Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)

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"Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)"
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Single by Custard
from the album Loverama
Released5 October 1998 [1]
Length3:18
Label rooArt
Songwriter(s) David McCormack, Dylan McCormack, Trevor J. Ludlow
Producer(s) Magoo
Custard singles chronology
"Music Is Crap"
(1998)		"Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)"
(1998)		"Hit Song"
(1999)

"Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)" is the first single from Loverama , the fifth album by Custard. It reached #52 on the Australian ARIA singles chart, and spent 24 weeks in the top 100. [2] The song was placed #3 in the 1998 Hottest 100. [3]

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The Andrew Lancaster and David McCormack directed music video won the ARIA Award for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 1999. [4]

McCormack later said, "We were going around in circles. 'Girls Like That' is as far as you can take the ironic love song; you just can't go any further than that." [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)" David McCormack, Dylan McCormack & Trevor J. Ludlow3:18
2."Caboolture Speed Lab"David McCormack & Dylan McCormack2:13
3."I'll Never Fall in Love Again" Burt Bacharach & Hal David 4:02

Charts

Chart (1998–99)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [2] [6] 52

References

  1. ↑ "New Releases – Product Available from: 5.10.98 > Singles (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 448)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "ariaNET The Chart! Top 100 Singles – Week Commencing 5th April 1999". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 13 September 2016. N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.
  3. ↑ "Triple j's Hottest 100". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. ↑ ARIA Award previous winners. "Winners by Award – Artisan Awards – Best Video". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  5. ↑ Andrew Stafford (2016). Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden . University of Queensland Press. p. 253. ISBN   9780702235610.
  6. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 71.
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