The Original Talkatives - Complete Recordings 1981 - 1986

 Carmen Gomes is an accomplished jazz/blues singer whose 1997 album "Heaven is a State of Mind" was awarded Album of the Year by Jazznu Magazine. 

 She has a Bandcamp page where you can hear her "souljazz with a bluesy touch". Her latest album, a tribute to Ray Charles, was just released last month so her music career is alive and well which is amazing considering she started out forty years ago in a ska band called Subsection. 

Subsection released an eleven song demo tape in 1981 that was 2 Tone style ska from beginning to end. It should be ranked up there with the most popular ska releases of that era but, sadly, very few people have ever heard it, or even know about it.

  Members of the band did have some decent success in the mid 80s as the band Original Talkatives with their new wave-with-an-island-feel and they maintained their ska roots throughout their career but toward the end they developed more of a pop sound appealing more to fans of Debbie Gibson than to fans of Mark Foggo. 

This is a Tone and Wave exclusive. A compilation of all of the songs recorded by both bands - Subsection and Original Talkatives. This download includes the Subsection demo as well as the pure-ska 4-track Original Talkatives demo and all five vinyl singles plus a live song that is not available on their other releases.

 The songs "Dog Shit" and "Rocksteady fur Elise" from the Subsection demo were re-recorded for the 4-track Original Talkatives demo and the first song from the Original Talkatives demo "For Me" was re-recorded for the B-side to the Original Talkatives' first single. But, aside from these songs, everything else on the demos are unique to those tapes. 

 

1 Watch Out

2 Alcoholic Man

3 Monday Morning

4 Boy

5 A Bom

6 Dog Shit

7 Don't Go

8 Death

9 Killing Dance

10 Watching TV

11 Rocksteady fur Elise

12 For Me

13 Bored Stiff

14 Dog Shit

15 Fur Elise

16 Computers

17 For Me

18 Pickin' Up

19 The Ladder

20 Waiting by the Telephone

21 Summer

22 High Pressure

23 Reggative Time

24 Squeeze Louise

25 City Life

26 Don't Wanna Hurt You (live)

 

Tracks 1 - 11: Subsection demo tape from 1981

Tracks 12 - 15: Original Talkatives demo  tape from 1982

Tracks 16 & 17: Computers 7" from 1983

Tracks 18 & 19: Pickin' Up 7" from 1985

Tracks 20 & 21: Waiting by the Telephone 7" from 1985

Tracks 22 & 23: High Pressure 7" from 1986

Tracks 24 & 25: Squeeze Louise 7" that was recorded in the 80s but wasn't released until 2013

Track 26: from De Grote Prijs van Nederland

I must note that De Grote Prijs van Nederland also has a live version of "Pickin' Up" which I didn't include because I didn't include any live versions aside from "Don't Wanna Hurt You" only because it's not available on any other recording. .

I owe a tremendous amount of thanks to Sander for providing the last two songs I didn't have as well as the YouTube channel Diggin Demos from where I respectably stole the two demos. 

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