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Lindy Morrison *November 2, 1951

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The Go-Betweens - Doo Wop In 'A' (Bam Boom) (1987)

A rarity in the Go-Betweens disography, co-written by drummer Lindy Morrison, violinist Amanda Brown, as well as Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. Released as the b-side to the underwhelming Cut It Out, it’s a winsome and charming tune with the two women on vocals.

I was a lonely girl, I lived in libraries

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It’s not a perfect album like Liberty Belle or 10 Lovers Lane, but I think about Tallulah more. Maybe it’s the cover. Amanda’s elf shoes, Other Robert’s cowboy hat, Lindy cool as you please in a Bowie-worthy suit, Main Robert trying so hard not to be eclipsed by Grant that he’s dyed his hair and got giant 80s specs. Grant appears to be quietly writing “Bye Bye Pride.”

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★ FAVOURITE ALBUMS + AESTHETICS: 16 lovers lane (1988) ★

↳ "visions of blue, i'm angry, i'm wise, and you—you're under cloudy skies."

#im starting a series of edits bc i want to be a tumblrina in the 80s music community #nobody cares abt the go betweens on this hellsite but idc i wanted to make something for this album #every day i go back and forth between saying this or skylarking is my fav album of all time. when will i decide?? probably never #the go betweens #robert forster #grant mclennan #lindy morrison #amanda brown #john willsteed #mia makes stuff #fvaa*

Of course, you can be female and love Dylan’s songs without really being able to see yourself in them, just as you can enjoy The Godfather and The Sopranos without actually being, or even knowing, a mobster. But reading My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend underlined a truth that I have long been loath to admit to myself — a squeamish distaste for Dylan’s view of women, which can be summed up in three words: “Lay, Lady, Lay.” Ellen Willis once wrote that Dylan had a “bohemian contempt for women,” and it’s true: the closer you listen, the more you hear. In my favorite Dylan song, “Tangled Up in Blue,” a nameless woman drives the entire narrative, and what does she do in it? She runs off with the singer, works in a topless joint, and hands the narrator a book of poems. Also, she lives with him on Montague Street in a basement down the stairs. I once knew a guy who, upon moving to New Orleans, rented a house on Montague Street specifically because of that line, and I think that level of devotion proves just how deeply Dylan’s work has inspired not only countless musicians but also many, if not most, music writers. And therein lies the rub. Verbose, sharp-edged, allusive — these are all the things a certain type of early rock writer aspired to be, but I have now spent almost half a century listening to the male version of events in both books and records, and I’m ready to hear any other version available. I’ll always love The Go-Betweens’ music, and I’m thankful that they are better appreciated today. But I don’t think my understanding of the story of The Go-Betweens would have been complete without this particular retelling of it — and the same probably goes for many of the other standard stories we’ve been told about bands.

Gina Arnold, Exile on Man Street: On Tracey Thorn’s “My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend”

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I highly recommend Tracey Thorn's My Rock'n'Roll Friend, an account of her decades-long friendship with Lindy Morrison, drummer of The Go-Betweens. I gobbled it up in one sitting yesterday.

It's a gorgeous tribute to Lindy and to the complicated intensity of female friendships, and an attempt to correct music history's telling of Lindy's role in the band and how women are written out of account in music, art, literature and history in general. Plus it's funny, affectionate, and full of nerdy indie rock factoids. Loved it!!

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