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     Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2462 Registered: 10-2004 |
In light of the forthcoming Quiet Heart comp, and the inevitable frustration over some of the songs chosen for it, I thought it might be interesting to see which songs people here would select for a similar career-spanning retrospective of the band. Here are the rules: - must be 18-20 songs (has to fit onto a single CD) - it must span their entire career - must have equal number of Grant and Robert-sung songs - you *don't* have to have an equal number of Grant vs. Robert songs from each album - no more than 3 tracks per album - you have to include some singles (can't be all album tracks) - however, you can leave at most two albums off, since that's what the Go-Betweens have apparently done with Quiet Heart, and you don't have to have the same number of tracks from each album. I kind of prefer chronological comps, so this is how mine would look: 1. The Sound of Rain 2. One Thing Can Hold Us 3. Hammer the Hammer 4. Cattle and Cane 5. On My Block 6. Man 'O Sand (single version) 7. Bachelor Kisses 8. Part Company 9. Unkind and Unwise 10. Head Full of Steam 11. The Ghost and the Black Hat 12. Bow Down 13. Bye Bye Pride 14. House Jack Kerouac Built 15. Love Goes On 16. Streets of Your Town 17. Rock and Roll Friend 18. Magic in Here 19. Finding You 20. Darlinghurst Nights So, no doubt, some would consider this comp flawed because the Mk II era is underrepresented, and I've left off a few popular (albeit overplayed, imho) singles - Spring Rain, Right Here - as well as Karen and People Say. But this is what my own ideal career-spanning comp would look like if I only had a single CD to work with. And of course, if I put this together tomorrow, it would probably look somewhat different! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4713 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 Karen 2 One Thing Can Hold Us 3 Cattle And Cane (single version) 4 Dusty In Here 5 Bachelor Kisses 6 Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea 7 Spring Rain 8 In The Core Of The Flame 9 Right Here 10 Bye Bye Pride 11 Quiet Heart 12 Clouds 13 Streets of Your Town 14 Rock And Roll Friend 15 The Clock 16 Too Much Of One Thing 17 Mrs Morgan 18 Finding You 19 Darlinghurst Nights 20 The Mountains Near Dellray | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4714 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, I rushed that a bit earlier and didn't follow the rules properly - I need another Robert song. New list (and correction of Delray misspelling). 1 Karen 2 One Thing Can Hold Us 3 Cattle And Cane (single version) 4 Dusty In Here 5 Bachelor Kisses 6 Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea 7 Spring Rain 8 In The Core Of The Flame 9 Right Here 10 Bye Bye Pride 11 Quiet Heart 12 Clouds 13 Streets Of Your Town 14 Rock And Roll Friend 15 The Clock 16 Too Much Of One Thing 17 Finding You 18 Darlinghurst Nights 19 The Mountains Near Delray 20 The City Of Lights vs. Future Pilot AKA Both Robert and Grant sing on Too Much Of One Thing, and both speak on The City Of Lights, but I'm counting them in the Robert camp. | ||
| Richard May Member Username: Richm Post Number: 9 Registered: 07-2010 |
1 Karen 2 People Say 3 I Need Two Heads 4 Hammer the Hammer 5 Cattle and Cane 6 Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea 7 Bachelor Kisses 8 Part Company 9 Spring Rain 10 Head Full of Steam 11 In the Core of the Flame 12 Right Here 13 Bye Bye Pride 14 The House that Jack Kerouac Built 15 Streets of Your Town 16 Dive For Your Memory 17 The Clock 18 Old Mexico 19 Here Comes a City 20 Finding You | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2464 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig, I was incredibly close to including Mountains of Delray in place of Darlinghurst Nights. It's an incredible song. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 41 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought I'd find this quite difficult for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don't rate anything pre-Before Hollywood very highly and secondly I thought I'd want more of Grant's songs. I could probably be persuaded to change 3 or 4 of these. My top 20 without the rules would be slightly different but at least I got That Way in there. Eight Pictures Cattle and Cane That Way Dusty in Here Man O'Sand (single) Bachelor Kisses Part Company To Reach Me Apology Accepted Head Full of Steam Bye Bye Pride The Clarke Sisters Clouds Quiet Heart Rock and Roll Friend You Can't Say No Forever The Clock Boundary Rider Finding You Darlinghurst Nights | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 74 Registered: 05-2005 |
1. People Say 2. By Chance (Early Version) 3. Cattle & Cane 4. This Girl, Black Girl 5. Bachelor Kisses 6. Part Company 7. Unkind & Unwise 8. The Ghost & The Black Hat 9. To Reach Me 10.Apology Accepted 11.When People are Dead 12.The House That Jack Kerouac Built 13.Bye, Bye Pride 14.I'm Allright 15.Clouds 16.Magic in Here 17.Spirit 18.Make Her Day 19.Finding You 20.Boundary Rider This selection might work well as a double LP - 5 songs per side. | ||
| Ulrich A. Bayer Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 16 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hi, nice Job to create a retrospective: Here is my German-version: The Go-Betweens “Songs Bob Dylan Forgot To Write” 01 People Say (live London 2005) Bonus CD OCEAN APART Version 02 Your Turn My Turn 03 Rock and Roll Friend 04 You Won t find It Again 05 Eight Pictures 06 Cattle and Cane 07 Draining the pool for you 08 The Wrong Road 09 The House Jack Kerouac Built 10 Streets of Your Town 11 Magic in Here 12 Too Much Of One Thing 13 Darlinghurst Nights 14 Clouds (live Brisbane 2005) 15 Dive For Your Memory (live Santa Monica 1988) 16 Quiet Heart (live Santa Monica 1988) 17 Karen (live Brisbane 2005) 18 Unfinished Business | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 612 Registered: 10-2006 |
Caroline And I Cattle And Cane Boundary Rider This Girl, Black Girl Draining The Pool For You Spring Rain Bachelor Kisses Head Full Of Steam Bye bye pride Love Is A Sign Magic in here Love Goes On! Rock and roll friend Part Company Dive For Your Memory When People Are Dead The Statue Finding You Darlinghurst Nights Too Much Of One Thing (acoustic stories version) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 189 Registered: 08-2005 |
People Say Karen Cattle and Cane Dusty in Here That Way Bachelor Kisses Draining the Pool for You You’ve Never Lived Spring Rain Right Here I Just Get Caught Out Clarke Sisters Streets of your Town You Can’t say no Forever Love Goes On! Boundary Rider Make Her Day Poison in the Walls Finding You Too Much of One Thing I think this fulfils the criteria! Had to get Karen, That Way, You've Never Lived, I just get caught out and the Clarke Sisters in there, which slightly dictates things. No room for When People are Dead... | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 115 Registered: 10-2005 |
I would say a chronological 2 cd anthology. That would show the developments etc. I will think about the song choices. (Then mayby edit an 1 cd best of.) That would be my ideal. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2511 Registered: 10-2004 |
Matsrep - a 2 CD comp would definitely be ideal. It would give you the potential to truly do justice to the band's catalog. I'd be interested to see what people here come up with for 2 CD anthologies containing 36-40 tracks. I mean, Microdisney's From Daunt Square to Elsewhere took two CDs to cover 5 albums worth of material, so why should the Go-Betweens be relegated to only one? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 839 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw this ages ago but needed time to think. The new compilation has all of the ingredients but something is missing. I always like chronological compilations because, as Matsrep says, you can follow the developments. Anyway: People Say Dusty In Here Ask Cattle And Cane Bachelor Kisses Five Words Part Company Spring Rain The Wrong Road Apology Accepted Right Here Bye Bye Pride The Clarke Sisters Streets Of Your Town Dive For Your Memory The Clock He Lives My Life Finding You Darlinghurst Nights The Mountains of Delray None from Send me a Lullaby or Bright Yellow Bright Orange. I really don't think any of those songs stack up to the ones I've got here. Just going through all of their songs, how many of them are "arresting"?...they stop you and make you listen to the story and the turn of phrase. |