The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane (LP Vinyl)
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Brisbane's Go-Betweens spent the better part of the 1980s as one of rock's great underdog stories, beloved by critics and fellow musicians while commercial success kept slipping just out of reach. By the time Robert Forster and Grant McLennan recorded this one in 1988, the songwriting partnership between them had sharpened into something genuinely rare, two distinct voices pulling in the same direction, each bringing their own romantic sensibility to the table.
This was the Go-Betweens sixth album, and Record Collector noted that it's ""almost universally acknowledged as The Go-Betweens finest hour"" - and it's been referred to as ""the indie Rumours"". The ten beautiful songs on this album are all love songs and it's been called a piece of ""romantic artistry"". Legendary music critic Robert Christgau called it ""the straightest and catchiest bunch of love songs they've ever produced"" and the album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Forster described the album as, ""the perfect combination between London melancholy and Sydney sunshine.""
Tracklist:
- Love Goes on!
- Quiet Heart
- Love Is a Sign
- You Can't Say No Forever
- The Devil's Eye
- Streets of Your Town
- Clouds
- Was There Anything I Could Do?
- I'm All Right
- Dive for Your Memory
UPC: 607618217013
Label: Beggars Banquet Us
Release Date: 9.25.26
Format: LP Vinyl