Reaching #16 in the UK during January 1986, Life's What You Make It was just one of only a handful of Talk Talk singles to break the UK Top 40. It was the first track from the third studio album The Colour of Spring.
The band's biggest hit single was a reissue of It's My Life which reached #13 in 1990. The original release in 1984 failed to break the Top 40, stalling at #46.
Talk Talk were one of those band's that kind of passed me by in the
80s, mainly because their commercial success was not what it should have
been, and also because I was listening to a lot of the more popular
stuff, some of which was pretty rubbish! However, this is the one song by the band that I couldn't possibly forget.
It wasn't until the 90s, when
my musical tastes had matured, that I could fully appreciate the quality
of this band's music and wish I had been a fan a lot earlier!
