#the go-betweens

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The Go-Betweens - The Sound of Rain (1979)

The Go-Betweens first LP Send Me A Lullaby was pretty underwhelming, sounding very little like their charming earlier singles, or the band they later became. But they'd actually made some home recordings, which were combined with the early singles and released as 78 til 79 the Lost Album. This lovely though a bit grim tune was intended to be their first single released on Beserkley records in the UK. Peter Milton Walsh, later of the Apartments, is playing the raindrop guitar.

Then over the bridge to her door She opens it with a sigh He pulls out the gun that he brought along And shoots her right between the eyes

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THE AUSTRALIAN INDIE SCENE RETURNS TO THE UK LIVE CIRCUIT -- WELCOME TO 1984.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Australian indie rock band THE GO-BETWEENS, performing live at Empire Rooms, Tottenham Court Road, London, UK, c. June 1984. 📸: John Eley.

THE GO-BETWEENS 1984 LINE-UP WAS:

Robert Forster — vocals, guitar

Grant McLennan — vocals, guitar

Lindy Morrison — drums, backing vocals

Robert Vickers — bass guitar

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3520310004847829271.

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3:39 PM EST December 5, 2024:

The Go-Betweens - "Lee Remick" Single, Able AB001 7" (b/w Karen) (May 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: People Songs

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Amanda Brown *November 17, 1965

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The Go-Betweens - The Gatekeeper To Your Soul

A fan-made double-disc compilation of live Go-Betweens stretching from 1980 to 2005? Yes, please. The Gatekeeper To Your Soul isn't chronologically organized, so it bounces the listener from the twitched-out early days to the magisterial reunion era. But it's well-sequenced nonetheless, showing how great (and how downright weird) the Go-Betweens could be onstage. Thank you to whoever put it all lovingly together!

Plenty of the Go-Betweens' "hits" are here but also a lot of rarities — such as the long/wild rendition of "River of Money" from 1985 that kicks the comp off. Not sure how many times they played that abstract / experimental number, but it's a rough-cut gem, always teetering on the brink of complete chaos, Grant McLennan raving up a storm.

"There was always something off in a Go-Betweens single that kept it from crossing over to an ’80s radio audience," Chris O'Leary writes. "An abstruse lyric, a tinny mix, an oddly phrased refrain, a hook that came 10 seconds too late. Their songs sounded strange upon first listen, then took root in the head a day later. They came at you from an angle."

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The Go-Betweens // Cattle And Cane

I recall a bigger, brighter world A world of books and silent times in thought And then the railroad, the railroad takes him home Through fields of cattle, through fields of cane From time to time, the waste, memory wastes And the waste, memory wastes

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1/7/24.

My Laundry Life is a one-man band (André Dan) from Essen, Germany who has been making music for decades. The Bandcamp page mentions indiepop in the tradition of The Go-Betweens and The Smiths. This sounds like something that would be released by either Jigsaw Records or Subjangle.

But, when originally released, "How To Wallow in Shame" was released on CDr by Vollwert-Records Berlin. Cloudberry Records also issued a split CDr mini with Kevin McGrother. So, check out Discogs to see what's available physically.

To me, some of the melodies and arrangements recall 10,000 Maniacs and Mojave 3. And the fact that this is great German indiepop means I must mention theCatherines (it's in my contract).

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The Go-Betweens - Clouds (1988)

Visions of blue, I'm angry, I'm wise, and you You're under cloudy skies

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11:23 PM EDT October 17, 2024:

The Go-Betweens - "Lee Remick" Single, Able AB001 7" (b/w Karen) (May 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: People Songs

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The Go-Betweens, The Devil's Eye (Remastered) I 16 Lovers Lane, 1988

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Lindy Morrison *November 2, 1951

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Listen/purchase: It's Only Poison by Robert Forster

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THE GO-BETWEENS AND TOM WAITS