Before Hollywood

by The Go-Betweens

Before Hollywood cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1983
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 1:03:55
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Bernard Clarke, Robert Forster, Grant McLennan, Ian Cooper, Lindy Morrison

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in England, The Go-Betweens' sophomore effort is an incredibly literate, beautifully bittersweet masterpiece of early indie pop. The band expertly weaves taut, rhythmic post-punk tension with deeply poetic, slightly sarcastic jangle-pop melodies, marking a massive compositional leap forward for the beloved Australian songwriting duo.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic, diy, wry

Tracklist

  1. A Bad Debt Follows You
  2. Two Steps Step Out
  3. Before Hollywood
  4. Dusty In Here
  5. Ask
  6. Cattle And Cane
  7. By Chance
  8. As Long As That
  9. On My Block
  10. That Way

Credits

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