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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6386 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to the Acoustic Demos disc right now. It makes me wonder how much stuff there is in the vaults that hasn't yet been released. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6387 Registered: 05-2005 |
The 16 Lovers Lane Acoustic Demos disc that came with an edition of French magazine Les Inrockuptibles in the mid-1990s, I should clarify. The version of Was There Anything I Could Do? is simply stunning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6406 Registered: 05-2005 |
I listened to 16 Lovers Lane on my iPod while going up and down the Brisbane River on a ferry boat this morning. It was just perfect. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6498 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just shook my new iPod nano so it picked a playlist. The first song it threw up was You Won't Find It Again (acoustic demo version). Nice one, iPod. | ||
| Matthias Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 274 Registered: 05-2005 |
I use the rating system (5 stars) on itunes and then I have a smart playlist that creates a top 20 of the highest ranked songs. So it is a mix of all the albums. My favorites tend to remain over the course of time so I should switch it to be random. :-) But to answer your question, I listen most to 16 Lover's Lane and The Evangelist because it reminds me of Grant and is a perfect homage to his partner of so many years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6599 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert's version of Tower Of Song is playing now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6641 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Live in Koeln | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 288 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Padraig, is there something new around from the weekend-festival in cologne? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6647 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, I've sent you an email to the address linked to when I clicked on your name. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6860 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to Double J through my TV and Finding You just came on. What a beautiful song. What a poor mix. Hopefully one day the album will be mixed properly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6985 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Live on SNAP with Deirdre O'Donoghue version of The Clarke Sisters just came up on an iPod shuffle. Wow, what a version. Definitely the best take of The Clarke Sisters. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6987 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now Pandanus has come up. It's almost like the iPod knows I like The Go-Betweens... | ||
| Fitzer Member Username: Dgf69 Post Number: 10 Registered: 07-2007 |
Have been listening to Grant's "Surround Me" EP which I rediscovered recently. It's not a collection that you'd return to regularly which is, I guess, why I've rediscovered it. But its version of "Hold Your Horses" is terrific. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6990 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love that EP. Sometimes I think it's his best solo release. I bought it on tape when it came out in 1992, and was thrilled to finally find it on CD a few years ago. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 132 Registered: 09-2004 |
If "Rock and Roll Friend" had been the b-side of "Streets" instead of "was there anything I could do", we would be living in a valhalla of chocolate running down the streets and gold drippng from balconies the world over. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7548 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant's In Your Bright Ray has just come up on the mixtape I mentioned in an another thread. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7893 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to some lesser spotted Robert/Go-Betweens songs. Right now, the disco version of Sympathy For The Devil is playing. Recorded as The Global Twins, it features Robert on vocals, Grant on backing vocals and guitar and Edwyn Collins on guitar and bass. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7898 Registered: 05-2005 |
While reading the book last night I was listening to a mix of all the songs that appeared on various editions of the Streets Of Your Town single. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 285 Registered: 02-2005 |
I do love hearing Forster and McLennan performing acoustically. The 16LL Demos and Live on SNAP are great. When the next box set is released I am assuming we'll get all of the Freakchild demos, which are wonderful to hear, even in bootleg quality. I got to see them perform acoustic on several occasions. We attended the Robert, Grant & Amanda performance at the Knitting Factory in support of 16LL. We talked to Robert briefly out on Houston Street after the show. As we bid adieu, he grabbed my wife around the waist and dipped her down, planting a kiss worthy of Rhett Butler! I saw R&G as a duo supporting Lloyd Cole. And I saw both sets at Fez on 26 June, 1999 during their first real reunion tour. That was a great night; Robert Vickers joined them on bass for a few songs along with Will Rigby on brushes/snare. I also saw each of them perform solo acoustic in NYC. Such sweet memories. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8250 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just played Mrs. Morgan for the first time in years. What a song. Now listening to Crooked Lines from the same album. I wonder if there will be a soundtrack to the film? | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 51 Registered: 03-2015 |
I have listening to the 1999 Munich BR-2 radio session a lot recently. Grant and Robert were adventurous spirits that day and they do a great piano and guitar version of "Suicide at Home", a song that takes a different meaning to me after reading "Grant & I". Maybe also it is because the melody is lighter than the lyrics. The whole session is a reminder why the Go-Betweens were so special. | ||
| delroyjones Unregistered guest |
Tallulah is a sentimental favourite for me. But when I left Australia in 1990 and went backpacking across the US it was a tape of 1979-1990 that kept me sane. Weird thing - 20 years later I was living in New York working on a startup that did PR for escorts. The first four women we "rebranded" withe new work personas called Tallulah, Dusty, Morgan and Clarke. Today I think that 16 Lovers Lane is the unrecognized masterpiece that should have taken the world by storm. |