THE GO-BETWEENS/The Clarke Sisters(Live)

OH. MY. GOD. WHERE...HAVE I BEEEEEEEEEEEEEN??!! Somehow in the last few years a whole heap of The Go-Betweens stuff has finally emerged on Youtube. Fantastic Live One offs like this!! Yay, I ♥♥♥ Them. *Siiiigh (of content).

Cattle & Cane live acoustic (including Interview with Robert & Grant)

I love this song. The lyrics, the imagery, so vivid...

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky
A rain of falling cinders
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
I recall a boy in bigger pants
Like everyone
Just waiting for a chance
His father’s watch
He left it in the showers
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
I recall a bigger brighter world
A world of books
And silent times in thought
And then the railroad
The railroad takes him home
Through fields of cattle
Through fields of cane
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
The waste memory-wastes...

Further, longer, higher, older.

THE GO-BETWEENS/16 Lovers Lane

As couples everywhere around me break up, bicker, turn their heads and close their eyes holding it together for the sake of the kids, valiantly staving off being another "D" statistic (at a rate to challenge the speed of light), I thought it fitting to feature songs from The Go-Betweens most accessible album: a whole album dedicated to the realities of Love- all the trials and tribulations of relationships...a glimmer of Hope but with a real sense of underlying futility...just like our exponentially skyrocketing divorce rates!

Thanks to WhackaWhacka for putting up so many songs so that the whole album can be enjoyed by all. (p.s check out his channel- some good stuff, including his own pieces- this one being my favourite!)

No Frills GO-BETWEENS...I love it!!!

With love, from Their Biggest FAN!

What a gem!

Doing the all important organise what ipod music I need for my trip....and just made this AWESOME DISCOVERY...

Thanks to Zelig666 there are heaps more great Youtube videos for THE TRIFFIDS AND THE GO-BETWEENS!

THAAANK YOUUU!

it's circa 1988...

I see my long-time music idols at my current age and think...damn, why wasn't I born 20 years earlier?!!


THE TRIFFIDS/Trick of the light(Live)



Here's another beauty:

THE TRIFFIDS/Save what you can (the video by truckstop media is strangely compelling too...)



THE GO-BETWEENS/ The Clarke Sisters



p.s does anybody have a clip for THE TRIFFIDS/Holy Water OR THE TRIFFIDS/Blinder by the hour?

okay this girl needs to get back to packing...LOL

Beggars Banquet

Just a quickie cos REALLY I should be studying ;)

I first knew this label as the GO-BETWEENS probably Biggest & Youngest Fan LOL.

In any case since then they popped up noticeably again when I discovered I love THE NATIONAL.

Been listening to other artists they have released and I must say they still have consistently GREAT stuff!!!

In lieu of not posting a favourite song link and not having enough time to trawl through everything yet please go investigate the goodies for yourself at their website and their youtube channel. Cheers :)

Antipodean Underground: Unearthed!!!

What a Find!!!

I'M EXCITED.

Antipodean Underground is a blog dedicated to: "Preserving Australian & New Zealand Underground Music from the 70’s to 90’s"!!!

It's BRIMMING with good quality mp3s of stuff you really can't get easily :-D! :-D!

This post on "A Tribute To the Go-Betweens" was especially exciting...can't wait for my happy ears to get a chance to trawl through this blog :)

The Go-Betweens: Best Australian Band of ALL TIME(in my humble opinion)

THE GO-BETWEENS are my favourite band EVER (closely followed by THE NATIONAL) but sadly the more time passes, the less easy it is to find people that know them!

I'm still regretting not ever having seen the Go-Betweens Live when I still had a chance :(

I just always assumed musos 20 years later wouldn't be that good to see- BOY WAS I WRONG!

So glad to see clips on Youtube! Here is a gorgeous version of Clouds with Grant and Robert playing at the Tivoli in 06.

Seems very appropriate as a "Vale, Grant" :( song....



Here are a couple of songs from their 30year span...I cannot believe how underrated this band is...I mean, how often do you get song writing and lyrics like THAT anymore?! Sure the clips may date these songs but how classic and timeless are they in sound yet at the same time strangely nostalgic in feel?

CATTLE AND CANE



BACHELOR KISSES

BYE BYE PRIDE

HEAD FULL OF STEAM

HERE COMES THE CITY

YOUR TURN MY TURN

LEE REMICK (ACOUSTIC)



SPRING RAIN

The Go-Betweens - Streets of your town

One of the most influential songs of my childhood from my favourite, favourite band EVER...circa 1988...still awesome :)