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16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (1 Jan 2001)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Beggars Banquet
ASIN: B0000070IF
Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 104,554 in Music (See Top 100 in 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

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pop Sheen Perfection 8 Aug 2001

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply best album of all time! 19 Sep 2000

By James Faux

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Stuff 18 Feb 2000

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Love the melodys, just great tunes!

I recomend this to anybody who has fell in or out of love and been hurt recentley.Thanks to amazon listeners for the heads up!

Published 1 month ago by Kevin Nicholas

5.0 out of 5 stars Two exceptional discs - barely a bad moment

This "Expanded Edition" of "16 Lovers Lane" is a gem, with the extra, and in some cases previously unreleased, tracks showing a band on top of their game - indeed, leaving one... Read more

Published 6 months ago by D. Heaney

5.0 out of 5 stars My First Go-Betweens Album!

Been meaning to get some Go-Betweens for a while as they're always talked highly of in indiepop circles and this album always seemed to get rated as one of their finest. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Mr. A. D. W. Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars An album of pristine beauty

I'm squarely with those who claim this to be the Aussie greats' finest hour. Packed with pristine pop moments of pure beauty and depth, 16 Lovers Lane still enchants nearly two... Read more

Published on 9 Mar 2008 by T. Barton

5.0 out of 5 stars IN MEMORY OF A GREAT SONG WRITER

It was with great sadness that i read about the untimely death of Grant McLennan recently - co-founder along with Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens, one the greatest bands never to... Read more

Published on 9 July 2006 by D. W. Morgan

5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless classic

This incredibly beautiful record is a perfect reflection of the emotional state of it's two magnificent songwriters. Read more

Published on 7 Mar 2006 by David Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars enduring classic

Don't know about the bonus disc but the original album still sounds fresh and the lyrics are still beautifully disquieting ("Watch the butcher shine his knife/Sha,na,na"). Read more

Published on 13 Jan 2006 by Michael Evans

5.0 out of 5 stars Album like an ice sculpture

Great to see one of THE albums of the eighties given this classy re-issue treatment. The album itself has been praised elsewhere, and it certainly must rank as one of the classics... Read more

Published on 7 Jan 2005 by not_a_real_folkie

5.0 out of 5 stars An address definately worth visiting.

You can argue yourself into a right tizzy about which Go Betweens album is the best, but for me there is no contest. Read more

Published on 6 July 2004 by russell clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars This time they'll go Global .... won't they ?

Even the record company had no doubts this time. The Go-Betweens were about to be as big as REM ( Go-Betweens fans to a man , incidently ). Read more

Published on 21 July 2000 by Mr. D. J. Matthews

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