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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4170 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm mainly asking because lately I have so rarely played any Go-Betweens, Robert of Grant albums. The last one I played was the rip of the acoustic stories DVD. I'm sure I'll go through a burst soon and play loads of stuff, but lately, not so much. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4171 Registered: 05-2005 |
And as soon as I remarked on not playing The Go-Betweens, doing so is exactly what I wanted to do! Listening to the version of You've Never Lived from the Acoustic Démos disc right now. It's brilliant, though hardly acoustic! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4172 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now playing Grant's In Your Bright Ray. Such a perfect pop song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4173 Registered: 05-2005 |
The (not so) distant sound of a northern beaches electrical storm punctuating the song reminded me to take my washing in off the line, but I'm back to Grant again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4174 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now Robert's Demon Days from The Evangelist. It has been a very long time since I've played this song. It hasn't lost any of its emotional power. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4175 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm finishing my mini-Go-Betweens fest with Robert and Grant's take on Sympathy For The Devil from 1998. A fine, fun take it is too. Some serious guitar playing on this. I suspect it is Edwyn Collins. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 180 Registered: 05-2005 |
I probably listen to The Evangelist the most, followed by Live at the Barbican and some of the demos. Robert's albums Danger in the Past sometimes gets an airing in the car for a singalong. The other night in the pub though a dj played Make Her Day and later People Say both of which sounded great. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1506 Registered: 10-2008 |
I never play anything outwith all Roberts solo albums and Before Hollywood/Spring Hill Fair/Liberty Belle, all of which are magnificent. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2278 Registered: 10-2004 |
I listen to the six 80s albums far more than I listen to any of the solo albums and the '00s comeback albums. As for the latter, I never listen to FoRW or BYBO, but I do give Oceans Apart a spin from time to time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2806 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm normally hearing the Go Betweens in one-song random selections from the iPod which I realize is not the question here. It's been a really long time since I plucked out an album and listened to it. The most likely choices will be Robert's "Country Phone" and "Before Hollywood," "Spring Hill Fair," "Liberty Belle" and "Tallulah." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Grant sing Sign Of The Unicorn. It's live. Was it ever recorded in a studio? | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 25 Registered: 06-2005 |
Who is the Grace Slick background vocalist on that track? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4184 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't know Greg, but I'm intrigued too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4200 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to the Acoustic Stories version of Cattle And Cane. | ||
| Bryce Member Username: Rockandrollfriend Post Number: 71 Registered: 07-2005 |
I still go back to 16LL the most. I think it's because I have a copy on cassette and a cassette player in my car. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4223 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to the Les Inrockuptibles magazine version of Streets Of Your Town right now. I think nine of the 11 tracks on this disc have never been released elsewhere. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2325 Registered: 01-2005 |
16LL always gets a spin or two during the fall season when the leaves are dropping from the trees. It's a perfect fall album. I'll listen to most of the solo ablums once every year or two. Liberty Belle, Before Hollywood, Spring Hill Fair and the remastered Tallulah are staples. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4355 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to The Dark Side Of Town right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4358 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rock 'n' Roll Friend (Rolling Stone Germany version) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2361 Registered: 10-2004 |
Listening to Spring Hill Fair today. It's a wonderful album, but it could've been so much more! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2891 Registered: 03-2005 |
Second-Hand Furniture in place of River of Money? It's Robert who was on fire at that time and you can't add any of his extra songs. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2364 Registered: 10-2004 |
"Just a King in Mirrors" in place of "River of Money" - a slow, plodding, "hey, let's thwart John Brand's slick production aspirations and do a poor job of trying to ape the Birthday Party" Grant song for a slow, melodic, emotionally stirring Grant song. If I'm in a particularly critical mood, I'd trade "Rare Breed" for "The Old Way Out." But sometimes I'm okay with that Gary Glitter-esque oddity. If I could go back in time, I'd travel to wherever SHF was being recorded, convince Lindy to play the drum beat on "Five Words" that she would later play on the Peel Sessions version (the clumsily played, one-take snare shuffling makes it sound so unfinished and lazy), and try to implore Robert to re-use the superior single version of "Man 'o Sand." But really, just getting rid of "River of Money" would be a vast improvement. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to a German radio version of Suicide At Home which I hope will end up on a box set some day. Grant on vocals and guitar and Robert on piano. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 86 Registered: 09-2004 |
Ah, Suicide at Home. For years I thought that was the best "lost" Go-Betweeens song, since it was obviously a Far Out Corporation song. Robert and Grant's solo performance of it during a tour cycle was always spin chilling. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now playing a third GB3 song in a row. This one, Actress On A Mattress, features the last vocal Grant recorded. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4407 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Acoustic Démos version of You've Never Lived is quite brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4415 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening right now to a rip of the Acoustic Stories DVD. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4443 Registered: 05-2005 |
Playing Jack Frost's self-titled record and enjoying it very much. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 300 Registered: 11-2004 |
Listening to Send Me a Lullaby, the 1990 CD version which is just beautiful. Sounds like they're playing in your lounge. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 233 Registered: 11-2007 |
Playing Grant's Fireboy album... So many wonderful songs!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2411 Registered: 10-2004 |
I've been playing Oceans Apart this week. I realized that OA came out 7 years ago, around this time (it was released in early May in the US). I think it still holds up, and that it is still far superior to FORW and BYBO. The hyper-compressed, LOUD, distorted sound is still unpleasant, but the songs are largely great. It was as if they decided to stop playing it safe and really put themselves into making a quality album. They ended on a high note. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 570 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's so full of wit and beauty, OA,of romance and bite, that combination that made the GBs so wonderful. One of those albums that no sooner heard has immediately to be sent out to friends. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4517 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to an audience recording of Grant at the Rose, Shamrock & Thistle pub in Sydney from 10 June, 1991. I wonder if a sound desk tape of this exists? It's Grant (who introduces himself as GW McLennan) accompanied by Phil Kakulas on bass. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4537 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert doing Sympathy For The Devil. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4539 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant doing Clouds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4540 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant - Easy Come, Easy Go EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4547 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant - The Dark Side Of Town | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4552 Registered: 05-2005 |
One more cover: Maximo Park doing Was There Anything I Could Do? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4553 Registered: 05-2005 |
One last cover: Ed Kuepper's magnificent version of Finding You. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4558 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Simone & Perry video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYchsMK-i V4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4562 Registered: 05-2005 |
Playing Grant's Making It Right For Her, the b-side of Easy Come, Easy Go. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4572 Registered: 05-2005 |
You Won't Find It Again. What a song. Here's what Guy Picciotto of Fugazi said about it on this site (something I missed at the time, but came across the quote elsewhere and have just found it here). Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 04:54 am: The news of Grant McLennan's death was like a punch in the stomach. 15 years ago, I made a 4 track of "You Won't Find It Again" just so I could get a sense of what it would be like to have such golden lyrics come out of my own mouth. To me, Grant's songs are the horizon of songwriting - ever beckoning, ever distant, the outer limit of the craft. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2425 Registered: 10-2004 |
Interesting - Fugazi is a band I haven't listened to in eons - easily not since the mid 90s. Nice to know that Picciotto is a fan, though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4578 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Fugazi in Dublin in about 1995. Great, great show. Wish I'd known then that Guy Picciotto shared more of my musical interests than I'd suspected. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2376 Registered: 01-2005 |
I didn't know what a fugazi was until I saw Donnie Brasco at my local cinema. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M37LF_xGy c0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4626 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Metal And Shells. I bought this on cassette in a record shop off Harvard Square in Boston in 1989. I then sold it to a shop in Cork city a year later. Something I regret to this day. I just didn't like it at the time. Anyway, I saw the cassette (which, like my one, is from America, ie not the Japanese version which had a different track listing) on ebay on Wednesday. I bought it and it arrived today (the seller is also in Sydney). It's such a great compilation. Why, oh why did I not like it back then? I think I found it difficult to listen to, but, of course, it's not. It picks the most melodic tracks from Before Hollywood and Spring Hill Fair, and also includes (on the cassette version) This Girl, Black Girl, which was the b-side of Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1842 Registered: 10-2008 |
I've always loved This Girl, Black Girl. Better than some songs on SHF, can't understand why it was relegated to a b-side. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4638 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Metal And Shells again. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 517 Registered: 01-2007 |
My favourite is Danger in the Past for solo stuff then Horsbreaker Star ( the UK double edition) | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 518 Registered: 01-2007 |
I probably play the 78-90 compilation the most for the group stuff then Libery Belle | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2382 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hard to believe but I only had one solo album, which was Horsebreaker Star, before I saw Robert and Grant 13 years ago this month @ The 7th House in Pontiac, MI. Within 6 months I had the other seven solo discs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4673 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metal And Shells. Again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4687 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just played: Grant - Hold Your Horses, Stones For You (trumpet version) & Clouds (from the Live Last Monday EP); Robert - Rock 'n' Roll Friend (German Rolling Stone magazine version), It's Not What You Think, Sympathy For The Devil. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4715 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to The City Of Lights vs. Future Pilot AKA, The Go-Betweens' last recorded work (that we know of anyway). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4717 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metal And Shells on the kitchen boombox. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4729 Registered: 05-2005 |
The brilliant You've Never Lived. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4746 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Grant's Move To The Perfect Beat. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4747 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Sign Of The Unicorn, live at the Roskilde festival. A great, Grant pop song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4748 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Roskilde version of I'll Call You Wild is very metal. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4847 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now, Cattle And Cane (acoustic stories version). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - In Your Bright Ray. Still a perfect, beautiful pop song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4957 Registered: 05-2005 |
And Cave In is almost as good. | ||
| Richard May Member Username: Richm Post Number: 12 Registered: 07-2010 |
For me, the In Your Bright Ray album is the best Grant solo album. Great songs and production. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3049 Registered: 03-2005 |
In the process of rebuilding my iTunes library on my new computer for its new linked iPod I've been first putting on a lot of overlooked records. In the case of the Go Betweens I always had everything on the old library but for the moment I only have things back to "Tallulah" on the new one. Then I let the iPod do its shuffle thing. The record that has been supplying a lot of surprisingly enjoyable songs is "Bright Yellow, Bright Orange"--the record overlooked by seemingly everybody associated with the new "Quiet Heart" comp. On my weekend road trip, its contribution of pleasure came in the form of "Mrs. Morgan." I had forgotten how wonderful that song is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4972 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mrs Morgan is great. I love the Mrs Morgan trilogy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4974 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, it's killing me that I can't remember this. What is the middle one in the Mrs Morgan trilogy? Trapeze Boy by Jack Frost is the first, and Mrs Morgan by The Go-Betweens is the third. I know there is one in the middle. Is it a Grant solo song? Or Far Out Corporation? | ||
| Richard May Member Username: Richm Post Number: 13 Registered: 07-2010 |
It's Sea Breeze from In Your Bright Ray. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4975 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Richard. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4991 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I'm listening to Robert playing Rock 'n' Roll Friend on Dave Fanning's show on RTE Radio 2 in 1996. Taped it off the radio myself! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5014 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Sympathy For The Devil. His cover of Walcott also popped up on the iPod earlier today as I walked to Clontarf beach. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Live Last Monday EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5061 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Surround Me b-sides | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5107 Registered: 05-2005 |
You've Never Lived demo version is brightening up my afternoon right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5108 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Rare Breed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5109 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just A King In Mirrors. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5111 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rock'n'roll Friend (the powerful Bellavista Terrace Disc 2 acoustic version). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Art Cinema from The Botany Sessions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now playing How I Wish This War Was Over from The Botany Sessions. This is a Grant song. The previous one is a Robert song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5116 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Day My Eyes Came Back, Botany Sessions version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suicide At Home, with Robert on piano, Grant on vocals and guitar, the BR 2 Session, Munich, Germany 05/27/99. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5118 Registered: 05-2005 |
Finding You (7" version). Playing more Go-Betweens today than I have in a long time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5119 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metal And Shells, John Peel Session 14th July 1982. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 524 Registered: 01-2007 |
Head Full of Steam | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 527 Registered: 01-2007 |
Clarke Sisters | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5204 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Girl In A Beret | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5205 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Chesworth Ensemble - Dark Light (Robert Forster vocals) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5207 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Falling Star (Original version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5244 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Chesworth Ensemble - Dark Light (Robert Forster vocals) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5249 Registered: 05-2005 |
I played the Far Out Corporation's album on my iPod and was blown away by how good it is. Not every song is great, but most of them are. Impressed with that, I sought another rarely played Go-Betweens (and related) album, so listened to disc 2 of Live In London. |