Get By

Treating you to a cool acoustic Go-Betweens ditty today, an acoustic demo for a song that would eventually end up on 16 Lovers Lane. Back in the days I thought these Aussies were just one good band out of many. Only now, since rediscovering them last year, do I realise they were true greats.

The Go-Betweens - The Devil's Eye

Some Girls

And lovely ones at that. All beauties, even... Presenting a girly girly six pack, with fine art as usual by Tinca. Here goes, my amigos da musica, and be on the lookout for part 2. Next week or so. Cherchez la femme!

The Triffids - Madeline
The Verlaines - Angela
Slint - Darlene
The Go-Betweens - Karen
Acetone - Louise
Pond - Agatha

Dream Ran

"It was a head-trip, it was a friendship..." Robert Forster finishes a half-written, left-behind song by his longtime Go-Betweens partner Grant McLennan, deftly turning it into a homage to the pal who passed away so suddenly. "We will not see his kind again..."

Robert Forster - It Ain't Easy