| Missing Pieces | |
| Type: | Compilation |
| Artist: | Talk Talk |
| Cover: | Talk_Talk,_Missing_Pieces_album_cover.jpg |
| Released: | 2001 |
| Recorded: | 1990–1991, 1998 |
| Length: | 55:27 |
| Label: | Pond Life |
| Prev Title: | The Collection |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | Introducing ... Talk Talk |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Missing Pieces is a 2001 compilation album by Talk Talk. The first six tracks are the A- and B-Sides of the three CD singles released in 1991 for their final album Laughing Stock. Four of these are versions of album tracks, with the addition of the otherwise uncollected B-Sides "Stump" and "5:09". The final track, "Piano", was recorded pseudonymously by Mark Hollis (as "John Cope", the title of the B-Side of their 1988 single "I Believe in You" from the album Spirit of Eden) for the 1998 album "AV 1" by Allinson / Brown, which was produced by former Talk Talk producer Phill Brown. According to Hollis, it was designed to cycle indefinitely for a Dave Allinson/Phill Brown art exhibition and is presented twice in a row on the CD.[1] Missing Pieces was released in 2001 to a generally mixed to positive reception.
Leonard's Lair gave 3/5 stars, with "5:09" listed as the album highlight.[2] The mixed score was because "if many more tenuous releases see the light of day there's a danger of that impression being cheapened." AllMusic also gave it a 3/5 star review, despite the review being more positive.[3]
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