16 Lovers Lane: Go-Betweens: Amazon.ca: Music

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The Go-Betweens' last album is by some distance their most polished and accessible. The songs on 16 Lovers Lane are clad in deep layers of multi-tracked acoustic guitar, lavishly decorated with string arrangements and shot through with crisp and clean lead guitars. It's no less than the songs deserve. Grant McLennan comes into his own as a writer of perfect, giddy pop songs ("Love Goes On!", "Was There Anything I Could Do?", and the near-hit "Streets Of Your Town") and Forster grows ever more delightfully mordant: "Love Is A Sign" and "You Can't Say No Forever" both manage the neat trick of finding the funny side of dysfunctional love. 16 Lovers Lane is the parting shot this extraordinary pop group deserved to make--approximately like having the Taj Mahal as a tombstone. It wasn't the billion-seller this extraordinary pop group always deserved to have, but if The Go-Betweens' brilliant career was about anything, it was about hope in spite of it all. We won't see their like again. --Andrew Mueller

Album Description

UK reissue of 1988 album includes a bonus disc with 13 tracks, 'Love Goes On!' (Single Version), 'Wait Until June', 'Mexican Postcard', 'Rock And Roll Friend', 'Casanova's Last Words', 'You Won't Find It Again', 'Running The Risk Of Losing You', 'Apples In Bed', 'Head Over Heels', 'You're A Big Girl Now', 'Was There Anything I Could Do?' (Video), 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #1) & 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #2). Lo-Max. 2004.

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4.9 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 16 Lovers Lane - Buy This CD Now!, May 2 2004

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jokeypo1963 "jokeypo1963" (Saint Louis, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

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I had purchase this on cassette tape from many years ago, but just purchased this masterpiece on CD. This is by far the best recording by an underated band who deserved more credit in these United States. Every single song on this album is brillant. 16 Lovers Lane is magnificent, simply breathtaking. I urge you Alternative Rock fans to purchase this. I would rate this in the top five of all the the past albums from the late 1980's. I know my music. So do yourself a favor & purchase this gem right now. You won't be sorry.

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5.0 out of 5 stars as melancholy as lost love, Feb 1 2004

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Good sensitive souls of the universe, who carve a world inside songs to build a safe home for their hearts, please, won't you buy this record?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, longing, romantic pop, Sep 2 2003

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Just one of several great albums by this endlessly inventive songwriting duo. As usual, all the songs are catchy in a thoughtful, subtley structured way. The lyrics are somewhat minimal, yet immediate and engaging and evocative, effortlessly throwing up a narrative you feel more than you follow along like a plot. There's an overall sense of happiness tinged with a kind of sad longing, not exactly bittersweet. It's more mature than that. Seems to have a lot to do with the fact that they recorded this in Australia, after having lived in London for the past decade. You get the sense of happy homecoming that also reminds you of the lost past. The last song, about diving for your memory ... what a beautiful phrase. And then the band broke up, because after years of critical acclaim, they just weren't able to sell enough albums. Thankfully they've come back and started recording again. Their last two albums, "The Friends of Rachel Worth" and "Bright Yellow Bright Orange" don't miss a beat. Just more great songs for a new millenium.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it...
Following the mixed bag of 'Tallulah', '16 Lovers Lane' offers a more cohesive collection of the Go-Betweens unique, ultra-melodic brand of pop. Read more

Published on Oct 8 2001 by Lypo Suck

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece
The Go Betweens are one of those rare bands with two brilliant songwriters. Add the violin of Amanda Brown and you have an effortlessly transcendent album. Read more

Published on Dec 13 2000 by michael mason