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December 16, 2002

that's how you sing...

The opening track on the new Low album seems very...well...Slowdive in places, don't ya think ?

I (finally) received my copy of somebody's compilation of the original tracks that Robert Forster covered on his I had a New York girlfriend album. This was the album that finally made me go and buy everything he did, everything The Go-Betweens did, and everything Grant McLennan did. I can remember hearing 2541 getting some local airplay, and thinking "wow, that's such a great little song." I never did go and buy any of Grant Hart's stuff after all that, but I found Forster's covers album going second-hand in the university market one lunchtime a few years later - it may not have had the kind of deep experimental streak that gives some covers albums a leg up into fame or notoriety, it went for more simple territory - a guy and some friends who sounded like they were just having fun doing a pile of old songs, and I'll tempt fate by suggesting that there's not a bad track on this album (yes, even his cover of Alone).

(oh, and I went and bought myself a copy of chairs missing, Darren.)

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darren:

Excellent work. It's even a bit heartening to see that cheerleading can produce results, even if you were an, ahem, easy target, what with your Pink Flag ownership and Fall tendencies and all the rest. Time to get to work on some other folks.

Posted by darren | December 17, 2002 9:29 AM

Posted on December 17, 2002 09:29

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