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     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1755 Registered: 03-2006 |
I listen to at least one full length album by them a week. Not even out of any sense of obligation or routine - just because I want to, because they beckon from the shelf. Lately, I'm stuck on the Snap sessions, since it's my most current acquisition, and hence, the freshest. I was curious if there were folks who listened more often, like every day... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1316 Registered: 04-2005 |
There's always a stash of Go-Betweens on my iPod Nano, but I rotate different albums or batches of songs since I have a mere 2GB. I think it's safe to say I don't go more than three days in a row without dipping into the GoBs stash. And I probably listen to one full-length album of theirs each week. The band always seems to "cleanse my musical palate" when I get tired of other things. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 84 Registered: 10-2006 |
Once Lent is over and I listen to music once more the Go-B's will be in heavy rotation. There may be a little Elliot Smith mixed in. Boy, I've missed pop. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1099 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm finding that I'm acquiring too much music lately. That means that I don't listen to much of anything often enough. The other problem is the iPod phenomenon. I listen to it at work, usually on shuffle. Although I have so far loaded almost 6,000 songs on there, GoBetweens tracks will still come on every single day, as well as solo Robert and Grant tracks. Today, for example, I heard two songs from their late 1989 performance at Max's Petersham Inn, the studio "Unkind and Unwise" plus some solo tracks. I confess I decided to skip "A Peaceful Wreck" because the iPod had thrown that up too many times recently. But it's been vastly too long since I sat down and listened to an album. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 155 Registered: 07-2006 |
a lot. three to four albums a week? some days nothing else really cuts it. side 2 of tallulah's currently my favourite slice of go-b's of all... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Heard Oceans Apart in the car last night after the Dylan Moran show. It ended just as we got back! It was the first time in quite a while I'd heard a Go-Betweens album all the way through. I rarely go a week without playing something by The Go-Betweens, usually on the iPod. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 484 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm probably a once-a-weeker, as well, especially if you factor in solo albums. I've been listening to RF's solo stuff a lot lately, largely because of a recent discussion on this board. Discovered I'd underrated a lot of it. I'm enjoying "Calling from a Country Phone" more than I did when I bought it, for example. I'm still having issues with "Warm Nights." That version of "Rock and Roll Friend" just sinks it for me every time. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1763 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's hard to construe re-recording a "ringer" from, what, a decade or so before, as anything but desperation. I know what you mean, about reassessing some of RF's work. "Country Phone", while not great, still has its moments, and is a lot of fun. Too much faux country on it, though, and that "Girl to a Girl" song is pretty excruciating... | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2005 |
I listen every few weeks via ipod. Typically depending on the weather, I'll select "All" by Grant or GoBs or Robert and then just run through their entire catalog skipping a track hear or there. I've been listening a lot to Grant lately as I've been reading and re-reading the threads on his solo work as of late; trying to reconcile other viewpoints. For instance, many have gonged Fireboy. I had thought I liked it but upon recent re-listen, I realized I was only excited that he had released another solo record at the time. It wasn't that it had a lot of quality tracks. I was just grateful that there was something coming out on a near annual basis. It suited me fine that I could and pick and choose from there. There are a number of highlights there but too few to make up a solid album. I've also found that Watershed is still a favorite though, which I know is an unpopular notion here for most. I do agree that it is over-produced and there is some tripe there (the whole tractor thing), but there are also some real gems too and it was the first new album I acquired by the band having learned of them just after they had broken up and really suffered with the thought of only having the back catalog, a finite amount, to delve into. There's that and the fact that I was young, in college, and having a bunch of formative firsts at the time... sigh... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1764 Registered: 03-2006 |
I miss those days back when there wasn't so much readily available information everywhere, back when the Interweb was just a twinkle in Al Gorejus's eye (I'm actually joking - Big Al never said that he created the Internet. It's a lie). You could still be surprised by things. I remember walking into a record store and seeing "Watershed" for the first time. I had no idea the GBs had broken up - nobody in Baton Rouge, where I lived, knew or cared, and I guess I wasn't wired in to the right media to glean that news. Given that, I had decidedly mixed feelings: giddy over the new music, while realizing that a solo record probably didn't portend great things for the GB's future. I would agree that it's a good record and has a lot of great moments. Yeah, there was a bit of the overproduction about it - almost a palpable sense of Grant thinking, "dammit, I'm going to get a hit!"...Still and all, it has a lot of good, even great, songs. One that doesn't get much mention here (probably because it's too traditionally poppy) that I love, is "Haven't I Been a Fool". Great lyrics - I love their fatalistic, hard-earned wisdom. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 208 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, something else to talk about in Long Beach...Watershed. I too love Haven't I been a Fool. It really hit me when they played it together on the 1999 acoustic tour and duetting on the chorus. There were only a few songs that they did double vocal duty on that tour. It was nice to see them play on each other's solo songs on that tour. I had no idea they had played frequently enough throughout the 90s in the acoustic format and marvelled at how well they arranged their parts in 1999. Their acoustic version appears on the Surfing Magazines CD single I believe which I quickly snapped up. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1109 Registered: 03-2005 |
I adore "Haven't I Been a Fool." I didn't realize it didn't get much of a mention on here. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1377 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with you LK. Randy with you too. I have decided I am gonna spend the summer apart from buying Wilco and the Stephen Harrison CD, filing and listening to all the stuff I never play, and then ebaying what I don't like, I have far too much stuff now. Re How often play Gobees, in the eighties, Liberty Belle and Tallulah would always be on in my Austin Maxi and later on in my Mini Metero. I played Danger in the past all summer of 1990, along with Blue Aeros Swagger. The double Comp used to get a hammering by both my wife and me around the same time. Then lapsed throughout the 90's here on to be honest. Once I bought the FORW and BYBO, they were immediately copied and remained in the car on and off from release until this very day. In 2005, Oceans Apart was the summer record in the car, my baby twins were born that year and we also played it to them in the mornings when changing them ready for the day ahead. That was a specail year for me the Oceans Apart, as I saw the Gobees for the first time in ages, on spiffing form and later that year we got signed to their European label, so it will always make me feel good thinking about that album and that year. They really love Here comes a city, and the rest of em, but that really gets em going. I picked up the earlier albums remastered etc, and I enjoy playingthose once in a while. I must say I love certain version of songs from the Barbican Live cD's, especially Bye Bye Pride, the orchestral intro really conveys the sincerity and emotiuon of that song like I have never heard. That will useually wake me up early in the morning just a s the Mac is loading millions of typefaces in to Suitcase! | ||
| Peter Member Username: Peterw Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
Randy where did you get a copy of the Maxs' show from...is it an online bootleg or ???. That may of been the last show pre the split. Willstead had been sacked and the new bass player was playing his 2nd or 3rd gig(what was his name...Armitage???). I saw it and the one before it (at the Harold Pk hotel). I had a tape of the Maxs' show recorded off the desk. I lost it and for years have thought I lost the only copy of the last pre split Gobs show...perhaps my years of guilt have been misplaced??!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 159 Registered: 07-2006 |
i got horsebreaker star with the bonus cd this afternoon. i've not heard it (apart from maybe a clip on rage?) before and know the expectations it comes with....i also repurchased my copy of james' "whiplash" which i'm absolutely enamoured with all over again. so many amazing records, such little credit. | ||
| James Member Username: James Post Number: 40 Registered: 05-2005 |
I listen to the GBs loads, especially when people send me amazing amounts of rarities in the post | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2007 |
In phases really they are always there in the background nad then I have a ibge and listen to alot, particularly the compilation 79-89, as I love the sequencing of LP track rarities and B sides.I also love the talking on the SNAP disc I love just listnening to Robert, Grant and Deidre talking. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1850 Registered: 03-2006 |
They seem like incredibly sweet people, don't they? If one wasn't feeling exactly what Deirdre was feeling as one listened, it might be easy to categorize her comments as over the top. Not having that emotional remove, though, they seem exactly on the money. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 620 Registered: 08-2004 |
Every couple of weeks, or so. Same with all my favourites. | ||
| Steve Ganis Member Username: Newtogobetweens Post Number: 4 Registered: 06-2005 |
I haven't been able to listen to them since Grant's passing. But hopefully I'll snap out of it soon. |