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yes

yeah OP love this band, I just love

I've heard a lot of /mu/mmers dislike this album but I think it's one of their best

check em

I think XTC is the only band I've heard that just kept getting better and better instead of the other way around

Skylarking- 9/10
Drums & Wires- 9/10
White Music- 8/10
Apple Venus Volume 1- 8/10
Oranges & Lemons- 8/10
Psonic Psunspot- 7/10
Black Sea- 7/10
English Settlement- 6/10
Nonsuch- 6/10
that's all i've listened to from them and they're the GOAT

snipping snipping snipsnip snippitup snip snippinnng

>>39956521
>english settlement and nonsuch lowest ranking
I respectfully disagree, they're both in my top three

What really is there to say about this band that hasn't been said before. They are only of the best bands during the 80's and Skylarking is one of the greatest albums of the 80's!

>>39956521
>English Settlement not a 10/10

Drums & Wires, Skylarking, and English Settlement are the only ones I've listened to. I love all 3.

Give me Skylarking over Rubber Soul or Pet Sounds any damn day

>>39956618
check out English Settlement and Nonsuch, also Mummer, not as consistently good but it has some of their best songs

laying on the grass
my heart if flares like fiyeeeerrrrrrrr

>>39956669

Apple Venus Vol 1 is GOAT too

>>39956388
Drums and Wires is the only album I can think of where every single song is really, truly memorable.

>>39956727
haven't heard any of the apple venues
are they good? I love their other albums

>>39956567
>>39956607
i never felt it that much but i will retry it.
can someone explain to me why White Music is typically viewed as one of their weakest?

>>39956800
it feels to raw and unfinished
it can be fun but it's not very good musically, they're not very skilled yet on that album and it's too shouty and kinda juvenile

>>39956800
i don't know why anyone would think that, it has so many amazing songs on it

>>39956800
I think one of the things to remember about English Settlement is that the first half of it sounds quite a bit like Drums & Wires or something; it's that poppy new wave that made XTC what they are. In the second half, they sort of go off into more rhythmic new wave, and the first time I listened to it that change was jarring and I didn't really care for the second half. Once I "accepted" that the album takes a tonal shift midway, I think I've come to like it much more.

Black Sea is underappreciated and about a decade before its time in terms of pruduction.

>>39956912
I think it's a great album all the way through, however it's a bit long so I don't listen to it very often
>senses working overtime
>leisure
>knuckle down
>fly on the wall
these are some of their best songs, especially the last three

>>39956970
it's a great album, it was the album that really got me into them, used to listen to drums and wires occasionally because it was fun and a kick, then I listened to black sea and went from there

>Andy Partridge - lead vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar, semi-acoustic electric 12-string guitar, semi-acoustic electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mini-Korg, Prophet V, anklung, alto sax, percussion, frog
>frog

>>39956974
I really like Melt The Guns

>>39957113
it's good, kinda long

Fuck yes, XTC are GOAT. This and Go 2 are criminally underrated.

IMAGINE IF YOU CHECKED MY DUBS RIGHT NOW

>>39957320
I like The Big Express, it's very different though. Don't listen to it very often and I tend to forget it.
>Wake Up
>All You Pretty Girls
>Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
>The Everyday Story of Smalltown
Great songs.
Shake Your Donkey Up however is I think the only XTC song I don't like.

i know this girl who loves the shit out of xtx

are they any good

>>39957408
>tfw no qt gf to listen to my XTC collection with

>>39957408
don't know about xtx
xtc however is, as the OP says, the best band ever, may take some time to get into though, did for me

>>39957445
shes a real qt
shame that she has a pleb bf though

>>39957445
>those vinyls
the only one I have on vinyl is Mummer

>>39957408
>girl
>loves xtc

>>39957445

I like your wallpaper. Where'd you get it?

>>39957403
>>39957320

Ah well, that's this world over.

what's a good place to start with this band? I like psychedelic rock if that helps

>>39957543

>>39957559
Upsy Daisy Assortment, it's a very good greatest hits collection

>>39957408
i-is she p-pretty

>>39957559
I started with drums & wires
skylarking or english settlement are probably good starting albums too
don't start with their first, it's not very good, drums and wires is their first really good album

>>39957594
greatest hits collections are for music casuals, no offense

>>39957511
Drums & Wires, English Settlement (Early pressing with green lettering) and the singles are all UK pressings and all of them are 1st pressings.

But
>Vinyls
>>39957559
If you like psychedelic rock then try Skylarking or The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball

>>39957542
I dunno

>>39957591
Will you tell him that the reason why we murdered everything on the surface of the world, is so we can say we did it in his name

>>39957620
oh yeah I completely forgot about Dukes
that stuff is great

>>39957624

>>39957614
Sometimes one wants to listen to music casually, and not make life so difficult for ones self, no offence

I've only been able to get into Dukes, I haven't heard any other XTC I like.

>>39957614
Upsy Daisy is a good place to start though. It's where I did. XTC generally isn't too conceptual or thematic in their albums anyway.

>>39957677
yeah sure, if that works for you
doesn't for me though
I don't see how listening to albums can't be casual listening though

>>39957726
no, but each of their albums have a pretty distinct kinda style to it, and every album is at the least a little different, at the most very different

>>39956521
>English Settlement that low

Listen to it again. It's one of their best. Doesn't have a bad track. I think it didn't click for me on the first listen either.

Apple Venus Vol. 1 is my second favourite album ever.
>dem elegant arrangements
>dat chorus on Easter Theater
>Green Man
Thank you, based Mr. Partridge.

>>39957723
The first Dukes EP is fantastic but I can't get into the album at all. It sounds incredibly boring in comparison to the EP, it's the only XTC release other than Mummer that I genuinely dislike.

>>39957769
I only like the album.

>>39957759
yeah, a lot of their albums take some listening to get good
I really didn't like Skylarking the first time I heard it, how wrong I was

>>39957783
Skylarking still hasn't fully clicked with me and I've listened to it twice. Gonna keep trying.

>>39957769
>disliking Mummer
but it has so many great songs
>Beating of Hearts
>Wonderland
>Great Fire
>Human Alchemy
though I'll agree it isn't as consistent in the quality as most of their albums

>>39957817
keep listening to it, it's a great album, one of their best

>>39957779
Well, shit.

>>39957818
There's not a single track on it that doesn't bore me.

>>39957817
Skylarking is fantastic. Dying is maybe my favorite XTC song.

>>39957736
It can be too.
And I know there are lots of bad greatest hits collections out there, but Upsy Daisy is actually pretty cohesive, and a good place to start I'd say because you get a couple awesome tracks from each album, and you can investigate further as you gravitate to particular songs. Oh and all the tracks are in chronological order, from earliest stuff to latest.

>>39957944
sounds pretty good, still not for me though