This song reminds me of the time we got married. The Go-Betweens were an Australian band, and Streets of Your Town was, I think, as close as they go to a hit around the world.
It's a timeless favourite of mine, and I listened to a lot this winter while I was recuperating on the couch, reading books, falling into naps. It sounds like it could have been recorded now or at multiple other periods of town.
It's a bright song, with — quite like a lot of British songs I like — a dark tone lyrically. It's a great legacy song for Grant McLennan, who died much too early of a heart attack, in 2006. He was only 48.
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