| Author | Message | ||
     Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 317 Registered: 04-2005 |
In another thread, a couple of people mentioned "City of Lights" as being a great song. I sampled it in iTunes and all I heard in the 30-second snippet was instrumental work, plus it's less than two minutes long. Does it have any lyrics, or is it just an instrumental? I'd like to know before I buy it. Also, is "Crystal Shacks" any good? Again, all I heard in the sample was guitars, no vocals. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 320 Registered: 05-2005 |
City Of Lights is a superb song Kurt. The vocals are spoken by both Robert and Grant. A few lines each, that's all. The music starts out like a Phil Spector-produced soul stomper from the 60s and then mutates into something not too far removed from Randy Newman. It is probably the least Go-Betweens-like songs they have done. I wish I had the 7". Crystal Shacks is nothing special but it has quite a nice groove to it. It's instrumental. Your life will not lack for not hearing it; but I bet you will want to download it anyway! Sleeping Giant was on another format from that EP. I think I got it through a link from the Go-Betweens website. It's a Robert song that sounds more like his solo albums. I like it though. | ||
| Per Stam Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2005 |
City of lights is credited to Future Pilot AKA vs The Go-Betweens, and will be on the forthcoming Future Pilot album (the 7" sleeve says). So it's a collaboration, probably/possibly with the music by FPA. I got another FPA 7" with the song Lights of the City - same music (at least basically) same length, but another collab. (I can't remember with who right now). | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah, 'Lights of the City' with Stu Murdoch and Sarah Martin from B&S. sushil dade seems to be really into collaborations - there's a whole album of'em, "future pilot a.k.a. Vs. a galaxy of sound". I hear a lot of dade in the song "city of lights" with the go-betweens. I would love to know who played the piano, whether it's been Robert. lyrics, as far as I could make out the lines (there's a lot of echo on the words): Robert: Should you pass my way/ ........./and the window is still open/in the deep of the night/the streetlight shimmers like a ghost/and the wind blows cold Grant: Who will you love in the heat of the morning sun/when you finished all your sleep/ face a brand new day/ I'm gonna dedicate this one to the ones I love. In any case, I like "City of Lights" and "Stone" best from the new batch of songs. | ||
| Sloan Nevidy Member Username: Rockandrollfriend Post Number: 8 Registered: 07-2005 |
Julia-- Where can one purchase "Stone"? --Sloan | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 150 Registered: 07-2005 |
you can get it form iTunes not sure of the CD singles Sloan | ||
| Sloan Nevidy Member Username: Rockandrollfriend Post Number: 9 Registered: 07-2005 |
itunes uk, i live in the u.s. though and i can only purchase from the u.s. store. is there any other place to get these tracks? --sloan | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
sloan -- really, you cannot log yourself in at the iTunes uk, with a new account perhaps? I downloaded it from the German iTunes store, it must be then, since I'm living in Germany...ahem.(thank god the installation and the downloading was fool-proof, that was my first and only downloading of songs so far! I detest that new way of having some songs on there which you cannot get anywhere else!! I don't like it. so, sloan, if you just can't find a way to get hold of these songs, mail me and I'll send them to you, the old-fashioned way. U.S. Postal Service!  can anyone help me and complete the lyrics of "City of Lights"? | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 72 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julia How does this sound? Robert: Should you pass my way/ you may find/ the window is still open/ in the deep of the night/ the sea light shimmers like a ghost/ and the wind blows cold Grant: Who will you love in the heat of the morning sun/ when you've finished all your sleeping/ face a brand new day/ I'm gonna dedicate this one to the ones I love. | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2005 |
oh thank you Eke! "You may find" was the bit still missing, and I think you're also right about "sea light" instead of "streetlights...I guess I was thinking that in suburbian Brisbane you can't usually see the sea - but then again, not all Forster songs are [purely]autobiographical... although the B-side, "Sleeping Giant", is clearly about Forster's then baby daughter Loretta, right? I was kind of dreading the first song that would deal with his settled down, family life, but "Sleeping Giant" is quite ok in that respect. | ||
| Nic Barnard Member Username: Nic_barnard Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2005 |
My copy of the Finding You 7" gives the writing credit for City of Lights to Sushil, so I guess he wrote the words too. Although they do sound like something Robert or especially Grant might have written. It really is a lovely piece. | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 73 Registered: 05-2005 |
I wasn't sure about "the sea light shimmers". I thought it could be "the sea might shimmer" but it didn't seem to fit. My intention was actually to return to your "streetlights", julia, as I couldn't be sure of any of my versions, but I forgot... | ||
| Richard Lim Member Username: Re17 Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not "the sea light shimmers" - "the city lights shimmer like a ghost". IMHO. Richard |