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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2154 Registered: 05-2005 |
Under their 'How to buy' section, the August edition of Mojo magazine will feature a Go-Betweens top 10. Make your vote count by emailing your top 5 to mojo@emap.com with How to buy The Go-Betweens in the subject line. You can also include short comments about each record. It doesn't specifically say so, but, from past examples, they are including the solo albums. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2155 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here's what I sent to them. 1 16 Lovers Lane - Simply a pop classic. 2 1978-1990 - New to The Go-Betweens? This is where you begin. 3 Oceans Apart - The best of the reformation albums by a long way. 4 Horsebreaker Star (Grant McLennan solo) - The lyrics became incredibly poignant after his death two years ago. 5 The Evangelist (Robert Forster solo) - An extraordinary, elegiac record of rememberance (of Grant) and beauty. | ||
| Bryce Member Username: Rockandrollfriend Post Number: 61 Registered: 07-2005 |
Did Mojo review "The Evangelist"? If so, when? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2133 Registered: 05-2005 |
June issue - 3 star review | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 322 Registered: 01-2007 |
What about DITP still to my my mind the best and Liberty Belle | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 323 Registered: 01-2007 |
As Its 4;23 and I'm waiting for someone come in my 5 favourites in terms of frequency of play and general presumptions now are: 1. Liberty Belle 2. DITP 3. 78-90 4. 16LL 5. Before Hollywood 6. Horsebreaker 7. Evangelist ( I love this but I've not spent long enough with it yet.) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1196 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'd like to see a 2 cd remastered deluxe reissue of 1978-80. Maybe in time for it's 20th anniversary in another year and a half. It would probably be too much to ask for Robert to tour with Robert Vickers, Lindy and Amanda to support it, but that would be my wish. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 226 Registered: 02-2008 |
Lordy, that would be sweet indeed mate. My new record geek pleasure supremo is double disc deeluxe reissues. Who has time fer box sets anymore? Heres what Im sending the Mojo peeps (or would if I could be arsed): 1) 16 LL 2) Tallulia 3) Liberty Bell and her Black Diamonds 4) Horsebreaka Stah 5) In Yer Brite Ray | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 75 Registered: 10-2006 |
1. 16LL-new romantic paradise 2. Tallulah-stunning in lyric and melody 3. Intermission-geniality of two great songwriters 4. Spring Hill Fair- great depth in melody content 5. Evangelist- 2 men and their music, remembered, permanently, a must have... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2476 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express. 2 Tallulah. 3 Oceans Apart 4 Horsebreaker Star (Grant McLennan solo) 5 Danger in the past/The Evangelist (Robert Forster solo) Comps - Bellavista Terrace. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1270 Registered: 10-2004 |
1. Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express (simply the best guitar-pop record of the 80s. Period. The place to start). 2. Before Hollywood (Haunting, understated melodicism. Where they found their true voice). 3. Spring Hill Fair (Maturing but still exciting, deeply moving, inventive melodic pop) 4. 16 Lovers' Lane (End of an era, more palatable & smooth, but catchy, heartfelt and wildly addictive) 5. Oceans Apart (Easily the best of the 'mach II' era, and a gorgeous and appropriate [if unintended] swan song). | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 260 Registered: 05-2005 |
1) Quick on the Eye 2) Send Me A Lullaby 3) '78 to '79 lost album 4) The Bedroom tapes (something other than the lost lp which is unreleased but has been mentioned by RF in interviews) | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 71 Registered: 10-2005 |
How to buy The Go-Betweens ... I have a very simple list: Five albums, album no 2-6 (the 2cd remasters includes period singles and tracks): Before Hollywood Spring Hill Fair Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express Tallulah 16 Lovers Lane Then take these: Send Me A Lullaby - first album, includes early magnificent song Eight Pictures and the glorious It Could Be Anyone (to ge further back pick up "78 'til 79 The Lost Album" which includes first two able label singles and the fine The Sound of Rain) The Friends of Rachel Worth - first comeback album, the one closes to my heart Live in London (2cd)(recorded 2004) Oceans Apart - third comeback album, second best And do not miss the solo albums: "Intermission. the best of the solo recordings 1990-1997" (2cd, Forster/McLennan) collects the cream of Robert Forsters pre-Evangelist songs to create a well functioning new album, while Grant McLennan's chronological choices are more pedestrian but still work out OK | ||
| Gillian Watson Unregistered guest |
1)Bellavista Terrace. I know everyone prefers 1978-1990 but this was my introduction and I fell in love with it. It's a good streamlined overview of the band. 2) Tallulah. The songs are among their best, it's accessible but it's not as oppressively polished as 16LL. 3) Liberty Belle. Good companion to Tallulah, it's a bit more natural sounding. 4) Before Hollywood. The best one. 5) Send Me A Lullaby. Criiiiminally underrated. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2145 Registered: 05-2005 |
The results are in. 1. OA 2. 16LL 3. LB.... 4. SHF 5. BH 6. Tallulah 7. Horsebreaker 8. Evangelist 9. 1978-90 10.TFORW Mojo say 16LL is often referred to as "the indie Rumours". Why couldnt I have thought of that  | ||
| Alistair John Grant Member Username: Alistair Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2008 |
Thanks to Mojo for reawakening my interest in The Go-Betweens which also led me to this site. I hadn't listened to much of their material since Grant tragically passed away, but the Mojo feature inspired me to get the albums and CDs out and it's all I've listened to in the past week or so. Realise on this message board it's a bit like trying to teach your Granny to suck eggs, but have to say that the quality of the songwriting and the performances is still mesmerising and reinforces again how under rated they were in terms of commerical success. Also motivated me to start looking for the recordings I don't already have. Hope to catch Robert's gig at the Oran Mor in Glasgow on September 20th. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1194 Registered: 08-2006 |
Cheers, Alistair. No worries about the Granny-egg sucking thing. I think if you asked most of the people on the board they'd tell you they rediscover the GBs all the time. Personally, I experience some revelation every time I put one of their albums on. Welcome. | ||
| Victor Prose Unregistered guest |
It's fascinating how different the standards of this band's greatest artistic successes are from fan to fan and mind to mind. The Mojo list certainly managed to cover all the bases, but there are a few things I'll never understand -- why 16 Lovers Lane is so universally revered when its songs can be so slow, slight and overproduced (plus that howler of a track 8); why nobody acknowledges that Watershed, which is pure joy-pop, is superior to the often underdeveloped Horsebreaker Star; and why Tallulah has so many unwavering detractors. Anyhow, though this topic is long-expired, I wanted to use this forum as a means of committing my opinions on the matter to cyberspace immortality. Maybe Robert Vickers will read it and be spurred into heated dissertation, replete with that charming 'firsthand insight' of his. The five best Go-Betweens (& related) albums are: 1) SPRING HILL FAIR Every facet of their talent laid out, slicked-up, cleared-up and melodied up. Four of the 25 all-time best songs of my cumulative musical experience: "Bachelor Kisses" and "Part Company" (which are peerless), "Unkind & Unwise" & "Draining The Pool". Further moments of transcendence in "Five Words", "You've Never Lived", "Slow, Slow Music" and "River Of Money" for reasons that would drive me into loquaciousness. & "Man O' Sand To Girl O' Sea", which as songwriting goes is a masterpiece. 2) LIBERTY BELLE & THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS The proudly monochromatic cover belies the rich green summer hues of this impeccable pseudosymphonic tapestry. Plus it reads remarkably, and has dutifully managed to convert a staggering number of people. 3) TALLULAH A song as emotionally alive as "Right Here" couldn't possibly suffocate under such so-called overproduction - if drum machines lived in McLennan's head they had remarkable company. Plus an album-stealing showing from Forster, who's in a sexy, scary mood. Half light, half dark, always luminescent (as in the moon, as in gleaming intelligence), always complex, and always mired in that propulsive crispness. 4) CALLING FROM A COUNTRY PHONE Singing-songwriting at its most rewardingly difficult, and sometimes not difficult at all, just fond, even ebullient (e.g. "Falling Star", "121"). 5) 1978 - 1990 An eternal justification for self-anthology on the part of historically unheraldeds. "Bachelor Kisses", "Man O' Sand", "Rock & Roll Friend", "Streets Of Your Town", "This Girl, Black Girl", "When People Are Dead", "Spring Rain", "Draining The Pool", "I Need Two Heads", "You Won't Find It Again" on the same album. Needs "Part Company", "Clouds" and "Unkind And Unwise", but more than makes up with obsessive attention to detail and its position as precedent-setter for the church of GBs reverence. Personally preferred self-tribute: Intermission. And the five worst are The Lost Album (good singles and bad demos), Warm Nights (almost vengefully pleasure-resistant), Bright Yellow Bright Orange (nakedly unremarkable if not uninspired), In Your Bright Ray (adult contemporary) and Fireboy (criminally erratic). Cheers, Victor | ||
| Victor Prose Unregistered guest |
Oh, heck. "Oceans Apart" is the easy #1, then Spring Hill, Liberty Belle, Tallulah and Country Phone. How did THAT slip my mind? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 226 Registered: 02-2007 |
Despite the production on OA? Ha | ||
| Victor Prose Unregistered guest |
Oh, my friend, because of it! Who knew the GBs sounded so arresting swathed in Pet Shop Boys-style atmosphere? |