop tracks scraping the charts. The real fans tend to appreciate more what they did after that phase. Several deeply intuitive albums showing a mastery of musical styles. Somewhere between these two extremes is the album “The Colour of Spring’ which captures the best of both their worlds and swings between pop and anthem.
Tucked away on this album, ‘Happiness is Easy’ is one of the only tracks I have ever heard where the use of a childrens choir didn’t turn it into total cheese. A fantastic baseline intro promises something dark and then the chorus lifts it somewhere divine.
All better now.
Listen to this track!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment