Go-Betweens - G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 1 (1978-1984) [2015] + G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2 (1985-1989) [2019] (16 x CD's)

GO-BETWEENS

Go-Betweens - G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 1 (1978-1984) [2015] + G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2 (1985-1989) [2019] (16 x CD's)

The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1977. The band was co-founded and led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, who were its only constant members throughout its existence. Drummer Lindy Morrison joined the band in 1980, and its lineup would later expand to include bass guitarist Robert Vickers and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. Vickers was replaced by John Willsteed in 1987, and the quintet lineup remained in place until the band split two years later. Forster and McLennan reformed the band in 2000 with a new lineup that did not include any previous personnel aside from them. McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack and the Go-Betweens disbanded again. In 2010, a toll bridge in their native Brisbane was renamed the Go Between Bridge after them.

G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume 1 documents the band’s origins in four LP, four CDs and an 112-page book, featuring photos and extensive liner notes. This volume documents them from 1978 to 1984 with vinyl re-pressings of their first three studio albums (Send Me A Lullaby, Before Hollywood & Spring Hill Fair). It also collects their early 7” output on a fourth LP entitled The First Five Singles. Additionally, the set comes with four CDs of rare and unreleased demos, radio sessions and a complete live concert radio broadcast from 1982.  This a beautiful, loving treatment of one of the greatest bands to come out of Australia. G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume 1 comprehensively documents the formative years of an enigmatic and fascinating group. It’s very exciting to hear the restless band struggling and learning. Volume 2 will certainly be filled with some of the Go-Betweens best music, but it will tell the story of a band who have grown up and comfortably settled into a hard-earned identity. It will be hard to top Volume 1. (Amazon)

G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2 The first box – long out-of-print, and now very expensive to get hold of covered the era 1978 to 1984 and this new set, as you might expect, picks up where that earlier volume left off, with an examination of the period 1985-1989 which closed the chapter on the original version of the band (Robert Forster and Grant McLennan reformed The Go-Betweens in 2000 with a new line-up).  It contains the three studio albums released during this era on vinyl LP – Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986), Tallulah (1987) and 16 Lovers Lane (1988), and adds a previously unreleased double live album, called Fountains of Youth, recorded in London on 10 May 1987. But as before, this is a real multi-media package and more music comes in the form of five CDs, which feature not only rare, hard-to-find and unreleased demos, recordings, radio sessions but also a collection of 28 songs intended for what was supposed to be the follow-up to 16 Lovers Lane. This Volume two package comes with a 112-page book with all the usual historical photos and extensive sleeve notes (from founding member Robert Forster) and a Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express songbook. This was apparently prepared at the time of release by their publisher, but never actually produced. So this is the first ever printing, containing hand-transcribed sheet music of all ten songs from that album. The box set, a big lift-off lid affair,also comes with a reproduction promotional poster.  (superdeluxeedition.com)

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Track lists

VOLUME 1

THE FIRST FIVE SINGLES

01    Lee Remick    2:29

02    People Say    2:36

03    I Need Two Heads    2:29

04    Your Turn    3:00

05    Hammer The Hammer    2:47

06    Karen    4:05

07    Dont Let Him Come Back    2:50

08    Stop Before You Say It    2:55

09    World Weary    1:38

10    By Chance    2:26

SEND ME A LULLABY

01    Your Turn My Turn    3:02

02    One Thing Can Hold Us    3:15

03    People Know    2:08

04    The Girls Have Moved    2:32

05    Midnight To Neon    2:30

06    Eight Pictures    4:52

07    Careless    2:33

08    All About Strength    2:11

09    Ride    3:30

10    Hold Your Horses    2:13

11    Arrow In A Bow    1:57

12    It Could Be Anyone    4:29

BEFORE HOLLYWOOD

01    A Bad Debt Follows You    2:25

02    Two Steps Step Out    3:28

03    Before Hollywood    3:45

04    Dusty In Here    4:09

05    Ask    5:16

06    Cattle And Cane    4:22

07    By Chance    2:21

08    As Long As That    5:27

09    On My Block    3:50

10    That Way    4:10

SPRING HILL FAIR

01    Bachelor Kisses    3:31

02    Five Words    4:05

03    The Old Way Out    3:41

04    You've Never Lived    3:55

05    Part Company    4:59

06    Slow Slow Music    3:05

07    Draining The Pool For You    4:17

08    River Of Money    5:11

09    Unkind And Unwise    3:05

10    Man O Sand To Girl O Sea    4:39

LIFE AS SWEET AS LEMONADE. RARITIES VOLUME 1 1978–79

01    I Wanna Be Today    2:15

02    The Sound of the Rain    3:08

03    People Say    2:48

04    Don't Let Him Come Back    2:58

05    Long Lonely Day    4:37

06    Day For Night    3:19

07    Love Wasn't Made For You and Me    1:51

08    Just Hang On    2:30

09    Summers Melting In My Mind    3:06

10    Obession With You    3:20

11    The Night    3:50

12    Rare Victory    3:32

13    Big Sleeping City    1:24

14    Beachcomber    2:48

15    The Missin One    2:07

16    I Am An Architect    3:44

17    8 Pictures    5:00

18    The Green Light Don't Mean Go    2:12

19    Cold Flame (It Burns)    2:45

20    Help Or Something    2:31

21    Only Sinners Care    2:12

22    Lies    2:22

SKELETONS THAT CRY. RARITIES VOLUME 2 1980–81

01    Don't Let Him Come Back    2:34

02    The Clowns Are In Town    2:13

03    Serenade Sound    2:23

04    Sunday Night    2:49

05    Hope    2:03

06    It Took You A Week    3:05

07    Day Before Tomorrow    2:11

08    I Know Why    3:13

09    Circle You    3:18

10    I Need Two Heads    2:52

11    All About Strength    2:01

12    One Word    2:00

13    Red Epaulettes    3:00

LIVE 82. RARITIES VOLUME 3

01    Metal And Shells    3:43

02    Your Turn, My Turn     3:22

03    Careless     3:08

04    Distant Hands     2:08

05    Hammer The Hammer    2:57

06    People Know     2:37

07    I Need Two Heads     3:06

08    One Thing Can Hold Us     3:28

09    Near The Chimney     3:50

10    Undo What You Did     3:42

11    By Chance    2:29

12    It Could Be Anyone     3:56

A SUICIDE NOTE TO SATAN, RARITIES VOLUME 4 1982–84

01    A Peaceful Wreck    2:29

02    Heaven Says    4:06

03    On My Block    3:51

04    Cattle and Cane    3:52

05    Hammer The Hammer    3:10

06    Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea    3:39

07    Newton Told Me    2:32

08    Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea    3:24

09    This Girl, Black Girl    2:29

10    Emperor's Courtesan    2:22

11    Attraction    2:26

12    Marco Polo Jr    4:10

13    Sweet Tasting Hours    3:39

14    Part Company    3:19

15    Bachelor Kisses    3:28

16    The Old Way Out    3:27

17    Unkind And Unwise    2:56

18    Just A King In Mirrors    3:21

19    Rare Breed    3:30

20    Secondhand Furniture    4:12

21    The Power That I Now Have    2:44

22    Five Words    3:49

23    For Him    3:28

VOLUME 2

LIBERTY BELLE AND THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS

    01 Spring Rain

    02 The Ghost And The Black Hat

    03 The Wrong Road

    04 To Reach Me

    05 Twin Layers Of Lightning

    06 In The Core Of The Flame

    07 Head Full Of Steam

    08 Bow Down

    09 Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)

    10 Apology Accepted

TALLULAH

    01 Right Here

    02 You Tell Me

    03 Someone Else’s Wife

    04 I Just Get Caught Out

    05 Cut It Out

    06 The House That Jack Kerouac Built

    07 Bye Bye Pride

    08 Spirit Of A Vampyre

    09 The Clarke Sisters

    10 Hope Then Strife

16 LOVERS LANE

    01 Love Goes On!

    02 Quiet Heart

    03 Love Is A Sign

    04 You Can’t Say No Forever

    05 The Devil’s Eye

    06 Streets Of Your Town

    07 Clouds

    08 Was There Anything I Could Do?

    09 I’m Allright

    10 Dive For Your Memory

FOUNTAINS OF YOUTH

    01 Bye Bye Pride

    02 Unkind And Unwise

    03 Part Company

    04 The House That Jack Kerouac Built

    05 The Clarke Sisters

    06 This Girl, Black Girl

    07 Don’t Call Me Gone

    08 When People Are Dead

    09 Your Turn, My Turn

    10 Cut It Out

    11 You Tell Me

    12 Head Full Of Steam

    13 Right Here

    14 Man O’Sand To Girl O’Sea

    15 Apology Accepted

    16 Spring Rain

    17 Karen

    18 Eight Pictures

THE DEVIL IS IN YOUR DRESS: Rarities Volume 5: 1985-86

    01 In The Core Of A Flame

    02 Living The Life At Hand

    03 To Reach Me

    04 Grandfather Slow

    05 Spring Rain

    06 Head Full Of Steam

    07 Wrong Road Round

    08 Don’t Let Him Come Back

    09 Reunion Dinner

    10 Little Joe

    11 The Life At Hand

    12 Casanova’s Last Words

    13 I Work In A Health Spa

RUN FROM HIM Rarities Volume 6: 1986-87

    01 I Know What I Like

    02 You Tell Me

    03 Do It Like The Devil Did

    04 Together At Last

    05 Cut It Out

    06 Easier Said Than Done

    07 The House That Jack Kerouac Built

    08 Right Here

    09 Someone Else’s Wife

    10 The Clarke Sisters

    11 Bye Bye Pride

    12 I Just Get Caught Out

    13 A Little Romance

    14 When People Are Dead

    15 Don’t Call Me Gone

    16 Time In The Desert

    17 Doo Wop in ‘A’ (Bam Boom)

TRYING TO BE A STRONG PERSON Rarities Volume 7: 1988

    01 Wait Until June

    02 The Devil’s Eye

    03 I’m Allright

    04 Was There Anything I Could Do

    05 You Won’t Find It Again

    06 Love Is A Sign

    07 Love Goes On!

    08 Dive For Your Memory

    09 Apples In Bed

    10 Clouds

    11 Head Over Heels

    12 Casanova’s Last Words

    13 You Can’t Say No Forever

    14 Quiet Heart

    15 Wait Until June

    16 Casanova’s Last Words

    17 Rock and Roll Friend

    18 Mexican Postcard

    19 Rock and Roll Friend

    20 Dive For Your Memory

    21 Quiet Heart

    22 Clouds

    23 Love Goes On!

LOVING SHOCKS Rarities Volume 8: 1989

    01 Dear Black Dream

    02 Danger in The Past

    03 Easy Come, Easy Go

    04 Broadway Bride

    05 I Love You, Still

    06 What You Call Change

    07 Open Invitation

    08 You Can Dream About Tomorrow

    09 I’ve Been Looking For Somebody

    10 Outlaw #1

    11 Haunted House

    12 Sally’s Revolution Blues

    13 Just Get That Straight

    14 The Days My Eyes Came Back

    15 Running The Risk Of Ever Losing You

    16 It Had To Be Me

    17 Signs Of Life

    18 How I Wish This War Was Over

    19 Art Cinema

    20 Nowhere By Any Other Name

    21 No Peace In The Palace

    22 Here They Come

    23 Child Of God

    24 The Man Who Died In Rapture

    25 House of Snakes

    26 All The Time

    27 Send Him Back Home

    28 What Goes Up Must Come Down

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