the Lucksmiths Where Were We?
Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2002.
Label: Darla Records.
Label reference #: matcd019.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M138579
Approximate release date: April 2, 2002.
Genres: Australian Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $10.50 [Out of Stock]
List price:$14.98
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Distributor/label description(s):
Matinee description:
Following in the tradition of the Australian trio's highly popular "Happy Secret" album in 1999, "Where Were We?" is an assortment of non-album tracks from singles and various artist compilations over the past three years. Fourteen tracks in total, the album features six songs previously unreleased in the US--including a brand new composition with indie legend Pam Berry on backing vocals--alongside favorites like "T-Shirt Weather", "Even Stevens" and "Friendless Summer." Recorded in Australia, England and the US, this superb collection documents the strong songwriting and memorable melodies that have helped secure the Lucksmiths' renown as one of today's most popular indie bands. After last year's tremendous eight-month world tour promoting the most recent album "Why That Doesn't Surprise Me," the Lucksmiths are set for success on the next level.
Track listing:
1. "The Cassingle Revival"
2. "Myopic Friends"
3. "A Downside To The Upstairs"
4. "Can't Believe My Eyes"
5. "I Prefer The Twentieth Century"
6. "T-Shirt Weather"
7. "Tmrw vs. Y'day"
8. "Southernmost"
9. "Even Stevens"
10. "The Great Dividing Range (demo)"
11. "Friendless Summer"
12. "Goodness Gracious"
13. "Welcome Home"
14. "Mars"
listen to all tracks as .m3u playlist
Twee Kitten review of Where Were We?
by Keith Mclachlan
A compilation of the moments not collected on the last album and not collected on, ern, the last compilation. Funny thing that like Stereolab the Lucksmiths best albums tend, albeit by the slightest of margins, to be the compilations of the odds and bobs. Most of the songs here are slowies, I had heard roughly half before getting this cd including the marvelous 'Cassingle Revival' which has one of my favourite metaphors for the pining over lost love ever and that leaves half a cd's worth of surprises. There is the collaboration with the Ladybug Transistor recorded for East Timorese poor which is rather sprightly and spontaneity-led and also included is the last "tour-only" single which seems to be readily available nearly everywhere I look, oh, dear me, there is another. And yet I can't find the Starlets album anywhere! And a few other things appear from obscurity like a nice demo for 'The Great Dividing Range' which shows that the string section that makes the album version gorgeous is mostly just icing on the cupcake that the heart of the song is in Marty Donald's emotional outreach and a couple of unreleased numbers including one with some spacey moments that seem very un-Lucksmiths like and are the more compelling for it. Actually, recently and lately I have been digging into the Lucksmiths past, they have a strange history, from my listening excursions they seem to have started out as an endearing, clever, frenetic Housemartinsy pop band who then started to take themselves too seriously, perhaps, and wrote a bunch of middling mid-tempo nonsense about western states and architecture then they righted the boat when they discovered much love from abroad and have turned into a romantic, croonerish sort of laser beam with the perfect pun for ever pop moment. They don't use the 'shoobie-doobie-doos' like they used to, though and the tears I cry at their absence are very real, and they don't let Marty sing even though he sounds like he just escaped from The Man From Delmonte and shines quite smashingly in his previous vocal adventures but, again, as these songs are mostly slowies (undoubtedly the Lucksmiths strength) and the execrable Pam Berry is hardly noticeable in her contribution all is well and this is indeed, then, a grand collection.
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Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2002.
Label: Darla Records.
Label reference #: matcd019.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M138579
Approximate release date: April 2, 2002.
Genres: Australian Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $10.50 [Out of Stock]
List price:
1 unit in cart. Remove from cart.
Distributor/label description(s):
Matinee description:
Following in the tradition of the Australian trio's highly popular "Happy Secret" album in 1999, "Where Were We?" is an assortment of non-album tracks from singles and various artist compilations over the past three years. Fourteen tracks in total, the album features six songs previously unreleased in the US--including a brand new composition with indie legend Pam Berry on backing vocals--alongside favorites like "T-Shirt Weather", "Even Stevens" and "Friendless Summer." Recorded in Australia, England and the US, this superb collection documents the strong songwriting and memorable melodies that have helped secure the Lucksmiths' renown as one of today's most popular indie bands. After last year's tremendous eight-month world tour promoting the most recent album "Why That Doesn't Surprise Me," the Lucksmiths are set for success on the next level.
Track listing:
1. "The Cassingle Revival"
2. "Myopic Friends"
3. "A Downside To The Upstairs"
4. "Can't Believe My Eyes"
5. "I Prefer The Twentieth Century"
6. "T-Shirt Weather"
7. "Tmrw vs. Y'day"
8. "Southernmost"
9. "Even Stevens"
10. "The Great Dividing Range (demo)"
11. "Friendless Summer"
12. "Goodness Gracious"
13. "Welcome Home"
14. "Mars"
listen to all tracks as .m3u playlist
Twee Kitten review of Where Were We?
by Keith Mclachlan
A compilation of the moments not collected on the last album and not collected on, ern, the last compilation. Funny thing that like Stereolab the Lucksmiths best albums tend, albeit by the slightest of margins, to be the compilations of the odds and bobs. Most of the songs here are slowies, I had heard roughly half before getting this cd including the marvelous 'Cassingle Revival' which has one of my favourite metaphors for the pining over lost love ever and that leaves half a cd's worth of surprises. There is the collaboration with the Ladybug Transistor recorded for East Timorese poor which is rather sprightly and spontaneity-led and also included is the last "tour-only" single which seems to be readily available nearly everywhere I look, oh, dear me, there is another. And yet I can't find the Starlets album anywhere! And a few other things appear from obscurity like a nice demo for 'The Great Dividing Range' which shows that the string section that makes the album version gorgeous is mostly just icing on the cupcake that the heart of the song is in Marty Donald's emotional outreach and a couple of unreleased numbers including one with some spacey moments that seem very un-Lucksmiths like and are the more compelling for it. Actually, recently and lately I have been digging into the Lucksmiths past, they have a strange history, from my listening excursions they seem to have started out as an endearing, clever, frenetic Housemartinsy pop band who then started to take themselves too seriously, perhaps, and wrote a bunch of middling mid-tempo nonsense about western states and architecture then they righted the boat when they discovered much love from abroad and have turned into a romantic, croonerish sort of laser beam with the perfect pun for ever pop moment. They don't use the 'shoobie-doobie-doos' like they used to, though and the tears I cry at their absence are very real, and they don't let Marty sing even though he sounds like he just escaped from The Man From Delmonte and shines quite smashingly in his previous vocal adventures but, again, as these songs are mostly slowies (undoubtedly the Lucksmiths strength) and the execrable Pam Berry is hardly noticeable in her contribution all is well and this is indeed, then, a grand collection.
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