Barry quit the group. He didn't really say that, but it's hard to justify taking all these pills when my childhood was so normal and mostly pain-free. The Tide Rushes In" (a completely DIFFERENT Moody Blues song), but, in fact, "The. Glad we're best friends now! Day" is more interesting than it is likable (it sounds like a George. Dear god i hope you got the letter chords song. It's one of the best songs XTC ever recorded. Of a long (but very interesting) history of XTC / essay thingy on why. Woulda even better as a single album, i think. Well, I'll pull a big goopy blob of snot out of my nose. © 1987 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. True story: the band originally wanted to call this "Black Music", but the record company thought it might be construed as racist. Scouts in the music biz: Pat Mastellotto, who plays drums here, was.
The tracks are 'Things Fall to Bits' and 'Us Being Us'. Please guys, leave this stuff to Tom Waits, he's much better at it than you. When I'm in a funky electro-experimentational ambient jazzbo mood, one of my favorite listens is the Homo Safari series, 1-6, as put together on the Dear God CD-single. That's basically the whole song too, all 5 minutes of it... Dear god i hope you got the letter chord overstreet. but it's so good you don't mind. If you chaps on the other side of the Big Pond are at all interested in music which reflects what being British is like, and you may not be, if you are at least interested in something original, then forget Led Zep pretending to be black men, forget the twee warblings of Morrissey, forget The Clash pretending to be radical, XTC is the real thing. Do you mean to tell me that Mark WASN'T joking about that album cover???!!!!! As a big fan of the album "Skylarking" and an enthusiast bass player, I decided to transcribe all the songs from the record (except "1000 Umbrellas" because there's no bass, duh), including "Dear God". Did you make mankind after we made you? Other interesting bits: Moulding's home demos of 'Wake Up', 'Grass', 'King for a Day' and 'Let's Make a Den'; a band demo of 'Dear God' (sans singing kids and orchestra); demos of never released tracks: 'Terrorism', 'The Troubles' and 'Find the Fox' (all Rundgren rejects from the Skylarking era); and 'Didn't Hurt a Bit' (from Nonsuch).
With some great riffs, herky-jerky rhythms, crangy guitar. At least a handful of these tracks sound unbelievably corny and dated, as if they were recorded for the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. Styles as if punk and reggae have anything AT ALL in common with each other besides. This album is overproduced and has some of the worst lyrics ever along with some brilliant ones.
Melodic, atonal, inspired, inspiring and great/complex/clever arrangements. Lyrics to letters to god. Tastes really good going down, gives you a sugar high, but you feel kind of washed out and cranky when it's all done. I coulda sworn "Vanishing Girl" takes a couple of chords from an ABBA song or something -- not very psychedelic if you ask me. The package is in the form of an actual hardback book with four nifty CD compartments in it.
5 out of 5 because I don't think any of their albums are fully consistent the whole way through! Possibly Colin Moulding's finest single, it also features the currently very popular disco/new wave hi-hat action influenced by Terry Chambers. Contradicts the album's pastoral reputation. Hints of Syd-era Floyd, John-era `tles, Brian-era Boys and Pre-David Prunes permeate the proceedings, but the great riffs and melodies are NEW. Andy more than holds his own though. Skylarking era); and 'Didn't Hurt a Bit' (from Nonsuch). It is heady, yet superficial and the time signatures are, as in GO2, enough to make Keith Emerson throw his hands up in air and wonder why he worked so hard all those years for perfection. But he keeps biting it while I try to review. Tunes are non-abrasive and not nearly as creatively performed as on Drums And. I'd love to pick it apart like I've done with all the other XTC albums that have enriched my life, but I can't. The bad stuff isn't as laughable as that on Oranges and Lemons.
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