This is in my humble opinion one of the greatest aussie tracks ever. I honestly can't get enough of it and I play it often mainly for a lift. I guess the downside is that they didn't go on longer but such is life. What remains is one of the greatest song's in Aussie pop. 16 Lovers Lane is a pure gem, check it out
I grew up in Brisbane in the 1960 70 s and loved driving through the suburbs. It is an amazing city. Every time I hear this song I am back in my car and seeing the streets and people who seemed to always have a smile on their faces. Life on the whole was good. Trams could take you everywhere very cheaply. Traffic flower smoothly because drivers were considerate and ourteous.. Love you Brisbane.
And yet, the song itself acknowledges "this town is full of battered wives". Sadly, for a lot of people, life under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen govt in Qld ('68 - '87) was *not* 'on the whole good'. I'm glad you don't remember the rampant attacks on Indigenous people, students, artists or the poor, the unhindered corruption, the end of civil liberties and right to protest, the gerrymandering (which meant that although Labor got higher % of votes, they couldn't win elections). Thank goodness that ended!
The old cinema you see in this video is Sun Theatre in Yarraville, Melbourne. It was in a derelict state for about 20 years until some enterprising cinema lover bought and restored it over about a 5 year period in to an art deco style. Now a thriving multiplex for around 20 years now. Whenever I go there to see a movie this song starts playing in my head. I love this song!
A lad I used to work with in 80s England used to be into obscure bands. He would spend his breaks with his head buried in the New Musical Express and hardly communicate with anyone. I got to know him after a time and I asked him for recommendations of new stuff to listen to. Among the bands he mentioned were The Go-Betweens. And I went out and bought 16 Lover's Lane. Immediately loved the band.
Here we are in 2021. We await to even get a little of the Great Australian Culture again. I loved living during this era. May this beautiful country Australia forever be cherished
Was an awesome era to be in Australia. I grew up in Melbourne, life was simple, easy, fun. Today it's been destroyed and taken away from us by Marxist Socialist Liberals like Dan Andrews
Australia got hit hard last August with the passing of Judith Durham and Olivia Newton John within two days of each other. Both of them such great musicians.
This song aged so well. Especially the chorus has such a timeless feel. As a gen z kid who only heard this song for the first time recently I genuinely had no idea if the song came out in the 80s 90s or last year.
@@wmwarner9196 why not you can only make a genre of music in one decade lmao??? Maybe not on the radio but there is still indie pop music being made that sounds exactly like this.
@@soundlessfob5925 it’s not a genre, it’s a certain sound, lyrics, artistry and production. It just doesn’t sound like it couldn’t have come out today.
This hurts...takes me to a sunny, sweet weekend away in 1989. We swopped our music on cassettes in those days - including this gem. This song conveys major nostalgia as a cry out to the memory of a fleeting moment of happiness. Thank you KEXP Seattle for playing it out of nowhere, (I didn’t even know the name of the band before): I had to stop what I was doing and go off in a revere.
@@noelroberts8199 I don't have hits, I'm not a band. Well, you learned something new today champ. Best you shut the fuck up and keep your ignorance hidden. LM didn't play drums on this song.
Anyone else live nowhere near Australia but found this group anyway? First heard them off p2p sharing in the late 90s/2000s and it was like finding a track from the 80s/90s from an older sibling’s cassettes you’d never heard before but instantly loved
Fabulous song - Amanda Brown's vocals are brilliant - and that stare ! - our student union barman played this back in the 80's and I have been listening to the album since. RIP grant - I din't know he had passed. Great happy song.
Takes me back to my freshman year when I was attending college down in Texas in 1988. The late-afternoon DJ of the college radio station played this song all the time. Loved it. I did not know it was an Australian band until I read the comments in here.
Even though I’m not an Aussie. This song typifies the little white trash town that I grew up in, in the San Joaquin Valley of California in the ‘80s. It’s not all fun and surf here, ya know.
"....And this town is full of battered wives" is a wonderful line, although it has been suggested that it was the reason why the song did not get more commercial airplay, and was never the hit it deserved to be.
Discovered this music just today... Its like an enlightment! Pure bliss... Australia is so far from me but I have a feeling like I always was there just because of songs like this... Magic!
These are really great musicians. Australia has great musicians and groups, I had only listened to Men at work, but this is a great group, I learned about his music, because I was investigating the history of Australia and the news that arrives in South America by fires, it really is a shame what you are going through. My supportive embrace and we are all praying that these fires will soon be over, Greetings to all of Australia from Quito-Ecuador, blessings to you
I'll add to @alexWarners fine selection The Machinations, Dragon, Paul Kelly, The Saints, Cold Chisel, The Divinyls, Split Enz, The Models, Mentals As Anything, INXS, Midnight Oil, Australian Crawl, Richard Clapton
@@RikLagarto Gotta add some more fine Ozzie bands/artists John Butler Trio, The Angels, Icehouse, Silverchair, Powderfinger, Ngaiire, Jimmy Barnes (absolute powerhouse vocalist from Cold Chisel), Ocean Alley, Sticky Fingers, The Regime (up and coming Sydney band that kicks ass), Matt Corby, Jengyz, Butterfly Effect, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, Sunk Loto, Ash Phoenix, sure there's plenty I missed but have loved work from all these artists so check them out.
@@JamesMurphy-ym6bd ya forgot Died Pretty check out the album "Doughboy Hollow" I'm getting to see them Sunday Arvo. Add King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the Cosmic Psychos and the mighty TISM.
Magnificent. Close to musical perfection - yet still wasn't the elusive Top 40 hit they deserved. At the time this was recorded the band was slowly imploding from a range of issues yet they still produced this masterpiece. Every man longs for the moment that a lady gazes at them so lovingly as Amanda does to Grant here. R.I.P Grant.
Sometimes in music clips you just get a glimpse of something special. That gaze from Amanda was one of those moments. Another, unrelated was Amy Macdonald stealing a look at her drummer when singing 'Run'.( Amy Macdonald & The German Philharmonic Orchestra Luxemburg 2010 )
deserved? when all their other songs are talentless rubbish, you deserve exactly that. No warm and fluffy feelgood awards for constantly achieving nothing unlike current scene.
such a great song, Amanda Brown sounds awesome and I think her contribution is what makes this song sound so good. She's like the icing. This song is now stuck in my head hahah.
I picked up Grant in my Yellow Cab a couple of years before he passed. He was going to the Valley near the Tivoli. I did not know who he was but he told me about the Go Betweens. A lovely Man!
I dont know what it is about this song , But I can hear it over & over & over. Amanda's vocals are the icing on the cake, though I'd probably pass out if she was on stage with me. 😀 A great band.
I have a lot material of them. Beside of Nick Cave my favourite Band from Australia. Robert Forster is carrying the spirit of the gobetweens forwards. I´ve seen the band in germany in the smalltown of schorndorf after they were reunited playing the friends of rachel worth. the indie-spirit of the former albums and the first line-up is similar to the velvet underground.
Was at work and this song came on. Couldn't resist adding it to my library. Amazing song! Edit: Out of a lot of music in my library in a playlist. This song doesn't even have 1M views. If you are here, it says a lot about your music taste. Be proud of yourself!
The streetscape in this clip could’ve been filmed anywhere in Oz when this song was released. Now there’s probably no more left like this. Instead they’ve been bulldozed and replaced with malls, plazas and Westfields and the Main Street shopping strip has either gone or been relegated to patchy short term pop up stores in the majority of cases. Nothing like the character they once had.
Yes an upbeat song that is sad really when they sing they shut it down they closed it down they pulled it down. That actually brought a tear to my eye, beautiful song though.
No it isnt a friday on my mind but its still a great song if you want to bring up the easy beats i dont think friday on my mind was there best song i much prefer ill make you happy sad lonely and blue or in my book
What a fantastic song! I saw them live at the El Mocambo in Toronto in the late 1980s with The Lawn opening. Two of my favorite bands in one night! The Go Betweens had found out that The Lawn were known to do a cover of "Newton Told Me." They wouldn't let them skip throwing it into their opening set. They insisted on hearing their version of it. That's the kind of band The Go Betweens were. What a fantastic night!
I bet a lot of Victorian forestry workers are feeling there town will shut down with the government decision on logging . What a great anthem song for them. We all love our towns they are so beautiful for the area that we enjoy and work in. Great Australian Band in a great moment of music were our all artists dominant the world with their talents. We need more off them today great Australian music
I've just discovered The Go Betweens - wow, what I've been missing ! It's a mystery to me why this band weren't massive ! Great songs, great playing and this song, just brilliant. Got some catching up to do !
@@gjg8766 You missed out Del Amitri ! Yeah, I'm familiar with all these bands, I just missed out on the GBs somehow. I've discovered another gem through the GBs, another Aussie band called Died Pretty. Check these out.
While the melodies and hooks are to die for, I think the lyrics would be too 'edgy' for mainstream radio, 'watch the butcher shine his knife, this town is full of battered wives.'
I would never have known this song to exist if I hadn't caught the trippiest looking bus from byron Bay to nimbin, cruising through the middle of nowhere and the driver slaps this tune on. What a legend he was, he gave me 3 minutes of paradise (:
I was born in Brisbane and watched it grow from a big country town to an overcrowded, overstressed "world city." Definitely preferred when it was a big country town lol
Unique and wonderful Brisbane group. Lindy's drumming is original and drives the boys songs beautifully. Amanda was a great addition when they had their most commercial success
Wikipedia includes this excerpt: "The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1977. The band was co-founded and led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, who were its only constant members throughout its existence. Drummer Lindy Morrison joined the band in 1980, and its lineup would later expand to include bass guitarist Robert Vickers and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. Vickers was replaced by John Willsteed in 1987, and the quintet lineup remained in place until the band split two years later. Forster and McLennan reformed the band in 2000 with a new lineup that did not include any previous personnel aside from them. McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack and the Go-Betweens disbanded again. In 2010, a toll bridge in their native Brisbane was renamed the Go Between Bridge after them." So possibly true...
What a great song in the 80s(I'm getting emotional)I'm was born in Sydney in The 80s I was in my teens seen my city change I see parts these apartments everywhere makes me sad I take a sigh now my head and think how sad
I'm an Aussie, and to me this is the most 'Australian' sounding song ever. I can't explain why. It just is. Magnificent
Definitely up there with Wide Open Road and Under the Milky Way
What because it sounds lazy?? Nahh. We have more oomph than that.
@@adamwright4135 Under the Milky Way, is definitely a favourite
I agree it is by far the most Aussie song.
Yes, sure is an absolute belter, reminds me of the beach and the sun.
This is in my humble opinion one of the greatest aussie tracks ever. I honestly can't get enough of it and I play it often mainly for a lift. I guess the downside is that they didn't go on longer but such is life. What remains is one of the greatest song's in Aussie pop. 16 Lovers Lane is a pure gem, check it out
Absolutely love it.x.
And 16 lovers lane.Amazing.
I'm still listening at Xmas time 2024l 🙂
RIP Grant. we lost a musical legend too early.
I’m American, never set foot in Australia, but somehow this song makes me long for it and to go there.
Listen to "Cattle and Cane".
Make sure that you rent a 70 series
@@Mr-pn2eh what’s that? lol
@@EphemeralProductions it's a old Aussie Toyota 4x4 tough as nails mate . my pick is the 105 series
@@matthewmcclure5218 k. Awesome
That beautiful almost haunting voice of Amanda Brown singing " shine "
tedious and annoying, is what it is
@@bennoakes2477 🤣😂🤣
It thought it was a nice voice fill in and Amanda at that time was absolutely beautiful 🌹
she ia a gorgeous woman for sure
@@michaelpaticchio2426 At the time, yes she was, but unfortunately the wall taketh no prisoners.
Bam!
Splat!
I grew up in Brisbane in the 1960 70 s and loved driving through the suburbs. It is an amazing city. Every time I hear this song I am back in my car and seeing the streets and people who seemed to always have a smile on their faces. Life on the whole was good. Trams could take you everywhere very cheaply. Traffic flower smoothly because drivers were considerate and ourteous.. Love you Brisbane.
They were talking about the trams of Bris on 4ZZZ the other night
And yet, the song itself acknowledges "this town is full of battered wives".
Sadly, for a lot of people, life under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen govt in Qld ('68 - '87) was *not* 'on the whole good'. I'm glad you don't remember the rampant attacks on Indigenous people, students, artists or the poor, the unhindered corruption, the end of civil liberties and right to protest, the gerrymandering (which meant that although Labor got higher % of votes, they couldn't win elections). Thank goodness that ended!
@@lyrebird9749 more than 3 people standing on the street was a protest and you could be arrested by police for that, my dad told me that.
@@simonburns1055 Yes, exactly. Thank goodness Queenslanders eventually voted Joh's cronies out. Please don't bring the LNP back again!
@@simonburns1055Ah, Triple Zed
The old cinema you see in this video is Sun Theatre in Yarraville, Melbourne. It was in a derelict state for about 20 years until some enterprising cinema lover bought and restored it over about a 5 year period in to an art deco style. Now a thriving multiplex for around 20 years now. Whenever I go there to see a movie this song starts playing in my head. I love this song!
And at 2:14, the Civic Centre in Rainbow, Northern Victoria
A beautiful song from 1988 I was working for a landscaping company and this would come on the radio I was 18 years old xx
One of the most underrated alternative bands in history, their music definitely stands up to the test of time!
This is a song that should have made it to the top world wide.
This was a big hit in Switzerland when it came out.
Interesting
Swiss know their shit 👍
thats so interesting ngl
A lad I used to work with in 80s England used to be into obscure bands. He would spend his breaks with his head buried in the New Musical Express and hardly communicate with anyone. I got to know him after a time and I asked him for recommendations of new stuff to listen to. Among the bands he mentioned were The Go-Betweens. And I went out and bought 16 Lover's Lane. Immediately loved the band.
He was right.
Sure was
In Phoenix Arizona in the 80s and 90s I was able to get copies of NME and just scoured them looking for the next coolest thing..those were the days
Wonder what happened to the lad?
this is literally one of my favorite songs of all time
*** why literally
John Carr I like too much music that I call my favorites. but this one is 100000% a real actual favorite like top 3
Me too. And I wish Amanda was looking at me like that. One of Australia's best
Literally?
It's 2022... and I have so fallen in love with The Go Betweens...😍🎶🎼👏👍💜💝 Australia had such quality Bands... Well done Brisbane 😎
Me too Ian. Just discovered them 6 months ago and have been knocked sideways by their music. Just brilliant !
2023
Here we are in 2021. We await to even get a little of the Great Australian Culture again. I loved living during this era. May this beautiful country Australia forever be cherished
Was an awesome era to be in Australia. I grew up in Melbourne, life was simple, easy, fun. Today it's been destroyed and taken away from us by Marxist Socialist Liberals like Dan Andrews
@@VK4VO they destroy everything they touch. 😱😱
Love from England 🏴
@@jeffroegner1499 : Why do you 2 cent trolls use western names?
Australia got hit hard last August with the passing of Judith Durham and Olivia Newton John within two days of each other. Both of them such great musicians.
Really is a song and half, isn't it?
Almost makes me cry.
Almost ?
This song aged so well. Especially the chorus has such a timeless feel. As a gen z kid who only heard this song for the first time recently I genuinely had no idea if the song came out in the 80s 90s or last year.
No offence kid but there is no way you could confuse it for having come out in this day and age. 90’s maybe
@@wmwarner9196 why not you can only make a genre of music in one decade lmao??? Maybe not on the radio but there is still indie pop music being made that sounds exactly like this.
Just The Way Are You by Milky is the better known one
@@soundlessfob5925 it’s not a genre, it’s a certain sound, lyrics, artistry and production. It just doesn’t sound like it couldn’t have come out today.
bruh be foreal this sounds 80s asl im a centennial too 😂 (21)
This hurts...takes me to a sunny, sweet weekend away in 1989.
We swopped our music on cassettes in those days - including this gem.
This song conveys major nostalgia as a cry out to the memory of a fleeting moment of happiness.
Thank you KEXP Seattle for playing it out of nowhere, (I didn’t even know the name of the band before): I had to stop what I was doing and go off in a revere.
Thanks AMPOL I had a flashback and girl singing is drop dead gorgeous
What an amazing song. Even after all these years I still love this song. And Amanda Brown is gorgeous...😋😋
Amanda was sooooooooo hot, but in an innocent nuanced way. The best way ! Grant...what a talent. For me only INXS is in the same Aussie league.
One of those underrated and underplayed classics. It is beautiful.
from Australia :)
@@BeggarsArchive yes mate. I am from the UK. Great Aussie band. I edited my comment.
The tune of the song is more familiar with Just The Way You Are - Milky
Great English band @@MrEnergee1987
@@davidburden2360 Milky is Italian
This is definitely one of the most underrated groups EVER...PERIOD.....
pfffffttt. where good but not that great...
haha too funny, one mediocre song with drum machine and annoying vocal echo, and suddenly they are an underrated band. What rubbish.
@@bennoakes2477 What's your latest hit mate? and I don't recall Lindy Morrison being a drum machine...........
@@edwardhill2051 Get your spelling right first, it's WERE, and what's your latest hit?
@@noelroberts8199 I don't have hits, I'm not a band. Well, you learned something new today champ. Best you shut the fuck up and keep your ignorance hidden. LM didn't play drums on this song.
Anyone else live nowhere near Australia but found this group anyway? First heard them off p2p sharing in the late 90s/2000s and it was like finding a track from the 80s/90s from an older sibling’s cassettes you’d never heard before but instantly loved
Fabulous song - Amanda Brown's vocals are brilliant - and that stare ! - our student union barman played this back in the 80's and I have been listening to the album since. RIP grant - I din't know he had passed. Great happy song.
Get a bit teary every time I hear this actually went to the Sun Theatre in Yarraville last night fantastic area.
A very impressed Pom here ,great song
Yes the AMPOL ad brought me to this song as well
Great song
Amazing the songs that I missed growing up in the 80s
Same here great advertising for AMPOL my favourite song.
@@danefilander6306oh dear; what a croc re ALD; goid share price but.
First time I listen to this song, I had to hear it about 10 times because I loved it. (Brazil)
Legend 🙌
Good on you mate! 👍👍 🇦🇺🇧🇷
Brazil 2022❤
I'm Australian and I like Sylvia Telles :)
Takes me back to my freshman year when I was attending college down in Texas in 1988. The late-afternoon DJ of the college radio station played this song all the time. Loved it. I did not know it was an Australian band until I read the comments in here.
What an absolute Aussie iconic song. Thanks for the memories guy's
Loved this song since I heard it one Saturday afternoon on Radio 1 in UK in summer of 1989. I always say it's my desert island song. Sublime.
The new AMPOL TV commercial brought me here....great song forgot all about it...
Same here, such a great song. 👌🎶🎵
Hahah just did same thing
Hey. Well done Ampol !
American Petroleum hasn't existed for decades.
Me too!
And also The Project show in Australia!!! They played that song when coming back from a break.
Love this song may sound silly but every time I listen to it it reminds me when things in our lives were simple gezz wish time would just slow down 😢
Amanda Brown & Grant, the perfect Go Betweens
I crewed for them in 1988 I was infactuated with Amanda
Straight here from Died Prettys DC - awesome
What?
Cattle & Cane is very good also...
@@badabing3462me to
One of the best songs ever written
Hi viviennet
Never heard this before, it's really lovely.
Check out "Right Here" too. They will always be a pair in my teenage pop mind. :)
Wait until you hear "Bachelor Kisses" by this group!
Hi sharon
One of the greatest pop songs of the 80s! And this town is full of battered wives-one of the most haunting lyrics.
Even though I’m not an Aussie. This song typifies the little white trash town that I grew up in, in the San Joaquin Valley of California in the ‘80s. It’s not all fun and surf here, ya know.
"....And this town is full of battered wives" is a wonderful line, although it has been suggested that it was the reason why the song did not get more commercial airplay, and was never the hit it deserved to be.
This one never gets old...Feel freedom of days gone by when I hear this-like going back to the 80's or 90's.
I dare anyone to stay perfectly still while listening to this happy tune.....
Discovered this music just today... Its like an enlightment! Pure bliss... Australia is so far from me but I have a feeling like I always was there just because of songs like this... Magic!
This song makes me proud to be an Aussie!!
It’s a classic from the 80s one way ticket 🎫 back please 😀☘️🇮🇪💚
Makes me proud to be a Queenslander
Same
You can be very proud man and mental as anything, if you only knew the music I have to undergo here, unbearable
Yeah be proud to be an Aussie
R.I.P Grant...you are sooooooo missed mate.. 😥
Hi rachel
Very close to perfection: beautiful poetic lyric, awesome music, unforgettable video clip.
These are really great musicians. Australia has great musicians and groups, I had only listened to Men at work, but this is a great group, I learned about his music, because I was investigating the history of Australia and the news that arrives in South America by fires, it really is a shame what you are going through. My supportive embrace and we are all praying that these fires will soon be over, Greetings to all of Australia from Quito-Ecuador, blessings to you
Mauricio Gavilanes you should check out other Australian acts from the same era, Hunters and Collectors, The Sunnyboys and The Church.
I'll add to @alexWarners fine selection The Machinations, Dragon, Paul Kelly, The Saints, Cold Chisel, The Divinyls, Split Enz, The Models, Mentals As Anything, INXS, Midnight Oil, Australian Crawl, Richard Clapton
@@RikLagarto Gotta add some more fine Ozzie bands/artists John Butler Trio, The Angels, Icehouse, Silverchair, Powderfinger, Ngaiire, Jimmy Barnes (absolute powerhouse vocalist from Cold Chisel), Ocean Alley, Sticky Fingers, The Regime (up and coming Sydney band that kicks ass), Matt Corby, Jengyz, Butterfly Effect, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, Sunk Loto, Ash Phoenix, sure there's plenty I missed but have loved work from all these artists so check them out.
@@JamesMurphy-ym6bd ya forgot Died Pretty check out the album "Doughboy Hollow" I'm getting to see them Sunday Arvo. Add King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the Cosmic Psychos and the mighty TISM.
Magnificent. Close to musical perfection - yet still wasn't the elusive Top 40 hit they deserved. At the time this was recorded the band was slowly imploding from a range of issues yet they still produced this masterpiece. Every man longs for the moment that a lady gazes at them so lovingly as Amanda does to Grant here. R.I.P Grant.
Amanda...wasn't she talented, and gorgeous to boot.
Sometimes in music clips you just get a glimpse of something special. That gaze from Amanda was one of those moments. Another, unrelated was Amy Macdonald stealing a look at her drummer when singing 'Run'.( Amy Macdonald & The German Philharmonic Orchestra Luxemburg 2010 )
boring repetitious fodder for the lower class
deserved? when all their other songs are talentless rubbish, you deserve exactly that. No warm and fluffy feelgood awards for constantly achieving nothing unlike current scene.
rasgou o véiu
I love this song reminds me the summer of '86 in South America!
Mesmerising bass line.
WHAT A BAND.....
Love this song , Love this band one of the most underrated bands ever! RIP ❤Grant your always remembered in my thoughts x
such a great song, Amanda Brown sounds awesome and I think her contribution is what makes this song sound so good. She's like the icing. This song is now stuck in my head hahah.
Love Amanda. ❤️
After listening to this over 35 times I still cannot get enough. Best footage to bring all the Classic Australian life we long for...
Yeah great song.
I picked up Grant in my Yellow Cab a couple of years before he passed. He was going to the Valley near the Tivoli. I did not know who he was but he told me about the Go Betweens. A lovely Man!
This is a classic. A masterpiece. After all those years, still young and wild an refreshing. RIP Grant. Miss you. You will always be remembered.
A brilliant Aussie song,i've played so many times now,i just Love it 👍
I dont know what it is about this song , But I can hear it over & over & over. Amanda's vocals are the icing on the cake, though I'd probably pass out if she was on stage with me. 😀 A great band.
Great song, brings back great memories from the 80's
Such a gorgeous and relaxing lilt to it. Like a horse galloping across a meadow.
Pure class.
I have a lot material of them. Beside of Nick Cave my favourite Band from Australia. Robert Forster is carrying the spirit of the gobetweens forwards. I´ve seen the band in germany in the smalltown of schorndorf after they were reunited playing the friends of rachel worth. the indie-spirit of the former albums and the first line-up is similar to the velvet underground.
Such a great tune
Was at work and this song came on. Couldn't resist adding it to my library. Amazing song!
Edit: Out of a lot of music in my library in a playlist. This song doesn't even have 1M views. If you are here, it says a lot about your music taste. Be proud of yourself!
Masterpiece! Can't recall how many times I played this.
The streetscape in this clip could’ve been filmed anywhere in Oz when this song was released. Now there’s probably no more left like this. Instead they’ve been bulldozed and replaced with malls, plazas and Westfields and the Main Street shopping strip has either gone or been relegated to patchy short term pop up stores in the majority of cases. Nothing like the character they once had.
Very close to perfection: beautiful poetic lyric, awesome music, unforgettable video clip.
Oh god the smile
The smile I tell ya
Yes an upbeat song that is sad really when they sing they shut it down they closed it down they pulled it down. That actually brought a tear to my eye, beautiful song though.
That's Boort in the opening shots. Look at the street view images of the main street of Boort - the power poles etc. are the same and all!
The regional scenes were filmed in Rainbow, Victoria, towards the end of the clip there is footage of the Rainbow and District Civic Centre.
Beautiful song
What a line up!
Summer hit always ❤
Great songwriting and performance reminding me of the English group Prefab Sprout
I GIVE THIS SONG THE RARE DISTINCTION OF BEING A MASTERPIECE
Totally agree
They were a good band i reckon right here was there master piece both this and cattle and kane a great songs to
It's not exactly Friday on my mind though, is it?
No it isnt a friday on my mind but its still a great song if you want to bring up the easy beats i dont think friday on my mind was there best song i much prefer ill make you happy sad lonely and blue or in my book
Youre not alone
God.......the nostalgia, Prime television.
When life was simple.
Awesome band and song. Rip Grant
What a fantastic song! I saw them live at the El Mocambo in Toronto in the late 1980s with The Lawn opening. Two of my favorite bands in one night! The Go Betweens had found out that The Lawn were known to do a cover of "Newton Told Me." They wouldn't let them skip throwing it into their opening set. They insisted on hearing their version of it. That's the kind of band The Go Betweens were. What a fantastic night!
I bet a lot of Victorian forestry workers are feeling there town will shut down with the government decision on logging .
What a great anthem song for them.
We all love our towns they are so beautiful for the area that we enjoy and work in.
Great Australian Band in a great moment of music were our all artists dominant the world with their talents.
We need more off them today great Australian music
One of the best Aussie bands, sad for the loss . Deserved accolades forever ❤❤❤
I've just discovered The Go Betweens - wow, what I've been missing ! It's a mystery to me why this band weren't massive ! Great songs, great playing and this song, just brilliant. Got some catching up to do !
Also check out Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue
@@gjg8766 You missed out Del Amitri ! Yeah, I'm familiar with all these bands, I just missed out on the GBs somehow. I've discovered another gem through the GBs, another Aussie band called Died Pretty. Check these out.
While the melodies and hooks are to die for, I think the lyrics would be too 'edgy' for mainstream radio, 'watch the butcher shine his knife, this town is full of battered wives.'
One of the best ever. I just love this band. This is one of there best. . From the golden years of Aussie music
My favourite.
it's everything about love (and nostalgia).
It is beautiful on so may levels = )
Is there a more beautiful nostalgically melancholic Aussie song than this one?
...Let me know...
one of my favourites is bye bye pride ... have a listen
I would never have known this song to exist if I hadn't caught the trippiest looking bus from byron Bay to nimbin, cruising through the middle of nowhere and the driver slaps this tune on. What a legend he was, he gave me 3 minutes of paradise (:
I was born in Brisbane and watched it grow from a big country town to an overcrowded, overstressed "world city."
Definitely preferred when it was a big country town lol
Such a beautiful song...reminds me of the beautiful township of Yallourn VIC.
One day Portugal will conquer Australia so it can have this song as national anthem
You had your chance a couple of centuries ago. 😉
I lived in Australia from 90-92 and this just reminds me of the great times we had.
Unique and wonderful Brisbane group. Lindy's drumming is original and drives the boys songs beautifully. Amanda was a great addition when they had their most commercial success
Lindy didn't even drum on this, it's a drum machine. She barely even appears in the video for that reason perhaps.
Love this band.
Wikipedia includes this excerpt:
"The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1977. The band was co-founded and led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, who were its only constant members throughout its existence. Drummer Lindy Morrison joined the band in 1980, and its lineup would later expand to include bass guitarist Robert Vickers and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. Vickers was replaced by John Willsteed in 1987, and the quintet lineup remained in place until the band split two years later. Forster and McLennan reformed the band in 2000 with a new lineup that did not include any previous personnel aside from them. McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack and the Go-Betweens disbanded again. In 2010, a toll bridge in their native Brisbane was renamed the Go Between Bridge after them."
So possibly true...
that's great.
Good old 80s what a time best era the glory days take me back please
Best
Such an Australian song. It's great...
Watched The Go Betweens Copenhagen 1988.
Brilliant concert. Flirted with Amanda.
Hope Grant didn’t notice…
Inexpressibly wonderful
Just gorgeous
Ah yes remember this from back in the day, Great stuff.
What a great song in the 80s(I'm getting emotional)I'm was born in Sydney in The 80s I was in my teens seen my city change I see parts these apartments everywhere makes me sad I take a sigh now my head and think how sad
Me too mate
Wonderful song...and yes Amanda Brown....lovely!
Brisbane Riverfire 2021 fireworks brought me here! Thanks Brisbane!
My boyfriend introduced me to this band on a mixed tape in the 80s. I still love this song.
Its song is so great
i actually wanna go back to my old town every time i hear this it hurts ❤