“Bachelor Kisses” by The Go-Betweens

"Bachelor Kisses" was the Go-Betweens' first real shot at a hit, pulled from their third album, Spring Hill Fair, as its second single and issued by Sire in Britain and Australia in 1984. Grant McLennan wrote the words and sings them, and the music is credited to him and Robert Forster; Forster later said it sounded like a pop song from the very start, something that came to McLennan easily and naturally.

McLennan warned against hearing it as courtly. It's about infidelity and broken trust, all the promises men make to women about security, children and the future, and how short they fall. Forster and McLennan play the guitars, Robert Vickers the bass and Lindy Morrison the drums, with Anna Silva joining Morrison on backing vocals; Robert Andrews adds keyboards and produced it with Colin Fairley, who engineered and mixed.

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