The Go-Betweens: Unreleased songs in the ASCAP database

The ASCAP database contains a number of Robert Forster/Grant McLennan compositions that the duo copyrighted but never released.

If any of these songs were recorded, they might appear on the forthcoming Go-Betweens box set that will compile the group's albums Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express, Tallulah, and 16 Lovers Lane along with unreleased recordings and B-sides from that period.

The copyright registrations contain some interesting curiosities in addition to revealing the existence of these unreleased songs. Some examples: 

• The full registered title of "Right Here" from Tallulah is "Right Here (Her Song)"
• "Spirit of a Vampyre" from Tallulah is registered as "Spirit of a Vampire"
• "Reunion Dinner" is registered as "Reunion Dinners"
• The early outtake "Serenade Sound" is registered as "Serenade"
• The song that is listed as "I Know What It's Like Without You" on the bootleg album The Botany Sessions is registered as "I Know What It's Like"

Among songs on which Grant is listed as the sole composer, "All Her Songs" is registered as "All Her Song" (must be a typo), and "Bathe (In the Water)" is registered simply as "Bathe."

Unreleased Forster/McLennan compositions

"A Trip to Saturn"

"Ace of Spades"

"Analogue Rock"

"Anastasias Revenge" [sic]

"Before the Thrill"

"Do You Believe in Me" (Coincidentally, the Go-Betweens' "Streets of Your Town" appeared on a compilation that included Eric Gadd's "Do You Believe in Me," a Gadd original.)

"Down Through Fortune"

"Memory Lie Down" (The title might have come from this unpublished Yeats poem. Click to enlarge.)

From Druid Craft: The Writing of the Shadowy Waters

"Nightman"

"Outlaw" (Baby You Know, the group in which Forster's wife Karin was a member, recorded a song called "Outlaw" on their 1992 album Clear Water.)

"Rainbow Burn"

"Stone"