RE: (TV) Go Betweens

[Eric Gregory <egregory@standard.com>]

So I have to check them out.  Where's a good place to start?

-Maurice


try the recent best of that came out (BELLA VISTA TERRACE) as a taster, tho
there was a FAR superior 2 record comp released in 90 immediately after
their breakup.
it's now out of print, but look for it used...i see it occasionally.
as far as albums go, i thought their last "16 lovers lane" brought it all
together:
great writing, beautiful melodies, ineffable character....in the tradition
of great gorgeous writers' records.
(also for curiosity's sake, check out robert forster's "i had a ny
girlfriend"...it's his 3rd solo record & comprised of covers of his fave
songs/writers...i thought it was maybe the best record released that
year...96.).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@greenmarketplace.com]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 11:22 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: (TV) Go Betweens


So I have to check them out.  Where's a good place to start?

-Maurice

At 11:09 AM -0800 1/7/00, Eric Gregory wrote:
>much as i love the go-betweens, their lack of commercial success is
>thoroughly logical...the music they made was peripheral to the pop
>world....there were too many sharp corners, too much lyrically, no focussed
>image/attitude... barring, of course, "16 lovers lane".
>that was indeed their last great gasp & it was just a bad hand dealt that
>they didn't receive more recognition/airplay for it (stateside at least,
>wasn't "streets of yr town" a moderately successful single in the UK?).
>i mean, they were smarter than morrissey, more ambitious & soulful than
REM,
>less obnoxious than U2...these are NOT the elements to success in the big
>bad POP world.
>& who's complaining???
>they were contemporaries of mine who helped reinforce what a pop song could
>say.
>that's no small thing.
>
>& their early stuff owed lots to the NYC 76-78 scene.

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