xtc show their sarcasm on go2

every gangsta and his ho knowz that me and c-money moulding bring da sarcasm and da guns in tha wesside of swindon yo yo yo

and bitch you bet it sold even if we had dat dumb no good nigga barry "b squared" andrews tryin to hold down tha xtc krew yo with his wigger organ yo

ps bitch yo gotta download tha xtc krew's new single "where da ordinary thugz be at?" yo which me and c-money be frontin on

gangsta andy partride be out yo yo yo

gangsta andy partridge always makes me laugh.

will it swell?

I have to agree. White Music just sounds like goofy hyperactive pub-rock to me, whereas Go 2 has a broader palette (the slash-and-burn of "Meccanik Dancing" and the Eno-inspired "Battery Brides") and a more judicious use of discord. And if we're considering it era by era, "Are You Receiving Me?" - one of their most pulse-quickening singles - was released the same month as the album.

Wasn't the cover already done by Hipgnosis and they just picked it after not liking what was presented to them, Hipgnosis called it the 'office joke'.

I also quite enjoy "Jumping in Gomorrah" for both its sentiment and its wilfully silly execution," and I even like "My Weapon" (most loathed XTC number?)

I didn't know about Hipgnosis part... damn, I would have loved to see that. But it's true that the album cover art as it stands now was a Virgin records office joke that had been around for years before, and XTC were just the first one to accept the offer to use the idea for that album.

And I said, "That's good" and lifted it off of the mantelpiece and started reading it. And I said, "This is great - what's this? - have you done this for somebody? This is great!" And they said, "Oh no, that's the office joke. We did that as a joke to show what the ultimate sleeve could be, and of course nobody will touch it! We've shown that to every band that's come in and that is the one they reject." [laughter] And I thought, "This is it! I want this one!" Knowing that everyone else had rejected that. That was at the bottom of everyone's list. And to me, it was like - it just seemed to sum up what a sleeve should do. And I said, "We'll have this," and they didn't take us seriously. They said, "Yeah - sure - okay - so you're gonna ring us about which of those sleeves you want?" [Andy] "No, no. We want this one!" [Hipgnosis] "No, no, c'mon. You can't have that one it's a joke you know. It's our office joke. We leave it there on the thing as a joke. It's our office gag." [Andy] "No, no, this is what we want. We want this one." And we made them do the whole thing, you know, they printed up promotional T-shirts saying "THIS IS THE T-SHIRT - THE PURPOSE OF THIS T-SHIRT - THIS IS THE BADGE - THE PURPOSE OF THIS BADGE," blah blah. That sort of thing. The ads in the paper - you know, we took it the whole way.

WL: It's a great gimmick.

AP: Yeah. And I liked the fact that nobody else wanted it. I mean everyone had turned it down. Pink Floyd had turned it down. I kind of liked that. I liked the fact that it was the complete and utter joke. And the office new it as well, it was their joke because everyone had rejected it.

WL: Did Virgin react well to the idea?

AP: I think they were a little bit "Uhhm. My God, are you sure this is going to work?" And they were saying, "Well, can't we put XTC really big at the top?" And I said, "No, that takes away from the whole purpose of the actual design being all that white lettering." You know, if you look at it at twice arms length it just looks like static. It looks like just black and white static. It's beautiful. And we talked 'em round and they went with it eventually.

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

Didn't Barry write it, though?

yo yo yo just because yo punk ass is eastside swindon dont mean yo can punk out tha xtc krew from wesside swindon, alex in nyc yo yo yo

yo bitch check it out: orangez and gin and lemonz? crankin. nonsuch pimping? off tha hook. suck mah apple penis? held it tight yo. kill all wasps with tha star? pimpin, yo, pimpin.

do dont be dissin tha xtc krew again unless yo want me and c-money poppin a cap in yo ass yo yo yo

watch yoself punk because yo ass could end up at tha bottom of tha black sea thanks to me and c-money if yo dont watch it