Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
The Go-Betweens
Oceans Apart
(Lo-Max, 2005)
Australia's best group go out on a career high.
The irritating fact was that Robert Forster and Grant McLennan hadn't had any hits to cash in on when they reformed The Go-Betweens (original lifetime: 1977-1989) in 2000. But such prosaic concerns disappear when faced with the almost perfect Oceans Apart. The two co-writers didn't change the dynamic that had sustained them through their first phase; they sing the songs they're most suited to, with Forster the edgier, somehow amused intellect to McLennan's more serious and mysterious heart. Though the melodies and lyrics are always finessed, McLennan excels first; the folky, longing Finding You sees him thinking on a former friend and somehow communicating with them through a song, while the quietly devastating Boundary Rider is a middle-aged variant on the group's earlier, childhood classic Cattle And Cane. Forster gets his say later; Darlinghurst Years is a wry memoir of his teenage self in all its brilliance and ludicrousness (a lot of what makes this album so rewarding is its articulation of how the past can rise up unbidden and still seem real) while The Mountains Near Delray is a beatific, Australian C&W return to their Brisbane hometurf. That said, there really, honestly isn't a duff track here, which makes Grant McLennan's sudden death four years ago even more lamentable.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 13/05/2010
Further Listening
The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express (Beggars Banquet, 1986)
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional (Hot, 1986)
Robert Forster – The Evangelist (Lo-Max, 2008)
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A classic band, no doubt but Australia's best group?! Surely that accolade has to go to the mighty Triffids
Posted by Savage at 1:49 PM GMT 13/05/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: Savage
No its go-betweens 1st
Triffids 2nd
on albums GBs hit target three times
Liberty belle
Lovers lane
Oceans
The triffids
Born Sandy Devotional
with flashes elsewhere
Posted by uli at 2:53 PM GMT 13/05/2010 Report Abuse
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I say they were BOTH great
Posted by Leggy Mountbatten at 4:56 PM GMT 13/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Agreed! And lest we forget the mighty Laughing Clowns.
Posted by B-Movie Lightning at 7:43 PM GMT 13/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Only Australia's best group?
The world's best group for me - not on hit singles, individual albums or anything like that - simply because they move me more than any other artist has ever done. Liberty Belle is beautiful of course, Cattle and Cane and Part Company are mighty fine songs, but Robert and Grant's songs of love, heart ache, growing up, growing old and generally being human are immense.
Posted by Horsebreaker Star at 9:12 PM GMT 13/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Their most atmospheric and dark album, it approaches the brilliance of the 80's and proves this was the most worthwhile band reunion ever.
Posted by M.A.Melo at 10:14 AM GMT 14/05/2010 Report Abuse
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My copy of this CD was mastered too hot. It's loudest moments are distorted. Am I the only one?
Posted by Tacoma Fan at 4:29 PM GMT 16/05/2010 Report Abuse
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My copy of this CD was mastered too hot. It's loudest moments are distorted. Am I the only one?
Too late to put a vote in for The Saints as #2 best Oz band?
Posted by Tacoma Fan at 4:30 PM GMT 16/05/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: Tacoma Fan
Contact Lo-Max Records, as they did produce a remastered version. info@lomaxrecords.com
Posted by Mindy Lorrison at 9:54 AM GMT 26/05/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: Tacoma Fan -- Agree completely. Most noticeable on This Night's For You.
Posted by Tom at 10:39 PM GMT 30/12/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: Tacoma Fan -- Agree completely. Most noticeable on This Night's For You.
Posted by Tom at 10:40 PM GMT 30/12/2010 Report Abuse
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