Artist: The Go-Betweens
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Oceans Apart
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Friends Of Rachel Worth
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
1978-1990
Year: 1990
Tracks: 22
Tallulah
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Before Hollywood
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
The Go-Betweens were perchance the quintessential fad band of the '80s: they came from an stranger locus (Brisbane, Australia), touched to a major transcription center (in their cause, London) in a sustained bid to do a vocation out of music, released record album afterward album of music apparently tailor-made for the radio receiver in spite of their having little use for modern-day Top 40 musical/lyrical formulas, and earned considerable critical praise and a little simply impassioned international fan pedestal of trading operations. Although the Go-Betweens were absent throughout the '90s earlier re-forming in the new millennium, both of the band's songwriters embarked on good solo careers in the meanwhile and, piece seldom reaching the high the Go-Betweens scaly, they still managed to uphold the group's legacy.
Robert Forster and Grant McLennan began as a couple of teenagers possessed with the earthy john Rock of Dylan, CCR, and the Velvet Underground and encouraged by the Australian kindling of the Saints. As gathered on The Able Label Singles, their first-class honours degree two singles show a affectionateness for seedy, British Invasion/new wave-influenced pop/rock. Picking up lasting drummer Lindy Morrison, they recorded their debut LP, affected to England, and signed a transient deal with Rough Trade. Going for a lavish, melodious healthy crammed with nonstandard rock 'n' roll instrumentation, they went on to record basketball team more than first-class LPs. Though their pre-Beggars Banquet albums were traditionally voiceless to detect in the States, that label lastly reissued all half a dozen albums on CD in 1996.
In 2000 the band reunited and released a new album, The Friends of Rachel Worth, which besides featured all triplet members of Sleater-Kinney. It wasn't barely a fluke, as the band recorded follow-up albums released in 2003 (Bright Yellow Bright Orange) and 2005 (Oceans Apart). Documenting a 2005 concert in their hometown, the DVD/CD parcel That Striped Sunlight Sound arrived in early 2006, just a few months before the end of McLennan in May.
