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Apple Venus Vol.1 - XTC

jazzy instrumentation, Mr Partidge and co suggest that we should dig up the roads and plant flowers instead. I'd Like That is more like the traditional XTC sound, with crisp acoustic guitars and tight harmonies coupled with a sense of melody that few bands can match. Knights In Shining Karma can only be described as beautifully mellow. So laid back it's almost horizontal, and that tune just send a shiver down my spine. Frivolous Tonight brings i the traditional XTC sense of humour, and is a tale of everyday folks having fun. My favourite line is "But there's always one, Who wants to talk shop. We'll chase them out the door, With a ...

Wasp Star: Apple Venus 2 - Xtc

here to answer any criticism! I’ve only recently got into the Beatles and while I can now appreciate their music and their influence on other bands (including XTC) for me, XTC are quirkier and, quite frankly, write better songs. I know I’m fighting a losing battle here and none of you believe me, but before you judge don’t you think it’s only fair that you go out and buy the entire XTC back catalogue just to check? (They deserve the money!) XTC hail back to the seventies, their early music was very much influenced by punk albeit with a very strong sense of melody. The four-piece from Swindon flirted with the charts in their early days, most ...

Wasp Star: Apple Venus 2 - Xtc

Who'd have thought it. After many years of making clever muso records, then many years of making no records, XTC return with two albums in a short space of time. The first was Apple Venus vol one and very nice it was if a little flowery and barogue for some tastes, then they bring out Apple Venus Vol two, call it Wasp Star and it is one of the brightest and breeziest pop albums of the year. No navel gazing on this one, it's the kind of album that just demands to be played in the car at high volume on a hot summer day. Not the sort of thing one usually expects from XTC. Having said that it is still very intelligent, well played music of the very highest calibre. ...