Rush
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
or some other prog band
Crimson, rush, remain in light era TH, beefheart, + ny minimalists. Definitely not XTC
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that makes sense that it came out of prog, but I can't resist calling their stuff (esp before 1983) mathy. I mean, listen to those guitar lines. Who else sounds like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUA4dMzqn0
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Don't sleep on Bill Nelson's Red Noise, their one album is almost more- early XTC-than-XTC:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROD91OW01p0
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yeah, was just gonna post that one. Pretty sure Nelson was listening to Partridge.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if Beefheart worked it's way into the melting pot too.
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
iirc, XTC (or maybe just Andy?) had a track on a Beefheart tribute record.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
I think it was Andy & Colin
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
But not Dave, unsurprisingly
https://twitter.com/xtcfans/status/446213024832307200
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Dave, his website is a treasure trove of guitar nerdery (though it hasn't been updated in a while):http://www.guitargonauts.info/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Andy definitely into Beefheart from early on. It's funny charting when he was exposed to stuff - iirc he said somewhere that he didn't hear any of the Kinks' late 60s albums until the late 80s? Beach Boys were also a later discovery for him.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't know how that could be true given the Dukes albums.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
as far as the Kinks go I think the implication was he knew the singles but not the albums
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I mean he listed 'Autumn Almanac' as his all time favorite song and I doubt that happened to him in the late 80s
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
found it:http://chalkhills.org/articles/XTCFans20090614.html
Somebody once said to me about this song, "Oh, weren't you just copying Ray Davies' 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains'?" No, because I hadn't at that point heard that song. The only Kinks songs that I'd heard on the radio as a youngster were singles, and I didn't hear any Kinks albums until the late '80s or so.
Around then, [laughs] Dave went and bought Holly, for either birthday or Christmas, a couple of Kinks albums, with a note saying, "These are probably the best albums you'll ever hear in your life." I thought, "That's a weird thing to buy a young kid!" But of course I'd borrow them and play them. I don't think I heard Village Green Preservation Society until the '90s! I don't remember hearing it, anyway. I remember hearing certain tracks off of it, but not that one.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
June 1st 2016!?
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Shed-Inside-Songs-XTC/dp/1908279788/
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
ooh, this looks interesting.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Also, that is str8 up the worst picture of AP
I'm guessing that it's an expanded version of the 'XTC Fans' interviews (that can be found on Chalkhills)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
lol @ pic
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Eh, I'll stick with the excellent "Song Stories".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
The lack of shoes imo really seals it
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
somehow xtc songs have never seemed that enigmatic to me. I would be new interested in the technical aspects of them
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
XTC @xtcfans 41m41 minutes agoThe ORANGES AND LEMONS 5.1 discs are being 'authored' {composed/built} as we speak. Not long now folks.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
CD:
1. Garden of Earthly Delights 2. The Mayor of Simpleton 3. King for a Day 4. Here Comes President Kill Again 5. The Loving 6. Poor Skeleton Steps Out 7. One of the Millions 8. Scarecrow People 9. Merely a Man 10. Cynical Days 11. Across This Antheap 12. Hold Me My Daddy 13. Pink Thing 14. Miniature Sun 15. Chalkhills and Children
Blu-Ray (Region 0, NTSC):
Presented in LPCM Audio - Album mixed in 5.1 Surround - New Stereo Album mix - Original Stereo Album mix + Blu-Ray extra material including: new stereo album instrumental mixes, multiple demo sessions, rehearsals, mixes & promo films for the singles.
― MaresNest, Monday, 10 August 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
* Two separate sets of demo and work tape sessions showing the evolution of the album and associated recordings; one set of pre-recording rehearsals, promos and ID links for radio stations and record companies; a collection of single mixes and XTC's version of Captain Beefheart’s Ella Guru.
* Promo films for The Mayor of Simpleton (3 versions), King for a Day and a Road to Oranges & Lemons, a rarely seen home-made film by the band explaining the album (and themselves!) to Geffen Records USA.
― MaresNest, Monday, 10 August 2015 12:49 (eight years ago) link
People can say what they like about Andy Partridge, he sure as hell knows how to treat his back catalogue with the care and attention it deserves.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 10 August 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
I've still got my 3 mini CD box set of this
― Mark G, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Pretty interested - despite myself - in the new mix of Oranges & Lemons, as it's always sounded a bit thin compared to most of their albums. Anyone want to weigh in on the remixes of D&W/Nonsuch?
The virtual box set stuff sounds interesting but I know i'd never listen to any of it more than once. As big a fan as I am, I feel like I've already bought their catalogue enough times already.
― hardcore dilettante, Sunday, 30 August 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
The production on Oranges & Lemons has grown on me over time. Granted, I don't think it's the best XTC album in terms of production, and I'm still not sure that the approach they took on Oranges & Lemons works for every song, but it mostly sounds fine to me now. It's one of two XTC records where I had to get used to the production style before I could begin to enjoy the record, the other was The Big Express.
(I like The Big Express more, though.)
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 30 August 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Oranges & Lemons has been pushed back 2 weeks, boo.
I'm looking forward to seeing what Wilson has done with the extravagances of the original production, I wonder also if AP has allowed him to take out any layers, there's a lot of extraneous percussion and drum machine that could do with being cut.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Wilson's doing XTC now? haha he's like the remaster man
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
He's done Nonsuch and Drums & Wires already, he and Jakko Jakszyk have cornered the market in this sort of thing
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
ooh i'd be interested in hearing both of those
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
The instrumental Complicated Game remix is weirdly spooky.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
god, imagine how bizarre an acapella version would be
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to hear the vocal on 'Complicated Game' completely dry, just 'cos.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
I bought myself a liarbird
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-man-ran-Belgrave-Place-brothel-famous-music/story-27767149-detail/story.html#drMrAI67tCDj0q5T.01
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 October 2015 08:36 (eight years ago) link
David Lord, 70, pictured in Belgrave Place after confessing to running a brothel in the street
He ran a brothel in the street?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2015 09:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh, btw lawyers: The song "liarbird" is not about David Lord, okthxbye.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2015 09:57 (eight years ago) link
haha
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 October 2015 10:02 (eight years ago) link
Hahahahaha! Oh god, what the actual fuck!?
― Turrican, Friday, 16 October 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Blimey.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 16 October 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
Y'know, when you listen to the demo of 'Wake Up' and then hear what David Lord helped the band turn it into on The Big Express, the difference is like night and day. The demo is this relatively subdued, dinky thing and it's hard to hear the potential in it beyond the slashing guitar riff which is already in place ... but somehow David Lord managed to help the band realise the potential in the song and thus the studio version is something else - completely widescreen, intricately arranged and pumped full of steroids. When I think about things like that, and what happened to the guy that helped achieve that, it's just... fucking mental.
― Turrican, Friday, 16 October 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
Okay, the Wilson stereo remix is really nice so far, the percussion and snare samples are still a bit WAHEY EIGHTIES! but that's unavoidable, King For A Day has really came to life so far.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 1 November 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Although Merely A Man cannot be revived on the operating table and is still a clanking piece of nonsense.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 1 November 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Happily the swirly end of Across This Antheap is even more delirious than before, yay!
― MaresNest, Sunday, 1 November 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
And Miniature Sun is 10x better too, despite the keyboard trumpets
― MaresNest, Sunday, 1 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone heard the 5.1 yet?
― Turrican, Sunday, 1 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link