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The Go-Betweens

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Brisbane-born songwriting duo Robert Forster and Grant McLennan led The Go-Betweens, an Australian indie/jangle-pop band celebrated for literate, melodic songs. They recorded seminal albums from Before Hollywood to 16 Lovers Lane, reunited in the 2000s and ended after Grant McLennan’s death in 2006.

Formed in Brisbane, main songwriters Robert Forster and Grant McLennan; key albums include Before Hollywood, 16 Lovers Lane, Spring Hill Fair. The band reunited in 2000 and released several albums (including Bright Yellow Bright Orange and Oceans Apart). Grant McLennan died on May 6, 2006.

DeBaser reviews celebrate The Go-Betweens' literate songwriting, melodic jangle-pop and key albums from Before Hollywood to Oceans Apart. Reviewers highlight melancholic ballads and pop brilliance. The band's reunion albums (2000s) and Grant McLennan's death in 2006 are noted.

For:fans of literate indie pop, listeners of jangle-pop and melodic alternative rock

 there were the Go-Betweens from Brisbane (Queensland State, Australia), wonderful creation of two capable and inspired songwriters like few others in the last twenty or thirty years, Mr. Robert Forster and Grant McLennan.

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 Rarely, at the end of the day, have I left the mine aware of having found not a stone, not an artifact, but an actual buried treasure;

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 I can’t forgive him, and I don’t know if I ever will, for leaving just now, now that I was sure I had found the Go-Betweens walking on my same path again, after so many years I had believed they belonged to my (past).

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