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Making Plans For Nigel
Great Fire
Sacrificial Bonfire
Are You Receiving Me?
Dear God
The Mayor of Simpleton
Science Friction
This Is Pop
Grass
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(We probably did this but I don't know how the heck to search for "XTC")

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Science Friction
Summer's Cauldron
Ballet for a Rainy Day -> 1000 Umbrellas -> Season Cycle (what a hat trick!)
Dear God
Senses Working Overtime
Respectable Street
Generals and Majors
Rocket From a Bottle
Great Fire
Love On A Farmboy's Wages

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

1000 Umbrellas
Are You Receiving Me?
Life Begins at the Hop
Mayor of Simpleton
Vanishing Girl
Snowman
Great Fire
It Didn't Hurt a Bit
Wheel and the Maypole
Dear Madam Barnum

― caspar (caspar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone that doesn't have Mayor of Simpleton on their list is obv. internalising some past trauma.

Good to see Great Fire so far KICKING ASS

― caspar (caspar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I do think we did this, but I've bought the rest of their albums in the meanwhile, so:

Neon Shuffle
Helicopter
Towers of London
Yacht Dance
Knuckle Down
Great Fire
Earn Enough for Us
King For a Day
Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
I'd Like That

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Meccanik Dancing
Towers of London
Making Plans for Nigel
Melt the Guns
Senses Working Overtime
No Thugs in Our House
Respectable Street
Burning with Optimisms Flames
Summer's Cauldron
Sacrifical Bonfire

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Respectable Street
Living Through Another Cuba
Real by Reel
Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Ladybird
Wake Up
Shake You Donkey Up
Helicopter
Extrovert
Vanishing Girl

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Mayor Of Simpleton" = YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure we've done this, but fuck it...why not again?

1. "Respectable Street"
2. "Summer's Cauldron/Grass" (I'm counting this as one song, dammit!)
3. "When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty"
4. "Real by Reel"
5. "Across This Antheap"
6. "Travels in Nihilon"
7. "No Thugs in Our House"
8. "Crowded Room"
9. "25 O'Clock" (if dave can cite the Dukes, so can I)
10. "Wake Up"

...and I could do about ten more.

fuck it..

11. "Science Friction"
12. "Radios In Motion"
13. "Scissor Man"
14. "Outside World"
15. "Ballet for a Rainy Day"
16. "Chalkhills & Children"
17. "This World Over:
18. "My Weapon" (I believe I am the only person in the world who likes this song)
19. "THIS IS POP!"
10. "Senses Working Overtime"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

MY WEAPON SUCKS.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

no, you suck.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(I believe I am the only person in the world who likes this song)

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This Is Pop
Science Friction
Dear God
Ball/Chain
English Roundabout
Brainiac's Daughter
Are You Receiving Me
Generals and Majors
No Thugs in Our House
Senses Working Overtime (not the Mandy Moore version, though, oh God)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Complicated Game
Respectable Street
Mayor Of Simpleton
The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
Making Plans For Nigel
Travels In Nihilon (I think, I might be mixing it up with another song on Black Sea)
All Of A Sudden
Are You Receiving Me?
We're All Light
Ten Feet Tall

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

complicated game is soooo good.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What album was My Weapon on? I don't even know if I've heard it.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

my weapon is a barry andrews song on GO 2 and it is absolutely horrible.

take a guess what barry's "weapon" is.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

OK then that explains it. I've never even tried to listen to fucking Go 2.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that's ridiculous. it's a fine album.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(except for MY WEAPON)

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Weapon"

I dunno wot she got
I dunno wot she got
I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me
No telling where she learn the things she do to me
And I don't know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her

(wanna) take it out on her
Take it out on her
Take it out on her
With my weapon

She's so exacting that she tells me when I go wrong
She doesn't value the attention she receives
She says I'm taking all the time but I'm not returning
(that's right)

'Do this' but she won't do that
Lying beside me like a parcel of fat
Hot love - cold sweat - feel her beneath me wanna crush her to death
She tries to justify the people who despise me
She puts her finger on things she knows will hurt
And I can't defend myself till we turn the lights off then

I dunno wot she got - my weapon
My stinking weapon

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, I guess it's true about baldness and testosterone. Can we then expect the Veils to pull something similar down the line?

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh please, that's a Limp Bizkit song innit?

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'Do this' but she won't do that
Lying beside me like a parcel of fat

As one who's heard the discography, I'd actually say this is sub-Durst.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Well cutty, nice to see someone else HONOR THE (Sacrificial Bon)FIRE.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that song is the underrated track on skylarking.

but--aaron, you have no english settlement OR black sea songs on your list!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Sue me.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

thoe are arguably the best ones. IMHO, anyway.

english settlement is playing right now in tribute to this thread.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot "Living Through Another Cuba," which rocks mightily.

Is "My Weapon" a silly song? Certainly. Is it stupid? Certainly. Have they gone onto basically disown it? Yes. So what. It's still a great, silly stupid song, and I shan't hear another word about it being misogynist from the same cats who champion rappers who refer to women as bitches etc.

I also quite like the gleefully blasphemous "Jumping in Gomorrah". Go 2, despite what many an ill-informed ass hat might strenuosly lean over coffee tables to tell you, is actually a damn fine album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't Go 2 supposed to be some 'concept record' all in the character of a guy that slags off work, gets hammered at the pub and hates everyone in relationships? That's my only defense of My Weapon. I actually love the beat in that song, but I can't get past the lyrics.

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

living through another cuba is HUGE. the drums.. HUGE.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure Go 2 is good if Are You Receiving Me? is on it, but I haven't heard any of the other tunes (heard that one on Fossil Fuel).

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I am almost certain this has been done before, but as ILX doesn't allow searching for three letter words, I wasn't able to find out.

Anyway, my take

1. Grass
2. The Smartest Monkeys
3. Here Comes President Kill Again
4. That's Really Super Supergirl
5. Then She Appeared
6. Great Fire
7. Dear Madam Barnum
8. The Meeting Place
9. Summer's Cauldron
10.Dear God

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You could always search for "respectable street" in keywords

X T C P O X

there's also a OPO thread and a S/D thread.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

only one dude on the other thread had sacrificial bonfire, fuck

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cutty: If I had to pick one eack from those records it would be Respectable Street and Senses Working Overtime, and I guess I'd lose the White Music songs to do it.
I guess I just figured more people would have those two than WM songs anyway...

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one EACH

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OK. I notice my list has changed slightly. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, you got all political geir!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Grass" isn't particularly political, is it? I know the two others in my Top 3 are and I love the lyrics in both :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i was talking about #2 and #3.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone that doesn't have Mayor of Simpleton on their list is obv. internalising some past trauma.
...

-- caspar (caspa...), December 1st, 2004.

Well, I am. I bought the single just to their take on 'Ella Guru', and it's exactly the fucking same. I can't really remember how it goes at the moment.

Respectable Street (the version from Urgh! A Music War)
Making Plans for Nigel
Generals & Major
No Thugs In Our House
Living Through Another Cuba
Dear God
Life Begins at the Hop
Senses Working Overtime (somewhat ruined by hearing You Am I too much)
Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
Complicated Game

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my ex-girlfriend heard "melt the guns" and at the ending of the song she said: "this part sounds like animal collective."

and she was right!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The end? What about the beginning?

Hey! Where's the Paper & Iron love??

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

* This Is Pop?
* Red
* Chain Of Command
* Travels In Nihilon
* Desert Island
* Terrorism
* I Remember The Sun
* Rip Van Reuben
* Harvest Festival
* Standing In For Joe

(Someone do a Moulding POX)

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't even reduce the list down to my ten favourite XTC singles!

Screaming out at me from the huge list of titles that haven't even been mentioned at all so far 'though:
"Take This Town"
"Set Myself On Fire" (specifically the live version on the 'B' side of.... something or other, I forget)
"No Language In Our Lungs"
"Don't Lose Your Temper"
"Fly On The Wall"
"Tissue Tigers"
"All You Pretty Girls"
"The Mole From The Ministry"
"You're A Good Man Albert Brown"
"Your Dictionary"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 2 December 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Red Brick Dream
No Language In Our Lungs
One In A Million
Summer's Cauldron
Ladybird
In Loving Memory Of A Name
Earn Enough For Us
Across This Antheap
Rook
Another Satellite

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 2 December 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Weapon" is a fine song. The weapon, according to something I read somewhere, is farting...in bed.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so glad someone else cited "Across this Antheap".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Chorus breaks my heart every time, esp the last one.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A Moulding POX:

Ten Feet Tall
Heatwave
I Need Protection
In Loving Memory Of A Name
Grass
English Roundabout
Runaways
Deliver Us From The Elements
Fly On The Wall
One Of The Millions

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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