Jet Set Records
2004
16 Lovers Lane (Deluxe Edition)
About This Album
When Beggars Banquet reissued the Go-Betweens catalog in 2002, each album was remastered and repackaged with a bonus disc of rarities -- except, inexplicably, 16 Lovers Lane. In 2004 Bernard MacMahon's fine Lo-Max label (and Jet Set in the U.S.) has finally set the record straight and given this classic of 1980s Aussie pop (see original review for 16 Lovers Lane) the treatment it deserves. The band's final recording is delivered in stellar slipcased, double-disc form, utterly remastered by Bill Inglot and Dave Schultz, in a handsome package loaded with lyrics, photos, and utterly cool, unabashedly fan-boy liner notes by Andrew Male. And while the brilliant sonics and killer box is something to write home about, it's the bonus disc that is the real prize for fans. The actual bonus material begins at the end of disc one, where, tacked on to the album is a CD-Rom section with two different videos for "Streets of Your Town," and one for "Was There Anything I Could Do?." Disc Two contains ten cuts, beginning with the single version of "Love Goes On" (remixed by Tony Visconti). Unreleased session cuts like "Wait Until June," "Casanova's Last Words," "Mexican Postcard," and "Rock and Roll Friend" didn't make the album cut, but were close to finished versions and are presented here regally.
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