Go-Betweens "Friends of Rachel Worth" Poll

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

"Spirit," obviously, but I can choose anyhing here except "Orpheus Beach." However I prefer Forster songs post-2000.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
"He Lives My Life" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:58	4
"Surfing Magazines" (lyrics, Forster) – 4:34	4
"Going Blind" (lyrics, McLennan) – 2:56	3
"When She Sang About Angels" (lyrics, Forster)	2
"Spirit" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:59	2
"The Clock" (lyrics, McLennan) – 4:06	2
"German Farmhouse" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:51	2
"Magic in Here" (lyrics, McLennan) – 3:52	1
"Orpheus Beach" (lyrics, McLennan) – 4:48	0
"Heart and Home" (lyrics, McLennan) – 3:13	0

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link

robbie outshines grant on this record so much it ain't funny

spirit is one of his best and gets my vote here

― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Aw, the McLennan songs are crazy pretty, even if they're make-it-rhymes. Still, I'm voting for

When she sang about angels
She looked at the sky
Anybody else, anybody else...
but I let it go by

― da croupier, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link

That's how I feel about McLennan's rhymes on this album.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link

I remember Surfing Magazines was pretty big at the time. For a Gobe-Tweens song anyway.

― wilter, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link

"Going Blind" is the only song I know from this, which is fine.

― Freedom, Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

"The Clock" for me. It's almost always on my playlists.

― ^likes tilt-a-whirls (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 8 January 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Bizarrely, this is the only Go-Betweens album I don't currently own. I used to have a taped copy of it, but that seems to have disappeared. I'll have to buy it. I voted for "He Lives My Life" -- really nice, hauntingly beautiful tune that I can't imagine anyone but Robert Forster writing. I saw Grant & Robert play this one in NYC on their first reunion duo tour in 1999, right before they officially got the band back together. A high point from one of the better shows I've ever seen ...

― tylerw, Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

You HAVE to get it!
"Magic" for me, followed closely by "The Clock."

― Jazzbo, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

excellent Robert Forster set, half solo and half with band, with lots of Rachel Worth songs, here

http://misha4music.blogspot.com/2008/12/robert-forster-live-in-copenhagen-2008.html

― dan, Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

VOTE

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 18 January 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 19 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

well there you go

― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Monday, 19 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

And then you'll know
'cause sometimes change is a dirty word
When you're in the herd, yeah that's what I heard
Did your kitten purr?
You sure gotta funny way of hanging on
'cause I'm going blind
You sure got a funny way of hanging on
'cause I'm going blind
Midnight and hauntings and nights on the fly
Moonlight on moorings with you on my mind

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link

Just thinking about this album the other day, such a great set of songs.

It's ten years in May since we lost Grant.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.