Tactics - The Sound Of The Sound Vol. 1 & 2 (2006 & 2008)

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Artist: Tactics
Title: The Sound Of The Sound Vol. 1 & 2
Year Of Release: 2006 & 2008
Label: Memorandum
Genre: Post-Punk, Pop Rock
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 4:26:29
Total Size: 610 mb / 1.58 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tactics are a post-punk group which formed in Canberra in 1977. The line-up changed periodically, with songwriter and vocalist, David Studdert, as the mainstay. They released four studio albums, My Houdini (December 1980), Glebe (November 1981), Blue and White Future Whale (1986) and The Great Gusto (1990). Which were critically acclaimed and they were respected for the quality of their live performances. However, they did not achieve wider commercial success and remained largely unacknowledged outside of the alternative independent music scene. Their reputation for running against the grain musically, lyrically, and stylistically was described by Bob Blunt as "frenetic, discordant, [and] full of unusual rhythms."[1] Tactics disbanded late in 1989 and Studdert relocated to London. Since then, Tactics have played in Sydney 2006, 2008 and 2019). David Studdert has played periodically with ex-Tactics members in other projects.

:: TRACKLIST ::

The Sound Of The Sound Vol 1: My Houdini, Glebe & More

Disc One: My Houdini
1. No More Talking
2. NY Reel
3. Long Story
4. Buried Country
5. Second Language
6. Settlers Complaint
7. Outdoors
8. National Health
9. Come To My Senses
10. Frozen Park
11. My Line
12. The Usual
13. Quality Of A Holiday (Live)
14. Hole In My Life
15. Twice Remembered
16. Robbe Grillet (Live)
17. Guarantee (Demo)
18. Don't Lie About Travel (Live)
19. Throwing My Voice (Live)
20. Watch My Hands
21. Running Downhill (Live)
22. Standing By The Window

Disc Two: Glebe
1. The Difficult Dream Of Roger Forrest
2. The Noise Upstairs
3. Arthur Lee At Houston Airport
4. Centrepoint (#1)
5. Gold Watch / Warning #1
6. On The Beach With Mr Rollo
7. Between The Trains
8. Better Than Mermaids
9. Pulling In The Reins
10. Domino Theory
11. Centrepoint (#2)
12. Further West
13. Running Downhill
14. My Line (Live)
15. Downtown (Live)
16. Between The Trains (Live)
17. Holden Interview #29 (Live)
18. Hole In My Life (Live)
19. Open That City (Live)
20. Pulling In The Reins (Live)
21. The Noise Upstairs (Live)
22. No More Talking (Live)
23. Standing By The Window (Live)

Lavish 36 trackdouble CD compilation of this important late 70s/early 80s post punk outfit. Features the albums 'My Houdini' & 'Glebe'plus 20 bonus tracksall remasteredwith Glebe having been completely remixed from the masters.

Tactics - The Sound Of The Sound Vol. 1 & 2 (2006 & 2008)

The Sound Of The Sound Vol 2: 1984-1988 Albums, Singles, Live Tracks

Disc 1

Single A-sides (1984)
1. Coat-Tails
2. Fatman

'Blue And White Future Whale' (1985)
3. Edge Of My Seat
4. Blue And White Future Whale
5. Birthday Girl
6. Body In The Field
7. Know It All
8. Bone
9. Binoculars
10. Absolutely
11. Hard Hat 9 Iron
12. Moon Frog
13. Long Shadow
14. Football Cards
15. Should Be/Will Be

Single B-sides (1984)
16. Committee Of Love
17. Shark-Bed Rally

Blue And White Demos (Recorded 1983)
18. Sally Without John
19. Calling The Big One (A Lottery Prayer)
20. Lismore Toenail (Post-Modern Bush Ballad #4)
21. Politician
22. "I Know I Know I Like Tactics Too"
23. Big Talking Train

Disc 2
1. Coalface
2. Cleaning A Gun
3. Turn
4. Only When I Breathe
5. World Of Men
6. Cool Night Air
7. Continental Walky Talky
8. Better
9. Summertime
10. Committee Of Love
11. Red Red Heart
12. Know What I Know
13. Fat Man
14. Know It All
15. Edge Of My Seat
16. Cowboy Master
17. Second Language
18. Football Cards
19. Coat-Tails (Disco Version)

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.

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