Hilarious and it makes me love it even more. This road-running slice of beauty and mayhem - I can distinctly remember turning to the band and saying "let's burn this land". In rock 'n roll terms The Go-Betweens always take the checkered flag. Robert Forster has many memorable notes on the sleeve, including this for Man o' sand to girl o' sea, also on Springhill Fair, their third album from 1984. And those female backing vocals in the chorus always get me where it hurts.Īccording to the sleevenotes, that song was written in Immigration, on the way back into the UK from the US and Grant's sister reckoned Marianne Faithfull should sing it. Speaking of Bachelor kisses, I nicked the "hands like hooks" phrase to use in a song once - strange but accessible. An amazing mixture of strange but accessible, which is quite rare. In La Brisa de la Palma a teenage Rasputin takes the sting from a gin" " The white moon appears like a hole in the sky, the mangroves grow quiet Once I got the cassette home, I discovered that the song also contained a literal reference to this note, in one of the most outrageously audacious lyrics in the history of pop music. What an intriguing scene-set that is (and it actually has echoes in a few other Grant McLennan Go-Betweens songs, which we'll come back to later). He then sucked loudly on the straw in his gin and headed out to the first hole. An old army officer once said to me that the heat took away his pride.
MICHAEL NYMAN DISCOGRAPHY RAR FULL
Like this one by Grant, for Bye bye pride -Ĭairns is a lazy, small town full of boats and cane fields. Each song had a short note from either Grant or Robert. I think it was the sleevenotes that sold me on it. Of course, typical me, to become interested in the band after they'd broken up (in fact, both Grant McLennan and Robert Forster had released their first solo efforts by this time). I was vaguely aware of the band - I think I had heard Bachelor kisses on Dave Fanning's radio show a few times during the 80's. And so I found The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990. In those days, Comet used to sell Beggars Banquet releases on cassette for a fiver - and in those Walkman days, cassettes were my medium of choice. Back in the days when Comet Records existed in Cork, I got into The Go-Betweens (Comet later became Plugd, which has now moved around the corner from Washington Street to the Triskel Arts Centre building).
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