@@MythosTheGreat I believe so. It's basically a song about how the earth "rebirths" each spring. Every line is a reference to springtime: critters frolicking, animals gamboling, new growth emerging from the earth. It's a paean to springtime.
@@MythosTheGreat Actually I did not have a real clue until I stumbled on this, where Andy explains it all. Fascinaring stuff! ruclips.net/video/X5QFj7mYSLc/видео.html
One of the greatest all time bands....what a catalog of songs and albums....breathtaking. Been listening since Drums and Wires and have loved everything so much.....probably my favorite band of all time. You can put their music up against anything it's so good and for so many albums and songs. I'm not sure if I've mentioned how much I love this band...... since 1979....now I am 500 years old but I still love this band today. Most music falls away. Not this....and I STILL can't believe they were not so much huger than they were, with all this talent and all these incredible songs. They should be billionaires. Gold to me.....
In my thirty five years on this Earth, i've come across two songs that I consider perfect. Acadian Driftwood by The Band, and this one. Absolutely enchanting.
One thing I really love about XTC is their journey and how it shows through their music. Their whole lives are put before us and the variants of genre and era are like chapters in a book-I love them so much. I’ve learned a lot from them. This song really reminds me of that, it’s so sensitive and beautiful but it’s still XTC-Even if things change around us, we must not lose the sense of self and sometimes we gotta let things change us too. It’s really such an amazing and complex thing❤️❤️❤️
Gold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth Stage left Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk Stage right Now the son has died, the father can be born Stand up If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke New life, we'd applaud her new life Odin mounts the tree Bleeds for you and me Splashing on the lamb Gamboling with spring step Buds will laugh and burst Racing to be first Turning all the soil As the prompter's fingers through her spinning script Stage left Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk Stage right Now the son has died, the father can be born Stand up If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke New life, we'd applaud her new life Easter... in her bonnet Easter... in her hair Easter... are the ribbons She ties everywhere Stage left Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk Stage right Now the son has died, the father can be born Stand up If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke In her bonnet Easter... everywhere Easter...
@GxV great reason to. They’re all fantastic. Personally, my fav is Black Sea. But this and Skylarking are joint second, with a very close third being Nonsuch.
I just really hope they continue. XTC is too valuable. This song is brave, full bodied, and elegant. It pulls at your soul and, for me at least, reminds of me of who is important in my life.
no frickin' way, mate! they did so many! fruit nut is right up there with dear god and 'bungalow'! hahaha.. and too many others to blame!! humble daisy was the weirdest thing i'd ever heard, and it was so bold, at the time, i mean it's still frickin' hard to comprehend, the sheer novelty of this crap!! remarkable, to put it very politely! their body of work is growing and breathing still, unlike that of any other so-called act! they added more than a few classes to the idea of class!
@Eric Menig heck, colin's the best , alright, along with his mates that is! only he could've did what he done, and i still am diggin' that in the third decade after the turn of the frickin' century, that's no accident, mate!
I think the change at round 2:20 and ON is one of the most beautiful musical passages ever recorded. is that hyperbolic? no. don't think so. hahaha. xtc and on and on.
where the heck did this come from! and what the heck-is-it! i like it, whatever it is, i always did, since over twenty years already, and it still sounds weird and new to me now, quite a long departure, so to speak! and i hope he's happy now! where do you go, what do you do when you've already proved yer the greatest songwriter, recording artist, band-leader and iconoclast, for too many decades already... ugh... buy his merch! buy me some, too! sabbadini can tell ya where and how, right-right? respecto!!
Paul has never really been subversive except in the Beatles. XTC were huge Beatles fans so there's that. It's funny as Paul in turn was influenced by XTC as My Brave Face sounds like XTC
Lyrics: Copied from Genius.com Gold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground, your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth Stage left (Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk) Stage right (Now the son has died, the father can be born) Stand up (If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke) New life (We'd applaud a new life) Odin mounts the tree Bleeds for you and me Splashing on the lamb Gamboling with spring's step Buds will laugh and burst Racing to be first Turning all the soil As the promptress' fingers through her spinning script Stage left (Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk) Stage right (Now the son has died, the father can be born) Stand up (If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke) New life (We'd applaud a new life) Easter in her bonnet Easter in her hair Easter are the ribbons She tied everywhere Stage left (Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk) Stage right (Now the son has died, the father can be born) Stand up (If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke) New life (Hey) Stage left (Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk) Stage right (Now the son has died, the father can be born) Stand up (If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke) In her bonnet (Easter ) Everywhere Easter Easter Easter Easter
It makes me feel like I’m winter and I’m being attacked and overcome by the onslaught of new plant growth that comes with spring. In the best, most transcendent way possible.
Maybe it's because there was such a roaring trade in the Apple Venus demos in the years before it was finally released, but I actually prefer the demo version to the album one.
@@MissAstorDancerIt’s heavily influenced by them, yeah. But for my money as a song this towers over anything The Beatles ever wrote. It’s like they took the source material and perfected it.
Learned about this gem on strong songs podcast. Thanks Kirk!
Ah, I see it's also stuck in your head after that episode!
"Buds will laugh and burst, racing to be first." Freaking genius.
Have you got any idea what this song is about?
@@MythosTheGreat I believe so. It's basically a song about how the earth "rebirths" each spring. Every line is a reference to springtime: critters frolicking, animals gamboling, new growth emerging from the earth. It's a paean to springtime.
@@richdelgado3405 yeah I thought it was along the lines of that.. its a really great song
@@MythosTheGreat Actually I did not have a real clue until I stumbled on this, where Andy explains it all. Fascinaring stuff!
ruclips.net/video/X5QFj7mYSLc/видео.html
Great lyrics... about Spring.
happy easter theatre day everyone
Breathtaking.
One of the greatest all time bands....what a catalog of songs and albums....breathtaking. Been listening since Drums and Wires and have loved everything so much.....probably my favorite band of all time. You can put their music up against anything it's so good and for so many albums and songs. I'm not sure if I've mentioned how much I love this band...... since 1979....now I am 500 years old but I still love this band today. Most music falls away. Not this....and I STILL can't believe they were not so much huger than they were, with all this talent and all these incredible songs. They should be billionaires. Gold to me.....
Well said King’s Servant! Well said indeed! 👏🏻
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Ditto!! (The Kings Servant) just what you said!!
I think they were too far ahead of their time
people who don't know about xtc really don't know what they are missing!
In my thirty five years on this Earth, i've come across two songs that I consider perfect. Acadian Driftwood by The Band, and this one. Absolutely enchanting.
Breathtakingly beautiful and sacred song, my favourite XTC song....
One of my "must hear" Easter songs.
I'd love to hear some of your other "must-hear" Easter songs.
Country lanes, red phone boxes, dodgy cars - you couldn't get more British than this. Exceptional.
Gives me chills every time
Same here. This is pretty much the pinnacle of music for me.
Came to grab this for a Facebook-share , Easter 2022.
It’s still brilliant. ☮️
Ditto.
I’m here in 2020 to post a critically acclaimed comment. And it is (with great musical insight that I say that this song is) fucking brilliant.
That comment made me laugh, but it is entirely accurate!
I’m here in 24 to confirm your insight: this song is indeed fucking brilliant.
One thing I really love about XTC is their journey and how it shows through their music. Their whole lives are put before us and the variants of genre and era are like chapters in a book-I love them so much. I’ve learned a lot from them. This song really reminds me of that, it’s so sensitive and beautiful but it’s still XTC-Even if things change around us, we must not lose the sense of self and sometimes we gotta let things change us too. It’s really such an amazing and complex thing❤️❤️❤️
If anyone is here today.... happy Easter :-)
So rarely is beautiful melody matched by beautiful poetry
Gold sun rolls around
Chocolate nipple brown
Tumble from your arms
Like the ground your breasts swell
Land awake from sleep
Hares will kick and leap
Flowers climb erect
Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth
Stage left
Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk
Stage right
Now the son has died, the father can be born
Stand up
If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke
New life, we'd applaud her new life
Odin mounts the tree
Bleeds for you and me
Splashing on the lamb
Gamboling with spring step
Buds will laugh and burst
Racing to be first
Turning all the soil
As the prompter's fingers through her spinning script
Stage left
Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk
Stage right
Now the son has died, the father can be born
Stand up
If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke
New life, we'd applaud her new life
Easter... in her bonnet
Easter... in her hair
Easter... are the ribbons
She ties everywhere
Stage left
Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk
Stage right
Now the son has died, the father can be born
Stand up
If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke
In her bonnet
Easter... everywhere
Easter...
Mr Partridge never ceases to amaze me. Just as I thought I'd heard XTC's best, I heard this.
@GxV great reason to. They’re all fantastic. Personally, my fav is Black Sea. But this and Skylarking are joint second, with a very close third being Nonsuch.
They never went bad. They just kept getting better. Bloody awesome. Don't know if any other artists reached these heights...
beautiful...sublime...breathtaking
Had to come here today.
One amazing song, a watershed finish. Precious.
I just really hope they continue. XTC is too valuable. This song is brave, full bodied, and elegant. It pulls at your soul and, for me at least, reminds of me of who is important in my life.
Andy... for the Peace on Earth... Please make more music.... it's the Band Aid to our little Human bruises! :)
there's-no-other-way, haha, the blur is arguably pretty frickin' awesome, i must say!
@@tinfoilhatter - What are you blabbering on about?
@@warmswarm the blur, mate! ''.. yer takin'-the-fun, out-of-ev'rything,,''
I was 13 when my mum got this album from Andy's Records in 1999. Absolutely love this track, so many happy memories.
As always, a cacophony of lovely harmonies, melodies, instruments and interpretations to dwell on. A fine album to close out the 20th century.
And still not surpassed after 24 years.
Andy Partridge is a flippant genius.
Damn I love this.
Awesome. I love ths band and have forever.
A good song for Easter.
this band could have been the biggest act on earth
Partridge had stage fright
@@jamesw158 i know, that's why i'm sayin
The Apple Venus ablums are my fav XTC and thats saying a lot!!!
the grip that this song has on me is perpetual
Greatest thing they ever recorded. Everything is ok when I listen tot his.
no frickin' way, mate! they did so many! fruit nut is right up there with dear god and 'bungalow'! hahaha.. and too many others to blame!! humble daisy was the weirdest thing i'd ever heard, and it was so bold, at the time, i mean it's still frickin' hard to comprehend, the sheer novelty of this crap!! remarkable, to put it very politely! their body of work is growing and breathing still, unlike that of any other so-called act! they added more than a few classes to the idea of class!
Strongly disagree.
The greatest thing ANYONE ever recorded.
this is so pretty 🥺 i hear heavy beach boys influence here
Epic poetry! Just beautiful.
My favourite song ever...
Beautiful is all I can say!
Beautiful song!!!! ♥️
bass at 3:25 always gets me
Ditto. His bass and vocals are beautiful on this track.
@Eric Menig heck, colin's the best , alright, along with his mates that is! only he could've did what he done, and i still am diggin' that in the third decade after the turn of the frickin' century, that's no accident, mate!
This is a damn good song
get chills every time
great song!
ロックバンドの到達点の曲だと 思う 良すぎる
WOW!!!
amazing every time I listen to it! Thanks for posting :-)
Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home
such an underrated song...
I love it. It sounds like Martha my dear.
F....k what's up .where did this emerge.
Welcome to XTC. I'm new too!
Amazing.
xtc gold.
also a good song
New favorite song!!!
It's so orchestral, pagan, introspective, uplifting. Is it the best XTC track?
It's in the top three or four for me for sure
If you like this one, check out Chalkhills & Children.
@@clarkem4119 "You're never too far..."
Whenever I listen to it, yes.
Andy has implied as much.
masterpiece
I think the change at round 2:20 and ON is one of the most beautiful musical passages ever recorded. is that hyperbolic? no. don't think so. hahaha. xtc and on and on.
I keep rewinding to hear Andy’s “hey”
Listening to 'Easter Theatre' on a White Easter Monday.
At least it's upbeat. At least. Always is every time. Always a Good song.
best album ever
Soooooo. Good. Eeeeaaaaasteeerrrrrr :)
Happy Easter! Enjoy the bonfires, make love, have a great time!
Happy Easter
This is inspired
Le grand Andy Partridge, dépositaire avec qqs autres de la pop anglaise...A quand un retour d'XTC ?....
where the heck did this come from! and what the heck-is-it! i like it, whatever it is, i always did, since over twenty years already, and it still sounds weird and new to me now, quite a long departure, so to speak! and i hope he's happy now! where do you go, what do you do when you've already proved yer the greatest songwriter, recording artist, band-leader and iconoclast, for too many decades already... ugh... buy his merch! buy me some, too! sabbadini can tell ya where and how, right-right? respecto!!
happy easter 2017 everyone
Here is where XTC outgrows Beatles😊
Will Easter Theatre be available on Spotify. Such an epic track needs to be out there for the generations.
できないみたいです😢
Like a slightly more subversive Paul McCartney
like a wannabe ringo-starr-type character, you mean! ha ha ha!!
@@tinfoilhatter - No, I'm sure he doesn't mean that. Ha ha ha!! Is there something wrong with you?
@@warmswarm yeah, i lost too many xtc cd's, mate!
Maybe
Paul has never really been subversive except in the Beatles. XTC were huge Beatles fans so there's that. It's funny as Paul in turn was influenced by XTC as My Brave Face sounds like XTC
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Epic
may i be so bold and ask if this is possibly the best xtc tune of them all?
One of them certainly.
@@ArbeiterInnenlieder Good timing as well.
There’s too many.
@@resistor27 You"re right,i give up the rankings.
It is
Brilliant song ,has a wicker man soundtrack feel to it (and that was brilliant too ).rip Paul Giovanni.
: Will there be a 2nd-Coming ? With what we know today in 2019!?-
Lyrics: Copied from Genius.com
Gold sun rolls around
Chocolate nipple brown
Tumble from your arms
Like the ground, your breasts swell
Land awake from sleep
Hares will kick and leap
Flowers climb erect
Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth
Stage left
(Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk)
Stage right
(Now the son has died, the father can be born)
Stand up
(If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke)
New life
(We'd applaud a new life)
Odin mounts the tree
Bleeds for you and me
Splashing on the lamb
Gamboling with spring's step
Buds will laugh and burst
Racing to be first
Turning all the soil
As the promptress' fingers through her spinning script
Stage left
(Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk)
Stage right
(Now the son has died, the father can be born)
Stand up
(If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke)
New life
(We'd applaud a new life)
Easter in her bonnet
Easter in her hair
Easter are the ribbons
She tied everywhere
Stage left
(Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk)
Stage right
(Now the son has died, the father can be born)
Stand up
(If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke)
New life
(Hey)
Stage left
(Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk)
Stage right
(Now the son has died, the father can be born)
Stand up
(If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke)
In her bonnet
(Easter )
Everywhere
Easter
Easter
Easter
Easter
I have this Cd. Love it! Gtx Markus
Why does this song give me a weird feeling
It makes me feel like I’m winter and I’m being attacked and overcome by the onslaught of new plant growth that comes with spring. In the best, most transcendent way possible.
The feeling you get is of ascension.
Maybe it's because there was such a roaring trade in the Apple Venus demos in the years before it was finally released, but I actually prefer the demo version to the album one.
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You can hear the Beatles influence, particularly Sgt. Pepper
Don't get me wrong, God Only Knows by the Beach Boys is a masterpiece. Its just that this song is better.
i read, aclaimed for the critics, think, another shit.. was right
What a song. The Beatles could never write this.
That's hilarious! This could not be any more derivative of The Beatles!!
@@MissAstorDancer Andy would laugh himself silly at that comment. The Beatles are his idols
@@garycostello2949 - NO! Really?
smh
This is much less egotistical than the Beat us.
@@MissAstorDancerIt’s heavily influenced by them, yeah. But for my money as a song this towers over anything The Beatles ever wrote. It’s like they took the source material and perfected it.