The Go-Betweens: "Spring Rain"

[Mr69906990]

always loved the go.betweens..great stuff

[TheMimifur]

Breaks my heart;

[TheMimifur]

Lesson one as a promoter, don't give a rider that includes drugs.

[MyAruga]

brissie boys

[MaaaarrJ]

@MyAruga damn right man,best aussie band ever.........comes straight out of brissie

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.

[MyAruga]

BRISSIE BOYS RIP GRANT MISS YA

[bassage13]

This song was in the movie "Something Wild" but it was also in another movie that I can't remember. Can anyone help me out?

[bassage13]

@bassage13 Ahh!, I remember now, it was Kingpin!

[abikukid]

@AntipodeanAl My dad is 64 and he loves to search and listen to music just the same as I do. To really enjoy what the internet can provide, I think you need to have a good set of memories to rekindle and spark. I feel so lucky to have all this lovely music and nostalgia and memories a few clicks on a keyboard away, ans also to know that there are so many people who also enjoy and share the feeling too!!

[rufus566]

@AntipodeanAl

Sad thing is that a lot of the younger crew do not know how to use youtube properly (heck most of them don't know how to use wikipedia). There is a reason why the top cookie cutter pop artists get so many views, because out of all the abundance of musical brilliance available, the kids watch only those few videos over and over again. Kids waste this technology and are about as knowledgeable about music as if it was not there. We older ones use it the most.

[TheVascoPaiva]

@AntipodeanAl and it is definitley true!coming from someone who is 17, and found these bands at the age of 15, with no help whatsoever from my parents, it took me a lot of time in record stores though :)

[Timmybear]

I, on the other hand, heard very little music until I was 13. This meant I had little sense of 'canon'. Having said that, one of the first signs of the way my brain was wired was that, upon buying DOUBLE FANTASY, I liked one John song and all of Yoko's. :)

[styvo51]

0:23 you can clearly see centrepoint in the background...

[MyAruga]

this was shot in brisbane Trailer builder fool

[seththeskater00001]

hes gay

[TheTrailerbuilder]

@seththeskater00001 you're a fuckwit

[seththeskater00001]

@TheTrailerbuilder and your a dumbass

[nikesvvoosh]

Cant beat Aussie Indie Rock or New Age.. its the best

[oogie11]

The Go-Betweens and The Smiths were cousins, in a musical sense :)

[freddyglaz]

I didnt know the guy from American Pickers had a band in the 80's!!!! ha im jus kidding, i dig this jam all too much =)

[third51]

You can convert this or any youtube video to an mp3 at soundnabber..com

[OzzInter]

Love this song!!!

Thanks putting it here

[BluBerryCrush]

love love love love spring rain....lol

[MyAruga]

great brisbane band the great robert foster and grant mcclennan RIP musical pioneers forced out by Joh and secret police love the old shots brisbane ah memories of me growing up in brisbane,

[TheTrailerbuilder]

@MyAruga This was shot in Sydney.

[Timmybear]

Assuming this was shot more or less the same day with few breaks, Lindy must have been just about blinded by running eye makeup during the 'rain' sequences.

[earinsound]

brilliant album start to finish

[stankler]

did commercial radio in australia have the nous to play them

[TheTrailerbuilder]

@stankler No.

[maurrod]

Great video and amazing theme from one of the best bands ever

[chuckschilling]

Absolutely one of the finest GB's songs. Robert is the spitting image of Christian Bale in this video.

[unmedication]

It went in "favorite" in a snap, like it went in my heart (and my record collection) at the time...

[menyc]

@synno62: Teaching kids at an early age about The Smiths, Pixies and The Go-Betweens is what I call good parenting. (why can't we just 'reply' anymore?)

[Hzqi]

@menyc

Or, heh, if that's too heavy, try At War with the Mystics.

Even the Yeah Yeah Yeah Song has a power to change the way people look at the world. In a way children understand.

[djcalcio14]

@menyc also concurs with menyc. The Smiths and The Pixies might be for the truly formative years, but Go-Betweens is most assuredly a wonderful primer... and in accordance with menyc... why cannot we just reply anymore? It's a Twitter nation, my friend, alas and suffice to say.. the Twiddling down of response is wittling down to just a mere '@'... sadness.

[indieclock]

@menyc

my daughter is due to be born on Jan 7, and i could not agree with you any more than i already do.

i have a LONG LIST of bands to expose her to...

[Searchandpreserve]

@menyc Don´t get me wrong, but teaching kids about good music is perhaps a good reason to give birth to them. If been thinking a bit about it: I would offer them Big Star, The dB´s, The Go-Bes, The Beach Boys, John Cale, Tim Buckley, Les Voix Bulgares and so on, but I wouldn´t mind if they liked The Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, The Blue Orchids, Fairport Convention, Cpt. Beefheart, Tomte, Lee Perry, Neil Young and 13. Floor Elevators as well, to name a few. My father offered me German Blasmusik.

[jzsjzs]

best band ever for me, tallullah is the album i like most

[synno62]

My two daughters (13 and 8) have been fans for a couple of years now (one loves Was There Anything I Could Do, the younger one "Bachelor Kisses"). I'd be a proud dad, but they also think Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Hannah Montana et al are great. They're not convinced by The Smiths or The Pixies quite yet...

[cheesedominiccusack2]

@synno62

cool dad

[Hzqi]

@synno62

If you want to see youngans react to good modern music (by my call) try out The Flaming Lips album The Soft Bulletin. Something about the overdriven thuds and dramatic harmonic colour of the album really seems to capture their attention. I think it's also because Coyne writes with a kind of silly whimsy that is paradoxically juvenile but wise. Just don't tell them it's about life's two most dramatic subjects. Love and Death.

[electricsouperman]

@synno62 I've always been grateful of my parents' insistence ("encouragement") that I listened to "proper music"; I often wonder whether I would have discovered the music I now love without them...

[xasdrubalex]

@synno62 i can't believe there's a single girl who's not into The Smiths! :D

keep working daddy!

[DressSmartLookHard]

@synno62 It won't take long...I was raised on The Smiths, The Cure, Go Betweens, The Pogues, Gene etc. and has done me no harm!

[clayguy33]

@synno62 :) If I were superintendant, it would be mandatory music education. :)  (of course some Pixies lyrics would have to be bleeped)

[BobbyEnergy]

@synno62 the smiths require depression for them to like..thus they need to be teen and early tweenty's to have experienced a good amount of depressing experiences to equate to that of morrisey..thus best to avoid and instead have them listen to uplifting bands like oingo boingo,tears for fears,classical music and things of this nature...also you and them check out liferegenerators channel..and thus i have done my part :)

[oogie11]

@BobbyEnergy The Smiths can appeal to many, depressed or not. My friend likes 'This Charming Man' and is a pretty happy-go-lucky sort. Uplifting music is all good, but some of it is very very dull and has no relevance or heart. I recommedn The Smiths unequivocally :)

[holo9]

I love the way Robert moves and dances in this video... he seems elastic!!! And also he does in "Head full of steam" (funny video!)

[morbidBMI]

and that's the problem with music today its crap compared to this stuff.........I am not only getting old I am starting to sound like my parents

[FitoDauber]

JAJAJA...you're right!

[holo9]

AWESOME!!! This song is wonderful!!! And why I've never heard of them here in Spain??

[clayguy33]

What a great pick me up. Wish more of the kids knew it. Mine will if I ever have any.

[munkyfishbones]

A top 10 oz song of all time.

[qmono]

This is the first song i've ever heard from the Go-Betweens, so it brings me back good memories.

[rotcafarg]

How robert foster of you.

[4GPA]

Kingpin.

[henhao1972]

good call !!! yes from the movie king pin...but only for a about 7 seconds !!

[venderstrat]

not many had a ford cobra for a first car...but i still love it

[haggidubious]

Great song, thanks for upping it!

[PalladiumTV]

Like the guitar bit ..sweet

[thedruggames]

love them, played 4 of the albums today.....

[henhao1972]

from the movie "king pin" with Bill Murray . For some reason they didnt put it on the album.

[oldoddjobs]

"we in england had the smiths. the yanks had rem. and the aussie's had the go betweens. who says the 80's were crap! this is truly grown up pop. thanks."

Grown-up pop is an oxymoron. Here in Ireland "we" "had" Microdisney, who punch all those other bands in the face with a diamond knuckle duster.

[UncleOswald11]

REM,Go Betweens , The Smiths, Three of the best band goin

[primarybenelux]

I love Microdisney. However, even Cathal Coughlan liked The Go-Betweens enough to cover them!

[djdymcd]

And NZ had The Chills...

[blotchy67]

REM is crap compared to the other two, but The Smiths were the greatest pop band to walk the planet. The Go Betweens were just behind them with The Beatles somewhere in there too.

[blotchy67]

Also...Lloyd Cole and The Commotions made some pretty freaking good music during that time period as well!

[jeremyshambles]

you couldnt be more right about the smiths, cheers

[RichLN]

Heard a lot about this band, but the stuff on Youtube is disappointing. They never seemed to make it in the UK, and I'm not surprised. We had a surfeit of our own drab jingly jangly pop to digest in the unlamented 80s.

[revolutionaryspirit]

What an ignorant comment.

[RichLN]

Whereas yours is clearly the product of a razor-sharp mind backed up by years of studying Wittgenstein?

[dropkickmurphy9]

Hey let's purposefully lump one of the most subtle and sublimely lyrical bands of all-time in with boring shit like The Stone Roses and James. Just brilliant.

[feinstein1]

I like all three bands, but I would submit that the GB's are superior.

[nigelswords]

@RichLN Actually that's not altogether factual. Depends upon how you define 'make it'. They were the British music presses darlings:

"Some of the most beautiful music I've heard" - New Musical Express

"Australians and proud of it.....one of the best albums (Before Hollywood) this year so far" - Sounds

"Overflowing with fresh uncluttered pop" - Smash Hits

".....plenty of sustenance here..." - NME

"the struggle ends here with pop perfection" - Beat

and there are many more.

[RMAR70]

cool song, i allways thought this was the talking heads.

[maurrod]

another example of how to do great songs

[pjn2364]

i agree seems there is that calibre of person commenting out there in youtube land

[zee339]

This music is pop-tart backround filler on obscure muzak channels at best. I swear to god every band or singer on youtube has a monkey telling us their band is the best. most people are happy to hear anything, it seems.

[schmidt64]

And for every one of these "monkeys" there's a smart-ass, teaching the rest of the world how awfully wrong the monkey is ... in short terms: youtube is a great place for people who haven't found a useful purpose to direct their energy to - here they can let off some steam and feel a little bit important, reading the comments they provoked ...

[zee339]

wow, i made that comment 2 months ago and it's still on the first page. I guess that's a testament to the extent of this fanbase. And oh yes, you pretty much summed up my kina fun!

[crazypanda1994]

this makes me want to surf. :D

..and i cant even surf?!

[CND72]

The Go-Betweens were one of the all-time greats. Terrible that Grant died.

[UncleOswald11]

Yeah, Grant was a legend

[CND72]

The Go-Betweens were one of the all-time greats. Terrible that Grant died.

[fabstroker]

Great song.

[IvanAstronaut]

sad to think that this brilliant sort of music, classic aussie jangle has been replaced by the idol genre/tripe

[lutheringram]

one of THE few perfect pop songs. I miss this band.

[kevinherbert]

They sound like the bad band at the Dubbo RSL in 1972

[kyleluver4ever]

this is so fucking gay. yuck

[IvanAstronaut]

what do you mean gay? i don't see men doing it with men your comment is knuckle brained

[thehibtones]

Because of people like you, and the asshole who said "anyone's better than the smiths" I think posting comments on all you tube videos should be banned, at least people could enjoy watching the video, rather than getting depressed by the idiocy of humanity (although both experiences can go hand in hand).

[kevinherbert]

thehibtones: enter the democrat....the GB's & Morissey & the Smiths..music for the tone challenged....no-one ever lost money by underestimating public tasts...can you touch your nose & talk at the same time??

[theidealcopy]

if the idiocy of humanity makes you depressed then can I suggest you don't listen to the Smiths anymore, how about something more jolly like Joy Division

[jryanw2004]

all you have to do is not scroll down

[pxiq]

if you think this is gay it's probably because you are.

[likeastoolpigeon]

i do think at time all ausie bands came 2 england,seen your place,kinda dont blame them,it was kinda hard.

[IvanAstronaut]

huh?

[beenseeingaghost]

Perfection. The chorus is one of the most uplifting ever written and with Robert swinging about his umbrella and Grant singing, soaked to the bone... Perfection.

[PerfWorks]

Ahhh, I lived through this period of live music in Sydney - seeing all of the bands mentioned here - and it's hard to convey the magic of the Go-Betweens, the Triffids, the Laughing Clowns et al. Particularly given the other rubbbish around at the time, and that decidedly 2nd rate Australian copies of crap American stadium rock bands were the ones that did become famous (INXS, anyone?).

Let's just enjoy the magic of the Go-Betweens.

[KwautLizard]

Brings back such great memories, all of the bands you mention. Was lucky to catch the originality of The Paisley Movement as an American wandering around Oz at that time. Wish I could find some Triffids and Laughing Clowns as well. Thanks for the reply, hit a sentimental note. Oi twas Magic!

[NewPaltzIndie]

woah whats with all the harshness? just thought I'd put my two cents in on the whole "Who's better?" thing happening.

[DevilFriendly]

You've just scared the morons by using too many big words... don't ever be silenced by deadshits

[NewPaltzIndie]

If you think about it in a deeper aspect, Indie artists at the time were reflecting the events shaping their lives. The Smiths, despite the fact they refused to take any serious political stand, were living in a time of upheaval in the UK during the Thatcher administration. Groups from the US, and Austrailia looked back to a more romantic era of pop and psychadelia, the 1960s, when these artists were just getting exposed to the Beatles and The Byrds for the first time.

[cbappa1]

shut the fuck up ya tool

[Disappearer88]

who gives a shit.

[whereismymindseeitsw]

remember it was the greatest song ( you could hear on radio) in '86 ( after Tchernobyl - when cold spring rain in june was washing away dust 'n' nukes in central europe) heard it all the time together with songs from stanridgeway or the spin doctors*g*...heard them live _ they rocked like hell, those two guitars feuding, nothing like that tame radio version ----if I had to compare them I'd say : in '86 they played the same league as R.E.M. !

[NewPaltzIndie]

they arent better or worse then The Smiths, Go-Betweens were in a league of their own. The Go-Betweens and other aussie bands had a more "Surfy" sound to them, whereas The Smiths, The Cure etc had a darker tone. personally any artist from this period is of note.

[whereismymindseeitsw]

Right - but still its amazing - I didn't realize the analogy he pointed out - would you? I think that's because peolpe want to lock music in drawers like "punk" and nobody would have thought of them as a punk band in the 80's...it was all down to "guitar rock" then...and I can

[bellskank]

i think they sound more like lloyd cole and the comotions than the smiths

[bellskank]

this songs off the film king pin

[pmta43]

r.i.p. gm

[stankler]

its monsoon season here .the brolley seems more poignant than never

[ZippoWonderPenguin]

Saw this video on TV this morning. I had forgotten about this gem. The film clip is filmed near me in Sydney but I can't work out where the church is does anyone know? It looks so familar.

Does it really matter who's better The Smiths or the Go Betweens. If you like the music listen to it. This debate is pointless.

[chrisb1953]

Where?

The part with the spiked fence and city behind Robert Forster is adjacent to Darling Harbour. The church scene I think is around Pagewood/Mascot.

[2brave2handle]

brilliant!!

[theonevanessa]

fucking beautiful

[TheOrchids]

excellent stuff, check out THE ORCHIDS on youtube, here the song "another saturday night" as featured on an episode of FAlCON BEACH

[pandaeyes42]

One of the most perfect songs ever! reminds me of when I got my driver's licence. this came on as a bunch of us were heading into the city on a friday night.Always makes me smile.Cute video.

[dokadan]

Last saw them at the Astoria ,London 28/4/04!

[stankler]

wh3en bands play in the rain or water.doesnt it ruin their instruments

[stankler]

this song is as good as any smiths song .and great brolley trash at end

[AsmoAD]

They're a fantastic band but to say they're as good as the Smiths is getting a bit carried away.

[grafactor]

No, the Smiths were never in their league ;-)

[rixta68]

the smiths grossly over-rated...sad ass bastard is morrissey....

[kevinherbert]

I like the way the girl pretends that she knows how to play the drums....such hutzpah

[painferno]

lol wut

[chrisb1953]

She does know how to play the drums. After all, she is Lindy Morrison, The Go Betweens drummer!

Not all women connected with music are singers models or groupies !

[RedDetroit]

I'd even say they were better than The Smiths!

RIP Grant

[earlybird2008]

I'm sorry but I cant have that!! Go Betweens were fantastic thats for sure, but not better than The Smiths No way no way :o)

[kevinherbert]

Anyone is better than the Smiths!!!!

[thehibtones]

asshole

[PittsburghPirate]

Wonderful song - is that Brisbane in the background?

[swampscrapper]

Classic Aussie 80's jangle. Impossible to recreate.

[meirser]

Wonderful

[kylepaterson]

great band, sad to hear about the death of grant mclennan. rest in peace.

[tozzer577]

R.I.P. Grant! You will be missed!

[karimamir]

Thanks for posting these G-B videos.

RIP, Grant

[BarbaraOM]

Esto es muy grande. Maravillosa canción, y qué guapos todos ellos.