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| | Bright Yellow Bright Orange | | | Music Artist : | | The Go-Betweens | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Jet Set Records | | Release Date : | | 2003-02-18 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Caroline and I
2. Poison in the Walls
3. Mrs. Morgan
4. In Her Diary
5. Too Much of One Thing
6. Crooked Lines
7. Old Mexico
8. Make Her Day
9. Something for Myself
10. Unfinished Business
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Tuneful wry amusement
Submitted on: 2007-12-22 |
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| I discovered this Australian group late with "Oceans Apart" and have since been building my collection going back in time. "Bright Yellow Bright Orange" is a joyful set from their come back, with wry lyrics and a soft rock musical overlay. |
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Always a Pleasure to Hear
Submitted on: 2007-01-31 |
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| Every couple of months I play this CD or Friends of Rachel Worth and they are always fresh, bright and interesting. Which, of course, makes it sad that we won't have any more new Go-Betweens music with the death of Grant McLennan last May. The Go-Betweens sound is, for lack of a better term, intelligent pop. It doesn't hammer you, making it impossible to miss -- and that's part of the point -- the literate lyrics they both wrote, occasionally stunning, often opaque -- "She's got eyes that really know how to sting" or "told not to pick at society's glue, think I'll sniff it." Serious craftsmen, they would have fit in any of the last four decades, guitars, strings, harmonies skillfully set off against precise three or four minute stories. Go-Betweens are musical short story writers, not novelists, William Trevors, not Cormac McCarthys. The best of the bunch here are Caroline and I, Mrs. Morgan, Make Her Day, Something for Myself and Unfinished Business -- with hindsight, a pretty ironic title for the last song on what proved to be their last CD. |
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 as good as 16 Lover's Lane and Liberty Belle
Submitted on: 2003-12-21 |
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| More light and flowing than Liberty Belle... so it is closer to 16 Lover's Lane - Amazon reviewer's favorite. Much better in my opinion than The Friend's of Rachel Worth. |
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Between the Go and the Gone
Submitted on: 2003-04-02 |
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| It is almost impossible to truly describe the Go-Betweens and this cd in their pantheon. This is a band that refused to conform their music to some standard set by the industry or other bands, and now some of their fans are upset because this new cd does not conform to some supposed Go-Betweens standard. Well, if the Go-Betweens had been willing to conform in the first place, the gobees would not be the band we now expect them to be. This is the dilemma of being a fan of a band like the Go-Betweens. You either follow them down the path where they lead or you get left behind. If conformity mattered to them, they would not have been capable of being who they are. Taste the music. You will not be disappointed. You will become addicted. As the Moody Blues said - there is a distinction between the fan and the artist. The fans have to agree that the band is the artist. We try to get what we can from the artists, but they cannot give in to our demands, or they would lose their artistic integrity. Is Bright Yellow Bright Orange a great cd. Yes. Is it Liberty Belle or 16 Lovers Lane or something in-between? Well, it is Bright Yellow Bright Orange. What they have to tell us now is not what they had to tell us then. How could it be any other way? |
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Four and 1/2 Stars!
Submitted on: 2003-03-31 |
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| The general opinion of "Rachael Worth" *seemed* to be "well it's good, but not quite up to par..." so I never picked it up (sorry guys). But I can say without reservation that this is one of the best Go Betweens albums I've heard yet. What makes it such a great album? Well, great songs of course! I think everything here is a winner, and there's a nice balance between soft introspection and feel-good pop tunes. "Poison In the Walls" & "Old Mexico" have rapidly worked their way into my list of favorites. If you're a bit uncertain if you'll be let down by the "new Go Betweens" sound, this one should seriously win you over. So pick up a copy and support these extraordinary yet overlooked songwriters who show they've still got the touch that won them such a devoted cult following. |
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