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词条 Part Company
释义

  1. Details

  2. Critical reception

  3. Track listing

  4. Release history

  5. Credits

     The Go-Betweens  Production 

  6. References

  7. External links

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| type = single
| artist = The Go-Betweens
| album = Spring Hill Fair
| B-side = Just a King in Mirrors
| released = {{start date|df=yes|1984|08|00}}
| format = 7" vinyl
12" vinyl
| recorded = November 1983
Pathway Studios, London
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| venue =
| genre = {{Flatlist|
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| length = {{duration|m=4|s=53}}
| label = Sire
| writer = Grant McLennan, Robert Forster[1]
| producer = John Brand
| prev_title = Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Bachelor Kisses
| next_year = 1984
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"Part Company" is the first single from The Go-Betweens' third album, Spring Hill Fair. It was released in August 1984 by Sire Records with "Just a King in Mirrors" as the B-side.[2] In the UK a 12" single was also released on Sire.[3] The single failed to make an impact on the charts.

In November 1983 the band recorded a number of demos commissioned by Rough Trade for their third album, at Pathway Studios, with producer John Brand.[4] "Newton Told Me" was re-recorded after originally being considered as a B-side for "Man O'Sand to Girl O'Sea" and recorded by the band in May 1983.[4] "Part Company" was also re-recorded in May 1984 for its subsequent inclusion in Spring Hill Fair.

Details

Forster later indicated in an interview that McLennan had told him that "Just a King in Mirrors" was about Nick Cave, who he was close too at the time.[5] Desperately broke at the time, Forster said, "A moment of brightness for me was writing the music for "Part Company", the strummed folkie chords setting up the possibility of telling a story, not a fragment."[6]

In 2016, Forster wrote that "Part Company" was one of a number of songs he still played, and "were the beginning of a more mature writing style where I fused the strumming of my late seventies tunes to the curves and kinks of the past few years. Add experience and time and I had grown-up songs with better lyrics."[7]

The Guardian noted, "On first listen, it sounds like the perfect love song to soundtrack broken hearts and lovers going their separate ways. According to Forster, however, all is not what it seems. He wrote the song when the group were on the cusp of moving to England, and it is an ode to Australia."[8]

Critical reception

In his review of Spring Hill Fair at Allmusic, Ned Raggett describes the song as having "an almost-Smiths-like all-around performance on the verses spiked with an at once inspirational and regret-laden chorus."[9] In a more detailed review of the song, Raggett states that it "demonstrates so many of the Go-Betweens' core strengths it's practically a role model for anyone seeking inspiration -- a literate but not obnoxiously so lyric, a fine lead performance from Forster, an arrangement that throws in some subtle tweaks (and a suddenly all the more intense chorus) to the straightforward electric/acoustic combination. The keyboards throwing sound like a nervous, uncomfortable wail, Lindy Morrison's drums are among her strongest, and the whole song seems to capture an uneasy combination of diffidence and sudden yearning down to its fadeout."[10]

Pitchfork's Doulas Wolk comments that "Part Company" is "Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' refracted through Australian rehearsal room windows.[11] The Courier-Mail's Noel Mengel said, "Some days I would make this No 1. One of Robert Forster's greatest songs."[12]

Steve Bell advises that "the song features strong lyrics and some serious six-string interplay (the combination of Forster and McLennan’s guitars that would later become so important basically started here) but never really managed to gather much traction."[13]

Track listing

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| title2 = Just a King in Mirrors
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| notes = yes
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Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalogue
United KingdomAugust 1984Sire 7" vinyl W 9211
12" vinyl W 9211-T

Credits

The Go-Betweens

  • Grant McLennan — guitar
  • Lindy Morrison — drums
  • Robert Forster — vocals, guitar
  • Robert Vickers — bass

Production

  • Producer, Engineer – John Brand
  • Photographer — Bleddyn Butcher

References

1. ^{{cite web|publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)|title='Part Company' at APRA search engine|url=https://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch#axd?q=Part%20Company |accessdate=3 August 2015}} Note: User may have to click on 'Search again' and provide details at 'Enter a title:', e.g. Part Company; or at 'Performer:' The Go-Betweens.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.go-betweens.org.uk/discography/1984partcompany/1984partcompany.htm|title=The Go-Betweens: Part Company|publisher=Go-Betweens.org.uk|accessdate=4 August 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Go-Betweens-Part-Company/release/1687470|title=Go-Betweens, The - Part Company|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=4 August 2015}}
4. ^{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-eMZkz3jMlAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+go-betweens+david+nichols&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false | last = David | first = Nichols | title = The Go-Betweens | publisher = Verse Chorus Press | location = Portland, OR | year = 2003 | isbn = 1-891241-16-8}} Note: [online] version has limited functionality.
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://foruli.co.uk/blog/go-betweens|title=The Ten Rules of Rock 'n' Roll|publisher=The Quietus|last=Jelbert|first=Steve|accessdate=4 August 2015}}
6. ^{{cite book | author=Robert Forster |title=Grant & I |year=2016 | publisher = Penguin|isbn=978-0-6700782-2-6|pages=118-119}}
7. ^{{cite book | author=Robert Forster |title=Grant & I |year=2016 | publisher = Penguin|isbn=978-0-6700782-2-6|page=139}}
8. ^{{cite news| work= The Guardian | title=The Go-Betweens – 10 of the best| author=Hayley Scott | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/08/the-go-betweens-10-of-the-best}}
9. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/spring-hill-fair-mw0000648478 | title=Spring Hill Fair - The Go-Betweens | publisher=Allmusic | last=Raggett | first=Ned | accessdate=4 August 2015}}
10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/part-company-mt0028611513 | title=Part Company - The Go-Betweens | publisher=Allmusic | last=Raggett | first=Ned | accessdate=4 August 2015}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19958-g-stands-for-go-betweens-volume-1-1978-1984/|title=The Go-Betweens - G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1, 1978-1984 |publisher=Pitchfork|last=Wolk|first=Douglas|date=22 January 2015|accessdate=4 August 2015}}
12. ^{{cite news| work= The Courier-Mail | title=Noel Mengel's list of top 50 Queensland songs| url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/noel-mengels-top-50-list-of-queensland-songs/news-story/1549292926ac00326b2c047f1b89773b|author=Noel Mengel}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2014/09/26/a-look-back-at-the-go-betweens-1984-classic-spring-hill-fair/ |title=A Look Back At The Go-Betweens' 1984 Classic 'Spring Hill Fair' |last=Bell|first=Steve|publisher=TheMusic.com.au|date=26 September 2014 |accessdate=4 August 2015}}

External links

  • "Part Company" @ AllMusic
  • [https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/52770b65-b5bf-4cf5-9c8b-f75f7a1ccfdb "Part Company"] @ MusicBrainz
  • "Part Company" @ Discogs
  • {{MetroLyrics song|gobetweens|part-company}}
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