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This third album marks a significant personnel change for XTC. Organist Barry Andrews departed and was replaced by guitarist Dave Gregory. While neither of the two wrote songs for the band, the change effectively removed the most "New Wave" element in XTC's original sound, ultimately setting the stage for a magnificent sonic expansion over the following several albums.
Opening with one of their biggest hits, "Making Plans For Nigel," the album finds the Partridge-Gregory guitar interplay exploring the rich fields of Captain Beefheart (the tag to "Day In Day Out" is pure Magic Band). The relative quiet of "Ten Feet Tall" sounds positively pastoral after the nonstop energy of the last two albums. With "Life Begins at the Hop" Colin Moulding was emerging as XTC's hit-bound writer, but since these charting entries he's remained pretty much in the shadows of the more prolific Andy Partridge.
Remastered reissue of 1979 album features the classic 'Making Plans For Nigel'.Virgin Records. 2001.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.Spin (p.104) - "New wave gets refined..."
Spin (p.102) - "If these guys were the Beatles of new wave, this is their REVOLVER..."
Q (7/01, p.139) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination...Here they began to find themselves in thwacking rock..."
CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - Ranked #20 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980". XTC Drums And Wires Songs Drums And Wires Music Review Purchase Drums And Wires CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | XTC Black Sea CD (1980) Remastered
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XTC's fourth album showed the full flower of their two-guitar lineup, begun on the previous DRUMS AND WIRES. Perhaps their most powerfully rocking work, the songs were no less compelling live. Unfortunately, as touring began in support of the release, leader Andy Partridge's long-standing stage fright blossomed into immobilizing panic, forcing the band to permanently retire from the stage. Their palette was continuing to expand sonically and Steve Lillywhite's production made the most of every towering beat and rhythmic nuance. Several singles were drawn from the record and charted in Britain, most notably the dazzling "Respectable Street" and "Towers Of London." BLACK SEA marked the close of the band's first era ...
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This album stands as an effective summation of the punky exuberance particular to a parcel of British bands that all ended up sailing across ...
| | XTC English Settlement CD (1982) Remastered
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Initial pressings of this reissue are packaged in a limited edition cardboard sleeve that replicates the original vinyl LP's artwork and inserts.
Any doubt's ...
| | XTC Mummer CD (1983) Remastered
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Having fully settled into their retirement from touring, this was XTC's second album since leaving the stage for good. With none of the songs having developed in live performance, their studio inclinations were given full range to go where they might. MUMMER opens with the African ...
| | XTC Nonsuch CD (1992) Remastered
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All songs written by Andy Partridge except "My Bird Performs," "The Smartest Monkeys," "War Dance" and "Bungalow" (Colin Moulding).
XTC's NONSUCH falls somewhere between the high-polish shine of ORANGES & LEMONS and the pastoral reverie of SKYLARKING. The album also marked the end of the band's dealings with their original label, the beginning of protracted legal maneuverings, and a seven-year gap in releases (which ended with APPLE VENUS VOLUME ONE in ...
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| | Almendra Inolvidables Rca: 20 Grandes Exitos CD (2004) (Import) Argentina
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| | Nillah Sun Show CD (2005)
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"If the sound of chiming Rickenbacker guitars turned up to ten makes your heart flutter, then Nillah is just what the doctor ordered." - AMG All Music Guide"This band just plain has it." ...
| | Meg Barnhouse July Blue CD (2007)
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Meg Barnhouse grew up in North Carolina and Philadelphia, and she has lived in Spartanburg, SC since 1981. After graduating from Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary, she worked as Chaplain to Converse College for six years, teaching Public Speaking, Human Sexuality, World Religions, and other courses. Meg has been active in the community, helping to found the SAFE Homes Network for battered women. She is credentialed as a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. ...
| | Backline Vol. 38-Backline CD (2008) (Import)
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