BEFORe HOLLYWOOD

That Way That Way That Way.

probably cattle and cane will win tho.

This means absolutely nothing to me.

pwnt by nate woolls ;_;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Hollywood

Yeah I just found that. Never heard anything by the Go-Betweens, am I missing out?

Yeah, like I can make a decision on THIS.

on my, it's on my, on my...On My Block.

before hollywood!

"Two Step, Step Out" is massively underrated -- it should be on every Go-Be's comp.

Were the Proclaimers listening to it one fine autumn day in 1989?

Discounting Cattle & Cane for a more fair fight - By Chance.

Great organ sound on this album.

impossible. a perfect lp. but i will say that 'That Way' is my least favorite...

but, yes—great organ sound!

LOL SO IT'S NOT PERFECT THEN BRO

i'm just butthurt about yer that way call ;_;

"butthurt"

i can't not vote for C&C but 'that way' would be my next choice

Let's not discount "Dusty in Here." Note its dub-like use ofspace -- how the piano filigrees decorate the bass.

as far as i know this is the first time i've made anyone "butthurt!" sorry W4LT!
And howabout a special shout-out to Lindy for overall excellence on this lp?

"Cattle & Cane" will win but I'll vote for "Dusty In Here". So moving, Alfred is correct in the use of space. Grant wrote it for his father who died young, too. Goddamnit, it really sucks that Grant followed in his, uh, footsteps.

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Cattle & Cane

TOO SOON

No votes for "As Long As That," in which Forster and McLennan try to outdo each other with dubious poetry while guitar peals, a terribly eloquent bassline, and steady Lindy make sense of it all?

It's never made sense to me. Nor has the loopy ass "On My Block." I don't even know what "Cattle and Cane" is about. But Lindy indeeds steadies the poetry as well as the giddy-arty time shifts. Steadies it so well, in fact, that I find it difficult picking one track to click. I'll go for "Two Steps, Step Out" which epitomizes the album's obsession with a cinematic time. The very title retards forward progression in a freeze frame with that comma and the redundancy of "step" slowing the motion. And like many other songs on the album, it ends with a jump cut signifying a sudden reversal or fruition. Only at the very end of the song does he arrive at his destination (Here I am). Only at the end of "A Bad Debt Follows You" do we discover that Grant himself is the bad debt. "I'm someone you knew." "What's wrong with that?" "It's only time away." And, of course, "Bye-bye-bye-bye-bye." Very Kracauer, another great mind attuned to encounters that happen by chance.

And throughout all this, they remain funny. Peerless. How many bands were better than them? Five? Zero maybe?

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No surprise. Quite rightly "By Chance" is dead last.

er, sorry, "On My Block."

Cattle and Cane doesn't even stand out as one of the better tracks on the album, because it's all so good.

I'D WALK A HUNDRED MILES

A thousand miles!