Top class cover. We need more of this to keep talk talk alive to the next generation..

Breaks my heart to listen to Mark's emotion singing this .This tribute is pretty good and I,m getting weepy again.The magic Mark created ✨️

Don't judge them to hard folks. The're just Talk Talk addicted as we all are.

I'm no music expert but to me the original of this song is one of the best ever written! the space within the song and the timing that leaves you hanging on for the melodic release. no idea how they did it but truly awesome, creating such emotion. Credit to bon ever for bringing it to a wider audience and for seeing its brilliance as well.

i think this is very good and i think its brave and a good thing to here talk talk covers because its the closest thing to new stuff from talk talk we are going to here. well done live

Great cover, RIP Mark Hollis. I believe in you!

I was at this gig, it was bloody brilliant

Pretty awesome IMO, of course he isn't Mark Hollis but I think this does the original a huge amount of honor. Really tight instrumentation and I think the singer here is very much in the pocket with the song's original mood and atmospheric expression.

A great cover version. I cried with emotion!

Bon will love Mark!! Stop, no words anymore,...

Thanks for sharing this one. Now the world knows how Great Talk Talk was. From the colour of spring, the spirit of Eden and Laughing stock,,,, these albums are my personal choice for personal critical listening and testing ANY audio Gear.....Very very hard to supersede the legendary original band.......1986,1988,1991....now were 2015!

the best song ever covered

valiant effort. Given the state of production Spirit of eden went through and his (mark's) exhausting creative emotional process at the time, trying to recreate a fraction of the mood live was impressive to watch. Good for them. This was a mammoth of a track to even consider covering.

This is so godamned beautiful.

I like this cover, after all TalkTalk never performed it live, thumbs up to Bon Iver for trying!

Surely Mark Hollis would approve. A great cover of an even greater song. The environmental movement brought to aural perfection. There is only one Earth.

Boys, Los Angeles and the world salutes you for covering this.

as a Talk Talk very early listener, I find this version very good because as the song says it's a matter of spirit not of note played or voice sung. Spirit.

I'm sorry mates but Mark Hollis is unique, trying to imitate the timbre of his voice is impossible because it is really innate. In any case, this tribute version to Hollis's musical and interpretive genius is appreciated. Rest in peace dear Mark David Hollis, your legacy only grows with the years.

AWESOME!

I'm surprised at all the pretentiousness here. This song was never meant to be filmed and instead is all about the live performance. Anyone expecting a studio quality version should really check themselves. This is a decent cover.

I loved it , kinda brought a tear to my eye RIP Mark

Bravo🎶🎵ooooo❗

great quality!

awesome

Pretty solid cover. What a song.

Brave of anyone taking on talk talk, prefer the original,but love bon iver and it's a sign of appreciation after all

I wonder if anyone in the audience knows what they're listening to.

Not easy to sing like Hollis..he had a distinctive voice.

Well done

Some sacred things are meant to be left untouched.

What bjcaughlin said. My own favourite song. Period. And a good cover during a live concert which wasn't meant to be filmed or compared with the original. Talk Talk and Mark Hollis are incomparable. Credit to a good band paying homage.

if i heard them covering this i would go crazy but i guess none of the audience knows who talk talk is :P

can any please pass me on the tabs for this track, just cant figure it out

@TheMarkHollis - agree completely. Give it up.

Or if any one could post a tutorial of this great song

Don't know if Mark would have not at least raised his eyebrows a bit at a guitar solo in there, but kudos all the same, for at least recognizing the immortality of the tune.

Thank you, Ireland. This song is so lovely, and has been bastardized commercially on the net. Thank you, IRELAND! Such a lovely song, such a lovely band. The U.S. remembers them!

It's like catching smoke; you can try but you'll never succeed

took me a while to figure out who was singing. Good musical arrangement lads, well done on such a difficult cover.

First rule of Mark Hollis Do not talk talk about Spirit of Eden The second rule of...

This just makes me miss Talk Talk more..Nothing compares with Spirit of Eden or Laughing Stock...Nothing, end of...

well done

Excelente versión

I would have been on the moon.

Fucking superb stuff.

@cappast ye...what a shock this is eh, never expected to hear this , and its fuckin brilliant. well done, 5 *****

I absolutely love Talk Talk but to everyone who is criticising this attempt, remember this is a cover and if his voice sounded anything near to Mark Hollis that would be great ,but Mark was a one of kind a fantastic voice and song writer. This is meant to be a tribute to Talk Talk's music .I think it is a good attempt using the instruments that they have after all , Talk Talk's music is heavily mixed in a studio it would be hard even for Talk Talk to get anywhere near the original live.

@roscoeellsberry hell yes! say it brother!

@Mural Just like Bill Withers...fuck anyone that criticizes either of them for retiring...individuals have to do what's best for themselves and their families. Answering to the political media machines that includes screaming senses fans is for the birds. Mark Hollis is a genius.

Does anyone have the tabs on this for the acoustic guitar, the ones I have seen so far don't make sense to me. Any advise would be welcome

does he sing in this..?

@YonderVillas Mark Hollis retired from the music business so his family could lead a 'normal' life. It's fair enough, really. How many rock stars ended up totally messed up in the end?

I really impressive effort at covering possibly the best song ever made.....

how can talk talk songs can be so effortlessly changed into pink floyd by mistake. talk talk is in another level man.

Thank you😃!!! (If your keyboarder ist looking for the right timing, he could count to 4) ☝️🥸

The balls it takes to even think of covering it...

It's good, but why does he sing the opening verse twice with the same lyrics... ?

Mark Hollis said he could never play the music on The Spirit of Eden live because it would destroy the purity and perfection of the original recording. Besides, playing their latter music in concert would be impossible (for they used an enormous array of instruments for the recording) and the result would probably be just a copy of the album music like you see here.

Talk Talk cover Is an 'ossimoro'

I forgot to say I'll probably never listen to the band there whatever they're called again! Have a nice day! :o)

O am going to respond on this song by a phrase from my fellow name holder Mr.Hollis:IF YOU PLAY A TWO TONES,THEN FIRST LEARN HOW TO PLAY ONE AND WHEN YOU PLAY THAT ONE TONE,YOU BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD REASON TO PLAY IT!!! Bon Iver should learn atleast the lyrics and the feeling of this song!!!

cool kyes,,,,,,,z

how did they dare to do that...

Nice try, I love that you acknowledge them… but … anyway everyone should go listen to a Mark Hollis’s solo album

@TheMarkHollis At least they TRIED to do it live. Which is more than you and your boys ever did. (Assuming you are Mark Hollis, which is unlikely, but if you are I'm pissed off at you for leaving us fans in the lurch and retiring. But hey, it's your life. I won't forget.)

I thought I was going to hate this. Talk Talk are a bit of a sacred cow to me, and their old stuff is regularly butchered. This isn't butchered.

Good try lads....I certainly would've appreciated it had I been there

Rien ne vaut l'original

thus owls did better job on covering mark hollis. check it out. this thing can be covered!! we can bring it back!!!

I appreciate this flawed attempt to cover a great song if it brings fans of Bon Iver to seek out the Talk Talk original. It's maybe a little sad that most of the audience probably had no idea that this was a cover, much less who did the original.

The drummer is dragging so bad at the top. Once the bass kicks in, he's fine.

Not a bad effort at all at very difficult music with a lot of weight behind it

Sorry guys, but that song is simply 'not-coverable'... Nobody does that better than Hollis himself ...

Also they missed the line "I buy prejudice for my health." Lame.

if they can do it live, why cant talk talk! fuck sake a very frustrating dose!

Piss weak this. Like others have said, uncoverable.

If you are going to cover this song, you better nail the shit out of it. They didn't.

Apprezzo l'impegno. Ma nn ho trovato il senso di questa musica.

I don't normally comment on youtube......but you just can't cover this song. It's a disaster.

the band sounds great they can tealy feel the song SORRY FOR THE SINGER !! i respect you are trying it but its realy nothing i try to mae a mark hollis style instrumental here !

No one should ever be allowed to cover a TT song. Mark's voice is unique and superlative.

Seven minutes of agony and atrocity.

ok so he tried but vocaly ,not for me hollis and always will be better

Vocaly catastrophically compared to the genius Mark Hollis

WHY MAKE THIS PUBLIC?, BEST KEPT TO ONE'S SELF COVERS LIKE THIS, HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.

Nice to cover this, maybe some of his fans will find Talk Talk. Sadly, he can´t really shine with voice, it sounds really mediocre but instruments (especially Moog) are spot on.

Ok, they tried... The sound is, well, ok. But the vocals... Gawd, it's atrocious.

sorry vocal aint no good,talktalk still better,musics ok,just my opinion

Those are the wrong chords. This whole cover needs to be scrapped and looked at again.

Yeah great. Lacks all of the otherworldly depth and space and subtlety of the original. I don't wanna be negative, but please don't cover any more Talk Talk songs. They're not meant to be covered!

Ouch.

oh boy fucking awful

Ouch. Tolerable except for the singing... I'll stick with Hollis' version, thanks.

Bloody awful

if there is a way to destroy a supurb song full of feeling and emotion this is it total sacralidge to ruine one of the best songs ever written, by one of the best bands of all time such a shame it came to an end but what a way to finish

there are two rules when you intend to cover a song: 1. play it at least as good as the original - failed, because that's simply impossible 2. if you can't play as good as the original song, play it better or at least in a different style - failed, to close to the original there should be a third rule: Don't cover any TALK TALK song ever, you can only fail

That's exactly the way to ruin a masterpiece. Bad signer with a bad voice (with absolutely no deepness). Bad beat rendering, bad sound. Please dont play that song if you are incapable to express the profound beauty of it.

His voice isn't much really, but kudos for trying talktalk ,don't do it again

too slow, kick drums are off, energy and nuance of the guitar replaced by looping 2 chords, vocals trying too hard sounds way too bland with no heart or edge, bass doesn't let low notes ride and instead blends them into the kick drum (which are off), keys are off and overbearing, solo section is an entirely different song.