The POLL is Open Wide: The Go-Betweens "Tallulah" Poll

I love Right Here... I always wanted to hear Andrew WK cover this in the vein of I GET WET.

least favorite gb album, 'hope then strife' is pretty though

which is your fave?

"Jack Kerouac."

Sorry, I thought you were talking to me.

liberty belle (by a huge margin) xp

i can't really go past BBP but i just get caught out is ace too. weaker overall than the records that flanked it but the highs are really damn high

my 2nd least favorite--just above 'Bright Yellow Bright Orange'--but i love "You Tell Me", and "Spirit of a Vampyre." Making jewelry at last!

Mobility the hood of the Hindu scarf.

^ awesome! i remember seeing them just after Tallulah came out, and they did "...Vampyre" with a long, instrumental-rocking intro... all Velvets-y... it was fantastic. The electric train of soft cylinder parts.

One of the few Go-Be's songs with a raunchy guitar solo (I'm assuming it's McLennan, but it sounds like Forster).

This has always been Robert Christgau's favorite GB record, a position I could never quite understand.

Pretty easy to understand: most of the songs have ambitions matched by their arrangements. I play Oceans Apart and Before Hollywood more often, but I can't forget the impression this record made when I first bought it; it's their one record that should have been called Bright Yellow Bright Orange.

stuck between "you tell me" and "i just get caught out". i agree that the lyrics all over this album are superb. always hated the strings in "right here".

The violin part makes "Right Here"! But I hear you – I got the same trouble with the synthesized harpsichord on "You Tell Me."

"Spirit of a Vampyre". The dull mask of action on circus staff

this is touuuugh

even if i say "ignore the great lyrics and just focus on the knockout hooks" i gotta choose between "right here" and "bye bye pride"

xp it's really only the verse that bothers me, now that i think about it. the stuffiness of the 4-note ascending/descending thing just doesn't do it for me. those guitar chords on the other hand... wow!

"spirit of a vampyre" is great. glad to see it getting love. i don't know any other go betweens fans but i never figured it was that popular.

I was slowly dying in a clinic just outside L.A.

we need a room, but there is nooooo room

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Solid record, lots of underrated gems. For me, though, I Just Get Caught Out takes it.

I went with The House That Jack Kerouac Built, it's my favourite song of theirs.

I think this their most underrated album. I much prefer it to 16 Lovers Lane which I always found a little lightweight. I do love this band so much.

so, whose white shoes are those on the front cover?

Robert's most likely.

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bye bye results

The only no-vote track that deserved consideration is the odd and wonderful "The Clarke Sisters". Otherwise, good results.

I really, really wish ILX had a ranking vote option instead of only-pick-one.

missed this, but 'i just get caught out'

"You Tell Me" is really stunning, that shaky voice reinforced by the chiming guitar of the chorus.

when I bought the album in fall 2000, "You Tell Me" was the grabber: the way Forster says the line "by France or any other revolution," the high Amanda Brown harmonies, the punch of that rhythm hook ("sonic rhythm guitar" in the credits), the desperate "Come on! Come on!" in the fadeout. I even like that harpsichord solo (lol mid eighties).

I've listened to the album before, to the band before, own three of the albums, & yet I'm only now getting it; & this is the song.

That's their mystery and magic: a throwaway album track will suddenly step on your toes.