Check out the album, "Mighty Joe Moon" by a band called, Grant Lee Buffalo. They're a 90's band that's *criminally* underrated and "Mighty Joe Moon" is a brilliant album I think you'll dig. Very few people know about them these days as for some reason, they're just never talked about - but they're literally one of the best bands of the 90's. Fantastic singer. Stunning songs.
If you want psychedelic XTC, check out their two EPs released as The Dukes of Stratosphere with great songs like Vanishing Girl (sounds like early Hollies), Collideascope (sounds like John Lennon), 25 O'Clock & Bike Ride to the Moon.
Thanks from requesting these Gail! XTC is such a fun band with great social commentary embedded in the lyrics but so fun you can dance to it! Great commentary today L33! ☮❤🎶
XTC was not a band that I would have followed so it’s always nice to see what I missed out on. I loved the Nigel song the most, especially when I found out what the lyrics meant. Thanks so much Gail. ❤
I've been listening to the album since it came out when I was 16. What I'm really noticing 45 years later is what a melody factory XTC was. Every song has distinct and gorgeous melody. I want you to hear every album, but I'm really looking forward to you listening to the epic that is "Oranges and Lemons," almost a decade on from this album.
Great reaction, as always. XTC have always been a favourite of mine. Interesting that you mentioned the production of the album. It’s produced by Hugh Padgham, who also worked with The Police, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins
So much bounce! Yeah that is a great way to describe it. Although songs like Complicated Game are kind of the opposite, but it's also a masterpiece. I bet you would love one of their biggest hits, Respectable Street. Total banger.
Love hearing new to me songs and groups. Thanks for these thought provoking tracks, Gail. As a girl who's sisters were much older, I learned life DID begin at the hop. Also glad I had my parents who made no plans for me. What a fun way to convey their message. Great reaction, L33. You just keep getting better my the minute. Blessings all.
When I discovered XTC in '79, I bought this album and listened to Nigel, Helicopter and Life Begins At The Hop about 10 times in a row before listening to any other songs on the album.. a great musical trio.
Nope, "Day In, Day Out" is its own song, and it's one you should absolutely react to. It got a lot of radio play on alternative rock and college radio. But every single song on this album is amazing. It's one of those perfect albums. If you want to go slightly further back in time, and see if you like what led to stuff like these three songs that you really liked, there are a handful from their first two albums that I think are just incredible: "I'm Bugged" "This Is Pop" "Statue of Liberty" "I Set Myself On Fire" I'm just going purely from memory and I haven't thought about this in ages, so I'm probably missing some. But for a lot of us fans that were there from the beginning, for a lot of people Drums and Wires, Black Sea, and to some extent English Settlement after that, were the favorite albums, with Drums and Wires getting special attention, although all three of those albums are just insanely good. I really think it's an incredible catalog of work even to that point. And then you also have to throw in Dukes of Stratosphear which was a one-off album with an alternate band name celebrating psychedelia. It's some really great stuff as well. People that became fans a little later, often might consider English settlement as the first album that they are really familiar with and love and then after that, meadowlarks and lemons, I think it's called? After that, I have pretty much no familiarity.
Primus introduced me to these guys but years/decades later mi late wife really got me into them. Generals & Majors, senses working overtime, Respectable street, etc
Every epoch has it's own great music but I do feel lucky to have have been a college radio listener in the late 70's through the 80's. A lot of stuff played there that mainstream didn't touch. Glad to see XTC finding new fans 40 years later.
Making plans for Nigel was such a huge deal in the alternative music world. I think one reason why I really immediately embrace them was I had grown up on that late 60s and early 70s rock and then into the late seventies rock, and then as hair metal took off in the early eighties, I went to college and discovered this whole other world of Iggy Pop and big black and the Suicidal Tendencies and the talking heads and The B-52s. I was in a post-punk band and my drummer who was just 18, was in a very popular Regional band that played a lot of ska add police covers, and this guy was really good even at that age. And he and I fell in love with XTC at the same time and we just listened to it so intensely and tried to learn a lot of the stuff. It was so refreshing to do that after all the automatic Blues Licks and rock idioms that have become just so popular in overproduced about three or four years before. It was a total Revolt from that, like the sex pistols and the ramones, but this was postponed, it had elements of that it had elements of everything basically but it had a focus on minimalism to still create something incredibly kinetic and emotional at times.
Thanks, guy.. I have this vinyl album.. (has a stamp on it that says "not for sale". I guess it was a promotional release that someone gave me... lol) it was one of my favorites when I was 18-19.. and especially "Making plans for Nigel"... really appreciate your listen & reaction...
Good vid again. Great choices fella. Noticing your Tull hat,I wondered if you had reacted to anything from their criminally underrated album….Crest of a Knave? It’s their heaviest work,guitar heavy and wonderful. Start with Steel Monkey from the album.
Great stuff! "Life Begins" wasn't on the original UK release of D&W, but came out on a clear vinyl 7" single some months earlier, which I bought on a whim from Woolworth's in Forfar (Scotland) in May 1979 when I was 14. The first XTC song I ever heard, all about discovering music and girls tht I heard when I was discovering music and girls. It was my "way in" to XTC and 45 years later I listen to them as much as I ever did. And I still have the clear vinyl 7".
Wow!! Talk about timing! Just recommended 'Roads Girdle the Globe' to Alex of Andy and Alex. Love the album. Video of 'Life Begins At the Hop' a favourite. Love the palm-muted/pizzicato guitar solo. Terry Chambers is a beast. "Got to be obscene to be obheard" is a long-time fave line! 'Real by Reel', 'Millions', have at it, mate. Happy Tuesday. 🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
While most of my friends were still listening to Styx, Kansas, etc. I had caught wind of bands like The Ramones, The Clash, Television, and many others. I saw a video of 'Nigel' on either Night Flight or MTV and bought this album the next day, and their first two albums the following day. In a couple months or so 'London Calling' was released; need I say more.
Yeah, XTC, swinging back and forth between sweet and dystopian. One of alternative 80's best bands. That album had a number of excellent tracks. Good choice.
I was fortunate enough to see XTC play all of these songs live when they came on tour to Los Angeles and performed at The Whisky in 1980, and they were great. Lots of punk pop fans pogoing to the beat. So sad that Andy gave up touring soon afterwards because of stage fright. The opening act, oddly enough, was The Troggs, already over the hill but attempting a comeback. Yes, they played Wild Thing. ❤
Still listen to XTC (2nd on my Spotify Wrapped) and particularly love Andy Partridge's vocal gymnastics. So many favourites- Mayor of Simpleton, Love on a Farmboy's Wages, No Thugs in Our House, Then She Appeared, Garden of Earthly Delights and many more. Hugely influential band.
My RUclips moniker is “Musical Burr” - and for me, there is no stronger creators of musical burrs than XTC. If I hear ANY XTC song it’s stuck in my head for at least 3 days. No fail!
My other XTC top three: 'Senses Working Overtime' 'Generals and Majors' and 'Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me).' 'Making Plans for Nigel' would have been in there, but not sure which one to drop.
I heard the Primus cover of Making Plans For Nigel before the original by XTC and I love them equally. Its on a covers EP called Miscellanious Debris, which also has Have A Cigar & Tippi Toes, among others. This is the 1st time Ive heard the other songs & Im intrigued for the rest of the album. XTC are one of those bands that were called punk, but they were so much more & didn't get the recognition they deserved.
"She got to be 'ob-seen' to be 'ob-heard'"; "I object to all the 'air male' that she pick up" - the lyrics of "Helicopter" are a joy. I'm glad my vinyl of DaW is the U.S. release (a lot of the punk/wave LPs my friends/I bought late '70s/early '80s were imports - very pricey ones): the U.K. one didn't have "Life Begins..." on it, as that was a single there - those were usually not included on LPs, unless as a re-done version.
The 1989 double album Oranges & Lemons was their best in my opinion. Many great songs, including Mayor of Simpleton, Merely a Man, The Loving, and King for a Day.
I love all these - they're XTC, greatest band ever - but damn if Helicopter isn't my jam, "she's got to be obscene to be ob-heard" should sound stupid, but it doesn't - it's just a brilliant line. Also love that Andy's voice is tearing apart in places (the Drums & Wires recording sessions were largely live, his voice fracturing slightly is a measure of that, and it still sounds great!)
If you need any further convincing to listen to Drums & Wires in its entirety, you should know that the best song on the album, "Complicated Game", was not included in this excellent selection.
This set is basically an 'early XTC greatest hits'. This was the album where guitarist Dave Gregory replaced keyboard player Barry Andrews (whose next gig was with Robert Fripp's 'League of Gentlemen'), plus it was their first with young star producer Steve Lillywhite -- hence the awesome mix and drums production. But this is the album that firmly announced XTC as a band to watch, and it gave them a bonafide worldwide hit with "Making Plans for Nigel". BTW, if Andy Partridge's vocal style seems a bit quirky, it's safe to say he was 'on the spectrum'. 😉
Because I am 64 years old I would love to hear you explore new stuff that you feel is as bold and boundary pushing as XTC or Kate Bush or any of the best of the earlier eras. Thanks for your work!
When it comes to taste, there's no right or wrong answer. Everybody's got it but nobody can decide who's is better. If you ask me, a much better set of four songs from "DRUMS & WIRES" would've been "Making Plans For Nigel," "When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty," "Ten Feet Tall" and "Outside World." With honorable mentions going to "Roads Girdle The Globe," "Complicated Game" and "Life Begins At The Hop." But what do i know? The only thing i know for sure is that i don't know anything for sure. Anyway, i love your show, man. Keep it up!
You asked about Phish being influenced. Absolutely, Fishman in particular…listen to Melt the Guns from XTC, then Maze by Phish…Jon even talked about it on XM radio.
R×R awesome unexpected bonus. Recommended in my other comment. 'Respectable Street' a gem of social observation. ✨️💎 Name generally pronounced Ex-tee-see. Ecstasy too much of a stretch at the time maybe, when I thought they were to be Lennon and McCartney for the 80s!! 🙄🤯🤪👍🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
Back in the day musicians wanted as broad a fanbase as possible. These days they want to have a narrow focus that will come up in searches. Sad to say a lot of folks want more music that sounds almost exactly what they already like.
Thaks Gail for sponsoring this. Love this stuff. Definitely play "Generals and Majors," Music Video for: ruclips.net/video/p-JeQduJ0f8/видео.html. Making Plans for Nigel Music Video: ruclips.net/video/AiIlcew-GVM/видео.html "The Mayor of Simpleton," and "King for a Day." from 1989. They waned and ebbed, kind of like Madness did after 1982.
Not a bad album but such a shame you picked out some pretty ordinary (for XTC) tracks to listen to. Millions (about China) and Complicated Game would have displayed their true genius.
Just brilliant. Having this much fun should be illegal. What are we doing next?? Let me know ASAP lol
“KingForADay“ and “mayor of simpleton are excellent XTC tracks.
Check out the album, "Mighty Joe Moon" by a band called, Grant Lee Buffalo. They're a 90's band that's *criminally* underrated and "Mighty Joe Moon" is a brilliant album I think you'll dig. Very few people know about them these days as for some reason, they're just never talked about - but they're literally one of the best bands of the 90's. Fantastic singer. Stunning songs.
‘Generals and Majors’ great song by …. XTC, one of many. The are undoubtedly the best band to come out of Swindon, UK
“COMPLICATED GAME”… Same album! Will blow you away!
If you want psychedelic XTC, check out their two EPs released as The Dukes of Stratosphere with great songs like Vanishing Girl (sounds like early Hollies), Collideascope (sounds like John Lennon), 25 O'Clock & Bike Ride to the Moon.
Making Plans for Nigel put XTC on my musical map. Awesome band!!
And Generals & Majors, an even better song in my opinion.
My favorite band after The Beatles. XTC is absolutely the most underrated band in rock history.
Complicated Game, from the same album, is truly an amazing and unique song that needs to be heard too.
My favorite XTC album!!!!!!!
Mine too.
Thanks from requesting these Gail! XTC is such a fun band with great social commentary embedded in the lyrics but so fun you can dance to it! Great commentary today L33! ☮❤🎶
Nigel is so good.
Thanks
XTC was not a band that I would have followed so it’s always nice to see what I missed out on. I loved the Nigel song the most, especially when I found out what the lyrics meant. Thanks so much Gail. ❤
I've been listening to the album since it came out when I was 16. What I'm really noticing 45 years later is what a melody factory XTC was. Every song has distinct and gorgeous melody. I want you to hear every album, but I'm really looking forward to you listening to the epic that is "Oranges and Lemons," almost a decade on from this album.
Great reaction, as always. XTC have always been a favourite of mine. Interesting that you mentioned the production of the album. It’s produced by Hugh Padgham, who also worked with The Police, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins
I think Steve Lillywhite produced and Hugh engineered… they’re both great!
So much bounce! Yeah that is a great way to describe it. Although songs like Complicated Game are kind of the opposite, but it's also a masterpiece. I bet you would love one of their biggest hits, Respectable Street. Total banger.
Goddamn so many nights dancing to this album up with my roommates . Love XTC
Great stuff from a truly great band. But “COMPLICATED GAME “ is sitting right there. A sonic masterpiece. Check it out! Cheers!
Love hearing new to me songs and groups. Thanks for these thought provoking tracks, Gail. As a girl who's sisters were much older, I learned life DID begin at the hop. Also glad I had my parents who made no plans for me. What a fun way to convey their message. Great reaction, L33. You just keep getting better my the minute. Blessings all.
This band is sooo underrated. Brilliant.
I’m excited for this 😻
YES! It's SO GOOD! Lol
When I discovered XTC in '79, I bought this album and listened to Nigel, Helicopter and Life Begins At The Hop about 10 times in a row before listening to any other songs on the album.. a great musical trio.
Makin' Plans For Nigel was a wake up call. World...pay attention to these XTC guys...really good!
Nope, "Day In, Day Out" is its own song, and it's one you should absolutely react to. It got a lot of radio play on alternative rock and college radio. But every single song on this album is amazing. It's one of those perfect albums.
If you want to go slightly further back in time, and see if you like what led to stuff like these three songs that you really liked, there are a handful from their first two albums that I think are just incredible:
"I'm Bugged"
"This Is Pop"
"Statue of Liberty"
"I Set Myself On Fire"
I'm just going purely from memory and I haven't thought about this in ages, so I'm probably missing some. But for a lot of us fans that were there from the beginning, for a lot of people Drums and Wires, Black Sea, and to some extent English Settlement after that, were the favorite albums, with Drums and Wires getting special attention, although all three of those albums are just insanely good.
I really think it's an incredible catalog of work even to that point. And then you also have to throw in Dukes of Stratosphear which was a one-off album with an alternate band name celebrating psychedelia. It's some really great stuff as well.
People that became fans a little later, often might consider English settlement as the first album that they are really familiar with and love and then after that, meadowlarks and lemons, I think it's called? After that, I have pretty much no familiarity.
Primus introduced me to these guys but years/decades later mi late wife really got me into them. Generals & Majors, senses working overtime,
Respectable street, etc
Every epoch has it's own great music but I do feel lucky to have have been a college radio listener in the late 70's through the 80's. A lot of stuff played there that mainstream didn't touch. Glad to see XTC finding new fans 40 years later.
I was playing XTC on KXLU in Los Angeles back then. Were you listening?
You are the best channel in this space❤ always something new and something old. I love it ❤
Great reaction! Can't wait until to hear the rest of this album, I absolutely love XTC.
Oh boy this will be fun
I really enjoyed this. Thank you Gail.
Making plans for Nigel was such a huge deal in the alternative music world. I think one reason why I really immediately embrace them was I had grown up on that late 60s and early 70s rock and then into the late seventies rock, and then as hair metal took off in the early eighties, I went to college and discovered this whole other world of Iggy Pop and big black and the Suicidal Tendencies and the talking heads and The B-52s. I was in a post-punk band and my drummer who was just 18, was in a very popular Regional band that played a lot of ska add police covers, and this guy was really good even at that age. And he and I fell in love with XTC at the same time and we just listened to it so intensely and tried to learn a lot of the stuff. It was so refreshing to do that after all the automatic Blues Licks and rock idioms that have become just so popular in overproduced about three or four years before. It was a total Revolt from that, like the sex pistols and the ramones, but this was postponed, it had elements of that it had elements of everything basically but it had a focus on minimalism to still create something incredibly kinetic and emotional at times.
That was a fun session
Brilliant album from XTC...remember buying this in '79....I went on the wonderful, multicoloured world of XTC
Love you guys. My favorite reaction channel, and family. Audiophiles of the world untie!
Front to back, this is one of my favourite albums, full stop.
Nigel is such a great song 😊
This album is just flat-out FUN!!!! Thanks, L33!
Drums and Wires. Black Sea. English Settlement. Skylarking. As good a 4 album run as any in rock history.
Black Sea is an awesome fun record....it willl stay with you forever
Thanks, guy.. I have this vinyl album.. (has a stamp on it that says "not for sale". I guess it was a promotional release that someone gave me... lol) it was one of my favorites when I was 18-19.. and especially "Making plans for Nigel"... really appreciate your listen & reaction...
Good vid again.
Great choices fella.
Noticing your Tull hat,I wondered if you had reacted to anything from their criminally underrated album….Crest of a Knave?
It’s their heaviest work,guitar heavy and wonderful.
Start with Steel Monkey from the album.
Great stuff! "Life Begins" wasn't on the original UK release of D&W, but came out on a clear vinyl 7" single some months earlier, which I bought on a whim from Woolworth's in Forfar (Scotland) in May 1979 when I was 14. The first XTC song I ever heard, all about discovering music and girls tht I heard when I was discovering music and girls. It was my "way in" to XTC and 45 years later I listen to them as much as I ever did. And I still have the clear vinyl 7".
Wow!! Talk about timing! Just recommended 'Roads Girdle the Globe' to Alex of Andy and Alex. Love the album. Video of 'Life Begins At the Hop' a favourite.
Love the palm-muted/pizzicato guitar solo.
Terry Chambers is a beast.
"Got to be obscene to be obheard" is a long-time fave line!
'Real by Reel', 'Millions', have at it, mate.
Happy Tuesday.
🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
Andy and Alex can hate Roads Girdle The Globe, I think. I love it, great idea.
I remember singing along to MPFN in the car with my parents when I was young
Happy memories
Interesting, Gail, thank you.
I highly recommend the documentary "This Is Pop", the story of the band.
My favorite band. The next , Scissor Man and Complicated Game , the last two songs froem the same album.
''Making plans for Nigel'' is my fav XTC song just love it!!
PS- Loving your immersive reaction 😊
Complicated Game - one of the greatest songs of that era.
XTC really were very good. They reminded me of more modern The Kinks for reasons I cannot work out.
Defiantly British?
While most of my friends were still listening to Styx, Kansas, etc. I had caught wind of bands like The Ramones, The Clash, Television, and many others. I saw a video of 'Nigel' on either Night Flight or MTV and bought this album the next day, and their first two albums the following day. In a couple months or so 'London Calling' was released; need I say more.
What an awesome start to my day! 🤩☀️
Thank you Gail, thank you Lee!
😀👍
Great band. Try generals and majors from(I think, the black sea album) As a bonus there's a video that features Richard Branson.
Yeah, XTC, swinging back and forth between sweet and dystopian. One of alternative 80's best bands. That album had a number of excellent tracks. Good choice.
I was fortunate enough to see XTC play all of these songs live when they came on tour to Los Angeles and performed at The Whisky in 1980, and they were great. Lots of punk pop fans pogoing to the beat. So sad that Andy gave up touring soon afterwards because of stage fright. The opening act, oddly enough, was The Troggs, already over the hill but attempting a comeback. Yes, they played Wild Thing. ❤
I love the polyrythmic aspects of XTC
Still listen to XTC (2nd on my Spotify Wrapped) and particularly love Andy Partridge's vocal gymnastics. So many favourites- Mayor of Simpleton, Love on a Farmboy's Wages, No Thugs in Our House, Then She Appeared, Garden of Earthly Delights and many more. Hugely influential band.
one of the best group ever
I really like "Dear God" and "Senses Working Overtime". Great band.
My RUclips moniker is “Musical Burr” - and for me, there is no stronger creators of musical burrs than XTC. If I hear ANY XTC song it’s stuck in my head for at least 3 days. No fail!
I love this album. Nigel was their biggest hit up to that point in time but the whole album has many good songs. Still influenced by the punk scene.
I prefer XTC's alter ego 60s flavored psych band, The Dukes of Stratosphear. Their 1985 debut 25 O'Clock, is an 80s pop psych gem.
XTC so underrated
One of the most brilliant XTC songs is "Greenman." From Apple Venus. There are a bunch of versions out there.
My favorite XTC album, although there are many more. The earlier the better for me!
I've been buying XTC's music since their first album. Sacrificial Bonfire is great, they also do a cover of Dyan/Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
My other XTC top three: 'Senses Working Overtime' 'Generals and Majors' and 'Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me).'
'Making Plans for Nigel' would have been in there, but not sure which one to drop.
Last track on the album "Complicated Game" is like nothing else you've ever heard. Amazing!
I heard the Primus cover of Making Plans For Nigel before the original by XTC and I love them equally. Its on a covers EP called Miscellanious Debris, which also has Have A Cigar & Tippi Toes, among others.
This is the 1st time Ive heard the other songs & Im intrigued for the rest of the album. XTC are one of those bands that were called punk, but they were so much more & didn't get the recognition they deserved.
These guys were so sharp and criminally fun. My ex father in law was a Nigel and he hated that song as much as I loved it 😇
You have absolutely got to react to complicated game from the same album!!!
Love the beat on "Nigel". Kinda industrial in fact. Great song.
"She got to be 'ob-seen' to be 'ob-heard'"; "I object to all the 'air male' that she pick up" - the lyrics of "Helicopter" are a joy.
I'm glad my vinyl of DaW is the U.S. release (a lot of the punk/wave LPs my friends/I bought late '70s/early '80s were imports - very pricey ones): the U.K. one didn't have "Life Begins..." on it, as that was a single there - those were usually not included on LPs, unless as a re-done version.
I love the "Black Sea" album too.
The 1989 double album Oranges & Lemons was their best in my opinion. Many great songs, including Mayor of Simpleton, Merely a Man, The Loving, and King for a Day.
I had an early release w day in day out,10 feet tall. Mummer and skylarking are also very good records.
I love all these - they're XTC, greatest band ever - but damn if Helicopter isn't my jam, "she's got to be obscene to be ob-heard" should sound stupid, but it doesn't - it's just a brilliant line. Also love that Andy's voice is tearing apart in places (the Drums & Wires recording sessions were largely live, his voice fracturing slightly is a measure of that, and it still sounds great!)
Hell yeah... I've probably listened to Helicopter 5000 times in my lifetime...
The whole album is killer but that song is tops..
@@32INCHSTRIPER Definitely! Not my favourite XTC album (a top 5 though) but even that doesn't stop the album being nothing short of awesome.
If you need any further convincing to listen to Drums & Wires in its entirety, you should know that the best song on the album, "Complicated Game", was not included in this excellent selection.
The Beatles were another big influence on them. I say that because I know you have become quite the Beatles fan.
This set is basically an 'early XTC greatest hits'. This was the album where guitarist Dave Gregory replaced keyboard player Barry Andrews (whose next gig was with Robert Fripp's 'League of Gentlemen'), plus it was their first with young star producer Steve Lillywhite -- hence the awesome mix and drums production. But this is the album that firmly announced XTC as a band to watch, and it gave them a bonafide worldwide hit with "Making Plans for Nigel". BTW, if Andy Partridge's vocal style seems a bit quirky, it's safe to say he was 'on the spectrum'. 😉
Steve Lilly White also.produced the first three albums. You need to hear I Will Follow, Gloria and Surrender
U2 albums that is
Because I am 64 years old I would love to hear you explore new stuff that you feel is as bold and boundary pushing as XTC or Kate Bush or any of the best of the earlier eras. Thanks for your work!
When it comes to taste, there's no right or wrong answer. Everybody's got it but nobody can decide who's is better. If you ask me, a much better set of four songs from "DRUMS & WIRES" would've been "Making Plans For Nigel," "When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty," "Ten Feet Tall" and "Outside World." With honorable mentions going to "Roads Girdle The Globe," "Complicated Game" and "Life Begins At The Hop." But what do i know? The only thing i know for sure is that i don't know anything for sure. Anyway, i love your show, man. Keep it up!
we only want whats best for him
The version of this album that I originally had started with 'Making Plans for Nigel.' 'Life Begins at the Hop' was a separate single.
Nice comments at the end. What we know is but a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. - some German philosopher, possibly schopenhauer.
You asked about Phish being influenced. Absolutely, Fishman in particular…listen to Melt the Guns from XTC, then Maze by Phish…Jon even talked about it on XM radio.
Phish does Melt The Guns in concert.
I know 'going down a rabbit hole' has become an overused saying but XTC reside down a very deep one.
R×R awesome unexpected bonus. Recommended in my other comment. 'Respectable Street' a gem of social observation. ✨️💎
Name generally pronounced Ex-tee-see. Ecstasy too much of a stretch at the time maybe, when I thought they were to be Lennon and McCartney for the 80s!! 🙄🤯🤪👍🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
Back in the day musicians wanted as broad a fanbase as possible. These days they want to have a narrow focus that will come up in searches. Sad to say a lot of folks want more music that sounds almost exactly what they already like.
Primus does a solid cover of Nigel.
wow its 1979 again i am 14
Thaks Gail for sponsoring this. Love this stuff. Definitely play "Generals and Majors," Music Video for: ruclips.net/video/p-JeQduJ0f8/видео.html.
Making Plans for Nigel Music Video: ruclips.net/video/AiIlcew-GVM/видео.html
"The Mayor of Simpleton," and "King for a Day." from 1989. They waned and ebbed, kind of like Madness did after 1982.
Nigel is 5/4 time....reggae!
Not a bad album but such a shame you picked out some pretty ordinary (for XTC) tracks to listen to. Millions (about China) and Complicated Game would have displayed their true genius.
I mean, if you want hear something special from XTC, try Church of Women.
@@johnroberts1708 Can't go wrong with any XTC song.
I have liked the music of XTC for decades...but the vocals leave me cold.
One of the most brilliant XTC songs is "Greenman." From Apple Venus. There are a bunch of versions out there.