I don't think the G-Bs are terrible, and I remain to be convinced that they're as good as their enthusiasts say. What I repeatedly find them is *difficult*. I don't understand the lyrics; there are few memorable melodies; even the rhythms are often perverse and hard to follow. None of this is necessarily bad - far from it. But I would like to appeal to those in the know: what is the point of the Go-Betweens? Why, exactly, should we persist in trying to overcome the obstacles they set before us?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I know there''s more to say, but I'll have to think it through :-)
― alex thomson, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Lyrics are not that important to me, so that doesn't save them. I've concluded that GBs devotees are just looking for completely different things in music, whatever they are, and we're just worlds apart. Like Pinefox, I'm curious to know what it is that people see in them, but I doubt that we'll find out.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jens, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
However, they did not always wear the right trainers. And I agree that some of their album stuff is shite. I hope you keep listening, it's a filthy lie that pop music is always instantly "get"-able. Sometimes you have to persevere, dontcha? I hated Television the first time I heard them and they're now my fave band ever. i admit to loving the GBs on first listen, though.
― hymie, Friday, 16 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Geordie 'Inadequate' Racer, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Still unenlightened, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That people find The Go-Betweens difficult puzzles me. I worry that I'm not attuned to the music enough to hear what's difficult about it. As for the melodies not being memorable, I don't know. I think I listen to them as a background to Robert Forster's voice and the subjects he sings about, and they add tremendously to the pathos of the songs. I don't think Robert Forster and Grant McLennan are clever lyricists, but I think they write with great feeling, and they see things that someone I could admire would see. It's the details.
If you don't like Robert Forster's voice or if lyrics don't matter to you, I can see how it would be hard to get into them.
By the way, I bought, read, and sold back this paperback called _The Go-Between_ by J.P. Hartley from a great used bookstore when I was in Amsterdam. I think a film was made based on the book with Lee Remick in the leading female role. Does anyone know if that's where they got their name from?
― youn, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(like hear'say doing Simon and Garfunkel covers w/o the creative integrity)
― mark s, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I probably don't need to say here that lyrics do matter to me. I think it's possible, or arguable, that the G-Bs' lyrics are the best thing about them. I still think they're melodically weak. Occasionally (I'm thinking of 'Part Company') that doesn't matter, and can even become a kind of virtue.
I do think this band is a grower. I like them more than I did. But I still think they're somewhat overrated, because their tally of great tracks still seems to me rather small, given how long they've been at it.
Their records also tend to include really bad guitar solos.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
a bit whispy, when I was younger I yawned violently to them, no I'm older and it all makes sense to me know *weeps*
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
Liberty Belle LP.
Liking 'In The Core Of A Flame', just now!
― the gofox (the pinefox), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
ooh la la
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
wonder if he'll bring the show down south?
― mrlynch, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I was wondering what he would do next -- and I don't blame him for catching his breath and looking back a bit, after everything.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the GoBetweens just fine and dandy, but I never loved them they way I loved their more racous countrymen such as The Triffids or The Moodists. At the more gentler end of the spectrum I always thought The Chills sounded more like how the 'tweens were described - and they never did anything as good as Pink Frost.
― Sandy Blair, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Hasn't someone (maybe it was you Sandy) said pretty much exactly this before?
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
goddamn i'd so go to that if i wasn't going to be in london then
― electricsound, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link
not surprisingly, this coincides with the release of a split 90s best-of by he and McLennan solo
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought The Chills sounded more like how the 'tweens were described - and they never did anything as good as Pink Frost.
Um, wrong, in that while "Pink Frost" may be the absolute single peak of Martin Phillipps work there's so much else very close to that summit.
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny, these memories, but I remember sitting with Martin Phillipps as he gazed at that double album Go-Betweens anthology (on vinyl) and told me how his goal was to make an album half as good as the Go-Betweens worst!
― deedeedeextrovert, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
saw this thread as "cattle and cane" came on. weird.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Hard to believe it's been more than a year since McLennan's death.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, memories are funny. I recall a schoolboy... wait, no, I recall sitting with Martin and he's EXTREMELY modest about the quality of his work. His best is on the same level as Grant and Roberts.
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_nn90p-tIg
what a pretty song. though, sometimes i forget how awful and pointless so many mid-1980s videos were.
― amateurist, Saturday, 24 October 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The song that introduced me to the Go-Be's. I don't get why this song is called overproduced; to me there's just enough reverb on the guitar hook, synth, and vocal to give it that nuevo Orbison vibe.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 October 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
From an interview with one of the guys from No Age on Pfork this morning, regarding new album influences:
Pitchfork: Is there any brighter, more poppy music you have been listening to lately that might be having an influence?RR: Yeah, actually. The Go-Betweens have been on rotation. They have a really interesting sort of sound collage. That and this band Disco Inferno have been two references for us in a lot of ways. There's a fun-ness in there. Disco Inferno is really heavily sample-based, but still has this pop element. There's this record D.I. Go Pop that I have been listening to a lot during the creation of this.
RR: Yeah, actually. The Go-Betweens have been on rotation. They have a really interesting sort of sound collage. That and this band Disco Inferno have been two references for us in a lot of ways. There's a fun-ness in there. Disco Inferno is really heavily sample-based, but still has this pop element. There's this record D.I. Go Pop that I have been listening to a lot during the creation of this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
That's interesting .... Haven't really been nuts about the No Age I've heard, but a Go-B's influence would be welcome! Hey if you're wondering what the latter day go-betweens were all about, my friend put together a best of the 2000s mix of the band over yonder .... http://ow.ly/11qAR ... it's very good!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
We're doing this, on Sunday afternoon, in London:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gGTkjs7tinQ/UVyLUBUzysI/AAAAAAAAApk/bNVaRQXFd68/s320/Grant+McLennan+tribute.jpg
Details here: http://hangoverlounge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-third-annual-grant-mclennan-tribute.html
― Tim, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Would go to this but I'll probably be watching a lot of football, should be ashamed of myself
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
One of my fave t-shirts:
http://www.gobetweensstore.co.uk/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/mclennanT-large.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
man i would so go to that hangover lounge thing if i lived in london. i don't even know what it is but I'd go! was just listening to a pretty wild bootleg of the trio go-Bs from 1982. kind of amazing they made tallulah a couple years later -- this thing is spikey as hell.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
I actually prefer the earlier work, especially Before Hollywood, over the late '80s stuff like 16 Lovers Lane. I dunno, I just find a track like 'A Bad Debt Follows You', with its spiky guitars and shifting time signatures, much more interesting than the U2-isms of 'Quiet Heart'.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
"Quiet Heart" only sounds like U2 because of "With or Without You."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
The female harmonies in Streets Of Your Town are the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Beyond that, I dig Spring Rain because of that guitar riff that's in Kingpin that I spent 10 years trying to identify. That's about it for me though.
― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Hey, don't ruin "Quiet Heart" for me by making a U2 association!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 2 May 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
feel like i've heard Forster say that song started out as a jesus and mary chain thing?
― tylerw, Friday, 3 May 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
My fav T-shirt ever. http://www.gobetweensstore.co.uk/products/hammert-large.jpg
― Jazzbo, Friday, 3 May 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
where the streets of your town have no name
i don't get the u2 thing at all, but yes i would love to hear more spiky guitar go-betweens a la man o'sand to girl o'sea
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
Every line in "Quiet Heart" reverberates ("We're trying hard to keep this warmth in"). Plus: harmonica solo instead of guitar!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
http://damienpower.com.au/2013/04/spleen-archives-grant-mclennan-interview/coincidence not
― MatthewK, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
Spring Hill Fair is on UK Spotify, but the first two albums are not.
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:50 (nine months ago) link
LOL forgot about the videos. I like the one for "Cattle and Cane." Clearly a cheap, no-budget video - IIRC it's just the three of them in a barn? - but a great understated song deserves a simple, understated video, not something that'll overwhelm or replace the music in one's mind.
Agree re: "Quiet Heart" too, and I think it may have been inspired by "With or Without You"? That whole album has a lot of songs that would've sounded nice on the radio - "Clouds" sounds like something that would've been a big hit in the early-to-mid '90s. There's an older Go-Betweens documentary (not the one from 2017, I think this one may have been done while Grant was alive) where Robert talks about how demoralizing it was when 16LL didn't change anything - i.e. we went through hell making that record, toured around the world, pretty much exhausted ourselves...and wound up back in Australia where we're supposed to do it all AGAIN. I think it sold only a couple hundred thousand copies in America even though it was distributed by Capitol, but for an acclaimed and well-established band of that time, that does kind of suck. I don't think massive success would've been great for them, but it brings to mind John Cassavetes - he started mortgaging his house when he began making his own films, and even though he made a string of masterpieces, by the end of his life he still owed just as much if not more to the bank. He didn't expect to become Spielberg or anything but it would've been nice not to have that level of financial pressure day-in and day-out.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link
"Clouds" sounds like something that would've been a big hit in the early-to-mid '90s
I meant on whichever stations were playing stuff like "Linger," not the ones playing grunge
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link
wouldn't be surprised if (arrangement-wise at least) "quiet heart" was explicitly influenced by "with or without you" (though I want to say that either Forster or McLennan said it started out as a more jesus and mary chain kind of thing)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:59 (nine months ago) link
Possibly why it's one of my least favourite Go-B's songs.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:15 (nine months ago) link
noooooooo it is beautiful
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link
Love Robert's voice but it just isn't something you can imagine helping them get to REM level― PaulTMA, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 8:26 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sure. Grant's voice though?
The 'Right Here' documentary is a suitable companion to the book btw. Paints a pretty clear picture re: their (relative) successes and failures, and, more interestingly, the dynamics within the band. I loved it.
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
Alfred pretty otm so far. there was always something at right angles about them that precluded stardom and made them so interesting. ultimately the other members of the band seemed to have a better assessment of their ceiling. RF/GM thought they could shake those off and have an easier life. both failed to fully understand / were too tired to continue living with the original lineup's charisma, and then on their own they learned they couldn't be pop stars.both of them seem to have variously enjoyed their distinctiveness and railed against it: always being determined to have female members, then allegedly complaining about the girls, wearing dresses / egging each other on to do it at influential events, recording spoken word and other rambles. and that's just Grant the pop one. there's a lot of weird "I never wanted it anyway!" rationalising after the fact.having said all that, loads of oddball bands got at least one hit in the 80s/90s: thinking of Prefab Sprout, though RF might shudder at the comparison.those saying they're pompous to think they could be U2 are right but also time and acclaim makes us forget how skint and unpopular they really were - they seem to have had less success or promise of it at the time than say a Triffids or a Microdisney, both of whom now have less cred.to me a bigger problem with the legacy, at least in the UK where you can't stream the first two albums, is people dismissing them essentially as a failed sophistipop band based on the later stuff.
― verhexen, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 19:52 (nine months ago) link
also the videos are broadly heinous apart from Spring Rain. Head Full of Steam could surely have been an indie hit with a blander clip!the Cattle & Cane video mentioned upthread is actually taken from the Australian TV show Countdown which explains why it makes a kind of lame sense. the little seen real one has surfaced on YouTube and is like a living version of the Before Hollywood album cover featuring them all looking pallid and Grant posing with a clock.
― verhexen, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 19:57 (nine months ago) link
forgive the essays I sure love talking about the Go-Betweens
They sold a lot more records than Microdisney! I'd guess they sold more than the Triffids too, in the UK at least.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 20:02 (nine months ago) link
Yeah you can always look in the other direction. Sure, they were no U2 or Echo and the Bunnymen in terms of success, but they were also much more successful than Microdisney or the Apartments or Close Lobsters or whatever.
― SA, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 20:39 (nine months ago) link
Their career thrived on failure -- that's the story. They needed cultdom to release such tense, uneven albums.― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
100%. As a NZer, I've always thought of them as occupying an uneasy mid-point between Crowded House and the Chills (probably the closest Flying Nun band to them) in terms of success/cult-dom. Any Aussies want to chime in on how they're currently situated? I get the feeling "Cattle and Cane" is the song everyone covers / makes the APRA lists but 16LL tracks are the ones played on the radio.
― etc, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 20:50 (nine months ago) link
Bono praising "Cattle and Cane" in 2006 as one of the best songs of all time did a lot for it.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:05 (nine months ago) link
the story of Grant's unraveling without mentioning heroin.
― dow, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:46 (nine months ago) link
left with the elephant in the room--
― dow, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:49 (nine months ago) link
Oh, c'mon, all, it's clear from Forster's memoir that heroin and, later, alcoholism destroyed McLennan. The idea of a grown man over 22 drinking Long Island ice teas depresses me.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:57 (nine months ago) link
I haven't read the book, so was going by prev comment. Seems right it's clear.
― dow, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:12 (nine months ago) link
From a recent interview, after a few years of seeming to skirt around it: "Forster wholeheartedly rejects rumours that he died of a heroin overdose, and not because he is trying to sanctify the guy. “It seems ludicrous to me that Grant would shoot up heroin at 4pm, just before a hundred of his friends came over,” he says. “Maybe at 11pm when the party was dying down … I think alcohol killed him. It ate away at his body.""Might be denial but he's pretty unequivocal elsewhere that Grant "walked to" an early death (I think he says that in the documentary extras) and unsparing in ways about his previous melancholy and physical decline that are revealing / heartbreaking enough, and maybe feels that last step is too ghoulish to take.I find it even slightly more painful tbh to think of someone finally getting the life they want and then being taken by the cumulative result of previous heavy living. Cruel.
― verhexen, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:30 (nine months ago) link
Thanks. Yeah, the longtime affects of alcohol and speedy drugs, especially, can really keep affecting even people who have cleaned up a while back.
― dow, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:40 (nine months ago) link
This theory makes sense to me. Reminds me of the sad case of Rick Danko who, after he stopped using, basically ate himself to death iirc.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:48 (nine months ago) link
It was probably a constellation of health reasons, not all alcoholics die before they're 50. His father died young too. In the book as I recall, Robert says Grant had complained of tingling in the fingers and ill health in the weeks before, and had gone to see a doctor. He probably had some cardiovascular blockage that ultimately led to the heart attack.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:05 (nine months ago) link
Forster also has chronic hepatitis thanks to his heroin experiments.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:10 (nine months ago) link
I find it even slightly more painful tbh to think of someone finally getting the life they want and then being taken by the cumulative result of previous heavy living. Cruel.
The last girlfriend of Miles Davis reported that this is how he felt in his final months.
So did Walter Becker, who was apparently very unwell for quite a while before he died.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:32 (nine months ago) link
I've been trying to think of a Canadian equivalent to this group. Best I can come up with is if Grapes of Wrath had banded together with their girlfriends in Lava Hay and worked overtime trying to write "literary" lyrics. 90s Canadian equivalent probably Ron Sexsmith, whose songs I haven't found that impressive. But people seemed to be blown away for awhile.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:12 (nine months ago) link
Happy birthday, Mr. Forster!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:13 (nine months ago) link
Oh wow. Happy Birthday, big yin!
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:15 (nine months ago) link
I assembled a playlist a few years ago, updated.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:38 (nine months ago) link
this discussion prompted me to look at what's on us spotify and, welp, that was fairly disappointing. oddly it seems all of the pair's solo recordings are there. not complaining, but what the hell?
― meg white's superior technique. (Austin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 20:17 (nine months ago) link
I've been trying to think of a Canadian equivalent to this group.
Contemporaneous Canadians? I loved the Grapes but they lacked the appealing awkwardness of Forster/McLennan. Pursuit of Happiness had the gender diversity but stylistically weren't at all similar. I dunno, I don't think I could name a reasonable equivalent for them even at the global level.
And yes, a happy birthday to RF!
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 30 June 2023 00:03 (eight months ago) link
also on the list of luminaries destroyed by historical excess despite getting their shit together, Rowland S Howard. His death still hurts.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 30 June 2023 01:16 (eight months ago) link
Robert seems to have launched a cereal called Spring Grain and it's not a joke
https://www.facebook.com/robertforsterofficial/posts/pfbid0XR9dC1XNxupnYrji7xdBxkMsWokhJzgXAJ4JHuA1QBbCUbiwMjYTRsnffYyfJfYLl
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:25 (eight months ago) link
I am going to the launch event on Thursday morning and will report back.
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
I began eating muesli in my late teens. I loved the milky mixture of oats and grains and sultanas – and knowing it was good for me. Through the years as muesli became more mainstream, I noticed my morning bowl was becoming more colourful and sweeter. A time came when my doctor and dieticians told me my breakfast was no longer good for my long-term health. The exotic pieces of dried fruit were pushing up my sugar levels. The nuts lurking in the dried fruit were harming my teeth. Something had to change.I looked for a simpler, tastier, gentler product on the shelves, but I couldn’t find it. What was I looking for? I knew organic wholegrain oats were important. I knew a sprinkle of coconut would be good. Ground sunflower and linseeds were super healthy. A strategically placed sultana would be divine. I remembered Amaranth puffs, the South American superfood. And ground Brazil Nuts, rich in the health-preserving mineral Selenium – every nutritionist recommended them. I mixed these ingredients in my kitchen like an inspired scientist. Until I got what I wanted. The magic mix. Spring Grain.Now here’s the genius part. It’s your muesli. I’m giving you the basics, a cereal that works beautifully by itself. However, if you want to augment your muesli experience you can. Add half a chopped pear one day. A handful of berries the next. The corporations aren’t sweetening your muesli – you are. Add your chosen milk. And as a final treat, perhaps a loving spoonful of natural yoghurt on top. How will it taste? Just like Spring Grain.
I looked for a simpler, tastier, gentler product on the shelves, but I couldn’t find it. What was I looking for? I knew organic wholegrain oats were important. I knew a sprinkle of coconut would be good. Ground sunflower and linseeds were super healthy. A strategically placed sultana would be divine. I remembered Amaranth puffs, the South American superfood. And ground Brazil Nuts, rich in the health-preserving mineral Selenium – every nutritionist recommended them. I mixed these ingredients in my kitchen like an inspired scientist. Until I got what I wanted. The magic mix. Spring Grain.
Now here’s the genius part. It’s your muesli. I’m giving you the basics, a cereal that works beautifully by itself. However, if you want to augment your muesli experience you can. Add half a chopped pear one day. A handful of berries the next. The corporations aren’t sweetening your muesli – you are. Add your chosen milk. And as a final treat, perhaps a loving spoonful of natural yoghurt on top. How will it taste? Just like Spring Grain.
https://robertforsterspringgrain.tmstor.es/product/117976
― devvvine, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
delivery cost makes this a bit rich for my blood sadly
― devvvine, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:53 (eight months ago) link
This is great. My breakfast these days is mostly steel cut oatmeal with nuts and fat-free yogurt so I would definitely get this.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:25 (eight months ago) link
Pick me up in pieces, I'm scattered and brokenSlow, slow muesli
― fetter, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 18:17 (eight months ago) link
In development: Bachelor Knishes
― fetter, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
I got as far as "falling down like wheat" before I gave up trying to Weird Al it
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 08:26 (eight months ago) link
dude like his breakfast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-mi0bFpaI
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 08:58 (eight months ago) link
Draining the Bowl for You
Was There Anything I Could Chew?
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 09:36 (eight months ago) link
Wheats of Your Town
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 09:44 (eight months ago) link
Head Full of Cream (of Wheat)
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 10:42 (eight months ago) link
and their steel-cut oats, their lovely steel-cut oatsthe Clarke sisters
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:03 (eight months ago) link
Cattle and Grain
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:39 (eight months ago) link
Sorry, doesn’t work, too close to the original
I can't wait to see if my Amaranth's accepted
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:53 (eight months ago) link
Graining The Pool For You
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 17:09 (eight months ago) link
er, Graining The Bowl For You
But that makes the song all the more viable for advertising - they missed their chance to cash-in with Quaker Oats!
Joking aside, it's strange how old white guys are like the go-to face for breakfast grains now, between the Quaker dude, the late Wilford Brimley, Bob's Red Mill and now Robert.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 19:06 (eight months ago) link