Bachelor Kisses

"Bachelor Kisses" is a song by the Australian alternative rock band The Go-Betweens that was released as the second single from their third album Spring Hill Fair in 1984.

It's about all the promises the world of men have made women as far as the future of their lives, security, the raising of children, and I've found it wanting.

"[6] The song features backing vocalists from Ana da Silva, the lead singer for British post-punk band The Raincoats.

72 in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1989[9] Sire paid for a promotional video, featuring the band miming mixed with beach scenes.

She said that Marianne Faithfull should sing it.In a review of the song on Allmusic, Ned Raggett, comments that such a comparison is both worthwhile and not misplaced.

There's the same gentle but clear tension in the rhythm section, the crystalline but never overbearing guitar, the sense of deeper roots but a clearly modern performance"[12] In Mat Snow's review in the October, 1984 edition of NME he states "Only when we're confronted with a song so perfectly turned, lines so finely balanced and a melody so achingly sweet as Bachelor Kisses are we forced to notice how hollow most contemporary pop rings.