Fav Grant McLennan Songs

I really don't know anything about McLennan solo, never listen to his half of Intermission because it didn't grab me immediately, but I keep meaning to get back to it.

Of course there are so many excellent Go-Betweens songs by Grant. River of Money, though - surely the most underrated McLennan composition? The band at their rawest and most elemental, a really atypical song. It's probably better than the songs on SHF, Tallulah and 16LL that are considered among their best but suffer from the fake drum sound. Yet you hardly ever hear anyone talking about it. It surprises me that they stumbled on a sound that really suited them but never really went down that road again. Then again I suppose in the shadow of Cattle and Cane's brilliance a lot of beautiful Go-Betweens songs that would be considered the pinnacle of any other band's career become also-rans.

"In Your Bright Ray" could be a song about the effect his music has on his listeners. This song makes me feel like anything is possible, it's so incredibly uplifting without any vague insincerity that often accompanies these types of songs.

By far the best song on that record too.

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky
A rain of falling cinders
From time to time the waste
Memory wastes

I recall a boy in bigger pants
Like everyone
Just waiting for a chance
His father's watch
He left it in the showers
From time to time the waste
Memory wastes

I recall a bigger brighter world
A world of books
And silent times in thought
And then the railroad
The railroad takes him home
Through fields of cattle
Through fields of cane
From time to time the waste
Memory wastes
And the waste
Memory wastes

I recall the same
A reply
A plan you once had
From time down to mine
That time was bad
So I knew where I was
Alone and so at home

Further, longer, higher
Further, longer, it's getting higher
Further, longer...

What a melodist. His Go-Betweens best-of.

You should do his solo stuff, which is often just as good (and sometimes better).

Love that you have Apology Accepted so high on the list.

and "You Won't Find it Again"!

Those songs kill me

<3 The Statue

That riff running beneath and through it...

good call on "a bad debt follows you." i always feel like that one gets overlooked because it's so short.

The "you told me skies could fall" section = A+