30 Day Song Challenge: Day Eleven - A Song From Your Favorite Band

Day Eleven - A Song From Your Favorite Band
Talk Talk
"I Believe In You"

Again, I don't have a ultimate favorite anything when it comes to music. There are usually many bands floating around the top of my favorites, so I am sort of at a loss as to how to choose something this definitive. In the spirit of the challenge, I will have to say at this moment it is the long defunct Talk Talk. I loved them during their new romantic period, their synth pop period, and the later (and much more beloved by me) experimental phase, when they stretched the boundaries of rock/jazz/electronica. If you haven't heard their last three albums (Colour Of Spring, Spirit Of Eden, and Laughing Stock), you are truly missing out on some amazing music.

Spirit of Eden is one of my favorite albums ever, and "I Believe In You" is by far my favorite song. It is haunting cry to Mark Hollis' brother who died of a heroin overdose. The ending repetition of the phrase "Spirit.....How long?" will give you chills.