| Author | Message | ||
     C Gull |
First decent days of spring in the UK this week and I was driving in my car, elbow in the air-con, listening to BYBO -isn't Make Her Day a great track? Definitely my favourite on the LP (not that there's much competition, but lets not go there), for some reason I feel this song would also fit onto Before Hollywood. | ||
| catfigs |
i didn't realise how good a song it was til i heard it live, even though i'd heard it a few times on bright yellow bright orange. hearing it live it just clicked for some reason and since then i've heard it many times. i think it has to be one of the classics. great simple little song. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
It was the first song I heard off BYBO (despite hearing 'Mrs. Morgan' and 'Something for Myself' live months earlier) and it's still my favourite on the album. Though I do think it stands better by itself: it kinda sounds awkward after 'old mexico'. Possibly the next single? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker |
Not to be the party pooper, but Make Her Day is the one song I don't really like off BYBO. I don't know, it's too trite or obvious or something. I prefer Old Mexico for upbeat poppiness. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
Yeah, but the chorus sounds like an travel commercial or something. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker |
Ha! Ha! I actually thought Make Her Day would've made a great car commercial or something. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
'Spring Rain' plays like car commercial in my head already. It has to be the ultimate driving song. | ||
| Padraig Collins |
Pete, Robert once described Spring Rain in a radio interview with me as being a Brisbane AM radio song to listen to in your car. It was also used in the Farrelly brothers movie Kingpin in a driving scene. | ||
| C Gull |
Hey - what's wrong with car commercial songs - I've had no problem with this 'genre' since The Fall's Touch Sensitive was used by Vauxhall! | ||
| Michelle |
I think Spring Rain would be a good commerial song especially for cars. Just like Streets of your town worked well as a TV station ad. Site specific. I thought Spring Rain was also in the movie Something Wild but I may have dreamt that. In Australia we had a good car ad with New Radicals "You only get what you give" as the sound track. Good in terms that you didn't need to rush to mute the ad. It may not have been a good marketing ploy as I can't recall the brand of car. But it had quite an impact - the year 12 graduates from our high school wanted to use it as a theme song for graduation. This was 4 years after it was a hit. I am sure there is some positives to having your songs revived though good advertising. Is it just me, or do you think that playing Cold Chisel's 'Khe San' year after year during the video highlights of the high school sporting awards is more than bizarre? I can see that "hitting mattresses" may, in some obscure and scary way, relate to high jump. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
Yes, that sounds very weird Michelle. Then again, every time that song gets played in a pub it evolves into a very surreal experience. I like this thread. Let's think of other Go-Bs songs that'd work well as a commercial. Maybe Robert and Grant can make some serious money out of it. I've got a suggestion: 'Eight Pictures' for Kodak. What better way to capture that Kodak moment than with Lindy's crazed drum solo as a soundtrack. | ||
| carl |
Michelle, you weren`t dreaming - Spring Rain is in the film Something Wild. | ||
| david nichols |
For some reason it made the film (or at least a snippet of it did) but not the soundtrack album. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker |
Spring Rain was also in the film Kingpin. And played during a driving scene, no less. | ||
| todd slater |
Browsing thru the assorted topics brings back so many memories. One enduring one is of driving across the Storey Bridge in Brisbane early nineties at about 6.30-7am on a Sunday morning, incredibly hungover, and about one or two other cars on the bridge. Finally fiddle with the radio dial and blow me down out pops 'Streets of your town' believe me it was an almost too surreal moment. At the same time the sun was ascending over Stradbroke Island, and i knew instantly what Robert Forster meant when he said this song was meant for car radios. | ||
| Randy Adams |
Todd's post must be damn near the best description of a musical epiphany I've ever read. I've never been to Australia and haven't a clue what the Storey Bridge or Stradbroke Island look like but I sure got a nice mental picture there, hangover, sunrise and all. Too bad the radio stations in my dull country never played "Streets of Your Town." | ||
| jack flynn |
Sadly, Make Her Day was the only bright moment on BYBO for me; slap it together with the four songs on the bonus ep, and you've got the core of what should have been the follow up to Friends of Rachel Worth....Well, at least we know Grant and Robert are still writing good songs; they just can't tell them apart from the stale, self-charicturing ones. | ||
| Kuba Unregistered guest |
Old Mexico is definitely the best track on BYBO for me. I always pick it to represent the reformed Go-Betweens when making GB's compilations for my friends (next to Going Blind off FORW). Someone mentioned the bonus tracks - I think I'll never understand why was Instant Replay not on that album. Oh, I nearly forgot, that's my first post here - hello and sorry for my english  |