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
"Right Here" Released: 23 February 1987 "Cut It Out" Released: 11 May 1987 "I Just Get Caught Out" Released: 1987 "Bye Bye Pride" Released: August 1987

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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]

The band was unhappy with the initial results of their next recording sessions. 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."^[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by G. McLennan, R. Forster. 

Original 1987 release
No.	Title	Length
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 songs written and composed by G. McLennan, R. Forster, except where noted. 

2004 bonus disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Time in the Desert"	3:50
2.	"I Just Get Caught Out" (early version)	2:32
3.	"Don't Call Me Gone"	2:17
4.	"Right Here" (early version)	3:40
5.	"If I Was A Rich Man/The House Jack Kerouac Built" (radio session ("If I was a Rich Man" - Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick))	3:34
6.	"When People Are Dead"	4:29
7.	"The Clarke Sisters" (early version)	3:10
8.	"A Little Romance"	3:41
9.	"Bye Bye Pride" (radio session)	3:47
10.	"Doo Wop in 'A' (Bam Boom)" (A. Brown, L. Morrison, G. McLennan, R. Forster)	2:53

Credits

Personnel

The Go-Betweens

• Amanda Brown — violin, oboe, guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Robert Forster — vocals, rhythm guitar
• Grant McLennan — vocals, lead guitar, piano
• Lindy Morrison — drums
• Robert Vickers — bass guitar

Additional musicians

• Audrey Riley — cello
• El Tito — Flamenco guitar
• Simon Fisher-Turner — backing vocals
• Colin Lloyd-Tucker — backing vocals

Production

• Photography — Peter Anderson
• Producer — Craig Leon ("Right Here")
• Producer — Richard Preston

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. Gavin Sawford (12 April 1996). "Gazing On A Sunny Afternoon". Rave (Stones Corner, QLD: Rave Magazine Pty Ltd): 7–8.