Really appreciate you extending the deadline. I made my 30 Go-Betweens songs into a playlist and listened to it a few times this week. I'm happy with my picks (for now). The harder part is the solo material. I prefer Robert's solo stuff on the whole, but I just played In Your Bright Ray and there were at least five songs that could make my list.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 29 June 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
I voted for multiple Ray tracks myself, which seemed improbable a little while ago. And, without giving much away, I certainly haven't been alone.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 29 June 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
BUMP! Final days. Everything must go, etc, etc.
Any love for this one? It eventually became a 16LL-era b-side but this 1985 BBC recording is largely responsible for its place on my ballot. McLennan is a bit shoutier here and it's more obviously Morrison playing rather than a drum machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_rZY8jbSw
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 30 June 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
^ Janice Long session was actually recorded 9/4/86, he says, pre-empting the fact-checkers.
I would totes pay money for a proper, comprehensive, all-in-the-one-place ...at the BBC-type release. (Consider: http://go-betweens.net/gb/gbbbc.htm )
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 30 June 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
Ballot sent. Ranked but I didn't add the numbers myself as I remember Gukbe once saying it made doing the spreadsheet more fiddly.
― Alba, Sunday, 30 June 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
(can send again with the 1-30 numbers if you have a different data entry technique)
― Alba, Sunday, 30 June 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
No, that's fab! Cheers!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 30 June 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
I’ll fire in a ballot too - will just do GB’s as I don’t feel I’ve listened to the solo stuff enough for a meaningful contribution.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 30 June 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
should be able to get a ballot in by weds!
― devvvine, Sunday, 30 June 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
I love "Casanova's..."!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
You should definitely vote then! :)(You clearly should anyway. The solo sub-poll needs your grasp of that material, at the very least. Hehe.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 30 June 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
Almost made my poll, only removed relatively late on in the process.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 June 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
Just re-listening to Forster's Inferno from earlier this year. I wasn't that keen on the single, but the rest of it is really lovely. I'll definitely be voting for a couple of tracks in the solo works poll.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
I'll Look After You in particular is a really beautiful track.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
Submitted!
― michaellambert, Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
will do so in an hour
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
Voted!
― kitchen person, Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the emails overnight [Melb time], by the way. Total number of votes is starting to look rather good now. I'll collate and acknowledge receipt in the next few hours.Incidentally, if any emails over the last few weeks were met with an eerie silence then something may have gone wrong.I also should reiterate that, with the ambient rollout still choogling along, there's plenty of time left if you're still deliberating.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 1 July 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
sent!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Gonna get a ballot together tomorrow, somehow
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 July 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
me too!
― geoffreyess, Monday, 1 July 2019 05:04 (four years ago) link
BUMP!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 1 July 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Scrolling up, there are quite few people early in the thread I've not heard from, ballot-wise. There is still time. You know you wanna! :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 1 July 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
just submitted, could've tinkered forever.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 July 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
Sent!!
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Far too late for effective lobbying, but here's another relatively obscure McLennan contribution that's on my ballot. (Possibly the last chance to mention it as I doubt we'll see in the rollout. LOL) As far as I can tell, this went completely unheard until the '00s reissues. Which is a shame because, for one thing, the middle eight does weird things to my brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZhBWaqqZ8
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Oh that's a gem, it'll be on my ballot too. It amazes me this and Newton Told Me got discarded while songs like Slow Slow Music made it onto records. How good an album could Spring Hill Fair have been otherwise?!
― verhexen, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
I didn't have time to listen to more than two of their albums so I'll just be following the results rather than voting. But I am getting better at telling their voices apart so there's that. Forster seems more pitchy
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
XP:
Okay, setlist.fm suggests they played it live at least twice in late '83. So not completely unheard. #FactCheck
I almost said the same thing re "Slow Slow Music"!
'Pitchy' is not unfair, I'd say. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
I don't even mean it pejoratively - I like a lot of singers with character like that
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
The Evangelist was well-represented in my solo ballot.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that you have a fair bit of company in that part of my spreadsheet.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
Yeah, my list was very Evangelist heavy. It was hard not to vote for every song from it.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
As you said upthread, it's a special record.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
Will send a ballot tomorrow... life has been getting in the way
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 06:09 (four years ago) link
Cool. 20-something seems a respectable voter pool. I think we're a whisker under that at this instant, with several still promised.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 07:07 (four years ago) link
Sorry - I will get mine in tomorrow!
― SA, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
voted :)
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
just working on my ballot, will have it in by tomorrow!
― devvvine, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
a particular g-bs delight, forster's delivery of 'frank brunetti' on darlinghurst nights
― devvvine, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
can i still send a ballot? i wouldn't be ready before thursday.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Okay, can you make it relatively early on Thursday? eg. before midday GMT?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
― devvvine
Love this! My all time favourite delivery of his has to be, "listen Jack, don't you know, I'm a star" in Twin Layers Of Lightning.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
Bru-ne-tti.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
With the ambient rollout now over it's time to try to start wrapping this up. After 3+ weeks substantial extensions can get a bit tedious, IMHO. I've received 24 or 25 ballots. As far as I know we're mainly waiting for SA, that's not my post and perhaps alex in mainhattan if he can be quick! I'm not entirely sure which "tomorrow" the former two meant, come to think of it! :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
Also, Alfred and Jazzbo ranked the (GB) albums very early in the thread. I'm tempted to record them as ballots! What say you?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
I sent you a ballot, though.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Yep. But no albums, IIRC!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Voted
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
oh!
sent
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link