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"Streets Of Your Town" is a song by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens, a single from their 1988 album, ''16 Lovers Lane''. Featuring polished production, a prominent backing vocal by Amanda Brown and a guitar solo by bassist John Willsteed, "Streets of Your Town" is one of the band's most recognised songs and is arguably the closest the group had to a mainstream hit. It was released in July 1988 in the UK on Beggars Banquet, where it reached #80 on the singles charts and in Australia in August 1988 on Mushroom, where it reached #70.〔 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.〕 In New Zealand, the song was issued in November 1988, and was a top 40 hit, peaking at #30〔http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Go%2DBetweens&titel=Streets+Of+Your+Town&cat=s〕 -- the band's highest-ever placing on any national chart. The single was re-released in the UK in 1989, in an attempt by Beggars Banquet to encourage the band's commercial momentum. However, it only peaked at No. 82.〔 ==Details== Written by Grant McLennan, the sunny, upbeat music is contrasted with darker lyrics: "Don't the sun look good today but the rain is on its way, watch the butcher shine his knives, and this town is full of battered wives". The often played videoclip, directed by Kriv Stenders, mixes evocative images of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, but there is also a second clip, directed by Paul Goldman and filmed in black-and-white which is included on the CD remaster, featuring footage of the band performing the song and the town of Rainbow,_Victoria. McLennan said of writing the song, "I was listening to 'Under the Milky Way' and I was just working it out - cause I'm a big fan of The Church. And that afternoon I came up with a chord progression and a chorus." Forster later said, "This was obviously the most commercial thing we'd ever done, and it came out around October '88, which caught the summer here. It was re-released in summer and it sat fantastically on Australian summer radio and then it sat well on English summer radio. We were walking around Soho and we'd hear it on the radio, every jean shop and café. It was on Radio 1 and so we were hearing it as we were walking around." Lines from the song were included by U2 when they played "Elevation" and "With or Without You" on the opening of the Pacific leg of their Vertigo World Tour in Brisbane, in dedication to McLennan. The song was also played after the band's second encore. The song was covered by Ivy, appearing on their 2003 album, ''Guestroom''. The opening guitar chords from the song are sampled on "Just the Way You Are" by Italian dance production group Milky. The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart in October, 2003.〔(Billboard Bits: Jack Black, Dub Narcotic, Milky )〕 This song was used as the theme song for Prime Television in Australia in 2001-2002〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prime Television )〕 and for television advertisements for The Courier Mail in 2006/2007, though in both cases the song was edited so that the darker lyrics were omitted. The song was also featured in the 2008 Australian/British AFI award-winning drama-based feature film ''The Black Balloon''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Black Balloon soundtrack )〕 A cover version of the song by Dave McCormack featured in the soundtrack to the movie ''All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane'' (2007). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Streets of Your Town」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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