Quiet Heart Explained
Quiet Heart: The Best of the Go-Betweens is a compilation album by Australian alternative rock band, the Go-Betweens. It peaked at No. 51 on the ARIA Albums, No. 48 on the ARIA Physical Albums, and No. 15 on the ARIA Australian Artists Albums charts.[1] Ian Wallace of Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) described how, "[it] is the first collection that spans the band's entire recorded output... A second disc features a live recording from 1987."[1]
The tracks were selected by original band members Robert Forster, Lindy Morrison, Robert Vickers and Amanda Brown[2] after a "long and arduous process."[3] Unlike previous compilations, the tracks covered their entire career including the reformation years – critics were split on whether the later era songs seemed out of place,[4] [5] [6] but all appreciated how the tracks flowed especially the "conscious sequencing"[7] contrasting early singles with latter reformation era tracks.
Track listing
All songs by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster.
- "Spring Rain" (1986) – 3:07
- "Love Goes On" (1988) – 3:21
- "Bye Bye Pride" (1987) – 4:07
- "Part Company" (1984) – 4:53
- "Darlinghurst Nights" (2005) – 6:18
- "Bachelor Kisses" (1984) – 3:33
- "Surfing Magazines" (2000) – 4:34
- "Karen" (1978) – 4:03
- Originally released as a single
- "The Clock" (2000) – 4:06
- "Head Full of Steam" (1986) – 3:41
- "Streets of Your Town" (1988) – 3:39
- "People Say" (1979) – 2:40
- Originally released as a single
- "Finding You" – 4:01
- "Dive for Your Memory" (1988) – 4:10
- "Cattle and Cane" (1983) – 4:19
- "Right Here" (1987) – 3:52
- "Here Comes A City" – 3:25
- "Quiet Heart" (1988) – 5:21
2nd disc Vienna Burns – Live 1987
- "Unkind and Unwise"
- "Part Company"
- "The House That Jack Kerouac Built"
- "The Clarke Sisters"
- "The Wrong Road"
- "Cut It Out"
- "Head Full of Steam"
- "Right Here"
- "In the Core of the Flame"
- "Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea"
- "Spring Rain"
- "Apology Accepted"
Notes and References
- 10 September 2012 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120924042300/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20120924-1423/Issue1176.pdf . Week Commencing ~ 10th September 2012 ~ Issue #1176 . Wallace . Ian . The ARIA Report . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 1176 . 2, 6–7, 14-15 . 24 September 2012 . 23 August 2019 .
- Web site: The Go-Betweens: Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens. www.go-betweens.net.
- Web site: Water under Go Between Bridge. Michael. Dwyer. 31 August 2012. The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Web site: Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens - Tone Deaf. tonedeaf.com.au. 17 September 2012 .
- Web site: The Go-Betweens - Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens. theMusic.
- Web site: The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (EMI Australia). collapseboard.com.
- Web site: The Go-Betweens Pt. 1: 'These Are Central Things To Me'. 2 September 2012. messandnoise.com.