Bouncy,
jangly, and very far removed from the baroque and epic songwriting of 16 Lovers
Lane. In fact, if I didn’t know any
better I would think they were two entirely different bands. Certain
albums shift into a different gear at some point in their sequencing. Here that magic stretch happens from “Ask” to
“Cattle and Cane”. Not that the entire
album is not top-notch but songs 3-5 are otherworldly, somehow more connected
and more memorable than the other sections of the album. The Go-Betweens never cracked my US
mainstream. They never even cracked my
radar until years after they had disbanded and I was reading about them while I
was living in France. But for any fan of
early REM, hours of sophisticated songs of beauty await.
Best Ever Albums - 2,000 - 1,001 - 1,859 The Stone Roses - The Second Coming
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So many had so much invested in The Stine Roses that many tried desperately
to invest themselves in it when it finally arrived in 1994. Now it seems
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