Volume 1, Number 4
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Front and back cover featuring Ultravox, Bob Marley and The Buzzcocks
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Table of Contents and page 3 featuring show reviews of Bob Marley and The Wailers, Ultravox, and the Buzzcocks.
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Pages 4 and 5 featuring singles reviews of Arthur Kay, Angelic Upstarts, UK Subs, The Cure, Else's Train, Pretenders, Cockney Rejects, and Secret Affair. Page 5 features album reviews of John Cale, The Jam, and The Damned.
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Pages 6 and 7 featuring continued show review of Ultravox and the Buzzcocks and interview with Ultravox on page 7
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Pages 8 and 9 featuring album reviews of Joy Division, Snakefinger, and Merton Parkas. Singles reviews on page 9 include Secret Affair, Protex, The Psychedelic Furs, Cult Hero, and Snakefinger.
Talk Talk Volume 1, #4
Pages 10 and 11 featuring music news of upcoming record releases by The Clash, Public Image Ltd., Sid Vicious, and The Pretenders, violence against English punks, Red Crayola lineup changes, and local news. Conclusions of album and singles reviews (Lori and the Chameleons) as well as Ultravox interview.
Excerpts
Along with the Barrett Brothers and the I-Two's, the ten piece band showed the audience of 3,500 the style of reggae played live, complete with Haile Selassie backdrop. The overall emphasis was similar to the live sound shown on "Babylon by Bus," drawing from the "Natty Dread" LP and the new "Survival."
Bob Marley and the Wailers live review
The group played with power. Steve Diggle on guitar all the while moving about, a perfect foil for the rest of the band's feigned nonchalant attitude. After they left the stage, the crowd screamed for more and before you knew it the Buzzcocks were back ripping into a searing rendition of "Breakdown" and then finishing up by an equally good version of "Boredom."
Buzzcocks live review
More songs about alienation and uncertainty for the 80's can be heard on this debut LP from Joy Division… The singer is the most interesting part of the music. He sings in a kind of restrained monotone, hardly showing any emotion. Sometimes it sounds like he's trying to remember what it's like to be human.
Review, Joy Division, "Unknown Pleasures"