Win Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album
Today we're giving away Andy Partridge's new Fuzzy Warbles boxed set. The 9 CD collection, available via the XTC frontman's Ape label, is cleverly packaged like a children's stamp album. And it comes with stickers. (How Beck!) More deets via Amazon:
The Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album brings together over 100 songs from XTC frontman Andy Partridge's songwriting archive. Recorded over the years whilst Andy and XTC were signed to Virgin Records and later to the Idea and Ape labels, the material is spread across eight volumes featuring songs and alternate versions of many XTC favorites that never made it onto the respective final albums or never made the cut when the final tracklistings were decided. There are also songs Andy never got to complete that he's re-visited and finished off especially for this Fuzzy Warbles series.
We're really digging the Nonesuch and Skylarking demos (ever hear the skiffle version of "Dear God"?!), but there are dozens of songs that should have been on XTC albums. Like this one:
Andy Partride - "Sonic Boom" (MP3)
If you want to win this lovely Collectors Album, just post in the comments your favorite XTC song by Monday 11/20 at 6 PM EST. (If you get blocked by our newly uncooperative spam filter, don't worry, we'll be finding and publishing the legit comments before the contest ends.) As always, we'll randomly pick a winner, who will be the envy of all his or her bookish new wave friends.
Good luck!
P.S. XTC's infamous Paris '82 performance, in which Andy's on-stage breakdown results in the band never playing another concert...
Posted at 9:57 AM in Contest, MP3
Favorite song is deffinately "Grass"
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Favorite song is deffinately "Grass"
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"Dear Madam Barnum."
(well, that's just one of many favorite XTC songs. But I wanted to pick an uncommon one).
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making plans for nigel
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making plans for nigel
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"making plans for nigel." duh.
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I would have to say, for the guitar solo alone, Life Begins at the Hop.
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No Language in Our Lungs
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"Knights in Shining Karma."
And I'll only post this once.
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Earn Enough for Us.
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Garden of Earthly Delights
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Picking between favorite XTC songs is like picking a favorite child, really. I'll go with Mayor of Simpleton today, but I'll have a different answer tomorrow, I'm sure.
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I would have to say, for the guitar solo alone, Life Begins at the Hop.
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generals and majors
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Well, maybe a little obvious, but "Dear God" is my favoirite.
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"Respectable Street". Such a perfect hook.
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Tough to pick just one...but "Senses Working Overtime" comes to mind right away....
Guilty pleasure-"This Is Pop"
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Tough to pick just one...but "Senses Working Overtime" comes to mind right away....
Guilty pleasure-"This Is Pop"
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I could really just toss a dart at a list of everything they released from Skylarking on, so how about "Then She Appeared"?
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Well, maybe a little obvious, but "Dear God" is my favorite.
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Tough to pick just one...but "Senses Working Overtime" comes to mind right away....
Guilty pleasure-"This Is Pop"
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"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"
Maybe an obvious choice, but it's genius.....
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Earn Enough for Us
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It is virtually impossible to pick 1 song having been an avid XTC admirer since the very beginning of their career. But with the proverbial gun to my head here, I would have to say "Chalkhills and Children"
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mayor of simpleton
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senses working overtime.
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Favorite song - "no thugs in our house"
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I'd have to go with "The Disappointed".
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how about "dying"? That "IdonwannadieIdonwannadie like you" bit towards the end gets stuck in my head for days sometimes.
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lately it's This World Over
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Favorite song - "no thugs in our house"
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Dear God
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Favorite song - "no thugs in our house"
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hands down...."Im the man who murdered love"
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Senses Working Overtime
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anything from Black Sea...but Generals and Majors is pretty sweet
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I'd have to say that version of "Respectable Street," in the video. I'd never seen that before. So strange.
Secondly, "Your Dictionary," which is one of the bitterest songs I've heard in my life.
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Vanishing Girl, shit do the Dukes of Stratosphear count? guess, i gotta go with Grass if not!
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anything from Black Sea...but "Generals and Majors" is pretty sweet
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I'd have to say that version of "Respectable Street," in the video. I'd never seen that before. So strange.
Secondly, "Your Dictionary," which is one of the bitterest songs I've heard in my life.
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Dear God
TJ
doppelgangers (at) hotmail (dot) com
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This week it's "Didn't Hurt a Bit". If it's too much of a hipster move to pick an outtake, I'll go with "Rocket From a Bottle".
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Making Plans For Nigel, but When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty is second, if not tied.
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Making Plans For Nigel, but When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty is second, if not tied.
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Making Plans For Nigel, but When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty is second, if not tied.
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Scissor Man
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Vanishing Girl, shit do the Dukes of Stratosphear count? guess, i gotta go with Grass if not!
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respectable street
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The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead has always been my favorite. Love the video too.
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"Mayor of Simpleton," since learning AP wrote it for his child.
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Senses working overtime
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I was sitting at a friend's house and they just got cable TV and we were watching this crazy station that just played music vidoes: MTV. Talking Heads, Devo, U2, Joe Jackson, and then they played something unlike anything I had heard before: Senses Working Overtime by XTC. It changed my life. From that moment on I delved deep into music, and soon became the only punk rocker in my entire town. Thanks Andy!
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My favorite song is "That's Really Super, Super Girl"
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dear god
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science friction of course. but scarecrow and green man from later period.
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Summer's Cauldron.
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Pick a favorite XTC song, he says.
I have sentimental attachment to "1000 Umbrellas" from Skylarking.
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"Grass" is the pick for me!
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Let's toss Colin Moulding a bone and say "Fly on the Wall." Settlement is full of songs that could qualify as their best, and is probably the only album that doesn't have at least one Moulding song that's utter crap.
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making plans for nigel.
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Who doesn't love "Dear God"?
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"grass" . you can't deny how great skylarking is.
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My favorite XTC song is definately Respectable Street...especially the live version from "Urgh! A Music War"
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Ouch that's tough...but today, I'll say "Generals & Majors."
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dear god. can't beat that song.
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i'm gonna have to go with "King For A Day."
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Favorite song: Senses Working Overtime
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I think I'm going to go with Dukes of Stratosphear and say, Vanishing Girl or Brianiac's Daughter. For XTC, Senses probably takes it.
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Senses Working Overtime
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oh couldn't pick, but iTunes tells me I love the Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead best.
Who won the Marie Antoinette contest?
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Senses Working Overtime!
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The underrated "Playground".
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I recently had a son and I'm not sure how I'm going to explain this angry world to him, so I'm going with "Hold Me My Daddy".
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Senses Working Overtime!
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my favorite xtc song is "your dictionary". so bitter, such a great melody...it's got it all!
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The b-side "Ten Feet Tall," though lately, "Love On A Farmboy's Wages" has been getting a lot of play as well...
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grassssssssssss
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There are so many - almost too many - but I think I have to go with "Mayor of Simpleton", which is in my top 20 songs of all time ANYWAY. Impeccable production, fantastic lyrics, and a really groovy outro/fadeout. When I think of the XTC "sound", this song immediately leaps to mind.
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I know this contest is centered around Andy Partridge. but I have to say that my favorite XTC song is “Sacrificial Bonfire” from the Skylarking album. The song is almost cinematic in how it evokes the titular pagan rite. One would normally expect the previously mentioned Partridge to craft a paean to paganism, but it is actually Colin Moulding who wrote and sang this tiny epic. If forced to name a Partridge song, I'll go with "Prince of Orange." I love how the song's bounciness is paired with what sounds like A.P. breaking down and actually sobbing.
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'then she appears'
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It's got to be King For A Day for me. I love listening to the shimmering chorus-drenched guitars in the intro alone.
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Jason and the Argonauts
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LIFE BEGINS AT THE HOP.
LOCK COMMENTING...CAUSE IT IS THE BEST.
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King for a Day
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yacht dance
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Hold Me My Daddy. The short guitar break is perfection.
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King for a Day
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No Thugs in Our House. Could listen to that every day. Wait, I did, when I was 15. Awesome.
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Earn Enough For Us -- the best song about being young, poor and in love that has ever been written IMHO.
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Dear God
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That cheerful little number, 1000 Umbrellas...
"Now I'm crawling the wallpaper
That's looking more like a roadmap
To misery oh oh misery"
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That cheerful little number, 1000 Umbrellas...
"Now I'm crawling the wallpaper
That's looking more like a roadmap
To misery oh oh misery"
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That cheerful little number, 1000 Umbrellas...
"Now I'm crawling the wallpaper
That's looking more like a roadmap
To misery oh oh misery"
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grass...from Skylarking...
oh oh XTC..!
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Dear God...
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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grass...from Skylarking...
oh oh XTC..!
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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"fly on the wall"
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All are wonderful, but EASTER THEATER is really special!
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Making Plans for Nigel, definitely.
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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Mayor of simpleton
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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"the disappointed"
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This comments thread is huge, so I doubt my chances are good here... But what the hey...
Even though people find the "fa-fa-ta-ta" chorus overly precious, I really like "Another Satelite", especially how the band and Rundgren make the guitar line sound like a wave (of sorts).
DwD
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This comments thread is huge, so I doubt my chances are good here... But what the hey...
Even though people find the "fa-fa-ta-ta" chorus overly precious, I really like "Another Satelite", especially how the band and Rundgren make the guitar line sound like a wave (of sorts).
DwD
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"You and The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful."
Unnh!
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overrulling iTunes, love on a farmboys wages is today's favorite.
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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"when you're near me i have difficulty" from drums + wires...
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Wouldn't it be cool if AP released the Fuzzy Warbles box as a vinyl set?
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Generals & Majors
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'science friction' burns my fingers.
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Down in the Bunker...kidding!
No Thugs in Our House
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Living in a Smokeless Zone
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Dear God
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"Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass", the b-side to the UK single for "Ball and Chain".
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"King For A Day". I love everything Andy writes. But this Colin song stands out because it's SO superior to everything else he's written. Some days I can't get my head around Colin writing this perfect gem. Other days I don't think about it.
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Tough one for sure! But if I have to pick one:
Complicated Game
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senses working overtime. anything else is crazay taulk.
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"The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead"
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HARVEST FESTIVAL, from Apple Venus Vol 1
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Pick one? This is too hard!
"Church of Women" from Wasp Star: Apple Venus, Vol. 2
There is utter loveliness in the harmonic resolution.
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"Science Friction"
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"This Is Pop". though lately I've been kind of obsessed with "Statue of Liberty"....
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senses working overtime.
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A cliche, I know, but if forced to pick just one -- "Senses Working Overtime"
Do the people who picked Colin Moulding songs get disqualified?
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Favourite: Generals and Majors
Least Favourite: Pink Thing
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Favorite song - Are You Receiving Me?
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Lately it been "You're the Wish (You Are) I Had" for me.
Brian
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"helicopter" from drums and wires. the sound is so ahead of its time, it's ridiculous.
the dukes of straosphear stuff is tremendous, too.
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Favorite XTC song is: Mayor of Simpleton
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Mayor of Simpleton
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I guess I'll be only the second to say "Helicopter."
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My fav is The Wheel And The Maypole from Wasp Star.
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Books are Burning
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Andy: Buring with Optimism's Flame
Colin: English Roundabout
Oh wait, I can't win.
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"Dear God" or "The Man Who Murdered Love"
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Generals and Majors by a hair over That's Really Super, Supergirl.
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No question - "The Meeting Place" from Skylarking. That song for some reason practically changed my life. The old saying should not be "Dear God..." but "Dear Andy Partridge..."
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"The Meeting Place" from Skylarking
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So hard to choose, but I'd go with "Easter Theatre." Still gives me goosebumps when that chorus hits.
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Generals and Majors
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"Senses Working Overtime"
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"25 O'Clock," but that was as Dukes of the Stratospehear, don't know if that counts.
Actual XTC would have to be "Man Who Sailed Around His Soul."
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Ball and Chain
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Who know there were this many XTC fans! My favorite obscure track, "Roads Girdle The Globe". My favorite Dukes of the Stratosphear: "The Mole From the Ministry" where they channel the Beatles circa Magical Mystery Tour. Thanks for asking.
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This is Pop, or Scissor Man, or Life Begins at the Hop. Or anything else for that matter.
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Towers of London. A catchy history lesson.
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"Another Satellite." It's so crazy he married the girl he wrote it about.
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Senses working overtime.
I probably have a better chance of winning this than the other contests as of late. Unless Sofia Coppola makes a movie in the next week and douses it with XTC, of course.
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Senses working overtime.
I probably have a better chance of winning this than the other contests as of late. Unless Sofia Coppola makes a movie in the next week and douses it with XTC, of course.
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Making plans for nigel
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"Making Plans for Nigel!" Bovs on your tees!
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Unoriginal but true: "Making Plans For Nigel"
Weee-oooh!
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When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty - Who hasn't felt like that about someone dear?
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"Making Plans for Nigel"
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Fave song:
Mayor of Simpleton.
Cheers
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Helicopter - "oh helly"
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"Chalkhills and Children" is my favorite.
I can't believe someone said "Pink Thing" is their least favorite; it's one of the all-time ten best songs about a penis. Ever.
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I'm a big "Senses Working Overtime" fan. Really, anything from English Settlement.
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Gonna have to go with Crocodile on Nonsuch.
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Super, SuperGirl off of Skylarking. love the guitar solo in that song. :)
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Life Begins at the Hop!
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My fave XTC track is "Lounger." What? Oh, right. That's Dogs Die in Hot Cars. Not XTC. And not "Senses Working Overtime."
In a pinch, I'd pick "Dear God" as my favorite.
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"Dear God"
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"Dear God"
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Favorite XTC Song - "Earn Enough For Us". Definitely.
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Statue of Liberty (OGWT version) by far.
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Pink Thing
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Great to see so much love for "Mayor of Simpleton", being that it's my personal fave as well. Anytime I make a mixtape for someone who hasn't heard of XTC, I always use that as my 'go 2' song. It's got everything that's great about them as a band all in 3 1/2 minutes-insanely catchy melody, great hook(s), ringing guitars and lyrics Macca would give his eye teeth for. It's great to have these demos etc. see the light of day, but I've got to wonder when their next record is ever going to come out.
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5... SENSES WORKING OVERTIME.
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Maybe it's a generic choice, but "Dear God". It still gives me chills.
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"Love on a Farmboy's Wages" is one of the more perfectly assembled songs I've ever heard.
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mayor of simpleton for me too
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Yeah, I know everyone's picking it but I'm gonna have to go with "Senses Working Overtime".
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I love all of XTC's songs, but Skylarking was what sucked me in to their fandom. Then, after digesting all of their other albums, I learned of the re-issued Skylarking CD that put a cut song back onto the tracklist in addition to "Oh God." And that added track was the last new song I've heard from them.
Therefore, "Mermaid Smiled" is my favorite song by XTC.
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The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
kazowi (at) hotmail (dot) com
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Travels In Nihilon
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Wrapped In Grey
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"Chalkhills And Children" from Oranges and Lemons.
It ended up on more mix tapes than any other XTC song and every single time I got asked what it was and where people could get it.
Plus its an Andy song and Andy is so much better than Colin....
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generals and majors
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Senses Working Overtime !!!
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Senses Working Overtime !!!
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Has to be "Making Plans for Nigel"
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"making plans for nigel"
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when i'm near you i have difficulty
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Respectable Street.
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"I'd Like That" is my favorite XTC song
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Battery Brides from Go 2! Always been a fan of that one!
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Earn Enough for Us
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Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
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Generals and Majors.
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"When you're near me I have difficulty"
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If I wait one more minute it'll change, but right now it's definitely "Statue of Liberty". I think.... Yeah. "Statue of Liberty".
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Senses Working Overtime and a few Dukes songs that are high on the list -especially Vanishing Girl
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Seems like I'm part of a majority here, but "Mayor Of Simpleton" is my favourite, followed by "Another Satellite."
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no language in our lungs.
<33333.
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Travels in Nihilon........ totally weird!
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Senses Working Overtime
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Senses Working Overtime
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Senses Working Overtime
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"Love At First Sight" from "Black Sea," an album so dear to my heart, I still drool over it all these years later. It's a frozen-in-time artifact that still sounds vital and fresh 25 years later...
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Frivolous Tonight is definitely my favorite!
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"Complicated Game"
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Burning With Optimism's Flame
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"Senses Working Overtime"
A perfect encapsulation of everything grand about XTC (and power pop in general)
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Picking a favorite is next to impossible.My favorite over-looked XTC song would be "This World Over" from
The Big Express. Did I win yet?
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"Peter Pumpkinhead", because it's strangely moving. And because Crash Test Dummies tried to kill the song by covering it, but they failed. The song still lives!
R.I.P. "Androgynous", though. Lousy Crash Test Dummies!!!
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"Here Comes President Kill Again." I thank you for your time.
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dear god
hope you got the letter
and I pray
that I win this contest
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no thugs in our house
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I like Grass
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I like Grass
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There are so many faves! I'd have to go with "I Can't Own Her." Such a dramatic and lovely song.
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There are so many faves! I'd have to go with "I Can't Own Her." Such a dramatic and lovely song.
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There are so many faves! I'd have to go with "I Can't Own Her." Such a dramatic and lovely song.
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oh gosh.....dear god!
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There are so many faves! I'd have to go with "I Can't Own Her." Such a dramatic and lovely song.
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I've always been partial to "Burning with Optimism's Flames".
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My fav song is not on this collection..."Easter Island."
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"Dear God", brings me back to the days when Brother John told me it was o.k to get neck rubs..
Ah, good times..
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"Dear God", brings me back to the days when Brother John told me it was o.k to get neck rubs..
Ah, good times..
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I'll go with "Grass" because (get this) it's kind of about pot. And the video makes me think of the summer.
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Love on a Farmboy's Wages. The peak of their music's loveliness.
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senses working overtime (and yes - i instantly win the 'no imagination with this crowd' award there)
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Recently my favourite is "Your dictionary", 'coz it goes around in my head for hours, and I heard it at least six weeks ago! Or is it Life is Good in the Greenhouse? Sergeant Rock?
And there are so many more that pop up now and then!
The Man who sailed around his Soul, Making Plans for Nigel, Senses working Overtime, Mayor of Simpleton, My Bird Performs, 'til Burning with Optimism's Flames (I recall that when I'm down). Impossible to name them all. Maybe more memorable songs than any band after the Sixties (time of The Big Four: Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who)
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Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Grass
Dear Madam Barnum
Knights in Shining Karma
Greenman
Garden of Earthly Delights
Earn Enough for Us.
Mayor of Simpleton today
Then She Appeared
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Chalkhills and Children
Wonderland
Dying
This World Over
Dear God
Im the man who murdered love
Your Dictionary
Making Plans For Nigel
That's Really Super, Super Girl
Summer's Cauldron.
1000 Umbrellas
King For A Day
Off the top of my head
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Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Grass
Dear Madam Barnum
Knights in Shining Karma
Greenman
Garden of Earthly Delights
Earn Enough for Us.
Mayor of Simpleton today
Then She Appeared
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Chalkhills and Children
Wonderland
Dying
This World Over
Dear God
Im the man who murdered love
Your Dictionary
Making Plans For Nigel
That's Really Super, Super Girl
Summer's Cauldron.
1000 Umbrellas
King For A Day
Off the top of my head
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Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Grass
Dear Madam Barnum
Knights in Shining Karma
Greenman
Garden of Earthly Delights
Earn Enough for Us.
Mayor of Simpleton today
Then She Appeared
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Chalkhills and Children
Wonderland
Dying
This World Over
Dear God
Im the man who murdered love
Your Dictionary
Making Plans For Nigel
That's Really Super, Super Girl
Summer's Cauldron.
1000 Umbrellas
King For A Day
...off the top of my head
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Best XTC song: Train running slow on soul cole
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"Generals and Majors" Pure genius.
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