The Go-Betweens - Streets of your Town HD
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I'm an Aussie, and to me this is the most 'Australian' sounding song ever. I can't explain why. It just is. Magnificent
Definitely up there with Wide Open Road and Under the Milky Way
What because it sounds lazy??
Nah.
@@adamwright4135 Under the Milky Way, is definitely a favourite
I agree it is by far the most Aussie song.
Yes, sure is an absolute belter, reminds me of the beach and the sun.
This is in my humble opinion one of the greatest aussie tracks ever. I honestly can't get enough of it and I play it often mainly for a lift. I guess the downside is that they didn't go on longer but such is life. What remains is one of the greatest song's in Aussie pop. 16 Lovers Lane is a pure gem, check it out
This is a classic. A masterpiece. After all those years, still young and wild an refreshing. RIP Grant. Miss you. You will always be remembered.
I’m American, never set foot in Australia, but somehow this song makes me long for it and to go there.
Listen to "Cattle and Cane".
Make sure that you rent a 70 series
@@Mr-pn2eh what’s that? lol
@@EphemeralProductions it's a old Aussie Toyota 4x4 tough as nails mate . my pick is the 105 series
@@matthewmcclure5218 k. Awesome
A lad I used to work with in 80s England used to be into obscure bands. He would spend his breaks with his head buried in the New Musical Express and hardly communicate with anyone. I got to know him after a time and I asked him for recommendations of new stuff to listen to. Among the bands he mentioned were The Go-Betweens. And I went out and bought 16 Lover's Lane. Immediately loved the band.
He was right.
Sure was
In Phoenix Arizona in the 80s and 90s I was able to get copies of NME and just scoured them looking for the next coolest thing..those were the days
That beautiful almost haunting voice of Amanda Brown singing " shine "
tedious and annoying, is what it is
@@bennoakes2477 🤣😂🤣
It thought it was a nice voice fill in and Amanda at that time was absolutely beautiful 🌹
she ia a gorgeous woman for sure
@@michaelpaticchio2426 At the time, yes she was, but unfortunately the wall taketh no prisoners.
Bam!
Splat!
This was a big hit in Switzerland when it came out.
Interesting
It's 2022... and I have so fallen in love with The Go Betweens...😍🎶🎼👏👍💜💝 Australia had such quality Bands... Well done Brisbane 😎
Me too Ian. Just discovered them 6 months ago and have been knocked sideways by their music. Just brilliant !
2023
This song aged so well. Especially the chorus has such a timeless feel. As a gen z kid who only heard this song for the first time recently I genuinely had no idea if the song came out in the 80s 90s or last year.
No offence kid but there is no way you could confuse it for having come out in this day and age. 90’s maybe
@@wmwarner9196 why not you can only make a genre of music in one decade lmao??? Maybe not on the radio but there is still indie pop music being made that sounds exactly like this.
Just The Way Are You by Milky is the better known one
@@soundlessfob5925 it’s not a genre, it’s a certain sound, lyrics, artistry and production. It just doesn’t sound like it couldn’t have come out today.
This hurts...takes me to a sunny, sweet weekend away in 1989.
We swopped our music on cassettes in those days - including this gem.
This song conveys major nostalgia as a cry out to the memory of a fleeting moment of happiness.
Thank you KEXP Seattle for playing it out of nowhere, (I didn’t even know the name of the band before): I had to stop what I was doing and go off in a revere.
This is a song that should have made it to the top world wide.
this is literally one of my favorite songs of all time
*** why literally
John Carr I like too much music that I call my favorites. but this one is 100000% a real actual favorite like top 3
Me too. And I wish Amanda was looking at me like that. One of Australia's best
Literally?
I grew up in Brisbane in the 1960 70 s and loved driving through the suburbs. It is an amazing city. Every time I hear this song I am back in my car and seeing the streets and people who seemed to always have a smile on their faces. Life on the whole was good. Trams could take you everywhere very cheaply. Traffic flower smoothly because drivers were considerate and ourteous.. Love you Brisbane.
They were talking about the trams of Bris on 4ZZZ the other night
And yet, the song itself acknowledges "this town is full of battered wives".
Sadly, for a lot of people, life under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen govt in Qld ('68 - '87) was *not* 'on the whole good'. I'm glad you don't remember the rampant attacks on Indigenous people, students, artists or the poor, the unhindered corruption, the end of civil liberties and right to protest, the gerrymandering (which meant that although Labor got higher % of votes, they couldn't win elections). Thank goodness that ended!
@@lyrebird9749 more than 3 people standing on the street was a protest and you could be arrested by police for that, my dad told me that.
@@simonburns1055 Yes, exactly. Thank goodness Queenslanders eventually voted Joh's cronies out. Please don't bring the LNP back again!
@@simonburns1055Ah, Triple Zed
Love this song may sound silly but every time I listen to it it reminds me when things in our lives were simple gezz wish time would just slow down 😢
Thanks AMPOL I had a flashback and girl singing is drop dead gorgeous
Here we are in 2021. We await to even get a little of the Great Australian Culture again. I loved living during this era. May this beautiful country Australia forever be cherished
Was an awesome era to be in Australia. I grew up in Melbourne, life was simple, easy, fun. Today it's been destroyed and taken away from us by Marxist Socialist Liberals like Dan Andrews
@@VK4VO they destroy everything they touch. 😱😱
Love from England 🏴
@@jeffroegner1499 : Why do you 2 cent trolls use western names?
Australia got hit hard last August with the passing of Judith Durham and Olivia Newton John within two days of each other. Both of them such great musicians.
Takes me back to my freshman year when I was attending college down in Texas in 1988. The late-afternoon DJ of the college radio station played this song all the time. Loved it. I did not know it was an Australian band until I read the comments in here.
Timeless classic Aussie music, can never get tired of hearing it.
Love this song . Gorgeous Amanda Brown has a voice from heaven.
What an amazing song. Even after all these years I still love this song. And Amanda Brown is gorgeous...😋😋
Amanda was sooooooooo hot, but in an innocent nuanced way. The best way ! Grant...what a talent. For me only INXS is in the same Aussie league.
Really is a song and half, isn't it?
Almost makes me cry.
Almost ?
This one never gets old...Feel freedom of days gone by when I hear this-like going back to the 80's or 90's.
First time I listen to this song, I had to hear it about 10 times because I loved it. (Brazil)
Legend 🙌
Good on you mate! 👍👍 🇦🇺🇧🇷
Brazil 2022❤
I'm Australian and I like Sylvia Telles :)
Amanda Brown & Grant, the perfect Go Betweens
I crewed for them in 1988 I was infactuated with Amanda
Straight here from Died Prettys DC - awesome
What?
Cattle & Cane is very good also...
@@badabing3462me to
Yes the AMPOL ad brought me to this song as well
Great song
Amazing the songs that I missed growing up in the 80s
Same here great advertising for AMPOL my favourite song.
Discovered this music just today... Its like an enlightment! Pure bliss... Australia is so far from me but I have a feeling like I always was there just because of songs like this... Magic!
Very close to perfection: beautiful poetic lyric, awesome music, unforgettable video clip.
What an absolute Aussie iconic song. Thanks for the memories guy's
Fabulous song - Amanda Brown's vocals are brilliant - and that stare ! - our student union barman played this back in the 80's and I have been listening to the album since. RIP grant - I din't know he had passed. Great happy song.
The old cinema you see in this video is Sun Theatre in Yarraville, Melbourne. It was in a derelict state for about 20 years until some enterprising cinema lover bought and restored it over about a 5 year period in to an art deco style. Now a thriving multiplex for around 20 years now. Whenever I go there to see a movie this song starts playing in my head. I love this song!
And at 2:14, the Civic Centre in Rainbow, Northern Victoria
I dont know what it is about this song , But I can hear it over & over & over. Amanda's vocals are the icing on the cake, though I'd probably pass out if she was on stage with me. 😀 A great band.
Get a bit teary every time I hear this actually went to the Sun Theatre in Yarraville last night fantastic area.
RIP Grant. we lost a musical legend too early.
One of the greatest pop songs of the 80s! And this town is full of battered wives-one of the most haunting lyrics.
Even though I’m not an Aussie. This song typifies the little white trash town that I grew up in, in the San Joaquin Valley of California in the ‘80s. It’s not all fun and surf here, ya know.
"....And this town is full of battered wives" is a wonderful line, although it has been suggested that it was the reason why the song did not get more commercial airplay, and was never the hit it deserved to be.
Never heard this before, it's really lovely.
Check out "Right Here" too. They will always be a pair in my teenage pop mind. :)
Wait until you hear "Bachelor Kisses" by this group!
Hi sharon
These are really great musicians. Australia has great musicians and groups, I had only listened to Men at work, but this is a great group, I learned about his music, because I was investigating the history of Australia and the news that arrives in South America by fires, it really is a shame what you are going through. My supportive embrace and we are all praying that these fires will soon be over, Greetings to all of Australia from Quito-Ecuador, blessings to you
Mauricio Gavilanes you should check out other Australian acts from the same era, Hunters and Collectors, The Sunnyboys and The Church.
I'll add to @alexWarners fine selection The Machinations, Dragon, Paul Kelly, The Saints, Cold Chisel, The Divinyls, Split Enz, The Models, Mentals As Anything, INXS, Midnight Oil, Australian Crawl, Richard Clapton
@@RikLagarto Gotta add some more fine Ozzie bands/artists John Butler Trio, The Angels, Icehouse, Silverchair, Powderfinger, Ngaiire, Jimmy Barnes (absolute powerhouse vocalist from Cold Chisel), Ocean Alley, Sticky Fingers, The Regime (up and coming Sydney band that kicks ass), Matt Corby, Jengyz, Butterfly Effect, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, Sunk Loto, Ash Phoenix, sure there's plenty I missed but have loved work from all these artists so check them out.
@@JamesMurphy-ym6bd ya forgot Died Pretty check out the album "Doughboy Hollow" I'm getting to see them Sunday Arvo. Add King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the Cosmic Psychos and the mighty TISM.
such a great song, Amanda Brown sounds awesome and I think her contribution is what makes this song sound so good. She's like the icing. This song is now stuck in my head hahah.
Love Amanda. ❤️
I dare anyone to stay perfectly still while listening to this happy tune.....
This is definitely one of the most underrated groups EVER...PERIOD.....
pfffffttt. where good but not that great...
haha too funny, one mediocre song with drum machine and annoying vocal echo, and suddenly they are an underrated band. What rubbish.
@@bennoakes2477 What's your latest hit mate? and I don't recall Lindy Morrison being a drum machine...........
@@edwardhill2051 Get your spelling right first, it's WERE, and what's your latest hit?
@@noelroberts8199 I don't have hits, I'm not a band. Well, you learned something new today champ. Best you shut the fuck up and keep your ignorance hidden. LM didn't play drums on this song.
This song makes me proud to be an Aussie!!
It’s a classic from the 80s one way ticket 🎫 back please 😀☘️🇮🇪💚
Makes me proud to be a Queenslander
Same
You can be very proud man and mental as anything, if you only knew the music I have to undergo here, unbearable
Yeah be proud to be an Aussie
A brilliant Aussie song,i've played so many times now,i just Love it 👍
My favourite.
it's everything about love (and nostalgia).
It is beautiful on so may levels = )
Yes an upbeat song that is sad really when they sing they shut it down they closed it down they pulled it down. That actually brought a tear to my eye, beautiful song though.
Pure class.
I love this song reminds me the summer of '86 in South America!
Very close to perfection: beautiful poetic lyric, awesome music, unforgettable video clip.
Oh god the smile
The smile I tell ya
I picked up Grant in my Yellow Cab a couple of years before he passed. He was going to the Valley near the Tivoli. I did not know who he was but he told me about the Go Betweens. A lovely Man!
One of the best songs ever written
Hi viviennet
One of those underrated and underplayed classics. It is beautiful.
from Australia :)
@@BeggarsArchive yes mate. I am from the UK. Great Aussie band. I edited my comment.
The tune of the song is more familiar with Just The Way You Are - Milky
Great English band @@MrEnergee1987
@@davidburden2360 Milky is Italian
After listening to this over 35 times I still cannot get enough. Best footage to bring all the Classic Australian life we long for...
Masterpiece! Can't recall how many times I played this.
Great song, brings back great memories from the 80's
Anyone else live nowhere near Australia but found this group anyway? First heard them off p2p sharing in the late 90s/2000s and it was like finding a track from the 80s/90s from an older sibling’s cassettes you’d never heard before but instantly loved
The new AMPOL TV commercial brought me here....great song forgot all about it...
Same here, such a great song. 👌🎶🎵
Hahah just did same thing
Hey. Well done Ampol !
American Petroleum hasn't existed for decades.
Me too!
And also The Project show in Australia!!! They played that song when coming back from a break.
WHAT A BAND.....
Love this song , Love this band one of the most underrated bands ever! RIP ❤Grant your always remembered in my thoughts x
Just gorgeous
Magnificent. Close to musical perfection - yet still wasn't the elusive Top 40 hit they deserved. At the time this was recorded the band was slowly imploding from a range of issues yet they still produced this masterpiece. Every man longs for the moment that a lady gazes at them so lovingly as Amanda does to Grant here. R.I.P Grant.
Amanda...wasn't she talented, and gorgeous to boot.
Sometimes in music clips you just get a glimpse of something special. That gaze from Amanda was one of those moments. Another, unrelated was Amy Macdonald stealing a look at her drummer when singing 'Run'.( Amy Macdonald & The German Philharmonic Orchestra Luxemburg 2010 )
boring repetitious fodder for the lower class
deserved? when all their other songs are talentless rubbish, you deserve exactly that. No warm and fluffy feelgood awards for constantly achieving nothing unlike current scene.
rasgou o véiu
Such a gorgeous and relaxing lilt to it. Like a horse galloping across a meadow.
One of the best Aussie bands, sad for the loss . Deserved accolades forever ❤❤❤
R.I.P Grant...you are sooooooo missed mate.. 😥
Hi rachel
I woke up this morning with the chorus of this song looped in my brain and thought I have to play it on the.....
In my top 10 albums of all time. Majestical, beautiful, melodic; I will listen to this till the day I die
Such a beautiful song...reminds me of the beautiful township of Yallourn VIC.
I have a lot material of them. Beside of Nick Cave my favourite Band from Australia. Robert Forster is carrying the spirit of the gobetweens forwards. I´ve seen the band in germany in the smalltown of schorndorf after they were reunited playing the friends of rachel worth. the indie-spirit of the former albums and the first line-up is similar to the velvet underground.
Was at work and this song came on. Couldn't resist adding it to my library. Amazing song!
One of the best ever. I just love this band. This is one of there best. . From the golden years of Aussie music
Wonderful song...and yes Amanda Brown....lovely!
I’ve never seen this clip before, what a gem 👍
This is one of the best songs ever written...the best of Australia xxxxx
A beautiful song!
Pure and simple!
Loved that band!❤️
I would never have known this song to exist if I hadn't caught the trippiest looking bus from byron Bay to nimbin, cruising through the middle of nowhere and the driver slaps this tune on. What a legend he was, he gave me 3 minutes of paradise (:
God.......the nostalgia, Prime television.
When life was simple.
Watched The Go Betweens Copenhagen 1988.
Brilliant concert. Flirted with Amanda.
Hope Grant didn’t notice…
It's hard to deny the shimmering pop poise of this melodious beauty, so I won't! Instead, I'll remember them as a band who always played something of a bit part in my life
Beautiful song
Ah yes remember this from back in the day, Great stuff.
Shout out to Perth Western Australia & Fee - Maiden name Fiona Johnson owns a piece of my heart. In the streets of Perth. Sending unrequited love to Fee.
Oh wow , forgot all about this song . I’ve never had a woman look at me like Amanda looks at Grant 🥰 loved this song then and I love it now . What an absolute Australian sound .
The best of Australia .l am still in love with Amanda
I love this theme ... the best of my past youth
A very impressed Pom here ,great song
a brilliant pop song of our time...nuff said!
What a fantastic song! I saw them live at the El Mocambo in Toronto in the late 1980s with The Lawn opening. Two of my favorite bands in one night! The Go Betweens had found out that The Lawn were known to do a cover of "Newton Told Me." They wouldn't let them skip throwing it into their opening set. They insisted on hearing their version of it. That's the kind of band The Go Betweens were. What a fantastic night!
Just a beautifully written song and so well sung, just screams Brisbane like no other song could, always brings back memories of a simpler time that's long gone now.
I've just discovered The Go Betweens - wow, what I've been missing ! It's a mystery to me why this band weren't massive ! Great songs, great playing and this song, just brilliant. Got some catching up to do !
Also check out Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue
@@gjg8766 You missed out Del Amitri ! Yeah, I'm familiar with all these bands, I just missed out on the GBs somehow. I've discovered another gem through the GBs, another Aussie band called Died Pretty. Check these out.
While the melodies and hooks are to die for, I think the lyrics would be too 'edgy' for mainstream radio, 'watch the butcher shine his knife, this town is full of battered wives.'
Love this song ❤
Such an Australian song. It's great...
The 'APIA' ad brought me here... and I'm glad it did! Know the song well but never seen the film clip.
Grant this song has been blessed the tune is so bouncy and makes you think of how lucky we are living in Brissy!
Unique and wonderful Brisbane group. Lindy's drumming is original and drives the boys songs beautifully. Amanda was a great addition when they had their most commercial success
Lindy didn't even drum on this, it's a drum machine. She barely even appears in the video for that reason perhaps.
Gives me goosebumps.....beautiful💙❤🤍
My boyfriend introduced me to this band on a mixed tape in the 80s. I still love this song.
Its song is so great
I GIVE THIS SONG THE RARE DISTINCTION OF BEING A MASTERPIECE
Totally agree
They were a good band i reckon right here was there master piece both this and cattle and kane a great songs to
It's not exactly Friday on my mind though, is it?
No it isnt a friday on my mind but its still a great song if you want to bring up the easy beats i dont think friday on my mind was there best song i much prefer ill make you happy sad lonely and blue or in my book
Youre not alone
I had them in my young heart a long with the church and they are stil there now i am 55 old fart 🙂
Inexpressibly wonderful
Love this band.
God almighty, Amanda Brown, Amanda Brown, Amanda Brown. That look at Grant. The hair toss. The smile. Oh the smile....
Yeah, I know what you mean man. Nobody that gorgeous ever looked at me that way.
I think Amanda Brown I just sooo sexy, god I would love to have a girl like that look at me like that. Maybe in my next life....
@@petermarsh2377 Ah Peter , you give up too easily!
All you gotta do is :
1. Learn to play guitar
2. Write killer songs and sing them in a band that you get together in a creative musical tsunami that was Australia in the '80s and '90s.
3. The girl might not be in the band. She may be in the audience, and then in the Green Room after the gig.........and then..........
Amanda Brown was totally smitten by Grant.
@@petermarsh2377 So wasn't just me thinking exactly that....
Brisbane Riverfire 2021 fireworks brought me here! Thanks Brisbane!
Yep underrated Aussie Classic!
Love this song so much.