Album · Talk Talk
It’s My Life by Talk Talk
It’s My Life is an album by Talk Talk, released in 1984. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 65 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “It's My Life”, on 61 lists with a best position of #18.
It's My Life, Talk Talk's second album, came out on EMI on 13 February 1984, and it catches a synth-pop band that already sounds too restless for synth-pop. Tim Friese-Greene produced it, and he gives the songs a spacious, glassy sheen where the silences count as much as the notes.
The title track is the one that stuck, a sleek, restless single with a yearning, cracked-porcelain vocal gliding over rubbery bass and chiming keyboards. "Such a Shame" pulses with a jittery, nervy urgency, and "Dum Dum Girl" bounces along with a strange, sad lilt. Even the cover is unusual: James Marsh designed it, working in elements of John Everett Millais' painting The Boyhood of Raleigh.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from It’s My Life on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's My Life | 61 | #18 | – | 1984–2026 | |
| 2 | Such a Shame | 3 | #675 | – | 1991–2003 | |
| 3 | Dum Dum Girl | 1 | #1693 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.