"Sex Talk" | ||||
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Single by T'Pau | ||||
from the album Bridge of Spies | ||||
B-side | "Monkey House" | |||
Released | 21 March 1988 [1] | |||
Length | 4:43 | |||
Label | Siren Records | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Carol Decker Ron Rogers | |||
Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker | |||
T'Pau singles chronology | ||||
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"Sex Talk" is a song by British band T'Pau, written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It was originally released as a single in 1987 under the title "Intimate Strangers", but failed to chart. [2] It was re-titled "Sex Talk" and included on the band's debut studio album Bridge of Spies (1987). [3] In 1988, a live version of the song, recorded at the SEC Centre on 29 October 1987, was released as a single and reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] This live version of "Sex Talk" was only released in the UK and Ireland. Elsewhere, a 7" remix of the track, "Bridge of Spies", was released instead.
Speaking to eonmusic in 2018, Decker recalled of the song: "I wrote that on my first trip to New York. There were all [these] ads; "Dial Me!" on television, and I just thought; "Wow, that's weird, phone people up and talk dirty"... so I did it, of course!" [5]
Upon release of the 1988 single, Music & Media wrote: "Another dramatic, pumping, rock track, that has all the chances to hit the charts again." [6] Ben Thompson from NME stated: "I just want to have a laugh, you know how it is says Carol Decker, the Sarah Ferguson of raunch, and you know she means it." [7] The magazine's Neil Taylor felt Decker "really has got a quite an alluring voice" and that the song "whips up a frenzy of guitars which Carol wades through blasting her six-shooter vocal bullet-fast and bullet-precise." [8] Betty Page of Record Mirror wrote: "T'Pau show their true colours and get down to a full-blooded slice of raunch 'n' roll recorded live, with plenty of guitar drama and Carol Decker giving it her all. It's brave of them to release a live 45, but it does capture the T'Pau live vibe well." [9] In a review of T'Pau (Bridge of Spies), Pete Bishop of The Pittsburgh Press commented: "There's "Sex Talk", which has fake horns and real guitar and would do credit to the Eurythmics, although Miss Decker, a less adenoidal Cyndi Lauper with little body to her strident voice, is no Annie Lennox." [10]
T'Pau
Production
Other
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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Europe ( Eurochart Hot 100 Singles) [11] | 76 |
Ireland ( IRMA) [12] | 21 |
UK Singles ( OCC) [4] | 23 |
"Sex Talk" | ||||
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Single by T'Pau | ||||
from the album Bridge of Spies | ||||
B-side | "Monkey House" | |||
Released | 21 March 1988 [1] | |||
Length | 4:43 | |||
Label | Siren Records | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Carol Decker Ron Rogers | |||
Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker | |||
T'Pau singles chronology | ||||
|
"Sex Talk" is a song by British band T'Pau, written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It was originally released as a single in 1987 under the title "Intimate Strangers", but failed to chart. [2] It was re-titled "Sex Talk" and included on the band's debut studio album Bridge of Spies (1987). [3] In 1988, a live version of the song, recorded at the SEC Centre on 29 October 1987, was released as a single and reached No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] This live version of "Sex Talk" was only released in the UK and Ireland. Elsewhere, a 7" remix of the track, "Bridge of Spies", was released instead.
Speaking to eonmusic in 2018, Decker recalled of the song: "I wrote that on my first trip to New York. There were all [these] ads; "Dial Me!" on television, and I just thought; "Wow, that's weird, phone people up and talk dirty"... so I did it, of course!" [5]
Upon release of the 1988 single, Music & Media wrote: "Another dramatic, pumping, rock track, that has all the chances to hit the charts again." [6] Ben Thompson from NME stated: "I just want to have a laugh, you know how it is says Carol Decker, the Sarah Ferguson of raunch, and you know she means it." [7] The magazine's Neil Taylor felt Decker "really has got a quite an alluring voice" and that the song "whips up a frenzy of guitars which Carol wades through blasting her six-shooter vocal bullet-fast and bullet-precise." [8] Betty Page of Record Mirror wrote: "T'Pau show their true colours and get down to a full-blooded slice of raunch 'n' roll recorded live, with plenty of guitar drama and Carol Decker giving it her all. It's brave of them to release a live 45, but it does capture the T'Pau live vibe well." [9] In a review of T'Pau (Bridge of Spies), Pete Bishop of The Pittsburgh Press commented: "There's "Sex Talk", which has fake horns and real guitar and would do credit to the Eurythmics, although Miss Decker, a less adenoidal Cyndi Lauper with little body to her strident voice, is no Annie Lennox." [10]
T'Pau
Production
Other
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
---|---|
Europe ( Eurochart Hot 100 Singles) [11] | 76 |
Ireland ( IRMA) [12] | 21 |
UK Singles ( OCC) [4] | 23 |