Love Goes On (song)

"Love Goes On"
Single by The Go-Betweens
from the album 16 Lovers Lane
A-side Love Goes On
B-side Clouds
Released January 1989
(see release history)
Format 7" vinyl
Recorded April 1988
Genre
Length 3:20
Label Beggars Banquet
Writer(s) Robert Forster, Grant McLennan[1]
Producer(s) Mark Wallis
The Go-Betweens singles chronology
"Was There Anything I Could Do?"
(1988)		 "Love Goes On"
(1989)		 "Going Blind"
(2000)

"Love Goes On" is the third single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens, from their 1988 album, 16 Lovers Lane. The song was released in January 1989 by Beggars Banquet Records in the UK, with "Clouds" as the B-side.[2]

Reception

Thom Jurek in his review of 16 Lovers Lane at AllMusic describes the song as setting the stage "for a kind of refined yet primal emotional transference that pop music is rarely capable of revealing." "As he [McLennan] sings... ...the doorway to the heart and its secrets opens. In the grain of his voice lie the flowers in the dustbin whose names are desperation and affirmation. With its hyperactive acoustic guitars, Amanda Brown's cooing string arrangements, and the deftly layered, subtly played brass instruments, the tune becomes a gauzy anthem; it celebrates the ravaged heart as a beacon of strained hope in the entryway to a hall of bewilderment."[3]

In the book, Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, it states that "'Love Goes On' is either a literal story of obsession or a metaphor for the transitory nature of love, driven by a cheery electric guitar line and a Spanish guitar break over strings, synths and God knows how many other instruments."[4]

Track listing

7" Vinyl release

All songs written and composed by R. Forster, G. McLennan[1]. 

No. Title Length
1. "Love Goes On"   3:20
2. "Clouds"   4:00

Release history

Date Region Label Format Catalogue
January 1989 United Kingdom Beggars Banquet 7" vinyl BEG 225[5]
1989 Spain Beggars Banquet/Victoria VIC 359

Credits

The Go-Betweens
Production

References

  1. 1 2 "'Loves Goes On' at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 7 August 2015. Note: User may have to click on 'Search again' and provide details at 'Enter a title:', e.g. Love Goes On; or at 'Performer:' The Go-Betweens.
  2. ↑ "The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On". Go-Betweens.org.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Coope, Kim (Ed); Smay, David (Ed) (2005). Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Routledge. ISBN 978-113587-921-1.
  5. ↑ "Go-Betweens - Love Goes On". Discogs. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

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