“Bye Bye Pride” by The Go-Betweens

"Bye Bye Pride" is Grant McLennan's song from Tallulah, the Go-Betweens' fifth album, and Beggars Banquet issued it in Britain in August 1987 on seven-inch and 12-inch, with "The House That Jack Kerouac Built" on the flip. McLennan sings it and shares the writing credit and the guitars with Robert Forster, while Robert Vickers plays bass, Lindy Morrison drums and Amanda Brown adds violin, oboe and backing vocals. Richard Preston produced and Mark Wallis mixed.

Forster wrote of it as an enormous wave driven by Morrison's snare, with Brown's oboe riding the crest like foam, and ranked its opening line with the best ever written. It missed the charts in Britain and at home in Australia alike; the Triple J listeners who voted it into the Hottest 100 two years running kept it alive.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.