The Go-Betweens
Original video located here. Accessed 26th April 2015
And with the arrival of 2006 (a ‘bad’ year) a new phase in my life came with it. In this case it was the commencement of a gamer geek phase. Yes, 2006 was the year I got off my arse and did something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: Buy a Sony Playstation. This gave me long hours of entertainment, became a talking point among friends and even helped in social situations. Why I remember bringing along my PS2 to a LAN and it getting a lot of usage through Soul Calibur 3 matches. All of this has nothing to do with the Go-Betweens but it does say a lot about what I was feeling in 2006: It was a time of pure elation. A number of things were going my way and a lot of the Go-Betweens’ music represented that fact. Once again, going into the Go-Betweens felt like natural extension from my years of interest in punk music. But here, what appealed were superb songs with deeply romantic themes, some great guitar interplay and a very sunny disposition. Indeed, it certainly came as a sweet relief during the frustration of unemployment.
Key Album: 16 Lovers Lane (1988) Widely regarded as their greatest album. What was been said about 16 Lovers Lane that hasn't been said before? Well, for me I started listening to it the same time I was involved in my first true romance with a woman named Red. Thus 16 Lovers Lane became pretty much the soundtrack to the entire relationship - from the joy of Love Goes On! to it's conclusion with Dive For Your Memory. Indeed, I recall listening to the latter many times after the romance ended with the knowledge that Robert Forster sung like he understood everything.
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