| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1346 Registered: 05-2005 |
Was just playing Mrs Morgan. And I was awatiing the moment within the song where the songs stops and reverts to a miltary style snare roll and simple acoustic picking, 3min 13 sec in, its a pure Grant moment for me, it makes me feel warm and makes me smile, he did that a lot. There's loads of them, what are yours? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 27 Registered: 02-2007 |
I think Bye Bye Pride does it for me Spence. The way the song evokes, firstly the physical landscape of Cairns, the water and the memories of place, and how the song moves to an emotional landscape by the end. The song moves me, it takes me from the physical to the emotional, "the door is open wide" a sort of triumphant claim over loss and pride. I kinda have to stop in my tracks when I hear it, its a Grant moment for me Spence, and like all great songs it sorta transecends time and place. Yep I smile too. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 238 Registered: 04-2005 |
A gently picked acoustic and then that voice begins The mercury is risin'/110 in the shade The beginning of another perfect 'vignette', another 3 minutes of wonderfully defined images, atomsphere and poignancy. "The Man Who Died in Rapture" (B-side of "When Word Gets Around", think it also features on the Freakchild demos?) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1079 Registered: 03-2005 |
One Plus One. It was the first song on IYBR that totally captivated me. I listen to music at work on an iPod in shuffle mode and recently "One Plus One" came on. Same magic for me. I stopped what I was doing and surrendered to Grant's wonderful song about surrender. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 529 Registered: 01-2005 |
Simone and Perry. So many highlights on that song, but "Everything is golden, everything's alive. Come see the Padadise, if only for an hour" is certainly one of my favorites. | ||
| Michelle M Member Username: Michelle Post Number: 32 Registered: 09-2004 |
The lyrics: "eyes so blue it's like falling through An evening in the west" always spirit me away. The expansive, cloudless blue skies west of the Great Dividing Range can overwhelm and disorient you at times. Stare up and you can feel that you are gazing into an ocean awaiting you to dive or fall into its blue promise. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1719 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's quite purty, Michelle, what song does that come from? They're all favorite moments to me, but maybe three stand out: 1) A non-musical one, from "Live On Snap": when Grant was bragging on Amanda's guitar solo to the radio host, Deirdre. You can get a glimpse of that largeness of character and heart people talked about from his comments - "wasn't that a killa?"... 2) The guitar riff that closes the song, "Horsebreaker Star". It must be one of my favorite musical moments ever, by anybody, and I could listen to it on an endless loop. 3) I agree with you, Michael, about "Simone and Perry"...I think it's the quintessential Grant song. | ||
| Michelle M Member Username: Michelle Post Number: 33 Registered: 09-2004 |
Sorry, LK. I have some sort of egocentric trait which makes me believe that the whole world will know what I am thinking and they will just fill in the gaps. "Heart And Home" from "Friends of Rachel Worth" | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 72 Registered: 05-2005 |
The beginning of "Hot Water" does it for me. Its combination of loss, mixed with the promise of a brand new morning is what Grant did better than anyone else. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 166 Registered: 07-2006 |
sorry guys - random bout of hysterics here. i'm listening to horsebreaker star for the first time and i'm absolutely bowled over by how amazing it is. track six and i've heard only one track that i would describe as any less than magnificent. almost too good to take in | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 535 Registered: 08-2006 |
It's pretty great, isn't it, Joe? Enjoy. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 167 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's spectacular. looking forward to going home tonight to listen to it...can't remember the last time i was so keen to hear something. as for my favourite grant moment - i'm going to have to cop out here and just mention bachelor kisses. to this day i still get a rush from the very first "hey wait". | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1827 Registered: 03-2006 |
Joe, congrats on your excellent taste...I think this is proof positive that your soul is correctly calibrated and that your heart works. Not that there were any doubts... I think I agree with you on Bachelor Kisses, too...Also, I think it might be one of the most vulnerable musical moments ever recorded by a male singer, next to John Lennon's "Jealous Guy". | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 169 Registered: 07-2006 |
yep...i get a similar warbley (a word?) feeilng from avalon-era roxy, but not to the same degree. here's to fragility LK! | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 86 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think I have just had a few of what qualifies as 'Grant moments'. Recently I got a copy of a VHS tape called 'The Go-Betweens - Video Singles' - six nice selections ('Spring Rain', 'Head Full of Steam', 'Right Here', 'Bye, Bye Pride', 'Streets of Your Town' and 'Was There Anything I Could Do?') that tonight I finally got the chance to sit down and watch. Remember, folks, I'm catching up on the Go-B's. What a pleasure to see how clever 'Right Here' was, for example. Grant was so unaffected in front of the camera, everything about his performances was very nice, the grins and all, down to the last moment when he blows a kiss goodbye in 'Was There Anything I Could Do?' Such a gifted man, such creativity; ya gotta admire him. One wonders what would have resulted had he ever gotten the chance to direct a film. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 43 Registered: 02-2007 |
Welcome back Elizabeth! The contrast between Grant's and Robert's style made it all work. Music comes outta strange and seductive places. The GBs sure had it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1418 Registered: 05-2005 |
Elizabeth nice points there. You get a feeling from the Sunlight DVD interview piece that G was like Robert, really looking forward to their future, and that it was still, "all to do". Its a shame. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 87 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, I gotta mention -- what a quirky nod to Gene Kelly, intentional or not, we see in 'Spring Rain' when Robert danced around with that umbrella as the rain poured down on the band. (They were trained professionals, folks, don't try what they did in the video at home... *S*) David - thanks for the welcome back! It was so hard to give up music for Lent; it's going to have to be something else next year. Spence - thank you! In spite of the contrast in approaches to 'that striped sunlight sound' ideal, the two men definitely had like minds, pure dedication to art and a sustained creative drive. |