Talk More Talk (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Press To Play Official album.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1986

Timeline This song has been written (or started being written) in 1985 (Paul McCartney was 43 years old)

Tales Of Frankie Rabbit

Talking Guitar Blues

Master release

Press To Play

By Paul McCartney

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

"Press To Play" sessions #2

October 1st - December 6th 1985

"Press To Play" sessions #3

April 14th-18th 1986

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Song facts

“Talk More Talk” is a song from 1986 album “Press To Play“.

From “Club Sandwich 42 – Autumn 1986“:

This piece of controlled eccentricity stands out for its syncopation even on Press. Indistinct conversation leads into Paul duetting with himself in superb style. “The basic track was done in a day. Lyrically it was picking out quotes that I liked from, I think, a Tom Waits interview. ‘I don’t actually like sitting-down music’, great things like that“. There’s a 12-string guitar in there somewhere and slowed-down and speeded-up voices express great thoughts like ‘All he wants is a handyman; all he wants is quick service‘ and ‘I hear water going through the pipes‘. Great.

Club Sandwich No 42 Autumn 1986

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The basic track was done in a day. Lyrically it was picking out quotes that I liked from, I think, a Tom Waits interview. ‘I don’t actually like sitting down music’, great things like that, random cut-outs. ‘A master can highlight the phrases his words to digress’. I liked the surrealism of that line. I like ‘art’ films, Bunuel, Bergman, ‘The Seventh Seal’. I could never make out what the hell they were about, but there was something attractive about the abstractness of them. So I’ve gone that way on ‘Talk More Talk’ and ‘However Absurd’, which are the two main surrealist lyrics.
Paul McCartney, interview in Sound On Sound, Octobre 1986

From the “Press To Play” inner sleeve – These coloured diagrams by Paul show the position of the voices and instruments in the mix of each track.

Last updated on May 2, 2020

Lyrics

Spoken word:
A master can highlight the phrases,
Sleazy instruments, half talked, half baked ideas...
Dad, you didn't say O.K...
The window was open, outside was a spaceship,
(A master can highlight the phrases) it took off into the sky
leaving a trail of smoke behind it...

Short of the standard. Was it the sum?
What was rehearsal? Conventional drum?
Not quite a hundred. Less than a ton.
Clearly the time came, the plan had begun.

With talk, more talk. Chat, more chat,
Words of a feather are worn in a hat.
Talk, more talk. Chat more chat.
I'm happy to do it for you…

Developed since earlier days at the school.
Cheapest sensations were used as a rule.
Outstanding to memory, major free flow.
Bio-degradable, look out below for…

Talk more talk,
Oh I love to hear the gentle sound
Of conversation sprinkled around
A room where I can be at one with you for…

Talk more talk. Chat more chat,
Words of a feather are worn in a hat.

Talk more talk. Chat more chat. Happy to do it for you…
I'm happy to do it for you… I'm happy to do it for you…
I'm Happy to do it, I'm happy to do it..
I'm happy to do it for you.

Digital organ, finishing stretch,
Instrumentation, analogue Gretsch.
Not quite a thousand, lower than that.
Possible bargain for listening at that…

Talk, more talk. Chat, more chat,
Words of a feather are worn in a hat.
Talk more talk. Chat more chat.
I'm happy to do it for you…

Spoken word:
All you want is a handyman and all you want is quick service.
Because I'm a house owner. I am a house owner.
It may be worth something someday.
I hear water going through the pipes.
I don't actually like sitting down music. Music is ideas.

Talk, more talk. Chat, more chat.
Words of a feather are worn in a hat.
Talk more talk. Chat more chat.
Talk, more talk. Chat, more chat.
Words of a feather are worn in a hat.
Talk more talk. Chat more chat.

Spoken word:
A master can tell, highlight the phrases his words to digress.
Grey flannel trousers…Grey flannel trousers.
A blazer and grey flannel trousers.