The XTC Song You're Thinking About Right Now Thread

[Heston]

Not a song but a concert, recently uploaded by someone in better sound and picture quality than I've seen before. This is typical early XTC in that it can shift from the unlistenable to the inspired in a short space of time. Neon Shuffle is a fucking treat, as is Statue of Liberty.

[Marky Dread]

Not a song but a concert, recently uploaded by someone in better sound and picture quality than I've seen before. This is typical early XTC in that it can shift from the unlistenable to the inspired in a short space of time. Neon Shuffle is a fucking treat, as is Statue of Liberty.

Yep great stuff.

[Heston]

Today's Guardian...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... obg4munT18

[Marky Dread]

Today's Guardian...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... obg4munT18

Nice article cheers mate.

Great song and those pounding drums are incredible.

[101Walterton]

Today's Guardian...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... obg4munT18

Cheers Hes, I always thought it was about Nigel Lawson

[Low Down Low]

Excellent read. Great song and great social history there too.

[JohnS]

Thanks for the Guardian article Heston, very interesting - you've got to love a band who gone on TOTP to plug their single, for it to then go down the charts afterwards!

I can't post the actual link for some reason, but burning shed.com is offering a free download of an unreleased Andy Partridge track 'Cavegirl'
Catchy and clever, as you'd expect from AP

https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2020/ ... -download/

[Heston]

Thanks for the Guardian article Heston, very interesting - you've got to love a band who gone on TOTP to plug their single, for it to then go down the charts afterwards!

I can't post the actual link for some reason, but burning shed.com is offering a free download of an unreleased Andy Partridge track 'Cavegirl'
Catchy and clever, as you'd expect from AP

https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2020/ ... -download/

I was trying to grab that earlier this week but had trouble downloading, will give this link a go later. Cheers John.

[Marky Dread]

Thanks for the Guardian article Heston, very interesting - you've got to love a band who gone on TOTP to plug their single, for it to then go down the charts afterwards!

I can't post the actual link for some reason, but burning shed.com is offering a free download of an unreleased Andy Partridge track 'Cavegirl'
Catchy and clever, as you'd expect from AP

https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2020/ ... -download/

I was trying to grab that earlier this week but had trouble downloading, will give this link a go later. Cheers John.

Same here the site was having some problems with the downloads.

[Kory]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

[Marky Dread]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

I've got the Steven Wilson remasters with the blurays and instrumentals etc. I'm looking forward to the next remaster. The last one was The Dukes of Stratosphear set. The remasters are not as loud as the Virgin CDs.

I think they had "The Big Express" next on the list but they can't locate all the outtakes/demo master reels. Also they have to pay for someone to locate them in the archive.

[Kory]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

I've got the Steven Wilson remasters with the blurays and instrumentals etc. I'm looking forward to the next remaster. The last one was The Dukes of Stratosphear set. The remasters are not as loud as the Virgin CDs.

I think they had "The Big Express" next on the list but they can't locate all the outtakes/demo master reels. Also they have to pay for someone to locate them in the archive.

Sad that English Settlement probably won't be among them, I read that they can't find multitracks to work from. Looking forward to Big Express though, I've never even heard it. I'll probably get the last Ape House master of it in the meantime.

[Wolter]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

I've got the Steven Wilson remasters with the blurays and instrumentals etc. I'm looking forward to the next remaster. The last one was The Dukes of Stratosphear set. The remasters are not as loud as the Virgin CDs.

I think they had "The Big Express" next on the list but they can't locate all the outtakes/demo master reels. Also they have to pay for someone to locate them in the archive.

Sad that English Settlement probably won't be among them, I read that they can't find multitracks to work from. Looking forward to Big Express though, I've never even heard it. I'll probably get the last Ape House master of it in the meantime.

Big Express is an album that is probably underrated despite being the least likely XTC album for me to reach for (well, probably tied with Go2. Because XTC is good enough that the weaker stuff is still amazingly strong.

[Kory]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

I've got the Steven Wilson remasters with the blurays and instrumentals etc. I'm looking forward to the next remaster. The last one was The Dukes of Stratosphear set. The remasters are not as loud as the Virgin CDs.

I think they had "The Big Express" next on the list but they can't locate all the outtakes/demo master reels. Also they have to pay for someone to locate them in the archive.

Sad that English Settlement probably won't be among them, I read that they can't find multitracks to work from. Looking forward to Big Express though, I've never even heard it. I'll probably get the last Ape House master of it in the meantime.

Big Express is an album that is probably underrated despite being the least likely XTC album for me to reach for (well, probably tied with Go2. Because XTC is good enough that the weaker stuff is still amazingly strong.

I don't know why it took me so long to explore the later stuff. I just heard Lemons and Oranges for maybe the second time ever yesterday.

[Marky Dread]

How funny, I was just about to look for this thread—I wound up getting the Steven Wilson remasters, and it's opened up a whole new world for me since I've never been familiar with anything beyond Mummer. What a crazy band.

I've got the Steven Wilson remasters with the blurays and instrumentals etc. I'm looking forward to the next remaster. The last one was The Dukes of Stratosphear set. The remasters are not as loud as the Virgin CDs.

I think they had "The Big Express" next on the list but they can't locate all the outtakes/demo master reels. Also they have to pay for someone to locate them in the archive.

Sad that English Settlement probably won't be among them, I read that they can't find multitracks to work from. Looking forward to Big Express though, I've never even heard it. I'll probably get the last Ape House master of it in the meantime.

Big Express is an album that is probably underrated despite being the least likely XTC album for me to reach for (well, probably tied with Go2. Because XTC is good enough that the weaker stuff is still amazingly strong.

I don't know why it took me so long to explore the later stuff. I just heard Lemons and Oranges for maybe the second time ever yesterday.

Oranges and Lemons is an incredible record.

English Settlement is great also. All their albums are really excellent and repay you by repeated listens. The more I listen the more I hear and fall in love with. One of the few band's where their back catalogue covers all the sounds I love most.