- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- 78 'Til 79: The Lost Album · 1999
- Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (Remastered) · 1986
- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- Before Hollywood · 1983
- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- Spring Hill Fair · 1984
- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- Oceans Apart · 2005
- 16 Lovers Lane (Remastered) · 1988
- The Friends of Rachel Worth · 2000
- The Lost Album · 1999
Essential Albums
- The Go-Betweens are so synonymous with accomplished indie pop perfection that their early work can come as an unpolished surprise. The band’s second studio album, Before Hollywood, is a transition point—not as refined as their later work but more profound than anything in the Robert Forster/Grant McLennan songbook pre-1983. Conceived over a grim English winter, the album oscillates between dark poetry and splashes of Australian sunshine, with “Cattle and Cane” providing snapshots of a Queensland childhood amidst the chiming upswing of Forster’s guitar.
- 2005
- 1988
- 1988
- 1987
- 1987
Compilations
About The Go-Betweens
Australia's Go-Betweens combined the talents of two songwriters working in varying yet complementary styles. Arising from the '70s punk scene, the group specialized in literate pop songs featuring sparkling guitars. Their records balanced Grant McLennan's melodic pop instincts with Robert Forster's darker, more discordant visions. A 1998 reunion tour won critical raves, and led to three widely praised albums in the new millennium, but the scintillating success of the revamped Go-Betweens was cut short by Grant McLennan's death in 2006.
- ORIGIN
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- FORMED
- 1978
- GENRE
- Alternative