Supernaturally gifted with marrying melody to chords, mild vocals, and erotic rue, Grant McLennan awed Robert Forster as soon as the two realized he was a major songwriter early in their Go-Betweens tenure. Even bearing in mind how the memoirist will attempt to shape judgments of the silent dead, Forster’s Grant and I is blissfully free of rancor. He and his former friend/partner were competitive, but each thought the other was his only match, and unlike the two most famous friend/partners in music history they remained intimate till the unexpected end — an end whose banality might have occasioned a mention in a Grant McLennan song.
The songs below he wrote for the Go-Betweens are his legacy:
1. Cattle and Cane
2. Right Here
3. A Bad Debt Follows You
4. Quiet Heart
5. Bye Bye Pride
6. You Won’t Find It Again
7. Unkind and Unwise
8. Someone Else’s Wife
9. Casanova’s Last Words
10. Dusty in Here
11. Bachelor Kisses
12. Finding You
13. Secondhand Furniture
14. Going Blind
15. Streets of Your Town
16. The Ghost and the Black Hat
17. Magic in Here
18. Love Goes On!
19. The Statue
20. Hope Then Strife
Humanizing The Vacuum 
Can’t quibble with this list, other than it’s missing “The Wrong Road.” And “Bye Bye Pride.” And “Newton Told Me.” And WHICH version of “Casanova’s Last Words” are we talking here? Me, I prefer the earlier, giddier version.
“Apology Excepted”? Spellcheck failure! Also, no “Bye Bye Pride” or “Hammer the Hammer”? Still, identifying just the 20 best G-Bs songs by McLennan is ta loser’s game and I can’t argue with anything on your list.
Auto-correct failure. “Bye Bye Pride” a sorry mistake. HTM is just okay. He wasn’t good at wearing punk drag.