The Go-Betweens "Oceans Apart" Poll

born to a family

― iatee, Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm finding it hard to choose between finding you & boundary rider

― badg, Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Darlinghurst Nights"

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

There’s a boundary rider
at the five mile fence
bloodwood, bones and steers

― wilter, Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Darlinghurst Nights"

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 August 2009 04:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Finding You

― that's not my post, Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Finding You" is at once the most breezy, jangly and incredibly saddest song.

― King Boy on Parole (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 13 August 2009 10:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

Pato in non-quippy, poignant post shockah. Also otm.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 13 August 2009 10:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

here comes a city. and not only because i work in that city.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 13 August 2009 12:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

I was initially disappointed with this album but - surprise! - after hearing some of it on the live "Striped Sunlight Sound" album, I came around. And so - "Darlinghurst Nights".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 13 August 2009 13:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

This album is actually better than a couple released during their first phase, and it's certainly the best of their reunion albums.

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2009 14:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

This album is actually better than a couple released during their first phase, and it's certainly the best of their reunion albums.

I must respectfully disagree. I thought the bang-charge of Sleater Kinney's backing on "Friends Of Rachel Worth" is better and the songs more memorable. While it's possible I'm biased due to the novelty of a new Go-Betweens album after many years, it's still the post-reunion album I go back to.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

No pox on Rachel Worth; it just sounds more like Forster/McLennan than Forster-McLennan. On Oceans Apart they're in an actual band.

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Darlinghurst Nights" and i agree w/G McBB--Rachel Worth is better.

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think Oceans Apart is the best reunion record, kinda for the same reasons Alfred says. But we can agree to disagree! "Darlinghurst Nights" is like everything I love about Robert Forster compiled into one song.

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

This is fucking impossible.

― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 August 2009 18:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

i am a little baffled by this darlinghurst love. it is not a bad song by all means but it is a little bit of a boring ballad. a yawnfest missing the quirky, mercurial side of the go-betweens completely. very settled and mature. the end when it has something of a free-flowing jazz improvisation is better. but still. the statue is a great melancholic mclennan song btw.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 13 August 2009 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

yes, all those specific details and emotions of "Darlinghurst" are really unmercurial and sedate.

― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

a yawnfest missing the quirky, mercurial side
lol what?

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

I opened a notebook, it read The Darlinghurst Years
I snapped it shut but out jumped some tears
I didn't have to read it, it all came back
Dragging my fingers through my hair
Hiding behind her back

Gut rot cappuccino, gut rot spaghetti
Gut rot rock'n'roll through the eyes of Frank Brunetti
And always the traffic, always the lights
Joe played the cello through those
Darlinghurst Nights

One more coffee and I must go
Back to my room more chapters to go
We'll meet up in an alley with more places I know

I'm going to change my appearance everyday
I'm going to write a movie and then I'm going to star
in a play
I'm going to go to Caracas because you know I'm
just going to have to get away

Marjorie and Kim, Andy and Clint, Debbie, Bertie, people came and went
And then there was Suzie who we never ever saw again

And always the traffic always the lights
Climbing that hill star studded nights
Joe played the cello

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I mean, that's what I love (on ONE of the things I love) about the Go-betweens right there -- a perfect depiction of how memories creep up on you, how you're always living with your past even if you don't realize it.

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

"or ONE" is what I meant

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

im gonna put my head on the chopping block and admit that this is my fave go betweens album

― Michael B, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

i was thinking about the music, i didn't listen to the words.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

well, sure, "Darlinghurst" is pretty straightforward musically ... this whole album is that way, isn't it?

― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

hot diggity, nice poll idea! haven't heard this in a few months but taking "Lavendar" this time. they were so fuh-reaking sublime on this tour (my one GOB's show).

― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

I finally said to hell with it and voted "No Reason to Cry."

― Matos W.K., Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Darlinghurst Nights" is still the best song about Darlinghurst (Paul Kelly's "Darling, It Hurts" is just rubbish).

― King Boy on Parole (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

im gonna put my head on the chopping block and admit that this is my fave go betweens album

Hey, often I think so too!

Also: alex is RONG about "Darlinghurst Nights." The whole point of the song is how the Go-Be's find a musical correlative for how the meditation gives way to a flood of memories.

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

i picked 'lavender' but it could have been any of them except 'the statue'. love the clockwork reggae and the line 'shes got tasmania...in her head'.

― Michael B, Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― System, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

potential 'GO BETWEEN BRIDGE'

in recognition of the Brisbane band the Go-Betweens and the link over the river

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/the-gobetweens-bridge-20090902-f7pc.html

lol brisbane

― wilter, Thursday, 3 September 2009 01:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

aw <3

― mince lice (electricsound), Thursday, 3 September 2009 01:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

you can vote at www.namethatbridge.com

― Simon H., Thursday, 3 September 2009 01:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

done!

― mince lice (electricsound), Thursday, 3 September 2009 01:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

you're a statue
nothiiiing can hurt you

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Finding You

― that's not my post, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:03 PM (2 years ago)

Still love this one.

― that's not my post, Saturday, 19 May 2012 04:19 (1 year ago) Permalink