mrAGC
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Joined: 8/15/2005
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| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/6/2006 2:34:41 PM | Hi
was just listening to XTC, a Brit band from the 80s, wondering if anyone else knows if there still around, some great lyrics and melodies, kinda Beatley/60s ish music, had some big hits like Towers of London, Senses Working Overtime and the great Generals and Majors | |
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mrAGC
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Joined: 8/15/2005
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| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/6/2006 7:45:41 PM | Hi
Agreed Dear God is one of the under-rated classics!!!!! | |
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Posted: 1/6/2006 8:15:07 PM | I wonder?
I love their song Grass, and I really dig what they did as the Dukes of Stratosphere...It's 25 o Clock and Psonic Psunspot. TOtal psychedelia | |
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Posted: 1/6/2006 8:33:33 PM | | I love XTC...Im not sure if theyre still around.I used to listen to them in the early 90s a lot.They rock:) | |
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Posted: 1/6/2006 8:49:35 PM | Making Plans for Nigel
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We’re only making plans for nigel
We only want what’s best for him
We’re only making plans for nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
And if young nigel says he’s happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
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mrAGC
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Joined: 8/15/2005
Msg: 7 | |
| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/6/2006 8:57:15 PM | Hi
yeh....Dukes of Stratosphere very way out.....i mean tracks like "Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead", "Knights in Shining Karma" or "Holly Up On Poppy" are great for the titles alone!!! | |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 1:33:21 AM | I STILL have that song "Complicated" with the long fade-out ringing in my ears.
"A compa, a compa, a complicated....."
A great band, haven't heard from them in awhile.
I know Partridge was doing collaborations with Harold Budd a few years ago, but that was about it.
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mrAGC
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Joined: 8/15/2005
Msg: 9 | |
| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/7/2006 6:52:40 PM | Hi
XTC's last album was Wasp Star recorded in the late 90s which has the great track "Im the Man Who Murdered Love"...they gave up touring in the early 80's due to Andy Partridge's terrible stage fright, and indeed has worked with Harold Budd, Thomas Dolby, Joan Armatrading and Terry Hall | |
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Posted: 1/8/2006 12:55:04 AM | | xtc are alive and well and they are still putting out music as an independent artist. You can find them at independentartistscompany.com | |
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| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/8/2006 8:06:24 AM | | great band the singer suffers from stage fright big time. great band. check 1979's release upsy daisey assortment. | |
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Posted: 1/9/2006 10:26:12 AM | | I have the one with the green cover and the 'dog'(?) on it...it is a good album! | |
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mrAGC
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Joined: 8/15/2005
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| are XTC still around
Posted: 1/9/2006 10:55:29 AM | Hi
that must be "Engilsh Settlement" album, and the pic is kinda like the Chalk drawings that are on some of hills in the West of England where XTC come from, very near Stonehenge | |
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Posted: 4/22/2006 6:16:30 PM | | Loves XTC. Wished more people did. Although one band from Canada, the Crash Test Dummies, did cover "The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead" for a movie, can't remember which one, but I think it had something to do with Jim Carrey. | |
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Posted: 4/22/2006 11:50:39 PM | | Well XTC is quite an excellent band but they are working on a CD right now and I think they are starting a tour sometime this year. Also why didn't anyone just google the name and check out their site, or did I miss that post? | |
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tecnic
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Joined: 10/22/2007
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| are XTC still around
Posted: 11/2/2007 3:40:06 PM | yes they are and there is talk of a new album on the way so andy partage said he is the lead singer i think they were trying to get a new drummer making plans of nigel but i did read something that andy and the boys were planning to release a new album
there a long time on the go | |
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Posted: 11/2/2007 5:14:50 PM | They have some of the catchiest tunes ever recorded.
Senses Working Overtime, a classic.
They did the original Peter Pumpkinhead which is a much better version than the one recorded by that Winnipeg band.
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Posted: 11/3/2007 1:06:14 PM | | good band, liked them alright-- remember seeing their videos on MTV's 120 Minutes a lot back in the mid/late 80's :) | |
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Posted: 11/4/2007 9:27:35 AM | | Yes they are still around. Some of the members have been working with the band Pugwash from Dublin Ireland, I HIGHLY recommend their stuff, so do an internet search and listen to some soundclips! Search for [ Pugwash "Thomas Walsh" ] because he's the mastermind behind the band and a really great bloke in general! | |
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Posted: 11/5/2007 8:48:09 AM | I'll have to check out Pugwash!
Apparently Andy Partridge and Robyn Hitchcock have been writing songs together recently as well. I'm a long time fan of both, so I'll be very happy if/when this collaboration leads to a release.
The last XTC release I know of was Partridge's "Fuzzy Warbles" box set in which years and years of outtakes and b-sides were collected on nine discs. There are some really good tunes on these discs, but (and I HATE saying this as a die-hard fan) there are good reasons a lot of the others didn't make it onto XTC albums. I recommend it for XTC fanatics, but really no one else. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2007 10:58:38 AM | Gawd...what a great band!
And Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) or Living Through Another Cuba.
I remember when I would specifically look at who produced, if I saw Steve Lillywhite as the producer I knew it was going to be solid. | |
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Posted: 11/21/2008 7:56:22 PM | The answer is no. Colin Moulding left the band in 2006 and Andy Partridge didn't want to continue without his collaboration. Moulding for reasons only known to him, isn't interested in working with XTC.
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Posted: 11/22/2008 4:41:01 AM | Ahhhh, good times, good times!! One of the first 'non-mainstream' bands I ever saw back in the 80's......(just as well if they aren't still together -- ever see a band 20 years after their hey-day just to experience a serious lunch-bag letdown?). I prefer to remember them as they 'were'...... | |
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tecnic
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Joined: 11/28/2008
Msg: 25 | |
| are XTC still around
Posted: 12/13/2008 3:20:26 PM | | as far as i know andy partrage and his group are stll together and they were working on a new album i heard this a while back | |
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