tracks on LP: Talk Talk / Trouble / Cherry Cherry / Taxman / Some Other Drum / Masculine Intuition / The People In Me / See See Rider / Wrong / 96 Tears / Come On In / Hey Joe

Record Label: Big Beat WIK 17
Producer: Brian Ross

Released: 1983 (originally released 1966)
Purchased: 1986

The Music Machine‘s kink was that each one of them wore a leather glove on the hand Of choice. Whatever, ‘Talk Talk’ is unquestionably one of the definitive masterworks of garage. Crossing Love’s ‘Little Red Book’ with ‘My Generation’, it is purely about the control of frenzy. They also did groovy versions of ‘Cherry Cherry’ and ‘Taxman’, and a real slow ‘Hey Joe’, but other originals like ‘Wrong’ and ‘Masculine Intuition’ show their skewered adolescent pride at its most sneering. (NME, 17/09/83)