XTC - Complicated Game Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this video we're listening to another from XTC. We know this band's early 80's style a little bit, and have only started learning more in recent videos. We want to hear more from them, so here we are. Enjoy!
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The voice sings desperation, anger and hopelessness. It fits perfectly.
Might be their best song ever. Certainly the most passionate one. No mistaking this is serious stuff.
You could just be right . That and Scissorman, certainly 2 of AP finest !
No doubt. Honestly one of their only songs I really enjoy
XTC, the most under rated band ever? Great album, fantastic track.
Them and NRBQ!
BUT: They've been very, very popular across many different YT channels over the past few years! 😃👍
Absolute...the best album of this band ❤
I went out and bought this album after having heard "Nigel" and loved (and love) the album; then this album ending track which tapped into some of the confusion and anger I was experiencing as an 18-year- old in 1979. I went out and bought their first two albums and have been a big fan ever since.
As raw, visceral and challenging a listen today as it was the first time c. 45 years ago 😱.
A completely authentic synchronisation of lyrical content, vocal delivery and music. Not many like this. 👏👏👏
This piece delivers raw punk emotion with clear melodic notes carrying the angst, which many punk icons failed to do. It is powerful for the same reason "Imagine" is powerful. Raw honesty. Though not as complex as Imagine, it reaches right into the marrow of our beliefs with a similar grasp. The listener can't escape tasting our mutual, primitive frustration with society.
Thank you for your comment. You're the first to manage to put into words how i feel when i listen to this song, and very interesting parallel with Lennon's Imagine (though i don't feel the same about the complexity of both songs). Too bad the Hanier's didn't get touched by the raw emotion expressed... just the way they cut short when the guitar unleashes the deep anger and matches so perfectly the frustration said in the lyrics shows how much the whole song goes right over their head. To me the greatest "angry" song ever written, even better than Smells like teen spirit.
@@geoffreypelletier8853 It sounds like you might agree with me that more words and notes do not necessarily equal complexity?
Thanks for the reaction. I wasn't sure how you would take it. I've introduced this song to friends over the last 40 some years since I bought Drums and Wires on release, and it's about a 50/50 split with either people thinking it's brilliant and people telling me to turn that 5#!+ off. Personally it's one of my favourites, but my wife absolutely detests it. The other two songs I mentioned are nowhere near as divisive/abrasive/angular as this is.
I love when he starts swinging the rhythm of the lyrics while the beat stays so straight. So awesome!
Thanks for reacting guys, sorry wasn’t exactly to your liking! Think you are right with your interpretation, I’d also throw in how it is impossible to please everyone. Open to interpretation though. This is definitely one of their more abrasive songs, but I love the vocal delivery, it conveys the message I interpret so well
@@jameshunter7303 I like that they pretty much admit XTC is over their heads before proving it.
This album (Drums and Wires) was my favourite. The use of guitars and bass was so interesting. This song is as avant gard as the album cover. I think perhaps you'd enjoy this more if you listened to the whole album. Although their big hit Making Plans For Nigel is on this album, i prefer songs like Scissor Man and Helicopter 🚁... Oh, And When Your Near Me.....
It was used as the ending track for the rather surreal horror / thriller movie Vivarium. Totally worked there.
This really is a great album ! Full of quirky songs . I felt the same when i first heard it back in 79, but its one of those songs that the more you listen to it the better it gets
It grows on you . To the point where you realise this is truly a great song !
Along with Scissorman, the best 2 tracks on the album .
"Helicopter" and "Ten Feet Tall" are probably easier listens for you on this particular lp. From the two lps before this, try "I am The Audience", "Super Tuff", "This Is Pop" or even their cover of "All Along The Watchtower".
"This Is Pop" for a completely different flavor. I mean, flavour.
It's actually a simple song, musically. The bass riff is (maybe) 2 chords ascending and descending. The keyboard, guitar and percussion are equally simple and repetitious, but manage to build a dreadful tension between them. The sadness and anger all come from Andy Partridge's vocals, which are raw, powerful and surprising. Even a non-empath (don't get me started) can't help but feel that almost nihilistic (certainly existential) horror, dread and ultimately futile anger. Don't forget that this was written and recorded in the '70s, and is still as fresh and compelling as when I first heard it in High School.
RED and Beatown are two favorite energetic early songs of theirs.
I am so touched by this song; it makes me emotional.
Probably the harshest, nastiest song XTC ever recorded. I love it, but I’m not surprised it’s a bit less to your taste. For a different flavor, might I recommend their 1999 track "Easter Theatre"?
That's probably why I love it so much; the only Beatles song that holds my interest to this day is Helter Skelter.
One of the TRULY GREAT British bands. They can do everything from heavy and manic to soft and beautiful. They can do it ALL! You've hard this... their most in-your-face side... Check out "Harvest Festival" or "Easter Theatre" for a completely different aura.... other great songs (and they have SO MANY!) "Senses Working Overtime," "Then She Appeared" "Wrapped In Grey"... Great stuff!
Yep, this is a tough one to ingest at first listen. However, as others have said, it's actually pretty deep, and tends to grow on you. Now that I'm much older, I empathize with the angst, the frustration of the song. It iS a complicated game. And it's at times maddening. For me, perfect musical exposition.
There is another Canadian reactor called Insignificant Nick. He loved this track when he first heard it - one of his favourite reactions of last year!
I saw that. He was blown away, loved his reaction!
Not one of his favorites, his favorite.
I like the reaction from the good lady. You got it.
Love watching you guys... You have to understand this was 1979, NOTHING sounded as good as this song. Listen to those guitars, bass and drums, and Andy's vocal. I heard this on Halt and Catch Fire and was WTF is and went out and bought everything I could find and buried myself in this record, thinking where this song in 1979 being played. It wasn't.. There isnt a song in 2024 that is as creative musically and sounds as good vocally at this and they recorded this album start to finish in just 4 WEEKS!! Great album and song. I want to hear Andy talk about how this was recorded and written..
Oh cool. This one is less familiar to me than many of XTC's songs. I love their albums Black Sea, English Settlement, Skylarking, and Oranges And Lemons...
Superb band. Life in the Greenhouse is another brilliant track by them.
Just a brilliant album…and track.
Your channel is sick dude
Around the same time this came out, Joe Dolce got to number one in the UK. And this got nowhere. It's a complicated game.
I remember first hearing this on John Peels radio show.....Drums and Wires purchased not long after.
Someone got you to react to a Complicated Game? EXCELLENT!!! P.S. Making Plans For Nigel is GREAT!!!!
Yes it is! We grew up enjoying that song. Back then, we didn't know why we liked it. Now we understand.
Love that song. !
love this song, nobody i know agrees
They just don't get it do they ??
The XTC music is very diverse, the lyrics too. I love all from they.
You do his song King For A Day, completely different to that song.
Mayor Of Simpleton is one of his better hits.
i love your reaction!
I like the lady's facial reactions.
I do prefer this and the two lps before it more than the later stuff.
They also have a couple of lps under the name "The Dukes Of Stratosphear" but I think you may have done one of their tracks.
I've never heard this before but it's okay. It could fit in with the Pink Floyd The wall album
this was the song used at the end of Vivarium and let me tell you the feelsss... no i can't describe it
I call this post-punk. But I think XTC would have just called it rock. Because they're not associated with punk. On a side note, do you like Devo? I highly recommend their songs Beautiful World, Shrivel Up, Jocko Homo, Girl U Want, Freedom Of Choice..
Song feels like a nihilism anthem kinda harsh reality of the world in the song you can feel it
XTC before the Cure.
They may have been part of what influenced them in their beginning.
I always wanted to be in a bsnd called Prevention. If only to be better than the cure😂.
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The Norton Commando 750 is a brilliant bike. I wish I had one. Oh well, I'll just have to settle for my 600cc Yamaha
Now, saying, oh well , has just given me a great idea. :::::: Oh well, by Fleetwood Mac. A brilliant song!
Not sure if it's on this album but try There is no Language in My Lungs by XTC.
Language in Our Lungs ....Was on "Blacksea"
Sorry, but the fact you wouldn't like it was written on your faces. You just don't have ability to feel these emotions and appriciate this music. All you could say was "pretty insane", "angry message" - just common words, but there was no in-depth-analysys from your side, and there was no real interest to explore and understand something new.
Not for everyone.