Best Go-Betweens Album

If I'd voted, Liberty Belle would have won. I am clearly a failure as a human being. I am also saddened that noone voted for Bright Yellow Bright Orange as it is my favourite of the reformed era.

actually quite amazing that there are so few impossible persons...

There ought to be a law, dammit!

It's 62 degrees. No clouds. It's a 16 Lovers Lane day.

One vote for "Spring Hill Fair"?!?!? I didn't vote but would probably have voted "Before Hollywood"

Before Hollywood and Send Me A Lullaby are their best albums because they have the most punch. 16 Lovers Lane is a bit shite to be honest - it's wishy-washy, drab and sounds 80s without the quirks of Tallulah. I reckon the sentimental lyricism went down better when the music sounded awkward.

Tallulah sounds more wishy-washy and eighties than 16 Lovers Lane; it's still my favorite.

It's mid-evening and still is 30 degrees celsius. I'm attracted to someone I cannot have for varying reasons. I drove her around today while she was hungover. The floorboards on my house are polished wood. I've been for a walk. The only song that can paint this mood, this feeling and this situation is Bye Bye Pride.

But I still would have voted Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express today and any other day except for those slightly warm spring days where the sun just sneaks through the blinds. Those are 16 Lovers Lane days.

Also, Oceans Apart needs more love because it's proof that you can grow up and still be a romantic.

Also, it's catchy as.

If I had voted, Liberty Belle would have won!

http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/07/30/the-go-betweens-liberty-belle-and-the-black-diamond-express-round-52-toms-selection/

Ah, but if I had voted I would've gone for Before Hollywood, so it'd still be a draw (NB: I may well have voted in this poll already).

Would've gone for The Lost Album if it were an option, cos I Like Their Early Stuff Better

I also would have voted for Before Hollywood.

I would also have voted Before Hollywood.

This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxhevymXVM

On Spring Hill Fair, celebrating its thirtieth birthday.

http://thequietus.com/articles/16322-the-go-betweens-spring-hill-fair-review

Well done, Alfred. Though you mentioned they were sober and Grant most certainly was not.

lol -- sober in mien. I've only read speculation about McClennan's alleged drug use.

Oh, Steve Kilbey has more than confirmed it. Which is funny because he and Robert don't seem like the type (whatever that means).

LP boxed set:

First 600 orders worldwide get a book from Grant McLennan’s personal library and a signed bookmark from Robert Forster

!!!

oof that looks great ... and so expensive!

Details and all

http://dominorecordco.com/gobetweens/

Hmm, gonna have to look closely at the tracklisting of the CDs, I have all the expanded reissues from around 10 years ago.

Yeah, tons of tracks on those. I assume there must be more than a little overlap.

I'm glad Grant McLennan owned more than 600 books

if the guest essayists are as sharp as the one I've read, then this box should be a treasure.

Forster: "I don't think anything has been done like this before for a band of our popularity or 'reach'. That's what I love about it - the blowing up and mythologising of the band to a size that is correct in regard to its importance, but not its record sales."

forster and mclennan's high self-regard has always been oddly charming

great piece on spring hill fair, btw alfred! though I like river of money.

Wonder if Grant was a big annotator of his books? I'm seriously considering a pre-order, even though the vinyl lps are about as useful to me as 8-track tapes.

thanks, tyler!

yr welcome.
would be great if grant's entire collection was made up of harry potter first editions.

will never own the set, but wouldn't mind just looking through the list of book titles

alfred's piece is first on my reading list though

By my estimation, this box set has at least 40 (!) songs which have never been on CD, at least in these versions - 17 of them, going by the titles, have never been released in any form. Of course, the number of non-CD tracks could be higher - some of the songs listed were b-sides or bonus tracks on the 2xCD versions of the first three albums, but some of those may not be the same versions as these.

It looks like one complete Peel session is included, two others are not, and sadly it's the one that's already been on CD. There were other radio sessions, and some of the alternate versions of album tracks may be from those.

This is sort of a bad deal for the die-hard Go-Betweens fan who bought the albums as they came out, and later bought up to the expanded CD versions - 40 "new" songs for more than 200 dollars. But the book from Grant's collection is pretty intriguing, and the bookmark from Robert is a very funny Go-Betweens type of touch.

My picks!

I particularly like the Tallulah bit. I tend to be dismissive of it when I'm not listening to it, precisely because of "Cut It Out". (Plus, I seem to like "Right Here" waaaay less than many.) The rest, however, is great.

Soto, I hate to be that guy again but just noticed you've accidentally listed 'A Bad Debt Follows You' as 'A Bad Debt Won't Leave'!

Listening to this live album called Fountains of Youth: Live at the Town and Country Club which sounds pretty good. Seems like tyler blogged about it.