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Talk (Coldplay song)

October 20, 2023

"Talk" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay. Built around a motif from Kraftwerk's 1981 song "Computer Love", it was written by all members of the band and appeared on their third album, X&Y. In the United States, the song entered at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and elsewhere in the world its success varied. It peaked at number one in the Netherlands on both the Dutch Top 40 and Single Top 100 charts, becoming the band's first number-one single there.

"Talk"
Single by Coldplay
from the album X&Y
B-side
Released19 December 2005 (2005-12-19)
Genre
Length
  • 5:11 (album version)
  • 4:29 (international radio edit)
  • 4:05 (US radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Coldplay singles chronology
"Fix You"
(2005) 		"Talk"
(2005) 		"The Hardest Part"
(2006)
Music video
"Talk" on YouTube

The song received positive reviews, with critics noting the music's sound and memorable lyrics. Both the song and its "Thin White Duke" remix were nominated for the 2007 Grammy Awards, the latter of which won in the category of Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

Background Edit

Coldplay had difficulties with the recording sessions for months, as to the sound of the track.[2][3] They were skeptical in deciding to add "Talk" to the final track listing of X&Y.[2] During the recording sessions, which had seen the band scrap huge amounts of material, the song was left out when they sent early versions of the album to its record label, Parlophone. The song, however, made it to the track list, after it was properly mixed.[2]

 
Chris Martin singing "Talk" during the band's Twisted Logic Tour in Hong Kong, 2006.

When asked about the development of the song by NME.com, vocalist Chris Martin said, "From that version, [a version that NME.com heard, while visiting the band in the studio] we went and did a whole other version of it. A whole other song. What happened with the song 'Talk' is that it was all going great and then someone said 'That should be the first single' and we all just freaked out and scrapped it all. [...] We’ve just mixed it and it sounds great. I think we’ve had such pain getting to that place, I’m not sure anyone quite knows what to do with it anymore. When we heard it mixed properly, it sounded mega."[2]

The band received permission from the electronic music German band Kraftwerk to use the main riff from their song "Computer Love", from its 1981 studio album Computer World, for "Talk", replacing Kraftwerk's synthesizers with guitars.[4][5][6] In a track-by-track interview given by the band on X&Y, bassist Guy Berryman reported that in response to the band's request, Kraftwerk founding member Ralf Hütter "said something like, 'Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z'"[7] (a reference to the latter's "(Always Be My) Sunshine", which uses a Kraftwerk sample). Martin also recalled in a 2007 article in Q magazine the process of requesting permission to use the melody: He sent a letter through the lawyers of the respective parties and several weeks later received an envelope containing a handwritten reply that simply said ″yes″.[8]

The band recorded three separate versions of the single; the one recorded on X&Y was based on an early cut of the song.[9] An early version of the track – with a different set of lyrics – was leaked onto the internet in early 2005.[10] The track was originally intended to be a B-side for the song "Speed of Sound", before becoming the last addition to X&Y's track listing.[4]

Composition Edit

The track begins with a dark, desolate synthesizer beat, resembling 'howling wind', with electric guitar riffs being heard in the background. This slow introduction sets the course for the song's hypnotic pace, with Will Champion adding a metronomic beat to the drums throughout the song.[11][12] As previously noted, the song features the main hook from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love", replicated by Jonny Buckland's electric guitar riffs throughout much of the track. Buckland also uses the hook as a chiming note for more abrasive riffs during the bridge (or breakdown) near the end of the song.[11][12] A string section can be heard during the choruses and before the start of the bridge. Guy Berryman also plays uptempo bass lines to complement the track's pace, featuring slower, more abrasive riffs during the song's verses and bridge.

In the fourth line of the second verse, Martin sings: "Or write a song nobody had sung/Or do something that's never been done."[13][14] The third line of the third verse is: "Tell me how do you feel?/Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak/And they're talking it to me."[13] In the fifth verse, Martin summarises about an individual who is lost and trying to discover the unknown: "So you don't know where you're going/But you want to talk/And you feel like you're going where you've been before/You'll tell anyone who will listen but you feel ignored."[13]

According to Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine, the meaning to "Talk" is based on how Martin "wants to teach us how to feel better about ourselves, and his lessons have the moral superiority disguised as sensitivity that marked Bono's mighty mullet period."[15] Tyrangiel interpreted the lyrics, "Are you lost or incomplete/ Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece/ Tell me how you feel", with Martin begging in the song.[15]

Release Edit

Coldplay released "Talk" in the UK and US on 19 December 2005 as the album's third single.[16] The single was pressed with two B-sides: "Gravity" and "Sleeping Sun".[16][17] In Australia, the single was issued on 16 January 2006.[18]

"Talk" peaked at number 10 in the UK Singles Chart on 31 December 2005.[19] The song charted at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number five on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks in 2005.[20] The song was released early in the Netherlands,[16] thus charting in the Dutch Top 40. It reached number one the closing week of 2005. The band performed the song live at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, Portugal, the 2006 Juno Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the 2006 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California.[16][21]

Reception Edit

 
Coldplay performing "Talk" during their 2005 Twisted Logic Tour

Critics were positive towards the song. In the PopMatters review of the album, critic Adrian Begrand wrote: "It's the excellent, and much talked-about 'Talk' that has the band showing tremendous creativity, delving straight into mid-'70s krautrock, and piecing together a gorgeous pop song."[11] Bud Scoppa of Paste magazine wrote: "'Talk' stands out as an anthem in an album full of them."[22] Dan Tallis of the BBC noted that the track was "fantastic" and "positively gargantuan".[23] Jonathan Keefe of Slant magazine wrote: "'Talk' is given one of the album's most memorable melodies, but its impact is reduced by the song's structure, in which the lead guitar echoes Martin's vocal melody after every line, so that melody becomes tiresome well before the first chorus hits."[24] Despite the positive reception of "Talk", Martin has stated that Berryman dislikes it, and thus they no longer perform the song live.[25]

The song was remixed by Jacques Lu Cont, with the title "Talk (Thin White Duke Mix)".[26] The song by Lu Cont won the coveted Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical award at the 2007 Grammy Awards.[27][28] "Talk" was also nominated for a Grammy award in the category of Best Rock Performance by a duo or Group with Vocals.[27]

The song was also used as the basis of a downloadable hoax track titled "Talk to David" produced as an April Fools' Day prank by the British newspaper The Guardian. This featured lyrics purporting to give support to Conservative opposition party leader David Cameron.[29] The song was featured heavily in the season two CSI: NY episode "Jamalot", in which the character Danny Messer plays the song as a ringtone on his cell phone.[30] The band's American record label, Capitol Records, paid for promotional consideration to place the song in the episode and for the character to talk about Coldplay.[30] Billboard included the track on their unranked "50 Best Song Interpolations of the 21st Century" list.[31]

Music video Edit

The music video for "Talk" was helmed by director/photographer Anton Corbijn.[16][32] Filming of the video took place on 5 and 6 November 2005 at Ealing Studios, London, England.[16] The black-and-white clip invokes a B movie science fiction theme, with imagery ranging from a flying saucer to 3D glasses. The video features the band as astronauts landing on an alien planet, where they discover a giant dormant robot and take one of its dials before re-activating it. They play music for the robot and the robot finds a giant-robot-shaped hole in a mountain, where it prepares to sleep again. The band say farewell to the robot and begin to fly away in their spaceship, but as the robot is powering down, it notices one of its dials is missing and becomes enraged, using a tractor beam to grab the spaceship. The robot eats the band and their spaceship and walks away whistling.

Personnel Edit

Coldplay

Track listings Edit

7-inch vinyl R6679
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:29
2."Gravity"6:12
CD CDR6679
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:29
2."Sleeping Sun"3:09
DVD DVDR6679
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:29
2."Gravity"6:17
3."Talk" (video)4:59
4."Speed of Sound" (video)4:29
5."Behind-the-scenes footage from "Talk" video shoot" (video)2:00
The Remixes – 12-inch vinyl and CD-5 (released 6 March 2006) 0946 3 54897 2 9/C2-54897//0946 3 46924 1 0/C1-46924
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (Thin White Duke mix)8:17
2."Talk" (François K dub)9:04
3."Talk" (Junkie XL mix)11:45
Australia CD single Capitol C2-50717
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:29
2."Sleeping Sun"3:09
3."Gravity"6:12
Canadian and Japanese CD singles Toshiba-EMI TOCP-40185
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:29
2."Sleeping Sun"3:09
3."Gravity"6:12
US promo CD Toshiba-EMI TOCP-40185
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:05
2."Talk" (album version)5:12
US The Remixes digital EP (released 7 February 2006)
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (Junkie XL mix)11:45
2."Talk" (François K dub)9:04
3."Talk" (Thin White Duke mix)8:27

Netherlands Edit

A special three part single was released over three weeks in December featuring live tracks recorded at the GelreDome in 2005.

CD1 (digipak) (released 2 December 2005) E2-49093
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (radio edit)4:27
2."Swallowed in the Sea" (live in Holland)4:22
3."God Put a Smile upon Your Face" (live in Holland)4:22
CD2 (released 9 December 2005) 3490962
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (album version)4:11
2."Square One" (live in Holland)5:13
3."Clocks" (live in Holland)7:05
CD3 (released 16 December 2005) 3490972
No.TitleLength
1."Talk" (live in Holland)5:20
2."Til Kingdom Come" (live in Holland)4:27
3."Fix You" (live in Holland)7:10

Charts Edit

Certifications Edit

Certifications and sales for "Talk"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[70] Silver 200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history Edit

Release dates and formats for "Talk"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
United States 5 December 2005 Triple A radio Capitol [71]
United Kingdom 19 December 2005 CD single Parlophone [72]
Japan 25 January 2006 [73]

See also Edit

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External links Edit

  • Official website

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Talk is a song by the British rock band Coldplay Built around a motif from Kraftwerk s 1981 song Computer Love it was written by all members of the band and appeared on their third album X amp Y In the United States the song entered at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and elsewhere in the world its success varied It peaked at number one in the Netherlands on both the Dutch Top 40 and Single Top 100 charts becoming the band s first number one single there Talk Single by Coldplayfrom the album X amp YB side Sleeping Sun Gravity Released19 December 2005 2005 12 19 GenreAlternative rock post punk revival 1 Length5 11 album version 4 29 international radio edit 4 05 US radio edit LabelParlophone CapitolSongwriter s Guy Berryman Jonny Buckland Will Champion Chris Martin Ralf Hutter Karl Bartos Emil SchultProducer s Danton Supple ColdplayColdplay singles chronology Fix You 2005 Talk 2005 The Hardest Part 2006 Music video Talk on YouTubeThe song received positive reviews with critics noting the music s sound and memorable lyrics Both the song and its Thin White Duke remix were nominated for the 2007 Grammy Awards the latter of which won in the category of Best Remixed Recording Non Classical Contents 1 Background 2 Composition 3 Release 4 Reception 5 Music video 6 Personnel 7 Track listings 7 1 Netherlands 8 Charts 8 1 Weekly charts 8 2 Year end charts 9 Certifications 10 Release history 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksBackground EditColdplay had difficulties with the recording sessions for months as to the sound of the track 2 3 They were skeptical in deciding to add Talk to the final track listing of X amp Y 2 During the recording sessions which had seen the band scrap huge amounts of material the song was left out when they sent early versions of the album to its record label Parlophone The song however made it to the track list after it was properly mixed 2 nbsp Chris Martin singing Talk during the band s Twisted Logic Tour in Hong Kong 2006 When asked about the development of the song by NME com vocalist Chris Martin said From that version a version that NME com heard while visiting the band in the studio we went and did a whole other version of it A whole other song What happened with the song Talk is that it was all going great and then someone said That should be the first single and we all just freaked out and scrapped it all We ve just mixed it and it sounds great I think we ve had such pain getting to that place I m not sure anyone quite knows what to do with it anymore When we heard it mixed properly it sounded mega 2 The band received permission from the electronic music German band Kraftwerk to use the main riff from their song Computer Love from its 1981 studio album Computer World for Talk replacing Kraftwerk s synthesizers with guitars 4 5 6 In a track by track interview given by the band on X amp Y bassist Guy Berryman reported that in response to the band s request Kraftwerk founding member Ralf Hutter said something like Yes you can use it and thank you very much for asking my permission unlike that bastard Jay Z 7 a reference to the latter s Always Be My Sunshine which uses a Kraftwerk sample Martin also recalled in a 2007 article in Q magazine the process of requesting permission to use the melody He sent a letter through the lawyers of the respective parties and several weeks later received an envelope containing a handwritten reply that simply said yes 8 The band recorded three separate versions of the single the one recorded on X amp Y was based on an early cut of the song 9 An early version of the track with a different set of lyrics was leaked onto the internet in early 2005 10 The track was originally intended to be a B side for the song Speed of Sound before becoming the last addition to X amp Y s track listing 4 Composition EditThe track begins with a dark desolate synthesizer beat resembling howling wind with electric guitar riffs being heard in the background This slow introduction sets the course for the song s hypnotic pace with Will Champion adding a metronomic beat to the drums throughout the song 11 12 As previously noted the song features the main hook from Kraftwerk s Computer Love replicated by Jonny Buckland s electric guitar riffs throughout much of the track Buckland also uses the hook as a chiming note for more abrasive riffs during the bridge or breakdown near the end of the song 11 12 A string section can be heard during the choruses and before the start of the bridge Guy Berryman also plays uptempo bass lines to complement the track s pace featuring slower more abrasive riffs during the song s verses and bridge In the fourth line of the second verse Martin sings Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something that s never been done 13 14 The third line of the third verse is Tell me how do you feel Well I feel like they re talking in a language I don t speak And they re talking it to me 13 In the fifth verse Martin summarises about an individual who is lost and trying to discover the unknown So you don t know where you re going But you want to talk And you feel like you re going where you ve been before You ll tell anyone who will listen but you feel ignored 13 According to Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine the meaning to Talk is based on how Martin wants to teach us how to feel better about ourselves and his lessons have the moral superiority disguised as sensitivity that marked Bono s mighty mullet period 15 Tyrangiel interpreted the lyrics Are you lost or incomplete Do you feel like a puzzle you can t find your missing piece Tell me how you feel with Martin begging in the song 15 Release EditColdplay released Talk in the UK and US on 19 December 2005 as the album s third single 16 The single was pressed with two B sides Gravity and Sleeping Sun 16 17 In Australia the single was issued on 16 January 2006 18 Talk peaked at number 10 in the UK Singles Chart on 31 December 2005 19 The song charted at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number five on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks in 2005 20 The song was released early in the Netherlands 16 thus charting in the Dutch Top 40 It reached number one the closing week of 2005 The band performed the song live at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon Portugal the 2006 Juno Awards in Halifax Nova Scotia and the 2006 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles California 16 21 Reception Edit nbsp Coldplay performing Talk during their 2005 Twisted Logic TourCritics were positive towards the song In the PopMatters review of the album critic Adrian Begrand wrote It s the excellent and much talked about Talk that has the band showing tremendous creativity delving straight into mid 70s krautrock and piecing together a gorgeous pop song 11 Bud Scoppa of Paste magazine wrote Talk stands out as an anthem in an album full of them 22 Dan Tallis of the BBC noted that the track was fantastic and positively gargantuan 23 Jonathan Keefe of Slant magazine wrote Talk is given one of the album s most memorable melodies but its impact is reduced by the song s structure in which the lead guitar echoes Martin s vocal melody after every line so that melody becomes tiresome well before the first chorus hits 24 Despite the positive reception of Talk Martin has stated that Berryman dislikes it and thus they no longer perform the song live 25 The song was remixed by Jacques Lu Cont with the title Talk Thin White Duke Mix 26 The song by Lu Cont won the coveted Best Remixed Recording Non Classical award at the 2007 Grammy Awards 27 28 Talk was also nominated for a Grammy award in the category of Best Rock Performance by a duo or Group with Vocals 27 The song was also used as the basis of a downloadable hoax track titled Talk to David produced as an April Fools Day prank by the British newspaper The Guardian This featured lyrics purporting to give support to Conservative opposition party leader David Cameron 29 The song was featured heavily in the season two CSI NY episode Jamalot in which the character Danny Messer plays the song as a ringtone on his cell phone 30 The band s American record label Capitol Records paid for promotional consideration to place the song in the episode and for the character to talk about Coldplay 30 Billboard included the track on their unranked 50 Best Song Interpolations of the 21st Century list 31 Music video EditThe music video for Talk was helmed by director photographer Anton Corbijn 16 32 Filming of the video took place on 5 and 6 November 2005 at Ealing Studios London England 16 The black and white clip invokes a B movie science fiction theme with imagery ranging from a flying saucer to 3D glasses The video features the band as astronauts landing on an alien planet where they discover a giant dormant robot and take one of its dials before re activating it They play music for the robot and the robot finds a giant robot shaped hole in a mountain where it prepares to sleep again The band say farewell to the robot and begin to fly away in their spaceship but as the robot is powering down it notices one of its dials is missing and becomes enraged using a tractor beam to grab the spaceship The robot eats the band and their spaceship and walks away whistling Personnel EditColdplay Chris Martin lead vocals synthesizer organ piano Jonny Buckland guitars Guy Berryman bass guitar keyboard Will Champion drums percussion backing vocalsTrack listings Edit7 inch vinyl R6679No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 292 Gravity 6 12 CD CDR6679No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 292 Sleeping Sun 3 09 DVD DVDR6679No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 292 Gravity 6 173 Talk video 4 594 Speed of Sound video 4 295 Behind the scenes footage from Talk video shoot video 2 00 The Remixes 12 inch vinyl and CD 5 released 6 March 2006 0946 3 54897 2 9 C2 54897 0946 3 46924 1 0 C1 46924No TitleLength1 Talk Thin White Duke mix 8 172 Talk Francois K dub 9 043 Talk Junkie XL mix 11 45 Australia CD single Capitol C2 50717No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 292 Sleeping Sun 3 093 Gravity 6 12 Canadian and Japanese CD singles Toshiba EMI TOCP 40185No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 292 Sleeping Sun 3 093 Gravity 6 12 US promo CD Toshiba EMI TOCP 40185No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 052 Talk album version 5 12 US The Remixes digital EP released 7 February 2006 No TitleLength1 Talk Junkie XL mix 11 452 Talk Francois K dub 9 043 Talk Thin White Duke mix 8 27 Netherlands Edit A special three part single was released over three weeks in December featuring live tracks recorded at the GelreDome in 2005 CD1 digipak released 2 December 2005 E2 49093No TitleLength1 Talk radio edit 4 272 Swallowed in the Sea live in Holland 4 223 God Put a Smile upon Your Face live in Holland 4 22 CD2 released 9 December 2005 3490962No TitleLength1 Talk album version 4 112 Square One live in Holland 5 133 Clocks live in Holland 7 05 CD3 released 16 December 2005 3490972No TitleLength1 Talk live in Holland 5 202 Til Kingdom Come live in Holland 4 273 Fix You live in Holland 7 10Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Weekly chart performance for Talk Chart 2005 2006 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 33 20Austria O3 Austria Top 40 34 24Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 35 16Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 36 21Canada CHR Pop Top 30 Radio amp Records 37 25Canada Rock Top 30 Radio amp Records 38 1CIS TopHit 39 125Czech Republic Radio Top 100 40 38Denmark Tracklisten 41 14Europe Eurochart Hot 100 42 18Finland Suomen virallinen lista 43 18France SNEP 44 34Germany Official German Charts 45 29Germany Airplay BVMI 46 4Hungary Radios Top 40 47 38Ireland IRMA 48 18Italy FIMI 49 24Netherlands Dutch Top 40 50 1Netherlands Single Top 100 51 1New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 52 20Scotland OCC 53 12Spain PROMUSICAE 54 8Sweden Sverigetopplistan 55 56Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 56 28UK Singles OCC 19 10UK Singles Downloads OCC 57 8US Billboard Hot 100 58 86US Adult Alternative Songs Billboard 59 1US Adult Top 40 Billboard 60 10US Alternative Airplay Billboard 61 5US Dance Club Songs Billboard 62 1 Year end charts Edit 2005 year end chart performance for Talk Chart 2005 PositionNetherlands Single Top 100 63 762006 year end chart performance for Talk Chart 2006 PositionBelgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 64 73Europe Eurochart Hot 100 65 92Netherlands Dutch Top 40 66 15Netherlands Single Top 100 67 25US Adult Top 40 Billboard 68 32US Dance Club Songs Billboard 69 5Certifications EditCertifications and sales for Talk Region Certification Certified units salesUnited Kingdom BPI 70 Silver 200 000 Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history EditRelease dates and formats for Talk Region Date Format Label Ref United States 5 December 2005 Triple A radio Capitol 71 United Kingdom 19 December 2005 CD single Parlophone 72 Japan 25 January 2006 73 See also EditList of number one dance singles of 2006 U S References Edit Coldplay and Especially Fix You Deserve a Better Legacy The Ringer 2 December 2021 Retrieved 2 December 2021 a b c d Talk drives 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