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01. TACTICS - Coat-tails (45 Version)
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02. TACTICS - Fatman (45 Version)
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03. TACTICS - Edge of My Seat
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04. TACTICS - Blue and White Future Whale
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05. TACTICS - Birthday Girl
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06. TACTICS - Body in the Field
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07. TACTICS - Know It All
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08. TACTICS - Bone
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09. TACTICS - Binoculars
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10. TACTICS - Absolutely
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11. TACTICS - Hard Hat 9 Iron
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12. TACTICS - Moon Frog
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13. TACTICS - Long Shadow
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14. TACTICS - Football Cards
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15. TACTICS - Should Be / Will Be
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16. TACTICS - Committee of Love (45 Version)
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17. TACTICS - Shark-Bed Rally (45 Version)
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18. TACTICS - Sally without John (Demo)
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19. TACTICS - Calling the Big One (a Lottery Prayer) (Demo)
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20. TACTICS - Lismore Toenail (Post-Modern Bush Ballad #4) (Demo)
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21. TACTICS - Politician (Demo)
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22. TACTICS - "I Know I know I like Tactics too" (Live)
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23. TACTICS - Big Talking Train (Live)
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01. TACTICS - Coalface (45 Version)
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02. TACTICS - Cleaning a Gun (45 Version)
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03. TACTICS - Turn (Live)
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04. TACTICS - Only When I Breathe
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05. TACTICS - World of Men
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06. TACTICS - Cool Night Air
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07. TACTICS - Continental Walky Talky
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08. TACTICS - Better (Live)
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09. TACTICS - Summertime
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10. TACTICS - Committee of Love (Holden Interview version)
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11. TACTICS - Red Red Heart
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12. TACTICS - Know What I Know (Holden Interview version)
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13. TACTICS - Fat Man (Holden Interview version)
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14. TACTICS - Know It All (Live)
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15. TACTICS - Edge of My Seat
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16. TACTICS - Cowboy Master (Live)
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17. TACTICS - Second Language
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18. TACTICS - Football Cards
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19. TACTICS - Coat-tails (Disco Version)
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ARTIST
TACTICS
TITLE
The Sound Of The Sound: Vol. 2 1984-1988
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
MEMORANDUM
CATALOG #
MEMO 004CD
MEMO 004CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/5/2010
Sydney, Australia band
Tactics
existed for a decade from 1978 to 1988 during which time they helped define the Australian "new wave" sound. Along the way, they released five essential (and long-deleted) albums and a handful of now-collectible and impossibly rare singles and EPs. With influences ranging from
The Velvet Underground
and
Television
to
Arthur Lee
's
Love
and reggae, Tactics was difficult to categorize, and miles away stylistically from the identikit punk bands they often shared stages with. Lyrical themes of suburban displacement and uncertainty stemmed from singer
Dave Studdert
's awareness of existentialist writers like
Rimbaud
,
Nietzsche
and
Foucault
, as well as his appreciation and understanding of indigenous Australia, and in particular, Aboriginal song cycles.
Sound Of The Sound Vol. 2
is a 42-track, 2CD compilation that focuses on the band's later output between 1984 and 1988, when they experienced their closest shave with Australian mainstream success. It features the
Blue And White Future Whale
album (1986), the previously-unheard demos for their final album,
The Great Gusto
(considered by the band to be far superior to the actual album), plus rare singles, B-sides and unreleased live tracks and demos. The package is presented in a handsome 6-panel wallet with a lush 20-page booklet stuffed with photos and Studdert's evocative liners.
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