| Author | Message | ||
     Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 23 Registered: 06-2005 |
I'm not talking about bands that GBs fans might also like, but ones that sound uncannily like the GBs. I've been revisiting the Servants' album "Disinterest" this week and it is practically "Send Me a Lullaby Pt. II." The similarities are amazing. What other examples are there? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 664 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tiny Town ? I had mentioned them before in a thread on ignored Australian bands. I have one 12" single and it sounds just like the missing link (no pun intended) between the GBs first and second albums. I had come across a blog recently which had all their stuff to download, but I can't find it again ! David Nichols wrote "Tiny Town started out as a band called The Supports, contemporaries and friends of the GoBs, probably some of the same attitude and ideals, went through a few permutations and names, moved to Britain and started releasing stuff as Tiny Town... from memory a flexidisc, two singles, a 12" EP and an LP, all very good. Certainly a Brisbane sound, as much as The Apartments or Four Gods did. Or the Riptides for that matter. Peter Loveday was the singer/ I suppose main songwriter, he has released two albums recently both highly recommended, he lives in Barcelona, you could buy his records from him online I'm sure" | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 155 Registered: 06-2005 |
This track from the new Noah & The Whale album has a Grant/GBs feel to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZu4sppZ xI&feature=youtube_gdata_player | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 83 Registered: 09-2004 |
I just saw this review in the Dominion Post from Wellington. After reading this, I want to check out the Close Readers. The Close Readers - Group Hug (Austin Records) * * * * The Close Readers is a home for some new songs from Wellington-based novelist Damien Wilkins. Assisting him is Craig Terris (providing bass and drums). Wilkins was a post-punk rocker in an earlier life and this return - from the page to the stage - shows that his short story ideas translate well to music. A song called Elton John is not as celebratory as fans might like. It's followed by a song called Iris DeMent; surely the first time these artists have been name-dropped on the same album (and yet you can imagine both Elton and Iris approving). I think, often, of The Go-Betweens. In some ways Group Hug reminds me of their Friends of Rachel Worth album, the band's return to recording after a decade away. There are droll lines ("all his records were imported") that you can hear in the voice of Robert Forster; you can imagine coming from the pen of Grant McLennan. I've played this album a lot because I think the writing is superb - it's funny and sad and the songs are full of surprises. And I like that. You might too. SIMON SWEETMAN | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4084 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disco Inferno - The Last Dance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kje_0RFLY Pw Almost nothing else they did sounds remotely like The Go-Betweens, but this could have come from Liberty Belle. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2279 Registered: 01-2005 |
Very much so Pádraig. I missed out on these dudes when they were around (1989-95). Next month will see the release of The 5 EPs on CD, which might be well worth while picking up, and also as my intro to thier output. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 667 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tracked down the Tiny Town downloads again. http://consolationprize.wordpress.com/ca tegory/tiny-town/ I've got "No Place Like Rome"... They've got some early Apartments singles as well on that site. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 109 Registered: 10-2005 |
Padraig, Disco Inferno - The Last Dance - that is spot on! And very good. Also, check out: The Nectarine No 9: "Hanging Around (Oct 1903)" which I have always found very go-betweensy. On the album I Love Total Destruction (2003/2004) - on spotify. The was also a remixed version on a promo and a compilation. Check it out! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4102 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have a Nectarine No 9 album somewhere. Must see if I can find it. Maybe it has that song on it. | ||
| Martin Schori Member Username: Martin_s Post Number: 30 Registered: 05-2006 |
By accident I found this today. Also very go-betweensy. The band is Reigning Sound. Listen here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/10/ 30/reigning-sound-abdication/ | ||
| Martin Schori Member Username: Martin_s Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2006 |
If you like Grants vocals you should listen to Jon Hans. Like it quite a lot. And it's free... http://jonhans.bandcamp.com/album/native s-in-a-foreign-land | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4156 Registered: 05-2005 |
New (to me) Melbourne band Dick Diver owe a lot to early Go-Betweens. They even have a woman drummer! I just bought their album today in Red Eye. I like it very much on first listen. http://dickdiver.bandcamp.com/ | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 106 Registered: 03-2006 |
There was an American band called The Butterflies of Love - the album 'How to Know The Butterflies of Love' (circa 1999) was EXTREMELY Go-Betweens-esque. Great, virtually unknown band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4222 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Mt. Everest from that album now Lawrence. It does sound like The Go-Betweens, albeit with much heavier guitars. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 85 Registered: 09-2004 |
Other Music thinks Real Estate has a Go-Betweens feel: REAL ESTATE Days (Domino) This Brooklyn-via-New Jersey outfit had made great progress as songwriters and stylists over the past couple of years, winning notice and acclaim from mere bedroom recordings, and their new home on Domino afforded Real Estate the luxury to get into a real studio and flesh out their sound to a stately, dreamy confidence. The resulting sophomore full-length marked a giant step forward for the band and was some of the most gorgeous guitar pop that we'd heard in a while. Filled with spacey, luxurious ballads celebrating the beauty of lush, green suburban tracts in the summer, or long car rides with no set destination and the companionship of trusted friends, Real Estate followed a similar idyllic path as traveled by the likes of the Feelies, Go-Betweens and Clientele, and in doing so they invigorated a classic sound in the pantheon of modern rock. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2343 Registered: 10-2004 |
Bill Pritchard sounded a bit Grant-ish at times. His cool "Tommy & Co" could almost fit in on 16LL. | ||
| Martin Schori Member Username: Martin_s Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2006 |
The Latebirds have songs that sometimes sound a bit like Grants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfKO0q-Mo KE (Sounds Become Fall) is a good example. The new album is quite interesting... have an ear! | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 88 Registered: 09-2004 |
Paidraig, Just listened to Dick Diver. They *do* sound like the Go-Betweens. Their song "Through The D" is really wonderful. I look forward to listening to the rest! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4533 Registered: 05-2005 |
Haven't listened to them in ages Austin. Must dig it out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4550 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Nada Surf's great cover of Love Goes On right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4551 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now on to Del Amitri's rather lovely take of Bye Bye Pride. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 263 Registered: 02-2005 |
When I saw Vetiver (twice) last year they performed "Streets Of Your Town" both nights and followed it with their own "Wonder Why" which has a well-knit Go-Betweens feel. It's from their fine album 'The Errant Charm.' | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4640 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guy, you're thanked on the new Human Switchboard compilation! | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 265 Registered: 02-2005 |
Yes, I know them and was a big fan. I taped a number of their shows at Maxwell's. I've had a work-in-progress copy of that Anthology for seven or eight years now so I'm happy it finally came out. I wish it would have been a 2-CD set as originally planned; the album plus singles and outtakes and a second disc of all the demos they recorded for their never-commenced second album. The organization got a bit muddled on the single disc + downloads, but it's all there (with one odd fade where two of the demos segued together). I don't know how those demos sound to the uninitiated in 2012, but we all had high hopes for their future at the time. They were being offered good recording contracts, but Bob and Myrna had broken-up and I don't think they could face being married contractually. That VU-meets-Prince sound had a lot of potential though and they were really on a roll as songwriters. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4646 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought it was a bit odd alright. Surely it wouldn't have cost that much more to do a double disc? True Proposition (Where The Light Breaks) is probably my favourite track so far. It was nice to see you credited. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 267 Registered: 02-2005 |
I just remembered another detail about the Switchboard Anthology... They wanted to include reminiscences from their inner circle of fans in the liner notes and I was one of the people they asked to write something. I knocked it out pretty quickly and I honestly don't remember what I said; this was six or seven years ago. Obviously, they decided not to go that route when the submissions came in. :o) But that's one of the reasons I was thanked. I like a lot of that later unreleased material and the demos are well-recorded. They did a good chunk of recording at CBGB and Mike Thorn produced three songs in another studio. They were making serious plans for the future, but sometimes the future has its own plan. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7190 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to Disco Inferno's brilliant The Last Dance. It always reminds me of a Grant Go-Betweens song. I'd love to ask them if it was intentional as very little of the rest of Disco Inferno's work sounds anything like The Go-Betweens. |