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78 'Til 79: The Lost Album

The Go-Betweens
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
  • Original Release Date: April 6, 1999
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Jet Set Records
  • ASIN: B00000IMUC
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #260,081 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Lee Remick
2. Karen
3. Help or Something
4. Just Hang On
5. Long Lonely Day
6. Day for Night
7. Love Wasn't Made for You and Me
8. Summer's Melting My Mind
9. Obsession With You
10. Rare Victory
11. Sound of Rain
12. People Say
13. Don't Let Him Come Back

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The young Go-Betweens briefly flirted with issuing a single on Beserkley Records, the label that brought Jonathan Richman to prominence. Appropriately so; Richman's love of the everyday met Robert Forster's cultural obsessions on the now-legendary Australian band's first single, which coupled an ode to Lee Remick with "Karen," a typically feverish declaration of love for a favorite librarian. In addition to that 45 and the subsequent "People Say"/"Don't Let Him Come Back," The Lost Album also features nine previously unreleased demo-quality tracks made in Forster's bedroom. The Go-Betweens would grow more sophisticated, but these 13 songs show their wit and force already in place. Not just an invaluable historical gap-filler, this CD is as another moving, entertaining entry in their discography. --Rickey Wright

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4.0 out of 5 stars the style it takes, April 22, 1999
By jld@get2net.dk (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
Having just recieved this record today I've got to sit down and write a few words about it! An insight into the beginnings of a truly great band consisting of the previously released but hard to come by singles "Lee Remick" and "People Say" and nine other songs, the latter recorded in Roberts bedroom in Brisbane. Though poor in sound quality there is no hiding the warmth and charm in these songs. The Go Betweens were always more about personality than actual musical skills. That is not to say that the playing is bad on the contrary it sounds very tight and fresh but technique was never an issue. Personality and style was. What a rare quality!
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5.0 out of 5 stars if you don't love this album, you are on crack, June 24, 1999
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this is one of the greatest albums i have ever heard by the go-betweens (or anyone for that matter). the recordings are raw and honest, the songs make you want to sing along. everything else i have heard by this band sounds nothing like the lost album. i don't know why those other people who reviewed this album are whining about the sound of the recording. if you love retro-rock and roll garagy pop songs, this one is for you!
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5.0 out of 5 stars In the beginning, January 10, 2007
This is a wonderful first time pop album. To see the Go-betweens as very young men playing in their apartment while knowing their long musical history culminating in Grant McClennan's death is very touching. These two are true artists.
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