GO-BETWEENS Very Quick On The Eye - Orig Aus LP Indie

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GO-BETWEENS

Very Quick On The Eye - Brisbane 1981

Australian LP released on Man Made Records in 1986.

Recorded in Brisbane at Queensland Recording Studios early 1981 as demos for 'Send Me A Lullaby'.
Released under license from Missing Link Records.

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The Go-Betweens were perhaps the quintessential cult band of the '80s: they came from an exotic locale (Brisbane, Australia), moved to a major recording centre (in their case, London) in a sustained bid to make a career out of music, released album after album of music seemingly tailor-made for the radio in spite of their having little use for contemporary Top 40 musical/lyrical formulas, and earned considerable critical praise and a small but fervent international fan base. Both of the band's songwriters embarked on respectable solo careers and managed to uphold the group's legacy.

Robert Forster and Grant McLennan began as a pair of teenagers obsessed with the earthy rock of Dylan, CCR, and the Velvet Underground and encouraged by the Australian punk of the Saints. As collected on The Able Label Singles, their first two singles show a fondness for scruffy, British Invasion/new wave-influenced pop/rock. Picking up permanent drummer Lindy Morrison, they recorded their debut LP, moved to England, and signed a short-lived deal with Rough Trade. Going for a lush, tuneful sound crammed with non-standard rock instrumentation, they went on to record five more excellent LPs.

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Positioned between '78 Till '79 and Send Me a Lullaby, Very Quick on the Eye, a semi-official bootleg which has never been formally re-released, is a listenable curio from the band's archives. Lindy Morrison had joined at this point, and the ten songs were indeed cut as demos in 1981 for Send Me a Lullaby, recorded and released later that year. Several tracks later reappeared on that album, but others were left in the vault, and the overall result is a snapshot of a band still getting it together, but already demonstrating a precocious talent. Both McLennan and Forster are in fine voice, generally calm and gentle. The tendencies of the early band toward the edgier side of things like Pere Ubu aren't completely in evidence here, though Forster does occasionally peel off some nicely trebly solos while arrangements reflect some new wave stiffness, as the take on "Arrow in a Bow" shows. Anytime the trio seems to be on the verge of suddenly becoming the Gang of Four or the like, though, it's the emotional, lovely singing which transforms it. Those familiar with Send Me will find the earlier takes of familiar songs enjoyable -- "If One Thing Can Hold Us" is neatly balanced between fragility and sudden brisk work on the chorus, and the de-emphasis of vocals in the mix actually works like a charm. Morrison's drum abilities, always a deeply underrated part of the band's appeal, fit hand in glove with the arrangements -- nothing fancy, just a bit of flair here and there for fun.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Sunday Night

One Word

If One Thing Can Hold Us

Hope

It Took You A Week

Side Two

Ride

Arrow In A Boy

The Clowns Are In Town

Serenade Sound

Careless

Released on 'Man Made Records' in 1986

Catalogue No. MM008

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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