| Author | Message | ||
     Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 80 Registered: 05-2005 |
Following the off-topic Underground Lovers link how about a thread compiling all the songs which reference the band? I’ll start with 1Underground Lovers - Riding 2 Belle and Sebastian - Shoot the Sexual Athlete 3 Allo Darlin’- Tallulah 4 Smudge - Don’t wanna be Grant McLennan 5 Teenage Fanclub - While I Still Have Thee 6 Comet Gain - Ballad of a mixtape 7 Comet Gain - Your Robert! 8 The Becketts - Me and Robert Forster The last of those being the only time they made it on to Desert Island Discs as chosen by democracy-denier Paddy “bereft” Pantsdown. It is misspelt as Foster on the bbc site. Any more? | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Kelly - Careless A great song which quotes from Cattle and Cane during it's fade out ('further..longer...' etc). | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 339 Registered: 06-2005 |
Stretch out & Wait by The Smiths has Eskimo blood in it's veins, hadn't made the obvious link until I read Robert's book. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1048 Registered: 03-2007 |
Smudge - Don't Want To Be Grant McLennan | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1049 Registered: 03-2007 |
Failed to notice that the Smudge title had already been posted. Apologies. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8380 Registered: 05-2005 |
I recently made an iTunes playlist of songs influenced by The Go-Betweens (as least in my estimation). 1 Sea Pinks - Gonalong 2 Disco Inferno - The Last Dance 3 Arborist - A Man Of My Age 4 Bawl - Just Because 5 Horsebeach - Beauty And Sadness 6 Courtney Barnett - History Eraser 7 The Goon Sax - Home Haircuts 8 Even As We Speak - Beautiful Day 9 The Harvest Ministers - A River Wedding 10 The Bats - The Guilty Office 11 Bad//Dreems - My Only Friend 12 Dub Noir - Rue Savage 13 Jen Cloher - Mount Beauty 14 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Tender Is The Neck 15 Ed Kuepper - If I Had A Ticket 16 The Ocean Party - Memorial Flame Trees 17 Last Leaves - The Nights You Drove Me Home 18 Popstrangers - Heaven 19 The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning 20 The Zebras - Siesta 21 Underground Lovers - Riding |