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- Date Released: January 1, 1987
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Pop, Alternative, Indie Rock
- Label: Beggars Banquet
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We Say...
In another universe, this Australian quartet helmed by dueling singer-songwriters Robert Forster and Grant McClennan are the Beatles, with girls in the band. And "Right Here" is "Yesterday."
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They Say...
Tallulah, the Go-Betweens fifth album, was supposed to be the band's breakthrough recording in America. That said, its sound is nearly a full-on break with the edginess that began to fade on 1986's Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express. More lush, rounded, polished, it sounds like a record made in the mid-'80s thanks in large part to Lindy Morrison's use of drum programs in addition to her trap kit. Add to this the contributions of new member Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, and backing vocals and one has a revamped band. Fans didn't take to the new sound with kindness initially, but the songwriting of Forster and McLennan was so much more focused and taut, it more than compensates for production errors. Nowhere is this more evident than "Right Now," the album's opener. The multi-tracked violins drive the center of the tune sprightly, in an off-rail, cut-time tempo. Robert Vickers' colorful keyboards and Morrison's programming are truly adornments, but McLennan's soulful yet philosophical vocal anchors the tune on bedrock and is supported by a beautiful chorus of backing vocals led by Brown. "You Tell Me," sung by Forster, leads with distorted guitars held in check by the sweetness of the melody and Morrison's meld of trap and synthetic drumming. Once more, keyboards counter the guitars as Vickers accents the beat pushing Forster and the wafting backing vocals deeper inside lyric and melody. McLennan's "Someone Else's Wife," is, by contrasts, stark, dark, and suffocating with moody strings accenting the protagonist's plight. The driving "Cure-ish" riff that kicks off Forster's "I Just Get Caught Out," is nearly transcendent; its pained verses are juxtaposed against backing vocalists filling the refrain with a cheery ba-ba-ba-ba-bum. The nearly funky organ and bass swirl of "Cut It Out," is unlike any Go-Betweens song before or since. The beautiful cello and violin section that fuels "The House That Jack Kerouac Built," with a shimmering rhythm guitar line, is the perfect maelstrom for Forster's gorgeous images of stolen illicit love in a dodgy cinema and are topped only by his desperate delivery. This recording may not have had fans of the band swooning at the time, but despite its production it has aged exceptionally well although it remains a product firmly of its time. The raw emotion, vulnerable tenderness and romantic desperation in its songs, textured by the blend of strings and keyboards, adds depth and dimension to this well of fine songs.
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Right Here |
3:53 |
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| 02. | |
You Tell Me |
3:38 |
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| 03. | |
Someone Else's Wife |
4:10 |
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| 04. | |
I Just Get Caught Out |
2:16 |
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Cut It Out |
3:58 |
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| 06. | |
House That Jack Kerouac Built |
4:42 |
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| 07. | |
Bye Bye Pride |
4:07 |
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| 08. | |
Spirit of a Vampyre |
3:57 |
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| 09. | |
Clarke Sisters |
3:22 |
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| 10. | |
Hope Then Strife |
4:55 |
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10 Total Tracks, 38:58 Total Length
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Credits
- Robert Forster - Guitar // Robert Forster - Vocals // Robert Forster - Liner Notes // The Go-Betweens - Main Performer // Colin Lloyd Tucker - Vocals (Background) // Amanda Brown - Guitar // Amanda Brown - Violin // Amanda Brown - Keyboards // Amanda Brown - Oboe // Amanda Brown - Vocals // Robert Forrester - Guitar (Rhythm) // Robert Forrester - Vocals // Grant McLennan - Guitar // Grant McLennan - Piano // Grant McLennan - Vocals // Grant McLennan - Liner Notes // Lindy Morrison - Drums // Lindy Morrison - Programming // Audrey Riley - Cello // Simon Fisher-Turner - Vocals (Background) // Simon Fisher-Turner - Vocals (Background) // Simon Fisher-Turner - Vocals (Background) // John Dent - Digital Remastering // John Dent - Analog Transfer // Robert Vickers - Bass // Robert Vickers - Keyboards // Richard Preston - Producer // Peter Anderson - Cover Design // Wolfgang Burat - Photography // Ruth Rowland - Artwork // El Tito - Flamenco Guitar // David Swift - Liner Notes // Martin Aston - Liner Notes // Dave Hill - Liner Notes // George Byrne - Liner Notes
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