Before Hollywood

Before Hollywood is the second album by Australian rock band the Go-Betweens, released in May 1983. The album reached No. 2 on the UK Independent Charts and a single, "Cattle and Cane" reached No. 4. In 2001 "Cattle and Cane" was voted as one of the 30 all-time best Australian songs in an Australasian Performing Right Association poll of 100 music industry personalities.

Before Hollywood
Studio album by
The Go-Betweens
ReleasedMay 1983
RecordedOctober 1982
StudioICC Studios, Eastbourne, England
GenreRock, alternative rock, indie rock
Length39:00
LabelRough Trade
ProducerJohn Brand
The Go-Betweens chronology
Send Me a Lullaby
(1982)		 Before Hollywood
(1983)		 Spring Hill Fair
(1984)
Singles from Before Hollywood
  1. "Cattle and Cane"
    Released: February 1983

The album, recorded in the UK, was the first to have a 50-50 split of songs written by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. In a 1996 radio interview McLennan nominated Before Hollywood as one of his two definitive Go-Betweens albums, describing it as a "nice combination of our skewered and classic songwriting, but with a heavy underground feeling".

An expanded version was released in 2002 featuring a second disc of eight bonus tracks and a music video for "Cattle and Cane."

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