| Before Hollywood | ||||
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| Released | May 1983 | |||
| Recorded | October 1982 | |||
| Studio | ICC Studios, Eastbourne, England | |||
| Genre | Rock, alternative rock, indie rock | |||
| Length | 39:00 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Producer | John Brand | |||
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Before Hollywood is the second album by Australian rock band the Go-Betweens, released in May 1983. The album reached No. 2 on the UK Independent Charts and a single, "Cattle and Cane" reached No. 4.[1] In 2001 "Cattle and Cane" was voted as one of the 30 all-time best Australian songs in an Australasian Performing Right Association poll of 100 music industry personalities.[2]
The album, recorded in the UK, was the first to have a 50-50 split of songs written by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. In a 1996 radio interview McLennan nominated Before Hollywood as one of his two definitive Go-Betweens albums, describing it as a "nice combination of our skewered and classic songwriting, but with a heavy underground feeling".[3][4]
An expanded version was released in 2002 featuring a second disc of eight bonus tracks and a music video for "Cattle and Cane."
- ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010.
- ^ APRA AMCOS Top 30 songs
- ^ Kingsmill, Richard (2002). The J Files Compendium. Sydney: ABC Books. p. 113. ISBN 0-7333-1066-4.
- ^ In a Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun interview in 2000 McLennan named Before Hollywood as his favourite Go-Betweens album. See "Ready, set, Go-Between" by Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 17 September 2000.