Gone-Between
A beautiful thing has died and Grant McLennan will never be recognised by the hoi polloi as the great pop genius he was.The beautiful thing is the music of the Go-Betweens. There will not be any more and a tiny light has gone out in my life, and the life of those who know great pop music when they hear it. Anyone who has heard Cattle and cane and knows what a pop song should sound like will know that there has been a tragedy. The rest of the world will carry on regardless, but fuck them, what do they know?
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
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:36 am
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