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Clean

Getaway Reissue


2001’s Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power animates The Clean. After the band’s initial rush of activity between 1978 and 1982, the trio lay dormant until the end of the ’80s, when a string of reunion shows inspired the Kilgours and Scott to start recording again. After three well-received albums in the first half of the nineties—1990’s Vehicle, 1994’s Modern Rock, and 1996’s Unknown Country—The Clean disappeared again until the end of the decade, when another tour inspired another record. Speed and spontaneity defined Getaway. Robert says, “I remember writing ‘Silence or Something Else’ while the others went for a long walk. It was done by the time they got back. I probably would have gone for a straighter version, but I still like it.” David remembers, “Hamish wrote the instrumental ‘Jala’ in about five minutes in a motel outside of Turangi.” At one point in the process, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley were visiting from America, and they ended up on the record too. A live version of the pulsing, soaring Stars—along with a couple of other Getaway songs and Clean classics like Fish, Side On, Quickstep, and Point That Thing Somewhere Else—appear on the rare 2003 album Syd’s Pink Wiring System. That record is included with the Getaway reissue, along with the more experimental, pianodriven EP Slush Fund, from the same era. These bonus tracks reinforce the idea of the Getaway-era Clean as especially plugged in, generating inspired and beautiful music almost on instinct.

Tracklist
  • 1Stars
    2Jala
    3Crazy
    4Golden Crown
    5Cell Block No. 5
    6E Motel
    7Twilight Agency
    8Poor Boy
    9Silence or Something Else
    10Alpine Madness
    11Circle Canyon
    12Aho
    13Holdin' On
    14Reprise 1, 2, 3, & 4
    15Complications

    Disc 2
    1Rollo
    2Slush Fund
    3Filling a Hole
    4Caveman
    5Point That Thing Somewhere Else
    6Wipe Me I'm Lucky
    7Fish
    8Quickstep
    9Fish
    10I Wait Around
    11Hold On to the Rail
    12At the Bottom
    13Point That Thing Somewhere Else
    14Do Your Thing
    15Quickstep
    16Crazy
    17Side On
    18Stars
    19Jala

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