G Stands for Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology volume 2 box set

This December, Domino follow up G-Stands for Go-Betweens – their 2015 box set devoted to Australian indie band The Go-Betweens – with a second box, G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 2.

The first box – long out-of-print, and now very expensive to get hold of – covered the era 1978 to 1984 and this new set, as you might expect, picks up where that earlier volume left off, with an examination of the period 1985-1989 which closed the chapter on the original version of the band (Robert Forster and Grant McLennan reformed The Go-Betweens in 2000 with a new line-up).



It contains the three studio albums released during this era on vinyl LP – Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986), Tallulah (1987) and 16 Lovers Lane (1988) – and adds a previously unreleased double live album, called Fountains of Youth, recorded in London on 10 May 1987.

But as before, this is a real multi-media package and more music comes in the form of five CDs, which feature not only rare, hard-to-find and unreleased demos, recordings, radio sessions but also a collection of 28 songs intended for what was supposed to be the follow-up to 16 Lovers Lane.



This Volume two package comes with a 112-page book with all the usual historical photos and extensive sleeve notes (from founding member Robert Forster) and a Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express songbook. This was apparently prepared at the time of release by their publisher, but never actually produced. So this is the first ever printing, containing hand-transcribed sheet music of all ten songs from that album. The box set – a big lift-off lid affair – also comes with a reproduction promotional poster.

G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 2 will be released on 6 December 2019.

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LIBERTY BELLE AND THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS vinyl LP

Side A

• 1 Spring Rain
• 2 The Ghost And The Black Hat
• 3 The Wrong Road
• 4 To Reach Me
• 5 Twin Layers Of Lightning

Side B

• 1 In The Core Of The Flame
• 2 Head Full Of Steam
• 3 Bow Down
• 4 Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)
• 5 Apology Accepted

TALLULAH vinyl LP

Side A

• 1 Right Here
• 2 You Tell Me
• 3 Someone Else’s Wife
• 4 I Just Get Caught Out
• 5 Cut It Out

Side B

• 1 The House That Jack Kerouac Built
• 2 Bye Bye Pride
• 3 Spirit Of A Vampyre
• 4 The Clarke Sisters
• 5 Hope Then Strife

16 LOVERS LANE vinyl LP

Side A

• 1 Love Goes On!
• 2 Quiet Heart
• 3 Love Is A Sign
• 4 You Can’t Say No Forever
• 5 The Devil’s Eye

Side B

• 1 Streets Of Your Town
• 2 Clouds
• 3 Was There Anything I Could Do?
• 4 I’m Allright
• 5 Dive For Your Memory

Fountains of Youth 2LP vinyl

Side A

• 1 Bye Bye Pride
• 2 Unkind And Unwise
• 3 Part Company
• 4 The House That Jack Kerouac Built

Side B

• 1 The Clarke Sisters
• 2 This Girl, Black Girl
• 3 Don’t Call Me Gone
• 4 When People Are Dead
• 5 Your Turn, My Turn

Side C

• 1 Cut It Out
• 2 You Tell Me
• 3 Head Full Of Steam
• 4 Right Here
• 5 Man O’Sand To Girl O’Sea

Side D

• 1 Apology Accepted
• 2 Spring Rain
• 3 Karen
• 4 Eight Pictures

CD 1: THE DEVIL IS IN YOUR DRESS: Rarities Volume 5: 1985-86

• 1 In The Core Of A Flame
• 2 Living The Life At Hand
• 3 To Reach Me
• 4 Grandfather Slow
• 5 Spring Rain
• 6 Head Full Of Steam
• 7 Wrong Road Round
• 8 Don’t Let Him Come Back
• 9 Reunion Dinner
• 10 Little Joe
• 11 The Life At Hand
• 12 Casanova’s Last Words
• 13 I Work In A Health Spa

CD 2: RUN FROM HIM Rarities Volume 6: 1986-87

• 1 I Know What I Like
• 2 You Tell Me
• 3 Do It Like The Devil Did
• 4 Together At Last
• 5 Cut It Out
• 6 Easier Said Than Done
• 7 The House That Jack Kerouac Built
• 8 Right Here
• 9 Someone Else’s Wife
• 10 The Clarke Sisters
• 11 Bye Bye Pride
• 12 I Just Get Caught Out
• 13 A Little Romance
• 14 When People Are Dead
• 15 Don’t Call Me Gone
• 16 Time In The Desert
• 17 Doo Wop in ‘A’ (Bam Boom)

CD 3: TRYING TO BE A STRONG PERSON Rarities Volume 7: 1988

• 1 Wait Until June
• 2 The Devil’s Eye
• 3 I’m Allright
• 4 Was There Anything I Could Do
• 5 You Won’t Find It Again
• 6 Love Is A Sign
• 7 Love Goes On!
• 8 Dive For Your Memory
• 9 Apples In Bed
• 10 Clouds
• 11 Head Over Heels
• 12 Casanova’s Last Words
• 13 You Can’t Say No Forever
• 14 Quiet Heart
• 15 Wait Until June
• 16 Casanova’s Last Words
• 17 Rock and Roll Friend
• 18 Mexican Postcard
• 19 Rock and Roll Friend
• 20 Dive For Your Memory
• 21 Quiet Heart
• 22 Clouds
• 23 Love Goes On!

CD 4: LOVING SHOCKS Rarities Volume 8: 1989

• 1 Dear Black Dream
• 2 Danger in The Past
• 3 Easy Come, Easy Go
• 4 Broadway Bride
• 5 I Love You, Still
• 6 What You Call Change
• 7 Open Invitation
• 8 You Can Dream About Tomorrow
• 9 I’ve Been Looking For Somebody
• 10 Outlaw #1
• 11 Haunted House
• 12 Sally’s Revolution Blues

CD 5: LOVING SHOCKS Rarities Volume 8: 1989

• 1 Just Get That Straight
• 2The Days My Eyes Came Back
• 3 Running The Risk Of Ever Losing You
• 4 It Had To Be Me
• 5 Signs Of Life
• 6 How I Wish This War Was Over
• 7 Art Cinema
• 8 Nowhere By Any Other Name
• 9 No Peace In The Palace
• 10 Here They Come
• 11 Child Of God
• 12 The Man Who Died In Rapture
• 13 House of Snakes
• 14 All The Time
• 15 Send Him Back Home
• 16 What Goes Up Must Come Down