Anyone have MP3s of these oddities:Beatown (live 7/20/79 @ Marconi Club)Roads Girdle the Globe (live 7/20/79 @ Marconi Club)
I think they were on a compilation or maybe a foreign single.
Or how about the BBC sessions that didn't make it onto "Transistor Blast", anyone have those?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a pile of studio demos that didn't make it onto anything (Rip van Ruben, Raising a Family in a House Full of Mice &c.).
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Gerald, I have that Marconi Club concert, if you mail me your deets I can send you a copy.
Got quite a nice Aus radio concert from the year after that too iirc.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
gimme
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
um please
I listened to XTC on shuffle to & from work thx to this thread. "I Need Protection" came on and I don't feel like I'd ever really listened to it. A weird little song it is, but neat! It sounds vulnerable and invulnerable at the same time.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
also second Shakey's request
I Need Protection is pretty cool, I like the way it goes boing.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
k shakey & abbbb plz send me ilxmail (me = AA + working email addr), I will dispatch within 48 hrs
― aa (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
there are roughly 10 btw, may require a few emails
― aa (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
you have the same stuff Autumn Almanac has...?
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
(me = AA + working email addr)
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Transistor Blast is indeed great btw. Beautifully packaged, too, with each disc in its own coloured jewel case, all in a cardboard sleeve that looks a bit like an old radio.
Drums & Wireless is a good album to have, too – more BBC sessions. I can't remember whether there's overlap between the two but I don't think there is.
btw I've just taken Abbbottt's lead and have chucked my XTC collection (354 tracks, excluding Dukes) on shuffle. I've not heard this stuff properly in years so having a ball iirc.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I really should grab Transistor BLast.
Webmailed you SchlAAfsack!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Got 'em.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry I am easily confused by the internets
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
[chucked my XTC collection (354 tracks, excluding Dukes) on shuffle
lol so I guess we are having a lil online XTC listening party eh
I am being reminded that Andy Partridge has written a fair amount of songs I actually find painful to listen to fwiw (Stinking Rich, That Wave)
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ya me too. I don't know how email will work but will try that first off.
xp yeah, a few stinkbombs in there, although to be fair Stinking Rich was aimed at tiny kids so sucking was sort of a prerequisite.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, rip van ruben didnt make it onto any of the warbles? great tune! definitely one of the most maddening examples of songs that didn't make it onto a proper album when "wounded horse" and "standing in for joe" did
― Dominique, Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Most of Wasp Star too sadly....
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I know, weird eh? It's a stonking Red Rocking Horse-style gallumping bouncefest, completely successful but totally forgotten. I don't get that either.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking back, Wasp Star was probably as good an indication as any that XTC had to stop. One more album might really have been quite embarrassing.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"Easter Theater" came up, too, and its lyrics had always slipped by me. "chocolate nipple brown"! Best song on the album tho, imo.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of wish I hadn't looked up the lyrics just now, though – think I like "we don't need a new life" better (which is how it sounded to me).
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I really wanted to like WS but it was scuppered by Gregory's absence (nlike AV oddly) and I'm guessing Moulding had all but lost interest judging by his descent into brown jumper MOR piffle.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
aw I like the Easter Theater lyrics, the adult-reflecting-on-childhood-romance angle
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Easter Theatre is awesome, and has one of his best middle eights.
oh wait I'm thinking of Harvest Festival
yeah the Easter Theater lyrics are sorta stupid
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd say about half of Wasp Star is great, altho it would've been improved by Gregory's presence, no doubt. The stuff that's bad is REALLY bad tho.
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"We'd applaud a new life" makes more sense. I just liked the weird outlierness of "we don't want a new life" in this pastoral fertility orgy. It's like finding out the person you're married to doesn't like peanut butter. you still love them, but you have to think about it for a moment.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I could never get what that line really was "we'd have bought a new wife"? what?
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
XP - Shakey, just realised so am I! Ha!
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Easter Theatre sounds like one of those puppet pantos staged with a paper stage and paper puppets. I don't know what you call them.
xxxp ahaha I thought it was 'we uphold her new life'
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and Harvest Festival is lovely.
Oh man, another thing I wanted to bring up – XTC has to have the most instances, for me, of needing a Britishes to Americans dictionary. So, what means the line in "Respectable Street" about "the caravans that never move from their front gardens"?
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
That moment at the start with the chair sounds..
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Abbbottt, just a dig at families buying a mobile home then never getting around to using it.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
XTC has to have the most instances, for me, of needing a Britishes to Americans dictionary.
That's weird and slightly annoying, because AP confuses everything by singing in an American accent. You can't do pastoral Englishtry with a US accent.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Respectable Street is a genius song in retrospect. All about those sorts of people with a completely unfounded sense of entitlement. My parents are a lower-class version of that, complete with the expensive but dormant caravan in the backyard.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
A Cmaj7/G Fmaj7 (addB)And what a year when the exams and crops all failedF# /E# E C# BOf course you passed and you were never seen againA Cmaj7/G Fmaj7We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailedF# /E# E C#Then out of nowhere invitation in gold pen
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
So the "caravan" is more like a Winnebago than one of the things that Mr. Toad hung out in?
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wUPCMVFelgnFJM:http://www.ibspro.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/caravan.jpg&t=1
Basically one of these.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, motorless, towed by something.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe 'Mobile Home' isn't the right phrase, more Mr Toad than RV :)
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I was imagining someone squeezing through a yard full of these
http://gypsywaggons.co.uk/ukvardos/wooden/wd75.jpg
which always made me think 'wtf?"
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^Andy Partridge's house
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Dukes of Stratosphear HQ tbh
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Check yo headz email. You will have to rename file 2 from .zig to .zip coz gmail thought it contained a terrorist (it does not contain a terrorist).
― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
btw chipping in to say that Harvest Festival is one of Partridge's 5 greatest-ever lyrics
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
weird I haven't received anything yet...?
was looking forward to receiving a terrorist
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link