XTC Appreciation thread!!!!

[smasha]

This band are umm were fecking incredible.

Incredible songwriters and I rate em better than The Police.

..and the drum sounds,caaaaawwwwwwwww.

Listen to the album Black Sea and I will challenge anyone to the huugity of the drum sounds.

Just HUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEE.

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[sherrinorburley]

I like them.

One of the best names for a band.

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[SunKing]

Huge fan but mainly of the period from Black Sea onward where the music became more pastoral and complex as opposed to the earlier new wave stuff.

 

[John]

Incredible songwriters and I rate em better than The Police.

I should bloody well hope so.

I am an XTC fan from their very beginning and having every album, having seen them live and read Chalkhills and Children will not be joining in discussing them as I have no interest in the opinions of spotty little herberts who have no idea.

I have this

12 inch version of Dear God and my dog ate the cover after the ex wife left it on the floor. This is proof alone that there is no god and that divorce was inevitable.

 

[smasha]

I should bloody well hope so.

I am an XTC fan from their very beginning and having every album, having seen them live and read Chalkhills and Children will not be joining in discussing them as I have no interest in the opinions of spotty little herberts who have no idea.

I have this

12 inch version of Dear God and my dog ate the cover after the ex wife left it on the floor. This is proof alone that there is no god and that divorce was inevitable.

umm i'm 43.

I loved em back in the 80s but was a bit young to see em live but I aint no emo youngun.

 

[smasha]

About my "Police" remark,I thought that band got way more hyped in the media while bands like XTC were unnoticed.

My first XTC moment was when my old mum bought me the Generals And Majors 45 single back in 1980.

Loved em ever since.

 

[sherrinorburley]

Agree with you re-Police smasha.

Generals & Majors rock's.

Got this compilation on vinyl.

 

[Leaping Lindner]

I first fell for the lads from Swindon when I saw "Are you recieving me?" on the summer edition of countdown during the 78/79 school holidays. Drums and Wires and Black Sea are the high water for me. English Settlement was a top album as well. Later stuff not so rapt in but still love them!

 

[smasha]

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This was the B-side to the Generals And Majors 45 single.

Really eery cool track.