If you ever meet an Australian who is into music and want to get a rise out of them, you can either ask what part of South Africa they are from, or suggest that The Go-Betweens are over-rated.

Their home town of Brisbane has a bridge named after them, Cattle and Cane was listed as one of the 30 best Australian songs, and the have influenced boat loads of musicians that have followed including Courtney Barnett, Teenage Fanclub and Belle and Sebastian.

Australian musician, Paul Kelly is quoted as reacting thus, when he first heard the song:

My skin started tingling, and I had to pull over … [it] had an odd, jerky time signature which acted as a little trip-switch into another world – weird and heavenly and deeply familiar all at once … I could smell that song … What planet was this from? When did The Stranglers go to northern Queensland and get all arty?

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