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The Go-Betweens: Tallulah (Beggars Banquet)

Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, May 1987

AS THE chief dreamboat Forster sighs at yet another of life's improbabilities, as the waggish McLennan makes some more compelling assumptions, as these roguish Go-Betweens spit out sarcasm, sawdust, seriousness and some neat scraps of melody, you wonder how much better the buggers can possibly get.

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