Album · The Psychedelic Furs
Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs
Talk Talk Talk is an album by The Psychedelic Furs, released in 1981. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 70 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pretty In Pink”, on 70 lists with a best position of #9.
Talk Talk Talk, the second album from England's Psychedelic Furs, came out on Columbia on 15 May 1981, with Steve Lillywhite behind the desk. It's post-punk with the lights left on: a wall of guitars, a rhythm section that keeps things driving, and Duncan Kilburn's saxophone honking and smearing across the top like a streak of lipstick on a mirror.
The song everybody remembers is "Pretty In Pink", sardonic and swaggering, delivered with a smoky rasp over a riff that sticks in your head for days. Radio has never let it go.
Columbia and Legacy reissued the album with bonus tracks in 2002, and it came back on vinyl in the UK in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Talk Talk Talk on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty In Pink#446 of all time | 70 | #9 | – | 1986–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.