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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Totally agree with the positive comments As an ageing Go-Betweens afficionado from the 80-s I always struggled to warm to Robert's solo albums. This though is something else and a very pleasant surprise - the best album I've bought this year.
Open hearted and extraordinarily honest I agree that Robert Forster should write and sing from the heart more , it does suit him. Obviously listening to someone you have revered all your adult life bareing their heart so honestly is going to grab a fan like me. I didn't think I was especially sentimental about Grant , he clearly didn't think much of himself, despite his talents as a songwriter, carrying his personal fight to believe he could be loved throughout his life. And I used to find that a little irritating if I'm honest, like -... more info
Exquisite, so apt and very, very.... very good. I guess every Robert Forster fan is also a Go-betweens fan.
As is well documented Forster and the late Grant Mclennan had very differing styles of writing, perhaps unusually so to be accommodated for so long within a successful and friendly partnership, and band. While Mclennan wrote many songs that I love, and even possibly more of the moving, heart-rending ones at that, Forster for me always had the edge.
The main reason, I think, was and still is his extaordinary uniqueness as an artist.... more info
A moving elegy , preaching to the converted. Completely agree with the reviewer who cites The Go Betweens and The Triffids as the greatest Australian musical exports of the 1980,s -though I would add Nick Cave in there as well. The Go Betweens always had two distinct styles for me. Robert Forsters songs were more angular and difficult to get a handle on -though they mostly rewarded any effort made to get beneath their skin. Grant McLennan though was just an effortlessly brilliant song writer, to my mind as good as Paul McCartney or Brian Wilson in... more info
