Everybody listen to Red Brick Dream if they haven't heard it for a while, plz
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
The Big Express has the biggest stretch between good and whack tracks imo.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
feelin like I should have asked for "worst" votes too
then I could've posted both "best" and "worst" results and let people guess which was which
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
I don't hate Dear God but I prefer Skylarking with Mermaid Smiled, mostly because the boy's vocal on DG seems out of place.
― cc: Peniston (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
I'm wondering how people feel about GO2? I shall revisit before I submit, I think it was a shame that the two Barry tracks they left off were miles better than the ones that made the cut.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
XP - I Think that's a girl on DG.
go2 has a couple of really brilliant weird/slow numbers
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
I haven't listened to the entirety of Go2 or White Music in at least 20 years. Felt obligated to check them out but couldn't find them readily downloadable for free so said fuck it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cw9h2AQX4
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
LOL, rip themselves off much?
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Just found a really good German language cover of Things Fall To Bits on YT, how random!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Du bist mein Lieblings-Liebling (Wie wahr, wahr)Mag die Parfum-Duftschwade, kommst du an die BarMag deine Glanzfassade und dein saubres HaarIch träum, mit dir die Esplanaden langzufahrn, ist es nicht schade, dass
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
And he has a German cover of Pulsing Pulsing on his channel, dude!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRrzGNxzbT8&index=11&list=UUlXbwRHskRiljzxsJIxWrog
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I Think that's a girl on DG.
So it is; I may have been misled by the video!
The first verse and closing line are sung by the then eight-year-old Jasmine Veillette, the daughter of a friend of producer Todd Rundgren. In the video a boy lip-syncs her vocals. (Wikipedia)
― cc: Peniston (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
This is the soundtrack thing I was talking about, it's really good, kinda like AP does 'Olias Of Sunhillow'.
I'll make a link to it for the 10th.
http://i61.tinypic.com/aff28x.jpg
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Ooh tantalizing!
Dear God is indeed my personal worst XTC track, in the same sense that Fight Club is my personal worst movie ever made.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
Thinking about what to put together for my ballot now... probably won't be voting for 'Senses Working Overtime', 'Making Plans For Nigel' and 'Dear God', although I love all three.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Is "Funk Pop a Roll" their lamest major period single?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 October 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
Is it too late to tack on a worst tracks poll? It would be pretty interesting, even if it might be harder to reach consensus. Though it sounds like a lot of you hate Ballad of PP, so that would probably win, so screw y'all
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 October 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah people have already turned in ballots I'm not gonna change the rules at this point
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Not a single.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
I'm wondering how people feel about GO2?
I was waiting for this. It's an very good record that seems to be misunderstood by many. It's shares a certain frantic nature with White Music but it also was a bridge to the more poppier XTC that was evident in Drums and Wires, which follows it.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
"OH WE GO dmm dmm dmmm dm!"
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
― Mark G,
Weird. It's included on Upsy Daisy Assortment.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
It is perhaps their first compilation to be considered a Best of as it includes album tracks "Funk Pop a Roll", "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her", "Earn Enough for Us" and "Chalkhills and Children" in addition to their better-known singles.
Not being smartie, went to the Wiki to see about this album, didn't know it.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Go 2 has "Battery Brides" which would be my #1 if I vote in this; I've just engaged so shallowly with the xtc oeuvre that I don't know if I will vote
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
the more the merrier sez I
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
IMO, a poll benefits from a broad range of engagements.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
In the spirit of advocacy, I'd suggest everyone who hasn't done so check out the "Transistor Blast" boxed set, which frees a lot of the early material from the shackles of its production and releases Muh-Muh-Muh-MAGIC.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
The brits who engage in the early stuff will balance the yanks that engage with the 'dear pumpkinhead' era
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
zero ballots received today get on it people
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 October 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to put a ballot together, but finding it superfuckingdifficult!
― Welcome To (Turrican), Saturday, 4 October 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
afraid to vote coz I like Peter Pumpkinhead
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
peter pumpkinhead was too good
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
For what it's worth, I like 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' a fair amount... unsure at this stage as to whether it'll appear in my ballot, though.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
did Partridge ever write a more literal set of lyrics -- ick.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
when i found out you'd been riding another man
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 4 October 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
PP was high on my ballot, questionable lyrics notwithstanding
I can't believe how evenly spread my votes are across the albums. I love these guys:WM: 1GO2: 1D&W: 6BS: 6ES: 5M: 1BE: 1S: 4O&L: 6N: 2AV: 4WS: 1Other: 2
― Vinnie, Saturday, 4 October 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
I feel sort of bad that most of what I've posted to this thread is about XTC songs I don't like when they makes up such a tiny proportion of the bands catalogue, I guess I'm saving my paeans for the results thread though? There really are very few XTC songs I dislike, there is a type of mid-tempo rockin' mode some of Partridge's songs on the later albums slip into which is probably my least favourite side of the group (Merely a Man, Peter Pumpkinhead, quite a few songs on Wasp Star etc)
― Angel Brain (soref), Saturday, 4 October 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
though I first heard Merely a Man on Fuzzy Warbles and the Oranges and Lemons version was a pleasant surprise, I wonder if I'd like Wasp Star more if it had received the full The Seeds of Love style production overload
― Angel Brain (soref), Saturday, 4 October 2014 10:15 (nine years ago) link
so does "No Language in Our Lungs" into a skank-y variant on The Beatles' "I Want You"?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 October 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
Haha I admit I never noticed that before. The guitar tone and fingerpicking pattern are p similar. Different chord progression tho.
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 4 October 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
Re: "No Language in Our Lungs" from the Song Stories book:
"The guitars remind me of 'Rain'-period Beatles," says Andy, who now admits the similarity of the slow arpeggio guitar sound to the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." "I didn't realize it at the time, but is sounds just like it."
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/9997/homepage_large.fc58f240.jpg
I'm curious what other people think of Monstrance, especially people who listen to a lot of improvised music? I like it, but this is not a genre I'm that familiar with
― soref, Sunday, 5 October 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Curious but was never able to hear it
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
how do you guys rate Partridge as guitarist vs Gregory? It's hard to distinguish their lines.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
I always attributed the crunchiness I love so much on Black Sea to Gregory but I guess I have no basis for that
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 5 October 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link