Tallulah (album)

Tallulah
Studio album by The Go-Betweens
Released June 1987
Recorded Camden, London, England
Genre Rock, alternative rock, indie rock
Length 39:11
Label Beggars Banquet Records then LO-MAX Records
Producer Richard Preston
The Go-Betweens chronology
Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
(1986)		 Tallulah
(1987)		 16 Lovers Lane
(1988)
Singles from Tallulah
  1. "Right Here"
    Released: 23 February 1987
  2. "Cut It Out"
    Released: 11 May 1987
  3. "I Just Get Caught Out"
    Released: 1987
  4. "Bye Bye Pride"
    Released: August 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Tallulah was the fifth album by The Go-Betweens. It was released in June 1987 in the UK on Beggars Banquet Records. Prior to the recording of the album, the group had expanded to a five-piece with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. The original release consisted of ten songs. In 2004, LO-MAX Records released an expanded CD which included a second disc of ten bonus tracks and music videos for the songs, "Right Here" and "Bye Bye Pride".

Details

Initial recording was done with Craig Leon in an attempt to make more commercial music. Only two tracks, both featuring drum-machines and synthesisers, were ever completed, including the single "Right Here".[2] Forster later wrote that the band were, "playing day after day, getting tighter and tighter, believing at least two of us would be playing on the recordings at the same time. Why did we bother? We arrived on the first day of the session to find Craig behind a bank of keyboards filling the control room, programming the drums, bass and organ lines."[3]

With much of the recording budget spent on two songs, the remaining sessions with a new prodcuer were hurried and the band was unhappy with the initial results. Forster said, "We were sort of cursed. We had the engineer that we were using on Liberty Belle, Dicky Preston, and working with Dicky was good. We then went on to the next one and we were put into this horrible studio it was over a practice room or something. And so Dickey didn't do a good job I think on Tallulah, so it had to be rescued and remixing a little but which always sounds horrible but it actually worked out okay with Mark Wallis."[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by G. McLennan, R. Forster.

Original 1987 release
No.TitleLength
1."Right Here"  3:53
2."You Tell Me"  3:38
3."Someone Else's Wife"  4:10
4."I Just Get Caught Out"  2:16
5."Cut It Out"  3:58
6."The House That Jack Kerouac Built"  4:41
7."Bye Bye Pride"  4:06
8."Spirit of a Vampyre"  3:57
9."The Clarke Sisters"  3:22
10."Hope Then Strife"  4:54
11."Right Here" (video on 2004 expanded CD) 
12."Bye Bye Pride" (video on 2004 expanded CD) 

All tracks written by G. McLennan, R. Forster, except where noted.

Credits

Personnel

The Go-Betweens
Additional musicians

Production

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r717686
  2. ↑ Clinton Walker (1996). Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991. Pan MacMillan. p. 194. ISBN 0-7329-0883-3.
  3. ↑ Robert Forster (2016). Grant & I. Penguin. pp. 173–174. ISBN 978-0-6700782-2-6.
  4. ↑ Gavin Sawford (12 April 1996). "Gazing On A Sunny Afternoon". Rave. Stones Corner, QLD: Rave Magazine Pty Ltd: 7–8.
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