Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 17
Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 17
Wednesday, 26 January 2000
Today's Topics:
New and Improved Apple Venus
Re: Listless
Re: an epiphany
One of my favorite things.
sundry
Re: Uffington Horse in Chalkhills Digest #6-15
Message from the Inside
Andy@TVGO
Suggestion: Image for AV2 cover
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
AV2 Japan
XTC brand new exclusivity !
Drunken Jam on Toast
My very first XTC Dream.
Unrequited Unlove
Guitargonauts Update
sgt. peppers is to beatles as _______ is to xtc
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: WESnLES@aol.com Message-ID: <6f.4889e8.25be669e@aol.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:38:22 EST Subject: New and Improved Apple Venus Fellow Chalkgeeks: Brian Wysolmierski wrote the following regarding AV2 demos: YOU & THE CLOUDS WILL STILL BE BEAUTIFUL: It's the only demo I didn't care for, no matter how good the lyrics are. It sounds like Stevie Wonder singing a Paul Simon song to me. Shut your mouth, this is a great song. Absolutely perfect disjointed Partridge, amalgamating the bravado of the short haired would be punk with the sensibilities of the now even shorter haired adult. It sounds nothing like Stevie Wonder or Paul Simon, although I (for one) would like to hear Stevie sing a Paul Simon song. He also wrote: PLAYGROUND: Oh, this song is awesome. It's got a rockin' riff, catchy as hell chorus. You hit the nail on the head on this one. I told Andy last year that I thought it was one of the best songs he's written, he laughed uneasily saying that he'd have to tell Colin about that because "they hadn't even recorded the damn thing yet." If any of you traders, newbie or otherwise, are lookin' for a cd copy of the latest demos for AV2: http://members.tripod.com/~The_Last_Balloon/index.html I'm sittin' here in North Carolina with a jet black beer in hand (and belly), 6 XTC cd's runnin' round on random play, watching the snow fall heavily upon the 7 plus inches already accumulated on the ground. Who says there's not a God? Oh, yeah, that would be Andy. Ohhhhhhhhh, That Wave just popped up. How fuckin' great is that song? No round of drinks can extinguish this Feeling of love and engulfing bliss Right now I love you all (but it's probably just the beer), wesLONG @ Optimism's Flames
------------------------------ Message-ID: <388CCC0F.7F5A@bhip.infi.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:03:02 +0000 From: Brian <mattone@bhip.infi.net> Subject: Re: Listless Tschalkgerz! >>Some songs ARE better than others.<< >oo-oh! dangerous ground ahead< >> Most are obvious-Hey Jude is better than Disco Duck.<< >welllllll... nes and yo. I have very fond memories of Disco Duck< > Why we need a list to tell us that Respect > is better than Sittin on the Dock of the Bay is beyond > me. Prove it! >indeed, we need proof! >It's no good just saying that Hey Jude is better, you have to explain >to us _why_ >What makes this forum so interesting is discourse and debate, not >statements and slogans. Or stupid lists... I'm overstating the blatantly obvious (and if it's not obvious to anyone, what's wrong with them?), but musical likes and dislikes, as with ANYTHING, are purely subjective, and can only be such. Anyone can sit there and tell me all day that the Beach Boys are fab and why (and I've read most of the discussion about just such here), but I'll just come back and tell you I like Oingo Boingo better, because I just do. They appeal to who and what I am better than the Beach Boys do, and that is neither right or wrong - it's just me. Explaining, or TRYING to explain to anyone else why you like something may end up being futile, as it can never get past the subjectiveness of it all. -Brian Matthews http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer
------------------------------ Message-ID: <388CCD4A.1E87@bhip.infi.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:08:17 +0000 From: Brian <mattone@bhip.infi.net> Subject: Re: an epiphany Tschalkgerz! >i'm surprised that no one has done a parody song (weird al?) to that bloody awful "mambo #5 (a little bit of...)" song. i can hear, in a bill clinton voice, the song going something like this: "a little bit of monica on her knees/a little bit of monica, please, please, please" etc, etc, and including the names of all the women slick-willie has "allegedly" been with. of course, it wouldn't include hillary... ok, sorry for the off-topic post & i'll shut up now...< It's been done... Jay Leno, I think. Leno has some guy as their Clinton look-alike, and I remember that they did something one night a couple of months back. -Brian Matthews http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer
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Message-Id: <200001250328.WAA29388@nantucket.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:26:40 -0800
Subject: One of my favorite things.
From: "Diamond" <arnos@nantucket.net>
One of my favorite things is to harmonize with XTC songs. Right now, I'm
harmonizing with Your Dictionary. Unfortunetly, most of the time it sounds
awful, but every now and then, I hit the perfect note, and It feels like I'm
singing WITH andy partidge. Man, I need a life.
Kevin Diamond
____________________________________________________________________________
"She thinks she's Edith Head,
But you might know she's not
the accent in her speach
she didn't have growing up."
-John Flansburgh/They Might be Giants
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v03007800b4b2fcd4de2b@[165.121.66.21]> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:13:35 -0500 From: Mitch Friedman <mitchf@mindspring.com> Subject: sundry Hi, A few things some of you wanted to/should know . . . 1) Andy is most definitely *not* on the Web or on-line. He has been looking at the tvgohome page on Nick Davis' laptop computer. 2) The Drunken Sessions took place at the end of English Settlement. 3) The Apple Venus Volume 2 cover will be a somehow neon/solarized version of the one on AV1 Mitch
------------------------------ From: Simon_Auger@mandg.co.uk Message-ID: <00256871.0031EB7E.00@mailgate.mandg.co.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:11:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Uffington Horse in Chalkhills Digest #6-15 Hmmmm. I'm not sure of the significance of the White Horse, however, I grew up not far from Swindon and went on a school trip there in the summer of 1974. I don't recall a huge amount about the trip, other than the horse wasn't too impressive up close. Myself and my class mates of the time were far more interested in the remains of the Iron-age hill fort that is adjacent to the horse, it had much more fun attached to it. You could climb all over it, whereas the horse was sort of fenced off. Some tweny five years later (last May), I made a return trip to the White Horse and found the whole thing very moving. It has now been taken in hand by English Heritage or the National Trust (can't remember which). It was a sort of misty hazy afternoon and we sat by the horse gazing out across the Vale of the White Horse. I was struck by the sheer age of the place. I believe the horse is something like 3500 years old. There is an incredible sense of time and history there and I can now see how it can lend inspiration to people. I certainly left there feeling changed and I will make sure to go back before another twenty five years have passed. So, not much to say with regard to the original enquiry, but to anyone in the area, go and take a look, I think you will find it worth the effort. Cheers Simon
------------------------------ Message-ID: <388D7C2C.44982075@mail.gci.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:34:21 -0900 From: Patrick M Adamek <adamette@augustine.gci.net> Subject: Message from the Inside In Chalkhills #6-15, Wes Long wrote: >IF you be making a list of the top 100 songs, THEN you have to pick >something as the # 1. I'm not condoning the list. By the way, you're >not a REAL American, you live in Alaska!(smiley face) My point was that making a list at all (which inherently includes a "#1") is a ridiculous concept, not that there should be a list which did not include a "#1." I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and I have lived in 11 of our United States since February of 1996. I am about as American as I could be. Anyway, we in Alaska call the lower 48 the "outside" ... so there :-) XTC CONTENT: I am proud to report the acquisition of a brand new CD-RW, and I plan on plenty of XTC material being recorded (for personal use of course)! Cheers, Patrick Juneau, Alaska
------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000125134730.10815.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 05:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Rosenberger <wile1coyote@yahoo.com> Subject: Andy@TVGO Greetings Chalkettes, Brian's post from the 23rd of Jan "Subject: Andy IS on the web" "The fact that Andy contributes to the webpage tvgohome.com proves that he is online." Brian the fact that Andy has contributed to Tvgo proves nothing. I suspect that he is viewing TVGo at Nick Davis's or maybe Colin has gotten hooked up to the web. I have never really read Colin's opinion of the web. Anyone know? Hell they could even be surfing at the studio it might have a link set up. Andy has stated in the past that he was not interested in reading this list as we all were far too critical of his work and that he thought that the topics that we debate were trivial and silly. He has read some of the Chalkhills stuff that was printed off for him and he was apparently a little upset at some of the comments that were made. I believe this was during the Chipping Norton sessions. Was that you that brought them to him Mitch? I wonder if he has seen the Guitargonauts site and what he thinks of that? Hmmmmmmmmmm???????? Mole
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Message-ID: <1D5033F5A9C85E4C861F053E637CB89F07488F@postal.moneystar.com>
From: Jill Oleson <oleson@moneystar.com>
Subject: Suggestion: Image for AV2 cover
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:39:38 -0600
Now that it's clear that the image in Chalkhills accompanying
the announcement of the upcoming "Apple Venus, Volume 2"
is not an official image, I'd like to suggest the following image
be considered for the album cover:
http://precision-camera.com/gallery/soleson/allegory_a.jpg
The fact that the artist is none other than my extraordinarily
talented husband has had no influence on my recommendation!
The subtle peacock feather in conjunction with the red scissors
cutting gold thread is enough of a reason for me.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
*PA: Sir Demon Brown, you are a hero indeed!
Jill Oleson
Austin, Texas
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:40:43 -0600 Subject: Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? From: William Loring <bloring@tirerack.com> Message-ID: <B4B3120B.CDB%bloring@tirerack.com> David Oh said: > what i've heard and read is that "skylarking" is regarded as xtc's "sgt. > peppers". > > my question is this: do you agree or do you think this is a load of > cobblers, as one dom lawson would so eloquently put it? i am a little > curious as to what the general concensus is regarding this viewpoint. Personally, I think English Settlement comes closest to being a "Sgt. Peppers" for XTC. This album to me represents the greatest leap in maturity of style and production. It's also brilliant, which helps. ...bill
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v04210a00b4b38f1af0e8@[210.131.81.131]> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 03:08:16 +0900 From: Amasaki <new_sphere_@mbb.nifty.ne.jp> Subject: AV2 Japan Hi, from FarEast. Sales date of AV2 seems to be 25th March in Japan.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <001a01bf6769$1ef59060$d549fac1@ordi> From: "jpcac" <jpcac@wanadoo.fr> Subject: XTC brand new exclusivity ! Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:18:45 +0100 Hi all, I don't know if it has been noticed here before but there's a page about XTC in the last UNCUT (february 2000), and a strange one : it's a report of the first time time XTC played in USA (back in 1978 - David Byrne invited them, apparently). Quite funny. And there's a CD with the review which is great for The Cure fans : there's a track from their new album on it... Among other interesting bands. Oh, and I saw that Prefab Sprout is going to play live again in England (in march and april) ! Maybe Andy will also change is mind too one day !!! (in fact, I can really understand his decision : life on tour must really be exhausting and -sometimes- nasty). Jean-Philippe (from France - excuse my english)
------------------------------ Message-id: <fc.000f4ca3002f47853b9aca00ba047dc7.2f47b7@cfrb.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:31:59 -0500 Subject: Drunken Jam on Toast From: rgreenham@thebear.net (Rich Greenham) I just spent the better part of my afternoon downloading the "Drunken Jam Sessions" to DAT. Sure -- I could've been working... But what fun is that! Thank you, Sir Demon Brown. I am humbled by your presents. Pun intended. : ) Cheers! Rich ps. "Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atom Bomb" is a hoot! This is a must-download for those Chalkies out there who truly feel the need to possess the famous quote: "That is the most extreme abomination of a song..." Long Live The Dukes!
------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000125220430.29616.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:04:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Rosenberger <wile1coyote@yahoo.com> Subject: My very first XTC Dream. Hello Chalkeratzi, I had my very first XTC Dream last night and I thought I would go ahead and share it with all of you, since no-one else I know is likely to understand it anyway. I swear this is 100% an accurate portrayal of my dream as I remember it and that in itself is strange as I rarely remember any of them. It woke me up in the middle of the morning (about 4 am) and it was so vivid I never did get back to sleep since I was reliving it in my mind. I hope this isn't my last XTC dream since this was the best Christmas, New Years and Birthday present combined I have ever had. It starts as I am travelling in England. I enter a pub somewhere in some little hamlet, it is nightime and it is very foggy outside with gas lanterns and the "Inn" has a very medieval feel to it. The pub has wood everywhere, rough wood planking for the floors and walls, roughhewn wooden posts holding up a beam ceiling and it even has carriage wheel chandeliers with candles for lighting. I plop down at a trestle table and a serving wench (what can I tell you, she looks like a wench)brings me a wooden tankard of ale and says it will be "two bits". She looks at me strangely as I give her several american dollars and she proceeds back to the bar. This place is really old with no electricity or anything but I don't seem aware of this and I am only realizing it now as I type this) Anyway I hear some music coming from upstairs so I head up a rickety old unlevel set of stairs and enter another room in this pub. The room is smaller than the large one downstairs, roughly square but with another small square area adjoining it in one corner. This area has like a step up to it and I wonder over there. neither room has any seeting just a few posts holding up another beam ceiling. I see a few guitars and a bass. But what really attracts my attention is a small black and grey practice amp about 2 feet by 2 feet with a painting on the grill. The painting is the Drums and Wires logo. I don't see anyone about so I wander around the room looking out the windows and stuff watching the people wandering around in the fog covered mud streets. All of a sudden behind me I hear (This imitation is going to suck but it was perfect in my dream) Dunt do da Dunt, Dunt do Da Dunt, Dunt do da Dunt, Dunt do Da Dunt, You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born I whirl around and see three figures that I have known for a long time but never met. Three old friends reunited again and playing as one. Strangely the one in the center has his back to the room and is singing into an absolutly ancient microphone while strumming a huge acoustic. The one on his right smiles beautifully like some kind of a man possesed with himself as his hands fly across an electric and he hammers out the opening chords of what is quickly becoming a loud and fast version of "Wake Up". The gent on the left labors the basslines on a beautiful long, all black bass. As he half turns to look at the drummer, he frowns when he sees that no one is there nor are there any drums, yet the drumbeats are pounding along as well. He seems to smile at some memory and then looks down again as his fingers work to match the tempo set by the unseen drums. No one else in the room seems to notice the trio jamming away and only once in a while does someone break away from their conversation to look over at the combo which is now starting to seriously cook musically. I stare in rapt amazement as they plough through Across this antheap and right into Towers of London. About half way through they stop abruptly and look at each other and nod. They then disappear quickly down into a doorway and the door shuts. I try to follow them but am blocked by the crowd and it takes me a few minutes to reach that corner of the room. I am stunned trying to figure out where they have gone. I ask a fellow near there where they went and he tells me that they were just having a soundcheck and that they will be back soon. A SOUNDCHECK!!! OH MY GOD!! They are going to a full set. I wait patiently for about an hour riveted to that spot and wait for them to return. When they do they seem very determined to be serious and they carefully tune up before Andy leads them into the first tune................ Day In Day Out?? Wow it sounds amazing. Andy's got his old shrieking voice out and he is zooming all over his vocal range. Dave seems a little suprised by the selection and he works hard to hit the chords in the right places. This amuses Colin no end and he is trying not to look at Dave and just play his bass. They finish that tune and launch into a spastic version of Statue of Liberty. With the crowd starting to rock with them now, straight on into Crowded Room and then She's So Square. Wow they are playing really weird selections. They fire through several more including Ball and Chain, Neon Shuffle and Love at First Sight. These guys are really smoking and they are starting to loosen up and enjoy themselves with Dave especially taking longer and longer turns at improvised guitar solo's. Andy starts to stutter as he launchs into All Along The Watchtower and then segue's quickly into This is Pop! The drums are amazing but there aren't any??? I am freaking out trying to find the drummer as they are blowing my mind all over the place. They finish with Atom Age and Helicopter. HOLY SHIT I am freaking out all over the place and the whole crowd is going bonkers. They flee into a dressing room of some sort and the door is shut before I can get in. I wait for a while and soon it opens a crack and a voice says "PSSST, you, quick come here" I quickly slip through the door that someone had opened and I am in the dressing room. It is a standard rock arena dressing room with a couple of couchs and cinder block walls painted a shade of grey with various band graffiti all over them. Dave gets up quickly and comes to greet me. He has on jeans and a red and blue horizontally striped rugby shirt. He has a big smile as he comes over and gives me a bear hug?!? He says "About time, we have been waiting for you" I am totally mystified by this. I have no clue what he is talking about and am thinking that I must have lost my mind and gone to heaven. So Dave leads me over to the guys. Colin gets up and shakes my hand and then puts his arm over my shoulder, he is wearing jeans and boots with a white denim sort of shirt Andy gets up and offers me his hand. He is wearing a pair of black trousers and a red shirt which is buttoned up all the way to the collar. He has a bit of hair and is not wearing a hat, but he does have his trademark round specs on. Andy seems to be the shyest of the bunch and he quickly sits back down and finishs cleaning his guitar and putting it away as Dave and Colin grill me on my thoughts on the show. I am wildly enthusiastic of course. I ask Colin about the drums and he frowns again and seems to be sad as he says something which I find very profound, "Sometimes the drummer is absent but his beat is always with us" Then he quickly changes the subject and tells me all about Carol and the kids and Dave fills me in on his family. Andy says hardly a word and just seems to be relaxing and occasionally talking to other people that come to ask him questions about post concert-things. Far too quickly Colin tells me that they have to go and the three of them stand up and start to head towards an exit door. Dave asks me to come see them again soon and I agree of course. He bends over and gets something out of his guitar case and hands it to me as he says. "Here we wanted you to have this. Keep it safe". I am amazed as I take my gift from Dave. It is a three foot tall, 15 inch around stuffed version of the mole from the Dukes cartoon, It is in full color and the details are impressive. I laugh as I see that it is also wearing the Colonel Cunt Hat. All three join me in a good chuckle and then they are gone without another word. I woke up about here. So any junior Freuds out there want to analyse that? It really doesn't matter, I got to see XTC live last night!!!! :~D Cheers all and pleasant dreams. The Mole "thinking about taking a nap" at the Ministry
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Message-ID: <388E204C.75331A8E@tmbg.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:14:36 -0500
From: Ben Gott/Loquacious Music <gott@tmbg.org>
Organization: http://listen.to/loquacious
Subject: Unrequited Unlove
Friends,
I would like to add my pathetic tuppence to Harrison's eloquent post of
last digest, regarding Andy's songs about love. In said post, Harrison
wrote that
>I can't help thinking that it traces its origin to the self-comforting
>of a badly unnerved Andy Partridge in 1982, his professional life in
>tatters and his marriage gone cold, clinging to sanity by strumming a
>guitar in an English summer garden while thinking about a woman
>thousands of miles away.
>
>This, I think, Laura, is why there are no songs of lasting and flawless
>love in the XTC canon.
Not only is this a great point on its face, but I think I can tie it a
little deeper to another discussion we've been having here on this list.
The thing that has always grabbed me about XTC's songs is that,
underneath all the verbiage and obtuse metaphors, there is something so
uniquely *human* about Our Boys. Perhaps he left it out because he
simply forgot, but I imagine that Harrison was thinking of "Another
Satellite" when he wrote his post. This song, it has been documented,
was not an anti-Marianne song, but an anti-*Erica* song (lyrics are from
memory):
"My heart is taken, it's not lost in space
And I don't want to see your mooney, mooney face
I say 'Oh why on Earth d'you revolve around me?
Aren't you aware of the gravity?'..."
On first glance, I stand in awe at this song. Of course, Andy's talking
about the "gravity" (unspoken: "of this situation") of having Erica
around when his marriage to Marianne -- which was undoubtedly on the
rocks -- is still hanging together, and has produced a girl and a boy
whom he adores beyond belief (see "Garden of Earthly Delights" and
"Holly Up On Poppy," among others). But here's the kicker: this ain't
no gooey, sappy love song, nor it is a metaphor-filled hard-on like
"Omnibus." It is, in the words of Babybird, a "hatesong":
"Hey, pretty baby
Do you know some hatesongs
Do you know some hatesongs we could sing?
Hey, black-and-blue eyes,
Little green and brown eyes
Do you know some hatesongs we could sing?"
("Hatesong," from the "Back Together" single)
Mr. Babybird is not, of course, talking about "hatesongs" as racist
songs of hate -- rather, he's speaking of "anti-love" songs, a category
into which "Another Satellite" seems to fit quite well, no?
However, things are never that easy, are they? Life is not all Britney
Spears and Backstreet Boys, is it? After another verse that begins
"Hey, little white man / Yes, me, little white man," Babybird shifts
gears unexpectedly:
"'Cos I'm drugged up to the eyeballs
Drugged up to the eyeballs
Drugged up to the eyeballs with love..."
Then why, one asks, is he singing hatesongs?
Similarly, "Another Satellite" finds Andy not blaming Erica for their
destructive relationship, but instead blaming *himself*:
"Abort your mission, let's just say you tried
Before you glimpse I have a darker, darker side..."
While the song begins with an outright vent of anger at this other
satellite, Andy's song also shows how confused he is about exactly
*what* is going on. Why warn the "[other] satellite" about his "darker,
darker" side when he's trying to get rid of her? Who, really, is the
one who's going to be hurt in this situation? How real is that? Pretty
damn real, methinks.
So could this be why Chalkhills isn't the mailing list for "The
Carpenters" (why, exactly, *do* birds suddenly appear?) or for N'Sync
(is the "'" in the right place?), or for any other of the "unrequited
love" bands? Sure, XTC can write an amazing love song (s.c. "We're All
Light," "Bungalow," and "No Language In Our Lungs," for example), but
their love songs are so *real* and palpable that their pure, human
emotions shine through, and give us:
"Don't you know, in this new dark age
We're all light?"
"So we're working every hour that God made
So we can fly away...
Saving it all up for you..."
"No no no no no no bridge of thoughts
No mental link
No letting out just what we think --
There is no muscle in our tongues..."
-Ben
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AIM: Plan4Nigel . Telephone (207) 721-5366 . Mobile (207) 798-1859
http://listen.to/loquacious . http://www.mp3.com/BenGott
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------------------------------ From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:57:26 +0100 Subject: Guitargonauts Update Message-Id: <20000125235454.42285A6CE4@mail.knoware.nl> Dear Chalkers and Guitargonauts! Surf over to the Archives section of http://www.guitargonauts.com for quite a large and lavishly illustrated article on Dave's home studio setup and keyboards from the Japanese magazine "Keyboard" (1997) But don't worry: Shigemasa and Cindy Lou Marie Fujimoto have translated this interesting piece into perfect English so we can actually read it... ;) BTW: the scans of the original Japanese pages will also be published as soon as possible Yours truly, madly, deeply, Mark Strijbos webmaster@guitargonauts.com
------------------------------ Message-ID: <002a01bf6756$47665380$0d2aa8c0@me.myoffice.com> From: "Steven Paul" <spaul@armstronglaw.com> Subject: sgt. peppers is to beatles as _______ is to xtc Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:40:55 -0000 David Oh asked: >what i've heard and read is that "skylarking" is regarded as xtc's "sgt. peppers". > >my question is this: do you agree or do you think this is a load of >cobblers, as one dom lawson would so eloquently put it? i am a >little curious as to what the general concensus is regarding this >viewpoint. I would have to say that Chips from the Chocolate Fireball is XTC's Sgt. Peppers because of the change from the standard fare. The Dukes of Stratosphere were alter egos of the band members and the music was a whole "something completely different." All of the Dukes' music gave added dimension to XTC. A depth of character and color that XTC didn't have. I'm no scholar on the Beatles, but I think that is fairly descriptive of what the EFFECT of Sgt. Peppers was on the Beatles. It gave them a new direction to move, an avenue of progress where they had been stuck in a back-eddy.
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