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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
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is a much more homogenous album than their last album 'Tallulah' and is much more flowing and listenable for it. They rediscover the 'Liberty Belle' guitar sound but this time round the poppy production glosses it up a little more making this the Go-Betweens pop album. The two songwriters compliment each other perfectly. McLennan writes addictive pop gems such as 'Streets of Your Town' and acoustic ballads like 'The Devil's Eye', while Forster adds dry, bittersweet classics like 'You Can't Say No forever' and 'I'm alright'. The lyrics are funny and insightful, the music is crisp, complex and melodic. They sound like a band in real harmony and then they split up of course.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Says it all really, a quite magnificent album, with every track a modern classic, from two of the catchiest pop songs ever composed ('Love goes on' and 'Streets of your town') to the fabulous arrangements of 'Clouds' and 'Quiet Heart', ending with the poignant defiance of 'I'm alright'. Approaching near perfection and a must for all record collections, for fans of pure pop to obscure indie stalwarts.
The new 'Friends of Rachel Worth' album aside, you can understand them splitting after the release of this album. When you achieve this level of accomplishment and yet commercial acclaim still eludes you, anyone would just have walked away.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If there's one band that exemplifies the injustice of the pop charts, it's the Go Betweens. This album is one of the finest ever made, from the soaring magnificence of Love Goes On (listen to it twice and you'll be singing along...) through to Streets of Your Town (tell me why it wasn't number one, or even number 40) and beyond, there isn't a duff one among them. If you're gonna make a final album, make it like this: even at the ripe old age of 30, it's still there in My All Time Top Five - maybe even the Top Two. Forster v. McLennan? It's your call...
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