Showing posts with label Grant McLennan. Show all posts
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13 October 2017

GRANT MCLENNAN Watershed 1991







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Artist Biography by


Send Me a Lullaby
As the co-founder of Australia's beloved cult band the Go-Betweens, Grant McLennan established himself among the finest and most effervescent songwriters in contemporary pop music, a standing his subsequent solo career did little to alter. Born in Rock Hampton on February 12, 1958, McLennan was attending Brisbane University during the mid-'70s when he and fellow student Robert Forster decided to channel their shared affection for punk and '60s folk into a band; dubbing themselves the Go-Betweens, they issued a series of singles before recording their debut LP, Send Me a Lullaby, in 1982. Over the course of the decade to follow, the Go-Betweens emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the post-punk era, yet excellent LPs like 1983's Before Hollywood and 1987's Tallulah simply failed to find an audience; when 1988's brilliant 16 Lovers Lane failed to push the group to the stardom so many predicted, they disbanded, and McLennan began his solo career. After recording as one half of Jack Frost, a duo he formed with the Church's Steve Kilbey, he issued his solo debut, 1991's Watershed (credited, as was its 1993 follow-up, Fireboy, to G.W. McLennan). After 1995's double-LP Horsebreaker Star, he toured with a briefly reunited Go-Betweens before issuing his fourth solo effort, In Your Bright Ray. The Go-Betweens reunited again in 2000 and enjoyed a creative and critically acclaimed streak that lasted for four albums and a concert DVD. On May 6, 2006, McLennan died at his home in Brisbane at age 48. 

Tracklist

1 When Word Gets Around 4:31
2 Haven't I Been A Fool 3:21
3 Haunted House 2:58
4 Stones For You 3:18
5 Easy Come Easy Go 3:59
6 Black Mule 4:44
7 Putting The Wheels Back On 4:14
8 You Can't Have Everything 3:07
9 Sally's Revolution 3:55
10 Broadway Bride 3:41
11 Just Get That Straight 3:16
12 Dream About Tomorrow 6:00

12 October 2017

JACK FROST

self titled
1991
Snow Job
1996
 by request


Artist Biography by
Snow Job
Jack Frost was a side project uniting the Australian singers and songwriters Steve Kilbey (best known as the frontman of the Church) and Grant McLennan (late of the Go-Betweens). The duo's self-titled debut appeared in 1991, at which point both men both returned to their primary projects; however, in 1995, Jack Frost reconvened for the LP Snow Job, this time along with Church drummer Tim Powles and Kilbey's brother Russell


self titled

Tracklist

1 Every Hour God Sends 4:38
2 Birdowner (As Seen On T.V.) 4:15
3 Civil War Lament 2:27
4 Geneva 4 A.M. 4:07
5 Trapeze Boy 1:32
6 Providence 5:10
7 Thought I Was Over You 4:50
8 Threshold 4:21
9 Number Eleven 5:45
10 Didn't Know Where I Was 5:06
11 Even As We Speak 5:41
12 Ramble 6:10
13 Everything Takes Forever 4:40
Snow Job

Tracklist  


1 Jack Frost Blues 4:40
2 Aviatrix 6:42
3 Running From The Body 2:25
4 Shakedown 2:01
5 You Don't Know 3:42
6 Weightless And Wild 4:28
7 Pony Express 2:42
8 Cousin/Angel 5:29
9 Little Song 2:24
10 Empire 3:59
11 Angela Carter 4:46
12 Haze 6:08
13 Dry Dock 3:42