From: neil.black@uttsbbs.uucp (Neil Black)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: RE: XTC
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: neil.black@uttsbbs.uucp (Neil Black)
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-> From: rude@camelot.bradley.edu (Kristen Ulrich)
-> Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
-> Subject: Re: XTC
-> Message-ID: <rude.728079833@camelot>
-> Date: 26 Jan 93 20:23:53 GMT
->
-> In <1993Jan24.111115.22452@math.ufl.edu> homey@oak.circa.ufl.edu
-> writes:
-> >I'm looking for anything by XTC that I don't have.  I have White
-> Album, >Go 2, Drums and Wires, Big Express, Black Sea, English
-> Settlement, >Skylarking, Oranges and Lemons, Nonsuch, Mummer, Rag and
-> Bones Buffet, >Demo for Nonsuch and one for Skylarking, and I also
-> have Chips from the >Chocolate Fireball by Dukes of Stratosphear.
->
-> Stuff to look for in your quest:
->
-> The Homo Safari series
-> really good instrumentals, pretty hard to find.
->
-> Waxworks: Some singles 1977-1982
-> The title pretty much speaks for itself. This is not hard to find at
-> all; in fact, I think I may have even seen it in a Columbia House
-> Catalog somewhere.
->
-> Beeswax
-> The B-sides for the singles in Waxworks. VERY hard to find...in fact,
-> I'm the only person I know of who has an original copy of it on
-> vinyl...and I'v nnever seen it on cassette. Some of the rare stuf on
-> this album showed up on Rag and Bone Buffet, but there are several
-> songs not to be found anywhere else except on the back of the
-> singles. Good luck on finding this one....
->
-> Black Sea Tour--A live recording from back in the days when all of
-> them were drunk all the time
->
-> "Mayor of Simpleton" single
-> I'm not too fond of "Mayor of Simpleton," but there are some B-sides
-> on this one that Andy and the boys recorded in his basement or
-> something...not produced at all, but pretty good.
->
-> "Toys" single
-> I've only seen it on cassette....
->
-> They have a video out, whose name I can't really remember, but it's
-> got videos for "This is Pop," "Respectable Street," "Towers of
-> London," "Making Plans for Nigel," "Ball and Chain," and several
-> others.
->
-> Mr. Partridge, Take Away
-> Andy Partridge messes about with several
-> of the older XTC songs, including "Helicopter" off of Drums and Wires
-> and "Cairo" from the Homo Safari Series.
->
-> Plus, of course, stuff by the Colonel (aka Colin Moulding) and Trick
-> Bag (another alterego band)....
->
-> Whoa...quite a long response. Hope I've been of help.
->
-> rude@camelot.bradley.edu

Whew!  There's more.  Check out "Explode Together (The Dub Experiments
'78-'80)" on cd (Virgin CDOVD 308).  It has 3 parts.  Part one is called
"Go +", which is dub versions of Go2 stuff.  part II is "Take Away" by
Andy Partridge, and part III is called "The Lure of Salvage", another
Mr. Partridge thing.

As for the live XTC:  It's from a BBC concert back in 1980, so the songs
are from everything up to and including Black Sea.  I haven't heard it
yet, because I don't really want to pay $24 for it here in the U.S.  But
other netters have said it's pretty great.
                                        
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