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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Right Here | |||
| 2. You Tell Me | |||
| 3. Someone’s Else’s Wife | |||
| 4. I Just Get Caught Out | |||
| 5. Cut It Out | |||
| 6. The House Jack Kerouac Built | |||
| 7. Bye Bye Pride | |||
| 8. Spirit Of A Vampyre | |||
| 9. The Clarke Sisters | |||
| 10. Hope Then Strife | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Time In The Desert | |||
| 2. I Just Get Caught Out (alternate version) | |||
| 3. Don’t Call Me Gone | |||
| 4. Right Here (alternate version) | |||
| 5. If I Was A Rich Man / The House Jack Kerouac Built (radio session) | |||
| 6. When People Are Dead | |||
| 7. The Clarke Sisters (alternate version) | |||
| 8. A Little Romance | |||
| 9. Bye Bye Pride (radio session) | |||
| 10. Doo Wop In “A” (Bam Boom) | |||
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Audio CD
...Though that description could be applied to most of the Go-Betweens albums, Tallulah is a particularly good example. One of a triple whammy of great eighties records (along with 'Liberty Belle...' and 'Spring Hill Fair' which I also recommend wholeheartedly) it's probably the most out-and-out pop album the band or any of its members have made thus far. Gorgeous melodies, appealing twin vocals and some damn great songs are found within; 'Bye Bye Pride' and 'Right Here' on Grant Mclennan's side, the heartbreaking 'The Clarke Sisters' from Robert Forster, and in 'Spirit of a Vampyre' we truly have the greatest cry of "hey!" in recorded history courtesy of Forster's arch croon. When this album was released it sold about twelve copies... more than a decade later, you can help redress the balance: it's the only decent thing to do.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This for me is the great Go-Betweens album. On this recording the two writers Forster and McLennan start to write in overlapping styles almost making their contributions harder to tell apart. It's lyrical focused - The Clarke Sisters and Right Here are brilliant song poetry. Musically driving - Bye Bye Pride and Spirit Of a Vampyre are the band playing at their peak form and it also contains the wistful longing of You Tell Me and Hope Then Strife.
The production takes a major leap forward on this album, making it one of the easiest records for new-comers to the band to enjoy, although 16 Lovers Lane and Friends Of Rachel Worth both come close. I'm constantly amazed by the power and beauty this record displays which remains undiminished since the day I originally brought it.
Forster's epic The House That Jack Kerouac Built perhaps sums up what makes the Go-Betweens so great "you're on the road with a bad crowd" is a fantatastic farewell from a heavily theatrical Forster.
Although I gather the recording of this album was somewhat painful for the band at the time. It is evidence enough of its greatness that a large number of its songs are regularly in their set lists today.
The packaging of these reissues are particularly beautiful and I gather a great deal of work has gone into the fabulous sound restoration. I'm particularly pleased to see all the great songs for each period on a bonus disc rather than scatterede over various compilations. I also think its a wondeful idea to leave a classic album like Tallulah on one disc alone and the other material on the bonus disc. There's also all the videos included in the set which makes for a totally perfectly executed package.
This is a totaaly classic album. Packaged with love an care to an exceptional standard. Re-issue of the year in my book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This is indeed a flawed masterpiece and once again is a so nearly classic. Perhaps their least consistent album, the problem seems to stem from the fact that both songwriters went off into very different styles and commercial compromises were made in an attempt to hit the big league. However there are lots of strong songs here, namely the singles 'Right Here' and the sweeping (anthemic!) 'Bye Bye Pride'. There is less focus on the warm guitar sound of the usual Go-Between LP's and instead newcomer Amanda Brown enriches (but occasionally clutters) the songs with violin and oboe. Quiet highlights of the album include 'The Clarke Sisters', a dark sensual tale set in a feminist bookstore , and the brooding death's door melodrama of 'Spirit of the Vampyre'. Tracks like these are fantastic and make the album a must for fans. However the flawed single 'Cut it out' (and a couple of others) jar the overall feel. Still a pretty good album and it did crack the UK top 100!! (selling at least 12 dozen copies).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A favourite
Takes me back to my teenage years.
I had this on tape and it was great to find it on CD. A lovely memorial to Grant McLennan, who left us far too soon.
I had this on tape and it was great to find it on CD. A lovely memorial to Grant McLennan, who left us far too soon.
Published 5 months ago by Bluebelldesign
5.0 out of 5 stars
Top quality tunes
"Tallulah", while one of the most accessible albums from a great, and lamentably little known, band, is also one of their best. Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. Heaney
5.0 out of 5 stars
Why deny yourself such beauty?
It can be argued, and the Acoustic Stories section on their DVD would bear it out, that all Forster & Mclennan really needed were their guitars, voices and some of the best songs... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2006 by Stuart Wilson
4.0 out of 5 stars
bad bleach, sweet songs
not the absolute disaster a lot of folk would have you believe, but it takes a couple of listens. but then again, the go betweens take a couple of listens full stop before you... Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2006 by jenny
2.0 out of 5 stars
oh dear
This is the only real dud in the go-betweens back catalogue and a record most fans wouldn´t admit to being theirs if questioned under oath. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2006 by David Johnson
2.0 out of 5 stars
well they had to disappoint sooner or later
The Go-Betweens finally go in search of fame and a hit and, well....MISS. Probably my least favourite Go-Betweens album, The Clarke Sisters is a masterpiece and worthy of this... Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2004 by Not Dr Brodsky
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE MOMENT OF IMPACT!
This for me is the great Go-Betweens album. On this recording the two writers Forster and McLennan start to write in overlapping styles almost making their contributions harder to... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2004 by Martin Wardle
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