----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry O Dean" <larryodean@poetrycenter.org>
> Everyone loves 16 Lovers Lane -- and it may be a good place to start 
> because of that -- but my personal faves are Spring Hill Fair and 
> Tallulah.

Is it true that everyone loves 16 LOVERS LANE now?  I'm glad if so, 
because I've always liked it, but my memory is that a lot of 
Go-Betweens fans absolutely *hated* this album back when it first came 
out.  A lot of folks seemed to think it was too slickly produced and 
that the songs were comparatively weak.

Personally, my favorite has always been LIBERTY BELLE AND THE BLACK 
DIAMOND EXPRESS, with SPRING HILL FAIR running a very close second due 
to the presence of "Man O' Sand To Girl O' Sea," by some distance my 
favorite Go-Betweens song of all time.

S

NP: WILD MOOSE PARTY -- The Cosmopolitans