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Quiet Heart: The Best of the Go-Betweens
Type:compilation
Artist:The Go-Betweens
Cover:Quiet Heart.jpg
Genre:Alternative rock
Label:EMI
Prev Title:Oceans Apart
Prev Year:2006

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.

  1. "Spring Rain" (1986) – 3:07
  2. "Love Goes On" (1988) – 3:21
  3. "Bye Bye Pride" (1987) – 4:07
  4. "Part Company" (1984) – 4:53
  5. "Darlinghurst Nights" (2005) – 6:18
  6. "Bachelor Kisses" (1984) – 3:33
  7. "Surfing Magazines" (2000) – 4:34
  8. "Karen" (1978) – 4:03
    • Originally released as a single
  9. "The Clock" (2000) – 4:06
  10. "Head Full of Steam" (1986) – 3:41
  11. "Streets of Your Town" (1988) – 3:39
  12. "People Say" (1979) – 2:40
    • Originally released as a single
  13. "Finding You" – 4:01
  14. "Dive for Your Memory" (1988) – 4:10
  15. "Cattle and Cane" (1983) – 4:19
  16. "Right Here" (1987) – 3:52
  17. "Here Comes A City" – 3:25
  18. "Quiet Heart" (1988) – 5:21

2nd disc Vienna Burns – Live 1987

  1. "Unkind and Unwise"
  2. "Part Company"
  3. "The House That Jack Kerouac Built"
  4. "The Clarke Sisters"
  5. "The Wrong Road"
  6. "Cut It Out"
  7. "Head Full of Steam"
  8. "Right Here"
  9. "In the Core of the Flame"
  10. "Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea"
  11. "Spring Rain"
  12. "Apology Accepted"

Notes and References

  1. 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 .
  2. Web site: The Go-Betweens: Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens. www.go-betweens.net.
  3. Web site: Water under Go Between Bridge. Michael. Dwyer. 31 August 2012. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. Web site: Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens - Tone Deaf. tonedeaf.com.au. 17 September 2012 .
  5. Web site: The Go-Betweens - Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens. theMusic.
  6. Web site: The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (EMI Australia). collapseboard.com.
  7. Web site: The Go-Betweens Pt. 1: 'These Are Central Things To Me'. 2 September 2012. messandnoise.com.

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