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"Righteously", it's called. I've only listened to it once and I think it's weird and I think it might be --eep!-- dud. Help, I want to continue to love Lu!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm. I heard a preview of about 4-5 songs at an outdoor concert she did in Mass. last year and I kinda liked them. Two of the songs were basically spoken-word (almost like rap) with a catchy chorus, featuring a laid-back groove. I know at the time that I was thinking she could have a minor summer hit.
I thought this album wasn't coming out until April. Did you get a promo or something?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 3 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Speaking of new releases, has any of you priviledged folk heard the new Go-Betweens?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 3 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Add Adult.'s next one to the "upcoming releases that are major disappointments" list too.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 3 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm by no means privileged, but i heard some songs off the go-b's new album, and they are pretty nice.

― cecilia, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, it's a promo. And she does do some rap-inspired stuff on the single (sorry I'm at home now or I'd transcribe some lyrics for you). I remember she rhymes "dissin' me" with "kissin' me".

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

When did she decide that she could start putting out an album a year?

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've heard three of the new Go Betweens songs in live versions, and they sound pretty good. Considering the producer they've used this time round appears on the surface to be an excellent choice for them, I'm quietly confident it'll be a cracker.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've got a promo of the new Go-Betweens but haven't had a chance to give it a proper listen. From the little I've heard, it sounds quite good.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hm, wasn't a huge fan of Essence, so I wasn't holding out much hope for this. Greil sez it sux, too, but lord knows that doesn't mean so much these days.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

new Go Betweens sounds really good; I'm afraid of the new Lucinda

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

new Go-Betweens record arrived in the post yesterday. seems good so far - it's got some nice female harmonies on it anyway!

― Marianna, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven years pass...

New one...Best since Car Wheels.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link

Eh, to each his/her own, but on first few listens I thought much of it was Lucinda trying too hard in a forced manner to sound just like Car Wheels. Album was discussed a bit on the Rolling Country 2014 thread.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link

Nothing wrong in trying to sound like Car Wheels. She's got a fine batch of songs on this one.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link

my take, from RC 2014:
...LW's Memphis denim jacket blues-soul-gospel-rock-country (not country rock), with haggard vocals centering the daily struggle, with the patched-up rehab home truths, street sermons, and rebel rhetoric are fuel, along with rusty iron in the blood from bass, drums, and guitars (which also provide some rude punctuation at times, lest this Memphis stuff get too tasteful).
The I'm down/gotta-get-up alternation does get familiar, but the groove won't let me go--until, of all things, the J.J. Cale track at the end. Could also live without "Burning Bridges," maybe the opener, maybe the other, but no double album has ever grabbed me like this, not right off. (Well, maybe Beatles' white album)(or Blonde On Blonde, but the first is more like a comp, and I never listened to either of those at a single sitting, without getting up to go to the bathroom, like w this 'un)....
(first impressions cont.: details of performance, especially guitar notes, sweet and nasty, stand out more than imagery, though points she makes, in conversation etc., are not vague)(vocals center the songs/performances, as I said, but music isn't just setting or highlight for words)

― dow, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:51 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― dow, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link

Very well put. I'm finding this compulsively listenable.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link

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