Sex Talk

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"Sex Talk"
T'Pau Sex Talk 1988 single cover.jpg
Single by T'Pau
from the album Bridge of Spies
B-side "Monkey House"
Released21 March 1988 [1]
Length4:43
Label Siren Records
Songwriter(s) Carol Decker
Ron Rogers
Producer(s) Roy Thomas Baker
T'Pau singles chronology
"Valentine"
(1988)		"Sex Talk"
(1988)		"I Will Be with You"
(1988)

"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.

Contents

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]

Reception

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]

Track listing

Intimate Strangers

7" single
  1. "Intimate Strangers" - 4:12
  2. "No Sense of Pride" - 3:52
12" single
  1. "Intimate Strangers" - 4:12
  2. "No Sense of Pride" - 3:52
  3. "You Give Up" (Live) - 3:58

Sex Talk (Live)

7" single (1988 release)
  1. "Sex Talk" (Live) - 3:54
  2. "Monkey House" (Live) - 4:13
12" single (1988 release)
  1. "Sex Talk" (Live) - 4:34
  2. "Monkey House" (Live) - 4:13
  3. "You Give Up" (Live) - 3:59
CD single (1988 release)
  1. "Sex Talk" (Live) - 4:43
  2. "Heart & Soul" - 5:19
  3. "Monkey House" (Live) - 4:28
  4. "You Give Up" (Live) - 4:10

Personnel

T'Pau

Production

Other

Charts

Chart performance for "Sex Talk"
Chart (1988)Peak
position
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100 Singles) [11] 76
Ireland (IRMA) [12] 21
UK Singles (OCC) [4] 23

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References

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