October 12, 2011 07:37 PM
Nights At The Roundtable - XTC - 1980
XTC - Quintessential 80's and timeless all at once.
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There would be no point in doing anything remotely involving the 1980's without including at least one track by the legendary Post-Punk/New Wave band XTC - tonight I've included two tracks.
Both off their fourth album Black Sea. Rocket From A Bottle and No Language In Our Lungs segued together on the original lp and, like everything the band did, is loaded with ironies. The remarkable song writing abilities of Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding really did set them apart from most bands at the time and have kept them timeless as a result. It's a wonder not more of their material is played on the radio . . . .oh yeah, I forgot - mainstream radio doesn't really play music anymore. Oh well.
Get their albums - download them from iTunes or Amazon.com or get the vinyl. If you don't know anything about them, shame on you - but you can fix that really easily. No excuses.
Start with this.
...White Music, Go 2, and Drums and Wires came before, but who's counting? (And it could be argued that Go 2 wasn't a "proper" album, since it was a dub version of White Music.) Lovely band, and really nice guys. Saw them open in Ann Arbor for the Police in '80, and went to the afterparty, where Sting swanned all over the place, nose held high, but got to talk with Andy and Colin, who were delightful. Oh, and the show RAWKED. They were playing some of the Black Sea stuff, brand new--the album hadn't come out yet. Didn't bovver to stay for the Police; never my cuppa.
Oh Christ . . you're RIGHT! Where is my brain? - I can't find it. I'll go in and change it right now.
Thanks!
(and you're right about The Police . . .not mine either).
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