| Author | Message | ||
     Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 46 Registered: 03-2006 |
of the non-studio LPs, what's your favourite? Very Quick On The Eye = Brisbane, 1981 16 Lovers Lane acoustic demos 1978 - 1990 '78 - '79 The Lost Album Bellavista Terrace Live On Snap With Deidre O'Donoghue Live In London That Striped Sunlight Sound or anything else I've forgotten? My vote goes for the "Live On Snap" disc, which is one of my all-time favourite CDs. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1012 Registered: 04-2005 |
Live in London for me, though the two comps are sensational "easy" ways to hear the band. Never been lucky enough to hear Live on Snap... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 978 Registered: 05-2005 |
1978 - 1990 was my introduction. One of the best band intros ever in my opinion. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 152 Registered: 08-2006 |
Me, too, Padraig. 1978-1990 might be my single favorite GBs collection of any kind. I had several GBs records in my collection in 1990, but never really "got" the band until I heard that comp. That's when I went back and listened to the individual records and went from a casual admirerer to, you know, basically a freak. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 982 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just remembered that I actually bought Metal And Shells before that when I lived in Boston. To my eternal regret I sold it again as I decided after a couple of listens I didn't like it! Damn. | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 48 Registered: 03-2006 |
the 78 - 90 comp was the first Go-Bs thing I heard - I got a sec. hand copy after reading Stuart Murdoch from B&S mention them in an interview in '99. It's probably the best ever musical purchase I've ever made. (I don't actually own it any more, but have it as a playlist in iTunes/on my iPod.) I initially found it quite odd, aside from the obvious singles, but one day something snapped, and I became obsessed, and I've never really lost that feeling. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 809 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm amazed how many people were introduced by the 78-90 antho. That's what got me onto them first as well. MY regret is that I listened to it quite a bit but took something like ten years to go to the bother of getting individual albums. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 988 Registered: 05-2005 |
It is such a thoughtfully constructed compilation, mixing singles, album tracks, b-sides, rarities and unreleased songs. I can't think of any other compilation so well put together. | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 71 Registered: 05-2005 |
1978-1990 for me too. First Go-Betweens I heard, and it hooked me from the off. | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
In addition to the greatness and vastness of the music included on 1978-1990, the packaging (especially on the definitive double-vinyl version) was, like the band itself, a class-apart. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 332 Registered: 01-2005 |
1978-1990 for me as well. It was the second album I bought by them, and caused me endless trips to the local indie shop searching out import copies of Tallulah and the rest. The mid 90's BB reissues were a god send. I must say the Live on Snap is a great recording though. The banter between Deidre and the GB's is some of the best I have ever heard between a radio show host and a group. Grant, Robert and Amanda performing Quiet Heart from the 1988 session is breath taking. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 163 Registered: 08-2006 |
What is "Live on Snap"? I've never heard - or heard of – it. Ditto the 16 LL acoustic demos and "Very Quick on the Eye." | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 33 Registered: 08-2005 |
Live on Snap is a GBs' performance (well, Robert, Grant and Amanda) on a US radio station - a programme hosted by Deidre O'Donoghue. It came as an extra disc with (I believe) Bellavista Terrace. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 177 Registered: 04-2005 |
And the 16LL acoustic demos were given away with a French rock mag 'Les Inrockuptibles' that featured the band on the cover with the headline 'The Most Underated Band of all time?'. Well worth tracking down. 'Very Quick on the Eye' is a vinyl album of demos (pre SMAL) of dubious legality, but a nice thing to have. Think that much of it is now available on the last two CD issue of SMAL, but it is the only one I don't have so I am not too sure. Certain that someone here will know though! Live on Snap features 2 radio sessions, one acoustic and one with the full band. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 165 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Randy: My e-mails to you seem to be getting bounced back. So let me just say THANK YOU. I'm very grateful. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1022 Registered: 04-2005 |
C'mon, Go-Betweens management, whichever record company has the rights now, or whatever--give "Live on Snap" a proper official re-release. For that matter, how about a "rarities" album with that, the "5 Songs" cassette tracks, and other takes that didn't make it onto the bonus discs of the reissues? (As mentioned in a previous thread.) If the "Lost Album" was worth an official release, so is the rest of this stuff. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 814 Registered: 03-2005 |
Give them time. Too early a release would be attacked for a cheap cash-in on the loss of Grant. You're welcome Rob. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 232 Registered: 11-2004 |
The Go-Betweens need a rarities boxset or somesuch - though not as much as the Triffids do. | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2006 |
the "Live On Snap" was also available seperately for about a year via the Beggars site, with it's own cover art/jewel case etc., for anyone who had all the albums and didn't want to buy "Bellavista Terrace" just for a bonus disc. Very civilised of them I thought - I think it was very cheap too - maybe 5 pounds or something. It's probably the Go-Betweens album I listen to the most. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 171 Registered: 08-2006 |
After the discussion here, I actually bought one on Amazon UK yesterday for right around five pounds. If I knew what a pound was worth versus the dollar, that would mean something to me. Even without checking a currency convertor, though, five of anything sounds like a pretty low number, so I went for it. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 234 Registered: 11-2004 |
I love the Very Quick On The Eye album, from the Andrew Wilson photos on the cover to the raw, unpolished gems which became the basis of their debut. It's a lovely snapshot of a band of The Go-Betweens in 1981 the way the Lost Album us a peek of a very different group in 1979. Having said that, the 2LP version of 1978-1990 packs a powerful punch. |