Tribute albums can often be hit-and-miss affairs. I’d love to be able to bring you my thoughts on Right Here – A Go-Betweens Tribute, released back in 1996 on the Australian label, Hippy Knight Records, but as I only have one track from it, picked up from some other blog or website at some point in history, I’m unable to do so.
The track I do have is from a duo called Sunglass. Info is quite sparse, and here’s what I’ve gleaned from wiki:-
“Sea Stories were an Indie pop / folk rock band from Melbourne, Australia. They existed from 1986 until their break-up in 1993. They released 2 full length albums and a number of EPs and singles. Two of their members, Simon Honisett and Penny Hewson, re-emerged in 1994 as acoustic duo Sunglass.
An eponymous album was issued in April 1994, followed by the EP When Stars Collide in June, and then just over a year later in July 1995, there was the single How Long Can You Stay Angry?.
Hewson released her debut solo album Me in 1998 on her own label Wasabi Records before relocating to Los Angeles where she played in a short-lived band called My Zuko. After living there for a decade, Hewson returned to Melbourne and released her second solo album It’s an Endless Desire on Popboomerang Records in August 2012″
So what about the song I downloaded such a long time ago?
It’s upbeat Aussie pop as re-imagined by a Velvet Underground tribute band……and I quite like it, mainly as it’s such a different take on the original. Feel free to disagree.
My thanks to whoever it was that once posted this elsewhere. I’m annoyed I never took note of things at the time.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 