| "Bye Bye Pride" | ||||
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| Single by The Go-Betweens | ||||
| from the album Tallulah | ||||
| A-side | "Bye Bye Pride" | |||
| B-side | "The House That Jack Kerouac Built" | |||
| Released | August 1987 | |||
| Recorded | January 1987 | |||
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| Length | 4:06 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet (UK) True Tone (AUS) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Grant McLennan[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Richard Preston | |||
| The Go-Betweens singles chronology | ||||
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"Bye Bye Pride" is a song by Australian alternative band The Go-Betweens that first appeared on their fifth studio album Tallulah. It was released as a 7" and 12" vinyl single on the Beggars Banquet label in the United Kingdom in August 1987, with "The House That Jack Kerouac Built" as the B-side. In Australia it was released in 1987 by True Tone Records, with "Time In The Desert" as the B-Side. "Time In The Desert" was originally released as the B-side of the band's earlier single, "Cut It Out" (the second single from Tallulah). True Tone subsequently in 1988 re-released the single with a new B-side, "The Clarke Sisters".
The song failed to chart in either the UK or Australia however "Bye Bye Pride" was voted in at No. 89 in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1989[2] and No. 85 in the Hottest 100 for 1990.[3] At that time listeners could vote for songs released in any year.
Forster wrote that, "Grant's majestic "Bye Bye Pride, with one of the best opening lines ever, was a ten-foot wave driven by Lindy's snare, with Amanda's piping oboe the froth on top."[4]