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     Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 62 Registered: 06-2005 |
Captured Tracks is reissuing the first Apartments album and Robert wrote liner notes. You can read the full text of his notes here: http://www.capturedtracks.com/feature/th e-apartments-feature/ | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 135 Registered: 09-2004 |
Wow, how interesting! Had no idea that he was the subject of "That Way" *and* "Don't Let Him Come Back." Someone needs to create a Go-Betweens trivia game with all the great information that has come to light lately! | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 63 Registered: 06-2005 |
I remember reading that about "Don't Let Him Come Back," but "That Way" was news to me. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 953 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Day comes up sicker than a cat" Nice to hear that Robert and Grant put more effort into first lines, after hearing that one from "Mr Somewhere". Think that there is a thread (in the lyrics section ?) on this board with peoples' favourite first lines from their songs. There are some beauties... | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 133 Registered: 10-2005 |
The album is great too. I also found a couple of early able label tracks on youtube and Spotify - they are very fine - now I will probably buy the extended reissue. Ain't that always the way. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3462 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have "Help" (from "Can't Stop It--Australian Post-Punk 1978-82") but that's the only pre-"Evening Visits" Apartments track I've ever heard. It is entirely worthy of its provenance, what with its reference to the "choirboys dancing cheek-to-cheek" who "talk about the world, but talk's so cheap." Now, who do you think that's about, hmm? Having read that the reissue will include the early singles I am certainly going to buy this reissue. Absolutely. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 134 Registered: 10-2005 |
Yes, I heard Help from that album (Can't stop it). And another of the able label tracks is on youtube. Both are great. So - to get all the able label tracks and other the pre-album single (plus demos) is indeed a wonderful thing. I have ordered the CD, but I was tempted by the double LP ... I also noticed that captured tracks is reissuing the Four Gods 7" (able label). http://www.capturedtracks.com/?ct_artist _page=the-apartments http://www.capturedtracks.com/shop/ct-re lated-releases/ct-206-the-apartments-the -evening-visits-cd2xlp/ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 961 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey Randy ! Recent explanation from Peter Walsh himself on Facebook...do you think he reads this message board ? "Since I had been in The Go-Betweens for almost five minutes, people assumed the line "I’ve seen the choirboys dancing cheek to cheek" was about Robert and Grant. In fact, the line came to me while watching a late night movie, Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing to Irving Berlin's “Cheek to Cheek”. Now, Robert may well have been a Fred Astaire figure but really—did anybody think Grant was Ginger? " | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3473 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's really funny Andrew! But I'm pretty sure I didn't dream up that association myself; I think I read it somewhere. (Maybe in the liner notes to "Can't Stop It.") The second half of the couplet, though, really does nail Robert & Grant back in their young Brisbane days. Even if it's sheer coincidence and PMW isn't throwing up a little classic RnR smoke screen. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 135 Registered: 10-2005 |
The reissue of The evening visits ... have arrived (the cd version). It is great, indeed. The album still holds up, the bonus material is great: the able label ep, one pre lp single, and a handful of illuminating album demos. The demos seem to be PMW:s favourite versions of (some of) the songs. One thought: Claire Kenny is an underappreciated bass player. She is on TEV, on the Third album by Orange Juice, on Edwyn Collins' Gorgeous George (and the follow up), and on Robert Forster's Warm Nights. No bad CV. | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 67 Registered: 06-2005 |
The bonus material on the new Apartments reissue is great. I agree with PMW that some of the demos are superior to the album versions. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 971 Registered: 04-2005 |
Very interesting recent interviews with Walsh and Lindy http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/469 0512 | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 136 Registered: 10-2005 |
Indeed! Yes. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3485 Registered: 03-2005 |
I enjoyed reading those interviews Andrew. I picked up a copy of the new reissue at a local store yesterday. (I'd been worried that if I ordered it online somebody'd send me the old one.) I didn't realize that "All You Wanted" was pre-"Evening Visits." I got it a few years back on a French CD-EP called "Life" (also including "The Shyest Time" and "Make it Count.") It is a sublime song. I was delighted to find some liner notes from another Los Angeleno. It's comforting to know there's a fellow traveler out there somewhere in the miasma of this place. I did not realize how much time PMW spent in NYC. It makes sense, but I like thinking of sweaty hilly Brisbane having its own under-the-radar smoking jacket culture. |