16 Lovers Lane [Enhanced] [Import]

Disc: 1
1. Love Goes On!
2. Quiet Heart
3. Love Is a Sign
4. You Can't Say No Forever
5. Devil's Eye
6. Streets of Your Town
7. Clouds
8. Was There Anything I Could Do?
9. I'm Allright
10. Dive for Your Memory
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Love Goes On! [Single Version]
2. Wait Until June
3. Mexican Postcard
4. Rock and Roll Friend
5. Casanova's Last Words
6. You Won't Find It Again
7. Running the Risk of Losing You
8. Apples in Bed
9. Head Over Heels
10. You're a Big Girl Now

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
UK reissue of 1988 album includes a bonus disc with 13 tracks, 'Love Goes On!' (Single Version), 'Wait Until June', 'Mexican Postcard', 'Rock And Roll Friend', 'Casanova's Last Words', 'You Won't Find It Again', 'Running The Risk Of Losing You', 'Apples In Bed', 'Head Over Heels', 'You're A Big Girl Now', 'Was There Anything I Could Do?' (Video), 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #1) & 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #2). Lo-Max. 2004.

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm Allright
Dive for Your Memory
Streets of Your Town [Version 1][Multimedia Track]
Streets of Your Town [Version 2][Multimedia Track]
Was There Anything I Could Do? [Multimedia Track]

Tracks:

Love Goes On! [Single Version]
Wait Until June
Mexican Postcard
Rock and Roll Friend
Casanova's Last Words
You Won't Find It Again
Running the Risk of Losing You
Apples in Bed
Head Over Heels
You're a Big Girl Now

Customer Reviews:

Why don't more people know about this band?.......2006-01-10

"I try to tell you, yeah I can only say it when we're apart."

"Sometimes girl when I'm lonely, this is how I think about you"

These are lines of great writing and singing. Some of the best lyrics you'll find anywhere, there's more but I'm listening to it now and can't remember them without skipping the tracks and I don't want to. I remember really being into this when I worked at this tv show and had to drive back and forth from Pasadena. This album got to me while driving under those train track looking bridges. It just melted over the radio and soothed me even though I had to run stupid errons, it didn't matter, this was where I was heart and soul into this thing.

The album starts so sweetly and then slowly you come to heartbreak and the soothing feeling afterwards of starting over again. It's their best and holds up over time, makes you remember the good things about lousy days.

Exceptional songs.......2006-01-07

I have never been a Go-Betweens fan but this cd is exceptional. When I purchased it the salesperson told me it was well worth the money. She couldn't have been more right. As far as I'm concerned there isn't one bad song in the lot. I would recommend this album to anyone who asked for my opinion.

My Favorite Album of All Time.......2005-12-14

This would be my desert island disc, if I could only choose one. Sheer bloody magnificence is contained in these 10 perfect songs. I can't even choose favorites - my favorite is whatever one I'm listening to at the moment - but highpoints include: the fragile, but optimistic "Love Goes On!", the deceptively sunny, but dark "Streets of Your Town" (it's "full of battered wives") and "Quiet Heart", a tender love song that contains the somewhat depressing, but nonetheless true, wisdom "No matter how far you've gone, you've always got further to go".

"Dive For Your Memory", too, is sublime, Zen perfection. Very forlorn, but deeply poetic lyrics, set to a gorgeous, simple folk melody, accompanied by rich and tasteful acoustic guitar fills...

And, let me not leave out the romantically tortured narrative of "I'm Alright"...the protagonist of this song has been beaten down, but is, somewhat shakily, ready for a comeback.

Every Go-Betweens disc is worth picking up, but this is the most masterful and perfect distillation of their gifts so far.

(I'm a huge fan of them all, but if I had to narrow it down, I'd say the ones to get are: "Tallulah", "Liberty Belle", "Spring Hill Fair", "Oceans Apart" and, of course, this.)

hugely under-sold masterpiece.......2005-11-18

You can't say this is underrated - critics have raved about it since its release - but at about 18,500 in the Amazon sales list, it is obviously unknown to millions of people who would adore it.
See previous reviewer for the run-down - I agree totally. I know all this group's albums. I saw them live, and McClennan solo - in fact I'm seeing Foster and McClennan at the Sydney Opera House next week. Sometimes they're not entirely easy to like; they make you work for it a bit.
But this is their masterpiece. Every memeber was in top form, despite personal turmoil, and the 'indie Rumours' is a good description. It's probably the best 'serious' rock/pop album to come out of Australia (challenged only by the more confronting Nick Cave). Gorgeous is the word. Pop music of the most affecting kind. In a fairer world, 16 Lover's Lane would nudge its way into the best 50 albums of all time.

The Go-Betweens best moment given fantastic treatment........2004-11-30

Without a doubt, this is a must-have for any fan of the Go-Betweens and the place to start if you are new to the band. "A man far wiser than myself once referred to "16 Lovers Lane" as 'the indie Rumours'" the liner notes say in this fantastic re-issue of the Go-Betweens ultimate set of songs. No truer words were ever spoken about this amazing set. Why this album didn't spawn at least five top 10 singles is a mystery that will never be solved. But needless to say this is a fantastic set made even better by the wonderful packaging and extras included with this re-release

For those of you unfamiliar with the Go-Betweens work, this was the consummate work of their 80's heyday, for a great many reasons. The music is bright pop music, crystal clear, but in no way is it featherweight pop. The songs are beautifully arranged, every instrument, vocal, handclap, and anything else perfectly placed with not a note out of place, but this can be said of nearly every Go-Betweens release.

The lyrics, plaintive ruminations on love, are clearly written by two songwriters/lyricists going through the opposite sides of relationships. I will not go into detail here as the liner notes tell the story, but the interplay within the band as these relationships play out are what drove the entire release. Each lyricist, Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, gets about half of the album's lyrics, and that is what makes the CD special. Images of the giddyness of new love ("Love Goes On!") are juxtaposed with images of love lost in such as way as to be almost shocking. "I'm ten feet under water/standing in a sunken canoe/looking up at the water lillies/they're green and violet blue/still the sun it finds/a place to light me" from "Love Is a Sign" has to be one of the best descriptions of how it feels when a relationship falls apart that has ever been placed in song. These themes are repeatedly dealt with in different ways, from young lovers meeting and breaking up to the "old" love of couples with children ("You Can't Say No Forever") having a fight.

The bonus material in this handsome double-disc set is truly welcome. The videos to "Streets of Your Town" (still undoubtedly the best song on this incredible collection) and "Was There Anything I Could Do?" underscore the relationships going on in the band while not seeming too terribly out of date. The bonus disc of outtakes and b-sides is also a fantastic addition to the set as it includes several songs that didn't make the final album cut but are presented as they were at the end of the recording sessions, being nearly complete but having that rough edge of a final demo.

The real treat come with the acoustic "demos" that are included. "You Won't Find It Again," "Apples in Bed," and "Head Over Heels" are played only by McLennan and Forster on acoustic guitars, providing for an intimacy that is unmatched anywhere.

To top it all off, the packaging (including an awesome essay by British songwriter Andrew Male) is exquisite, providing detail on the circumstances surrounding the album as well as any pertinent recording information.

This is "16 Lovers Lane" as it was meant to be heard--enjoy!

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One of the great albums of the 80s
More than any new indie rock band
16 Lovers Lane - Buy This CD Now!
as melancholy as lost love
Beautiful, longing, romantic pop

16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008K4YP
Release Date: 2003-08-05

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm All Right
Dive for Your Memory

Customer Reviews:

One of the great albums of the 80s.......2007-03-14

Criminally unknown here in the US, this album has some of the most poignant, catchy, melodic, yet bittersweet, pop music of the 80s. To any fan of alternative rock/pop of the era, this is an essential addition to your collection.

More than any new indie rock band.......2005-04-29

Ok, everyone is now enchanted with Montreal's Arcade Fire, or spending their money with Bloc Party and over consider things like Mars Volta, but I think they're still far from great original indie core. "16th Lovers Lane" was recorded almost 20 years ago,and still it's songs are pristine and loveable as the first time I've heard it. "Love is a Sign" is the most strange love song I've ever heard: "I wish you had a big house,and that your work would start to sell", needless to say more. Buy it, thanks God for this new edition, and when you went really deep into the Betweens, go and check out, for another Aussie stars as The Cannanes.

16 Lovers Lane - Buy This CD Now!.......2004-05-03

I had purchase this on cassette tape from many years ago, but just purchased this masterpiece on CD. This is by far the best recording by an underated band who deserved more credit in these United States. Every single song on this album is brillant. 16 Lovers Lane is magnificent, simply breathtaking. I urge you Alternative Rock fans to purchase this. I would rate this in the top five of all the the past albums from the late 1980's. I know my music. So do yourself a favor & purchase this gem right now. You won't be sorry.

as melancholy as lost love.......2004-02-02

Good sensitive souls of the universe, who carve a world inside songs to build a safe home for their hearts, please, won't you buy this record?

Beautiful, longing, romantic pop.......2003-09-02

Just one of several great albums by this endlessly inventive songwriting duo. As usual, all the songs are catchy in a thoughtful, subtley structured way. The lyrics are somewhat minimal, yet immediate and engaging and evocative, effortlessly throwing up a narrative you feel more than you follow along like a plot. There's an overall sense of happiness tinged with a kind of sad longing, not exactly bittersweet. It's more mature than that. Seems to have a lot to do with the fact that they recorded this in Australia, after having lived in London for the past decade. You get the sense of happy homecoming that also reminds you of the lost past. The last song, about diving for your memory ... what a beautiful phrase. And then the band broke up, because after years of critical acclaim, they just weren't able to sell enough albums. Thankfully they've come back and started recording again. Their last two albums, "The Friends of Rachel Worth" and "Bright Yellow Bright Orange" don't miss a beat. Just more great songs for a new millenium.

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16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HKDES8
Release Date: 2006-08-21

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm Allright
Dive for Your Memory
Streets of Your Town /Was There Anything I Can Do? ... [Two Versions]

Tracks:

Love Goes On! [Single Version]
Wait Until June
Mexican Postcard
Rock and Roll Friend
Casanova's Last Words
You Won't Find It Again
Running the Risk of Losing You [Live]
Apples in Bed
Head Over Heels
You're a Big Girl Now

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of "16 Lovers Lane" features a Bonus Disc with B-sides and Rarities Including Film Clips.

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Genius?:
Just buy it...
A masterpiece
if you're in love - it's good to know someone cares !
top of the bill in heaven

16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000070IF
Release Date: 1996-04-22

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm All Right
Dive for Your Memory

Customer Reviews:

Genius?:.......2006-03-11

Grown men singing about ghosts, devils, souls, gods, and angels. When they move onto reality they sing about rain, not just rain, but spring rain from the Liberty Belle release, easy to see the genius here. Seriously when you buy an album and put it on you can tell what your going to get with them. It will be solid and hopefully grow on you. Unfortunately the items I have bought from the Go-Betweens have never lived up to their promise. The songs remain precious and dull. This is their best offering, but still it is rather bland and it does bother me when a band is ignorant and conforms to the worldview shared by the masses. They continue to do this and remain a band that delivers many types of love songs. Not always going below the surface, but always trying. Pretentious.

Just buy it..........2001-10-09

Following the mixed bag of 'Tallulah', '16 Lovers Lane' offers a more cohesive collection of the Go-Betweens unique, ultra-melodic brand of pop. This is their most polished album to date, though the studio-sterile sheen does not detract from the depth or character one typically expects from the Go-Betweens. In fact, the mellifluous, airy feel of the album suits the songs well; crystal-clear (largely acoustic) guitars weave intricate, lovely textures which, when combined with Amanda Brown's oboe and violin, form a mesmerizing sonic tapestry.

Of course all this atmosphere would just meander aimlessly were it not for sharp, solid songwriting, as well as the conviction that emotive singer/songwriters Forster and McClennan bring to their insightful, adult tales of love and loss. "Steets of Your Town" is one of the most beautiful, infectious tunes they've ever done, while its line "watch the butcher shine his knives/and this town is full of battered wives" makes for some brilliant, stinging irony. Likewise, Forster's hook-filled, moving "You Can't Say No Forever" features another thorn beneath the rose with "Yes my world's tumbling down/stone by stone to the ground/please take out the garbage". Brilliant.

What also makes this album different from its predecessors is the ease with which it all seems to come together. On the surface, the songs all seem to have a simple, even effortless quality, though repeated listens expose the complexity and sophistication lurking not far behind the soothing sounds. That they can take simple elements like acoustic guitars and major chords, and weave them into something so refined, demonstrates the brilliance and resourcefulness of this criminally under-appreciated band. This may not be their best album ("Liberty Belle" holds that proud title, in my humble opinion), but it's none the less a fine example of their now legendary, timeless approach to pop.

A masterpiece.......2000-12-14

The Go Betweens are one of those rare bands with two brilliant songwriters. Add the violin of Amanda Brown and you have an effortlessly transcendent album. The gentle songs of Grant McClennon chug along, 'Quiet Heart' and 'Devil's Eye' are beautiful pieces of music. 'Love is a sign' is my favourite, a poetic masterpiece. There is heart and soul all over this album, in an understated fashion. Musical bliss.

if you're in love - it's good to know someone cares !.......2000-10-10

I went through adolescence with this album at my side - I'm not sure what it heightened more - the pain or the wonder - but I wouldn't have been without it for the world. Consolation and Confirmation in equal measure. Anyone who's ever felt at the mercy of their own desires , you need this record. Buy it now.

top of the bill in heaven.......2000-10-08

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 ). Of course it just didn't happen and the band called it a day way too soon. Think of the "80's" and you think of Duran Duran , but somewhere out in bedsit land , hearts were being healed and blessed by Forster & Mclennan. Thank God I heard the Go-Betweens . Imagine if I just never had , like so many people out there. Imagine the Beatles totally missing the boat and having a cult following ... Poetry and Passion set to breathtakingly fragile melodies. Literate , friendly , sexy and cool - Buy this album now.

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm Allright
Dive for Your Memory
Streets of Your Town [Version 1][Multimedia Track]
Streets of Your Town [Version 2][Multimedia Track]
Was There Anything I Could Do? [Multimedia Track]

Tracks:

Love Goes On! [Single Version]
Wait Until June
Mexican Postcard
Rock and Roll Friend
Casanova's Last Words
You Won't Find It Again
Running the Risk of Losing You
Apples in Bed
Head Over Heels
You're a Big Girl Now

Album Description

UK reissue of 1988 album includes a bonus disc with 13 tracks, 'Love Goes On!' (Single Version), 'Wait Until June', 'Mexican Postcard', 'Rock And Roll Friend', 'Casanova's Last Words', 'You Won't Find It Again', 'Running The Risk Of Losing You', 'Apples In Bed', 'Head Over Heels', 'You're A Big Girl Now', 'Was There Anything I Could Do?' (Video), 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #1) & 'Streets Of Your Town' (Video #2). Lo-Max. 2004.

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16 Lovers Lane
Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0LGAK
Release Date: 2004-09-14

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16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008G1N
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Love Goes On!
Quiet Heart
Love Is a Sign
You Can't Say No Forever
Devil's Eye
Streets of Your Town
Clouds
Was There Anything I Could Do?
I'm All Right
Dive for Your Memory

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16 Lovers Lane
Go-Betweens
Manufacturer: Wea Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002B9QUW
Release Date: 2003-08-05

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16 Lovers Lane

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002233X2
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1988 album includes a bonus disc with 12 tracks, 'Love Goes On' (Single Version), 'Wait Until June', 'Mexican Postcard', 'Rock And Roll Friend', 'Cassanova's Last Words', 'You Won't Find It Again', 'Running The Risk Of Losin

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16 Lovers Lane
Go Betweens
Manufacturer: Msi Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0UNHC
Release Date: 2006-08-14

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