G Stands for Go-Betweens is a lavish—and expensive—four-LP and four-CD box set from that compiles the first five Go-Betweens singles, the first three Go-Betweens albums, a live set from 1982, three discs of rarities, and a thick booklet that Robert Forster wrote. (The first 600 copies included books from the library of the late Grant McLennan, and Music Weird is compiling a list of those titles.) Despite the deluxe presentation, a number of listeners have noted speed problems on some of the tracks. This post will provide details on the tracks that need speed correction.Archie Moore's review on from January 25 noted the speed problems:All of the non-single material from the 1999 release 78 ‘Til 79: The Lost Albumappears here, but it’s significantly slower than on that CD,sounding slightly sluggish and tuned-down (i.e. It seems that the slowerspeed is incorrect and accidental, a tape transfer error, not acorrection).
It is possible that this has been addressed and/or fixedsince I got the digital review copy. This problem hasn't been addressed, because my standard release copy has the same problems.The songs from The Lost Album aren't the only ones that sound slow, though. Here's the breakdown:Life as Sweet as LemonadeTracks 3-22 are slow. I haven't heard from Domino Records yet about whether these CDs will be remastered to correct the speed problems.
At the very least, the downloads for purchasers should be corrected, but the best possible outcome would be for the affected discs and LPs to be remastered and replaced. Considering the price of the set and the attention to detail that otherwise went into it, these problems are surprising and upsetting.If you have additional comments about the speed issues on G Stands for Go-Betweens or run across additional reviews that mention them, please let me know and I'll add them to this page.Update (March 19, 2015):Another review has noted the speed issue. This is from:Previously heard selections appear here at significantly slower speeds, which begs the question as to whether the Lost Album contained sped-up mixes to make the band sound more sprightly, or if this box set contains slowed-down mixes. Because there can be no logical reason for the latter, we must conclude that we are now hearing the Go-Betweens’ earliest demos at their original speed, and it’s not a flattering discovery. The original sounds really slow to me. Even sped up 4%, it sounds a bit draggy, but that could be the performance.
I've been meaning to look into the guitars' tunings to see if that provides any clues, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Domino Records wrote to me and said they'd get back after they investigated this problem, but I've followed up with them once or twice and they have fallen silent. I can't imagine that they would be in a hurry to remaster and repress a box set that has already sold out.
Can a rock band get away with playing traditional folk? Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Traffic and dozens of cult obscurities chronicled in Rob Young’s fussily focused, snobbishly selected Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music could. However, Young argued how many musicians who tried to do so failed his to make his cut. But millions of fans have disagreed, flocking to Jethro Tull, the Pogues, Billy Bragg, Clannad, Enya and countless chart-toppers ignored by the likes of Young and his critical clique.
The gaps between traditional music and rock are often more gaping than those between the blues, country or even jazz. For folk purists, the taint of amplification has long distanced some listeners who insist on their tunes as pure.When an indie band, in the wake of Bragg or the Pogues on the ‘80s British scene, swivels to learn venerable selections, the shift may be as likely to prove amenable as irritating. Sure, it’s not unheard of for an electrified, plugged-in player to return to the heritage of his family and his roots, adapting old favorites to rock conventions, instruments and attitude. Given the frenetic guitars of scrappy the Wedding Present three decades ago, Peter Solowka’s suggestion that they play traditional Ukrainian song “Hopak” for a John Peel Session in 1987 seems a suitable, if quirky, idea.
This led to the Leeds group’s next of many BBC recordings to feature traditional songs in this raucous mode.Boosted by the Slavophile “The Legendary” Len Liggins on violin, the Present could deliver the songs in their original language. Given Solowka could not convey the songs of his father’s homeland in their proper rendition, Liggins did so with boisterous deliveries and hefty vocal power. This fit the band’s “normal” lead singer-guitarist David Gedge’s own penchant for a gruff, ornery vocal approach which half-grunted, half-exhaled his rants about the unfairness of life and especially of his love life. Gedge arranged most of the songs into his signature style, of charging energy and quick tempos. The novel combination worked, at least for their devoted promoter Peel. The stage was set for more of the same.The first of the three sessions on the third release of this material, remastered for this go-around, chugs by on bluff adrenaline.
“Davni Chasy” will be familiar by Mary Hopkin’s 1968 version of the chortling melody as “Those Were the Days.” Produced by none other than Paul McCartney, plinking and strumming dominated that number-one hit much as they do on the original speedily conveyed by the Present and their comrades. Augmented by the second session with Roman Remeynes on vocals and even more mandolin, these songs benefited from two fluent talents able to deliver them in their original tongue.Still, neither of these two sessions dazzle. It’s as if a band at, yes, a wedding reception takes the mic and entertains with a switch into an “ethnic” set for tipsy guests hailing from that realm, to liven them up.
The songs pound away but fail to waft the hearer (maybe a dancer may disagree) into an onion-domed fantasia faraway from late-Thatcher Britain. Like Mary Hopkin’s hit, they stand out by their “exotic” alternatives to the usual pop fodder, while not persisting in one’s soul past the novelty format.Perhaps practice paid off. The final session integrates the experiment of British guitar-rock meets Ukrainian party-rousers most consistently. The entries on this compilation span both original drummer Shaun Charman and newcomer Simon Smith, but both contribute pounding, creative percussion.
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Keith Gregory’s bass keeps up; Liggins’ or Remeynes’ voices come across at ease with material by late 1988.Oddly, the song that started it all, “Hopak,” does not appear in this anthology. It did appear on Fresh Ear Records’ 2000 release, so why this presumably final assemblage sticks only to a dozen rather than a baker’s dozen songs may be the fault of copyright, failed labels three decades ago or a niggling sense of authenticity as to what defines “John Peel Sessions” as broadcast. The band on its Scopitones label had put out a six-CD Peel Sessions with four takes on songs from the Smiths in the same translation of words and music. Unfortunately, these do not appear on the current release. But a DVD of interviews and live tracks fills out this Hatch Records commemoration, so fans may wish to shell out again.Whichever the reason for the uneven discography as perpetuated today, Peter Solowka and the two Ukrainian-speaking guest singers and instrumentalists went on, logically, to form the Ukrainians.
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Their 1991 debut found all the Present members contributing to the results. Both the Wedding Present and their Ukrainian cousins continue to prance across the rock scene, and those devoted to both will welcome this. For everybody else, this proves a spirited if not necessary souvenir from a Slavic detour.