sydney's torso asks: "By the by what's your fave XTC album?"
without a doubt Mummer. Human Alchemy, Deliver Us From The Elements, In Loving Memory of a Name, and my all time fave Beating of Hearts. also, this was my first real exposure to XTC. i was a freshman in high school.
But I also adore Skylarking. Summer's Couldron and Grass are unbelievable. The lyrics and sound just drown you in summer: "Like a bug in brandy in this big brass cup".
~j
without a doubt Mummer. Human Alchemy, Deliver Us From The Elements, In Loving Memory of a Name, and my all time fave Beating of Hearts. also, this was my first real exposure to XTC. i was a freshman in high school.
But I also adore Skylarking. Summer's Couldron and Grass are unbelievable. The lyrics and sound just drown you in summer: "Like a bug in brandy in this big brass cup".
~j
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Thu, October 16, 2003 - 3:43 AM"i was a freshman in high school."
i meant to say more. specifically, that because until then i was more exposed to the likes of The Police and Dead Kennedy's... Mummer opened a very different world of music to me leading me to enjoying more edgy music like King Crimson and Peter Gabriel (well he was edgy back then :) -
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Thu, October 16, 2003 - 7:17 AMYes Pete was a lot edgier back then... now he's alltogether 'too' new age for me... LOVE his Real World label though - awesome range of totally brilliant musicians on that label!! Oh and my fave XTC lp is 'English Settlement' - first vinyl edition was a double album which contained a bunch of extra songs now included in the current cd version. Bbut to be honest with you they weren't the best tracks anyway.. -
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Thu, October 16, 2003 - 8:43 PMFor me it's a toss up between Drums and Wires(because it was my first exposure to them) and The Big Express (because it was the beginning of their "Lush" sound)
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Fri, October 17, 2003 - 8:04 AMyeah john, don't make me come over to your house and use your computer to change the photo at the same time signing you up to some choice tribes and posting religious ranting to the atheist tribe.... you've been warned. :) -
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Fri, October 17, 2003 - 6:37 PMI love all the stuff they have done, with the exceptioin of Go 2 and white Music, but I keep coming back time and time again to the Dukes of Stratosphere albums. I brought the first one on vinyl (pink and grey if you need to know) without knowing WHO "The Dukes" were. it took me about three months to find out.
They are truly genius albums.
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Fri, October 17, 2003 - 11:37 PMOh.. The Dukes were HOT!! Partridge practically deconstructed the whole damn psychedelic period taking off all his favourite 60s bands... even gave the Beach Boys a run for their money!!
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Sat, November 22, 2003 - 4:55 PMYak, what made you pick up that album if you didn't know who they were? I'm just curious because I only knew to look for it in the stores because I was subscribed to "The Little Express". -
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Tue, November 25, 2003 - 6:57 PMIt was the cover that made me buy it. How could I resist such insane artwork!!
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Sat, November 29, 2003 - 10:49 PMI think my favorite is Nonesuch. No hugely particular reason, but it just stands up to repeat listening really well.
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Sun, November 30, 2003 - 11:56 PMI love "Chips from the Chocolate Fireball" (Dukes of the Stratosphere) which strikes me as their most focused yet relaxed album.
My favorite songs from other albums:
Respectable Street
Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Living Through Another Cuba
Burning with Optimisms Flames
Senses Working Overtime
Vanishing Girl
I can't wait to pick up all these new releases of previously unreleased material. Where should I start?
-C
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Wed, December 3, 2003 - 8:38 PMi think for me it's a toss up between oranges and lemons and english settlement. i like drums and wires a lot for its more minimalist approach, but i really like the lushness of the other two. -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 3:31 AMDepends on my mood really,but the ones I go back to time and again are English Settlement,Big Express,Black Sea,Mummer...then Drums and Wires -
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Wed, January 28, 2004 - 2:37 PMSo I'm the only Apple Venus (volume 1) fan round here ?
I just can't get tired of it, no matter how long it sits in my CD player (well, to be precise, I can listen to Easter Theatre, Green Man or both in a loop for considerable amounts of time, and the other tracks are pretty enjoyable too once I get round to them).
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Thu, January 29, 2004 - 11:03 PMApple Venus (1) is a very close 3rd on my list.
It's overall a *very* strong album, it just didn't have *that one song* that hooks me in.
Every song was an 8... I just didn't find any song that was a 10.
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Fri, January 30, 2004 - 6:55 PMOkay, I'll bite: Black Sea, English Settlement, Drums and Wires, and Mummer would be the faves... but there are a whole lotta b-sides I love too and that Dukes reference... yeah man! Love the warm tube sounds of the Dukes.
Honorable mentions go to White Music and Skylarking.
In compilationville: Bees Wax and Rag and Bone Buffet... "Let's review what we've learned so far, shall we? The '50s...." -
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Sat, February 14, 2004 - 10:49 AMBlack Sea definitely tops my list, then English Settlement and so on...I was introduced to them back in jr. high by my all time favorite radio station *bam* 97X The Future of Rock and Roll! out of Oxford, Ohio. Sadly, The X has recently been sold and will now be internet only radio.
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Tue, February 24, 2004 - 8:54 PMI've had Black Sea in my tape deck in my car for the last 2 weeks. I keep meaning to listen to something else, but it loops back to the other side and I sigh and leave it in. "Well, one more listen". Probably time to take it out tho, I woke up last night singing Burning With Optimism's Flame and couldn't go back to sleep until I put the tv on infomercials to drive it out of my brain. -
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Thu, February 9, 2006 - 4:43 PMDitto the tie between Drums & Wires and Oranges & Lemons, but wait........... there's Black Sea...there's English Settlement...there's...
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Thu, February 9, 2006 - 5:05 PMMine will always be Skylarking. Not only my fave XTC album but one of my top 5 of any band...perfection! And a close second would have to be XTC as The Dukes Of Stratospheare: Psonic Psunspot...which can only be obtained nowadays as a compilation in Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (but I have the original album...vinyl, baby!). -
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Thu, February 9, 2006 - 6:43 PMI've got that (the Dukes) on vinyl, too, + 25 O'Clock. Now, if I just had a damn turntable...
Skylarking is a pretty darn special album with a great history to it, to boot. But there are others that give me the big goosebumps. Or, bigger goosebumps, I should say. -
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Fri, February 10, 2006 - 12:25 PMIn order: Black Sea, English Settlement, Drums & Wires, and (believe it or not) Go2! :)
I also loved Skylarking and all the DofS albums!
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