BEFORe HOLLYWOOD

That Way That Way That Way.

― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

probably cattle and cane will win tho.

― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

This means absolutely nothing to me.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

pwnt by nate woolls ;_;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Hollywood

― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeah I just found that. Never heard anything by the Go-Betweens, am I missing out?

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, like I can make a decision on THIS.

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

on my, it's on my, on my...On My Block.

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 10:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

before hollywood!

― cw, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Two Step, Step Out" is massively underrated -- it should be on every Go-Be's comp.

Were the Proclaimers listening to it one fine autumn day in 1989?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 12:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Discounting Cattle & Cane for a more fair fight - By Chance.

― dave 2¼, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

Great organ sound on this album.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

impossible. a perfect lp. but i will say that 'That Way' is my least favorite...

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

but, yes—great organ sound!

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

LOL SO IT'S NOT PERFECT THEN BRO

― W4LTER, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

i'm just butthurt about yer that way call ;_;

― W4LTER, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

"butthurt"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

i can't not vote for C&C but 'that way' would be my next choice

― electricsound, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

Let's not discount "Dusty in Here." Note its dub-like use ofspace -- how the piano filigrees decorate the bass.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

as far as i know this is the first time i've made anyone "butthurt!" sorry W4LT!
And howabout a special shout-out to Lindy for overall excellence on this lp?

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Cattle & Cane" will win but I'll vote for "Dusty In Here". So moving, Alfred is correct in the use of space. Grant wrote it for his father who died young, too. Goddamnit, it really sucks that Grant followed in his, uh, footsteps.

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

Cattle & Cane

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

TOO SOON

― badg, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

No votes for "As Long As That," in which Forster and McLennan try to outdo each other with dubious poetry while guitar peals, a terribly eloquent bassline, and steady Lindy make sense of it all?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's never made sense to me. Nor has the loopy ass "On My Block." I don't even know what "Cattle and Cane" is about. But Lindy indeeds steadies the poetry as well as the giddy-arty time shifts. Steadies it so well, in fact, that I find it difficult picking one track to click. I'll go for "Two Steps, Step Out" which epitomizes the album's obsession with a cinematic time. The very title retards forward progression in a freeze frame with that comma and the redundancy of "step" slowing the motion. And like many other songs on the album, it ends with a jump cut signifying a sudden reversal or fruition. Only at the very end of the song does he arrive at his destination (Here I am). Only at the end of "A Bad Debt Follows You" do we discover that Grant himself is the bad debt. "I'm someone you knew." "What's wrong with that?" "It's only time away." And, of course, "Bye-bye-bye-bye-bye." Very Kracauer, another great mind attuned to encounters that happen by chance.

And throughout all this, they remain funny. Peerless. How many bands were better than them? Five? Zero maybe?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― ILX System, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

No surprise. Quite rightly "By Chance" is dead last.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

er, sorry, "On My Block."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Cattle and Cane doesn't even stand out as one of the better tracks on the album, because it's all so good.

― verhexen, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'D WALK A HUNDRED MILES

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 July 2012 01:11 (10 months ago) Permalink

A thousand miles!

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 July 2012 02:46 (10 months ago) Permalink