Go-Betweens, The / G Stands For Go-Betweens
Album: G Stands For Go-Betweens   Collection:General
Artist:Go-Betweens, The   Added:Jan 2015
Label:Domino Recording Company  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2015-02-06 Pull Date: 2015-04-10
Week Ending: Apr 12 Apr 5 Mar 22 Mar 8 Mar 1 Feb 15
Airplays: 1 2 1 2 3 4

Recent Airplay
1. May 12, 2022: Stranded at Settembrini's
Bachelor Kisses
4. Apr 02, 2015: The Sunset Life
Bachelor Kisses
2. May 19, 2016: In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [S165]
Cattle And Cane
5. Mar 30, 2015: Shytown
Bachelor Kisses
3. Apr 07, 2015: In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [W1512:LEWS!]
Hammer The Hammer
6. Mar 19, 2015: Meow
8 Pictures

Album Review
Mister Esquire
Reviewed 2015-02-04
As Reviewed By Mister Esquire.

Godfathers Of Twee.
this is part 1 of an anthology (1978-1984).
do you like twee pop? lo-fi? kiwi guitar bands? yes? :you'll love this.
that's all I need to say.
MR. ESQ. SEZ: MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW.
FCC CLEAN.
SOUNDS LIKE: THE GO-BETWEENS! (AND: THE CLEAN, THE CHILLS, AZTEC CAMERA, SWELL MAPS, BATS, VERONICA FALLS, TWERPS, WHAT IF LIZ PHAIR HAD A SEX CHANGE, ET AL.)
PLAY: ANY/ALL/RANDOMEOW/IT'S MEOWRIFFIC!
1. PURR-FECT II: the hit. possibly their best known song. it's slow to mid, downbeat jangley, dreamy. the words 'winsome' and 'bittersweet' would have this song playing next to them in a dictionary.
2. PURR-FECT: upbeat, funny, happy=play now! mach meow!
3. live version. fucked up drama crashing with all it's twee might.
4. downbeat jangle lo-fi sad.
5. PURR-FECT II: smoooth...
6. PURR-FECT II: imagine: Johnathan Richman gets all stalkery. dramatic drum part kills.
8. PURR-FECT II: upbeat. smoooth...to Brit punky.
9. smoooth...track 1 dictionary motif=ditto.
10. PURR-FECT II: dark&bassy begin. post-punky. upbeat. Klassic Kiwi gits.
11. PURR-FECT II: Klassic! (but really: beautiful guitars. approximates rain...)
12. moping&mopery.
13. noisy and disjointed. dark lo-fi collage.
kinda like The Pop Group.
14. lo-fi shambolic blah blah blah.
15. smoooth...nope: dark&twisted.
16. PURR-FECT II: back to smoooth...with jerky little lo-fi fists made of twee.

Track Listing
1. Cattle And Cane   9. Part Company
2. Lee Remic   10. Hammer The Hammer
3. I Need Two Heads   11. The Sound Of Rain
4. Hope   12. One Thing Can Hold Us
5. Bachelor Kisses   13. The Clowns Are In Town
6. 8 Pictures   14. Hold Your Horses
7. Lies   15. As Long As That
8. Secondhand Furniture   16. Unkind And Unwise