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01. TACTICS - Coat-tails (45 Version)
02. TACTICS - Fatman (45 Version)
03. TACTICS - Edge of My Seat
04. TACTICS - Blue and White Future Whale
05. TACTICS - Birthday Girl
06. TACTICS - Body in the Field
07. TACTICS - Know It All
08. TACTICS - Bone
09. TACTICS - Binoculars
10. TACTICS - Absolutely
11. TACTICS - Hard Hat 9 Iron
12. TACTICS - Moon Frog
13. TACTICS - Long Shadow
14. TACTICS - Football Cards
15. TACTICS - Should Be / Will Be
16. TACTICS - Committee of Love (45 Version)
17. TACTICS - Shark-Bed Rally (45 Version)
18. TACTICS - Sally without John (Demo)
19. TACTICS - Calling the Big One (a Lottery Prayer) (Demo)
20. TACTICS - Lismore Toenail (Post-Modern Bush Ballad #4) (Demo)
21. TACTICS - Politician (Demo)
22. TACTICS - "I Know I know I like Tactics too" (Live)
23. TACTICS - Big Talking Train (Live)
01. TACTICS - Coalface (45 Version)
02. TACTICS - Cleaning a Gun (45 Version)
03. TACTICS - Turn (Live)
04. TACTICS - Only When I Breathe
05. TACTICS - World of Men
06. TACTICS - Cool Night Air
07. TACTICS - Continental Walky Talky
08. TACTICS - Better (Live)
09. TACTICS - Summertime
10. TACTICS - Committee of Love (Holden Interview version)
11. TACTICS - Red Red Heart
12. TACTICS - Know What I Know (Holden Interview version)
13. TACTICS - Fat Man (Holden Interview version)
14. TACTICS - Know It All (Live)
15. TACTICS - Edge of My Seat
16. TACTICS - Cowboy Master (Live)
17. TACTICS - Second Language
18. TACTICS - Football Cards
19. TACTICS - Coat-tails (Disco Version)
ARTIST
TITLE
The Sound Of The Sound: Vol. 2 1984-1988
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MEMO 004CD MEMO 004CD
GENRE
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.