Thought That I Was Over You

Sad news today: Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens has died at the young age of 48. McLennan and fellow Go-Betweens principal Robert Forster wrote all kinds of amazing pop songs over the years, from dry & wry to unashamedly sentimental. McLennan always seemed like the classical-tunesmih McCartney to Forster’s slightly more acerbic Lennon, though there’s of course plenty of overlap in those categories with both musical teams.

Here’s a Go-Betweens classic from their 1980s heyday (and make no mistake, they had a run of great albums back then that stacks up well against anything); something from McLennan’s first solo album, Watershed (1991); and something else from ’91, from an album McLennan recorded in collaboroation with the Church’s Steve Kilbey under the name Jack Frost.

• The Go-Betweens, “Cattle and Cane”
• G.W. McLennan, “Haven’t I Been a Fool”
• Jack Frost, “Thought That I Was Over You”

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