A-side Love Goes On Released January 1989 Recorded April 1988 | B-side Clouds Format 7" vinyl Genre Power pop
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"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.
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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."
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."
7" Vinyl release
All tracks written by R. Forster, G. McLennan.