Bellavista Terrace Best Of Th: Go-Betweens: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Was There Anything I Could Do?

2. Head Full Of Steam

3. That Way

4. Part Company

5. Cattle And Cane

6. Draining The Pool For You

7. The Wrong Road

8. Bye Bye Pride

9. Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea

10. The House That Jack Kerouac Built

11. Bachelor Kisses

12. Streets Of Your Town

13. Spring Rain

14. Dive For Your Memory

Product Description

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"French rock & roll" is generally considered a contradiction in terms, so it's not surprising that it took an Australian band to fully bring a Gallic sensibility to the music. Led by singer/songwriters Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, the Go-Betweens spent the '80s making powerful, lithe, occasionally mournful music. Filled with wit and literary and film references that never succumbed to their winking pretensions, the group's classic songs number in the dozens. Bellavista Terrace collects 14 in a starter kit that fans of Dylan, Costello, and Belle and Sebastian should investigate. --Rickey Wright

Album Description

15 of the greatest from this top Aussie indie pop/ rock cult band of the '80s. Spanning their entire career, it includes standout tracks like 'Was There Anything I Could Do?', 'The House That Jack Kerouac Built', 'Streets Of Your Town' and 'Bye Bye Pride', plus 'Lee Remick' as an unlisted bonus track. 1999 release.

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3.9 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?, April 3 2001

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"nathanh77" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellavista Terrace Best Of Th (Audio CD)

Purely on the merit of hearing one of their fab early singles on the radio, I took a risk and bought this album hoping for more of the same. Save track 5, what I found however was a real horror story of a let down- an atypical sterile eighties sound barely redeemed by the intermittently thought provoking lyrics. A poor mans Smiths, I consider this group to be the most over rated 'under rated' band of the eighties and regard said album as personal insult to a purhaser who spent three hours flipping burgers in a hot sweltering kitchen to pay for it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's ALL true..., Dec 7 2000

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Maybe Later Thanks (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

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Both those reviews that conclude "mediocre" and those who gush "transcendent" are right on the mark. I bought their old singles CD (alas, no longer printed), listened to it a couple of times, and put it at the top of my pile of CD's to sell immediately. I reconsidered at the music shop, listened to it again at home, and within two months it had become one of my five favorite albums ever, by anyone, bar none. The songs are sweet, sparse, don't really go much of anywhere. As such they do very little to reward the excited anticipation most of us feel when listening to a new disc. Thing is, their vision of the world -- ultimately pretty bleak, but at least full of little curiousities that are half-redeeming -- is, well, right. Listen to it enough, brow furrowed, head cocked, wondering what exactly they thought they were doing making such a record, and eventually this becomes clear. It's a little eerie, frankly, but get there and you'll absolutely adore them for it. I give it only four stars because it's tough sledding the first couple of listens and because this collection leaves out "Two Step, Step Down," which is easy to warm to and enduringly super, as well as some choice gems from the earlier singles collection, including "Dusty in Here" and a few others I all-too dimly remember. [Darn] ex-girlfriend, she wouldn't part with it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yeah!, July 8 2000

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I recall A schoolboy coming home through doors of screen and opening a box that was brown not green. This c.d is good, yes very good

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