Home / Music / Talk Talk recorded hours of improvisation, then edited Laughing Stock down to essentialsMusic linernotes album music talk-talkTalk Talk recorded hours of improvisation, then edited Laughing Stock down to essentialsTalk Talk recorded extended improvisational sessions and then edited the results, sometimes discarding hours of tape to find the essential moments. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesLaughing Stock bombed on arrival but became a post-rock landmark.Talk Talk recorded Spirit of Eden at Wessex Studios with an open EMI budgetLaughing Stock arrived five years after Talk Talk's The Colour of Spring.Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden came out in September 1988Lee Harris played drums on Laughing StockExploreAlbert Ayler lived and performed in Copenhagen from 1962 to 1964Benny Golson wrote four of the six tracks on Moanin' — his only U.S. album with the Jazz MessengersBettye Swann's self-titled compilation rounds up 22 Capitol-era songsBill Evans hadn't played piano for months before UndercurrentDylan's best Blonde on Blonde takes came when the band thought they were just rehearsingPrevious Tender Buttons was Broadcast's final studio albumNext Steve Gadd's drum solo on Steely Dan's 'Aja' is one of rock's most celebrated.