ザ・ゴービトウィーンズの4LP＋4CDアンソロジー・ボックスセット『G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1, 978-1984』が発売

80年代に人気を博したオーストラリア出身バンド、ザ・ゴービトウィーンズ（The Go-Betweens）。初期キャリアのアンソロジー・ボックスセット『G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1, 1978-1984』が海外で2015年1月20日発売。

この作品は結成間もない1978年から1984年までの初期キャリアに焦点を当てたボックスセットで、4LP＋4CD作品

LPはこの期間に発表された

・Send Me a Lullaby (Missing Link, February 1982)
・Before Hollywood (Stunn, May 1983)
・Spring Hill Fair (Sire, September 1984)

といったスタジオ・アルバム3タイトル（リマスター音源）と、初期シングル5枚の収録曲を収めた編集盤『The First Five Singles』の4枚。

CDには、デモ、レコーディング・セッション、ラジオ・セッション、ライヴ・コンサートなど、レアまたは未発表な音源が年代別に4枚のディスクに収められます。

またボックスには112ページのブック、ポスター、バンドが最初に作成したプレスリリースのレプリカなども同梱されます。

サンプル音源あり

●『G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1, 1978-1984』

☆LP #1 The First Five Singles
side A:
Lee Remick
People Say
I Need Two Heads
Your Turn, My Turn
Hammer The Hammer
side B:
Karen
Don’t Let Him Come Back
Stop Before You Say It
World Weary
By Chance

☆LP #2 Send Me A Lullaby
side A:
Your Turn, My Turn
One Thing Can Hold Us
People Know
The Girls Have Moved
Midnight To Neon
Eight Pictures
side B:
Careless
All About Strength
Ride
Hold Your Horses
Arrow In A Bow
It Could Be Anyone

☆LP #3 Before Hollywood
side A:
A Bad Debt Follows You
Two Steps Step Out
Before Hollywood
Dusty In Here
Ask
side B:
Cattle And Cane
By Chance
As Long As That
On My Block
That Way

☆LP #4 Spring Hill Fair
side A:
Bachelor Kisses
Five Words
The Old Way Out
You’ve Never Lived
Part Company
side B:
Slow Slow Music
Draining The Pool For You
River Of Money
Unkind And Unwise
Man O’Sand To Girl O’Sea

☆CD #1 Life As Sweet As Lemonade
Rarities Volume One: 1978-79
I Want To Be Today
The Sound Of Rain
People Say
Don’t Let Him Come Back
Long Lonely Day
Day For Night
Love Wasn’t Made For You And Me
Just Hang On
Summer’s Melting My Mind
Obsession With You
The Night
Rare Victory
Big Sleeping City
Beachcomber
The Missing One
I Am An Architect
8 Pictures
The Green Light Don’t Mean Go
Cold Flame (It Burns)
Help Or Something
Only Sinners Care
Lies

☆CD #2 Skeletons That Cry
Rarities Volume Two: 1980-81
Don’t Let Him Back
The Clowns Are In Town
Serenade Sound
Sunday Night
Hope
It Took You A Week
Day After Tomorrow
I Know Why
Circle You
I Need Two Heads
All About Strength
One Word
Red Epaulettes

☆CD #3 Live 82
Rarities Volume Three: Live at The Mosman Hotel April 23, 1982
Metal And Shells
Your Turn, My Turn
Careless
Distant Hands
Hammer The Hammer
People Know
I Need Two Heads
One Thing Can Hold Us
Near The Chimney
Undo What You Did
By Chance
It Could Be Anyone

☆CD #4 A Suicide Note To Satan
Rarities Volume Four: 1982-84
A Peaceful Wreck
Heaven Says
On My Block
Cattle And Cane
Hammer The Hammer
Man O’Sand To Girl O’Sea
Newton Told Me
Man O’Sand To Girl O’Sea
This Girl, Black Girl
Emperor’s Courtesan
Attraction
Marco Polo Jr.
Sweet Tasting Hours
Part Company
Bachelor Kisses
The Old Way Out
Unkind And Unwise
Just A King In Mirrors
Rare Breed
Secondhand Furniture
The Power That I Now Have
Five Words
For Him