RE: (TV) Go Betweens

[Eric Gregory <egregory@standard.com>]

much as i love the go-betweens, their lack of commercial success is
thoroughly logical...the music they made was peripheral to the pop
world....there were too many sharp corners, too much lyrically, no focussed
image/attitude... barring, of course, "16 lovers lane".
that was indeed their last great gasp & it was just a bad hand dealt that
they didn't receive more recognition/airplay for it (stateside at least,
wasn't "streets of yr town" a moderately successful single in the UK?).
i mean, they were smarter than morrissey, more ambitious & soulful than REM,
less obnoxious than U2...these are NOT the elements to success in the big
bad POP world.
& who's complaining???
they were contemporaries of mine who helped reinforce what a pop song could
say.
that's no small thing.

& their early stuff owed lots to the NYC 76-78 scene.


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-----Original Message-----
From: jpontrelli@nallmiller.com [mailto:jpontrelli@nallmiller.com]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 11:01 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Go Betweens


I'm bored so here goes:  I cannot think of another band whose lack of
commercial success is more inexplicable than the Go Betweens.  comments?
theories? indifference?

and for those of you who require a TV connection, well there ain't one
unless you think commercial failure
 

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