All Roads Lead to Beatown . . .
Band information, meant to complement Chalkhills, the XTC mailing list and original XTC web site. Information on each album, and links to interviews.
http://www.charm.net/~duke/xtc/beatown.html |
XTC Ten Feet Tall
Unofficial Italian site (in English)
http://space.tin.it/io/pdimodic/ |
RollingStone.com: XTC
Includes biography, discography, articles, and message board.
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?oid=139 |
The Little Lighthouse
Unofficial site with news, information, exclusive pictures and interviews.
http://www.knoware.nl/users/mmello/ |
The Onion AV Club: XTC
Interview with Andy Partridge on the perils of being on hiatus.
http://www.theavclub.com/avclub3121/avfeature3121.html |
Canoe's XTC Page
A collection of XTC articles by Dave Veitch of the Calgary Sun.
http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicArtistsX/xtc.html |
XTC - The Masters Return
At Launch.com. Partridge and Moulding discuss their music and album _Apple Venus Volume 1_ with Mac Randall. Biography and links.
http://www.launch.com/Promotional/xtc_feat.html |
Bungalow - An XTC Resource
The UK's only dedicated XTC site. News, lyrics, multimedia, personal commentary, fanzine history.
http://website.lineone.net/~ssleightholm/bungmain.htm |
Planet Smile (The Dukes of Stratosphear)
Devoted to the 1980s XTC side project. History, discography, images, lyrics, tablature, and a "song-by-song 'Spot The Influence.'"
http://www.coastnet.com/~monkman/dukeweb/dukeindx.htm |
Chalkhills
The official mailing list for the discussion of the music and recordings of XTC. FAQ, archives, news, classifieds.
http://chalkhills.org/ |
Amazon offers
Nonsuch (Audio CD),06 August, 2002
List price $16.98
Surprisingly Boring / 1
I don't know why, but this album not only does nothing for me, listening to it actually irritates me in that the songs are so bland and long. I do love "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead" and "The Smartest Monkeys" is listenable, but the rest is precious and dull. XTC is a band I root for because I do feel they should have reeped more benefits from their music career than they have. Their chance at a hit song was crushed when the bible belt banned their masterpiece, "Dear God", from the radio and they have never released albums that are "current". I am glad they moved on to the aound of Venus Apple, it is all potential, but hopefully newcomers to XTC's music stay away from this one. XTC deserves to at least make a living from their brilliant music. I will keep my fingers crossed that albums like English Settlement, Drums and Wires, The Black SEa, Skylarking, The Big Express will bring new fans and if not they are able to make brilliant music in the future that broadens their audience..
Song "Humble Daisy"
Humble Daisy
Form a chain to hold all battleships in check
Humble Daisy
Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck
Ragged rug unbound
Tangle trip the lovers
Royal barge aground
Brighter than all of the others on the window sill
I'll sing about you if nobody else will
Humble Daisy
Cast the milk and coins of morning's cash about
Humble Daisy
I fell down to heaven as you picked me out
We'll look up together
Browsing through some old sky
Sipping in the weather
You've got me dizzy, the fly that climbed the sugar hill
I'll lay upon you 'till somebody else will
Humble Daisy
We'll look up together
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BBC - Films - review - ivans xtc
The final days of a dying Hollywood agent are chillingly evoked in Bernard Rose's
no-frills, low-budget drama.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/07/03/ivansxtc_2002_review.shtml
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Moxy Fruvous - Fruhead.Com: - Review of "XTC"
Reviews:. Kat Kunz rates this 7 / 10. very beatlesesque pop music with brightly
depressing lyrics. XTC has evolved, for sure, during their 25+ years in ...
http://www.fruhead.com/mod/recs/viewitem.php?cat_id=1&item_id=37
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[ Adrian's Album Reviews ] XTC
A guide to the music of XTC. Album reviews and web links.
http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/xtc.html
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