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Weezer trade the synthy sheen for some stompy fuzz on their cover of Talk Talk hit "Life's What You Make It", and it sounds like drummer Pat Wilson-- not Rivers Cuomo-- is standing in for Mark Hollis on lead ...

Following in the footsteps of Shearwater , Weezer have their very own Talk Talk cover.

Discuss For those of you old enough, you might be humming a tune in your head right now, one of the more pop-flavored releases by the 80's band "Talk Talk". And now my abrupt segue into Talking.

Many bands who try to mix the aesthetics of rock and electronic music do so more clumsily than not.

Shearwater hooked us into their new material with the lovely, melancholic, horn-threaded, feather-and-ambulance-themed lead track " Rooks " and now they've got us with the "Rooks" b-side as well. via Stereogum

The standard version of Weezer features two UK-only bonus tracks: covers of Talk Talk's Life's What You Make It and The Weight by The Band. via IndieLondon

Shearwater - "Leviathan, Bound" . The new record by Shearwater, Rook , is one of the best albums of the year. via Said the gramophone

“Recording Dear Mr Fantasy, one o'clock in the morning, November 1967.”

Wherefore art thou Mark Hollis? The story of Hollis and his band Talk Talk has to be one of the more interesting of the synth pop era. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

This morning's Observer column To date, three UK ISPs have signed up for the Phorm system: BT, Virgin Media - and TalkTalk. via Memex 1.1

“The government says if ISPs do not start helping to deal with this problem in a helpful way then there will be legislation.”

When I walked into Charles Dunstone 's office at Carphone Warehouse 's giant blue shed on a West London trading estate, he was in fighting mood. via BBC News

UK broadband provider TalkTalk has decided to make Phorm's new Webwise online tracker an opt-in, not automatic. via Digital Trends

“Baby, life's what you make it/Can't escape it/Baby, yesterday's favorite/Don't you hate it/...Yesterday's faded/Nothing can change it/Baby, life's what you make it.”

Aaron Castrejon For those of you who love synth pop '80s-style melodies, then this compilation is sure to satisfy. via The Clarion

“Ebay has a monopoly and cannot be trusted”

Broadband internet providers BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media have run into a storm of anger from customers since teaming up with a pioneer in much-hated spyware technology. via This Is Money

Californian singer-songwriter Jacob Golden earned serious critical praise for debut LP, Hallelujah World, which was released on Rough Trade back in 2002. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“I had a bad experience with a direct debit many years ago and vowed never to use this payment method again. "It is arrogant and totally unacceptable for companies to dictate how their customers arrange and manage their personal finances.”

Telephone customers who pay their bills by cash or cheque are being penalised to the tune of 237 million a year, according to a study. via Telegraph.co.uk

With the exception of a handful of common threads -- chief among them the plaintive vocals and haunting lyrics of frontman Mark Hollis -- there is little to suggest that the five studio LPs which make up the ... via Y92.5

ATROCITY: Cover Of TALK TALK's 'Such A Shame' Posted Online - Jan. 10, 2008 Long-running German metallers ATROCITY have posted an audio sample of their cover version of TALK TALK 's "Such A Shame" at this ... via BlabberMouth.net

Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) WARRINGTON fixed line telecoms provider Talk Talk yesterday admitted there had been a slowdown in the take-up of its broadband service. via Customer Interaction Solutions