rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (04/03/84)
Has XTC actually broken up? My friend has said that he has heard this to be true. Also, does anyone remember a solo album by Andy Partridge of XTC, with a swimming pool on the cover filled with inner tubes and/or inflatable dolls or something like that? (It's been a while.) A note on the cover says: "If you liked Go + this album weighs about the same". "Go +" was a six-song EP containing weirded-out "dub"/"scratch" versions (before such labels existed) of various songs from the "Go 2" album, including "Dance with Me, Germany" ( = "Meccanik Dancin'"), "A Dictionary of Modern Marriage" ( = "Battery Brides"), "Beat the Bible" ( = ? ), etc. Anyway, I *do* like "Go +" very much, so I was wondering if anyone of the numerous XTC buffs out there either own the Andy Partridge solo album in question, have heard it, or have seen it available recently. Any information and/or opinions would be appreciated. Statements like "If you liked Go+ this album weighs about the same" don't really reveal that much... -- "An argument is an intellectual process. It isn't the automatic gainsaying of what the other person says." "... Can be." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (04/04/84)
Related to my earlier questions: I was just told that Andy Partridge of XTC sang on two cuts on the Residents Commercial Album. Does anyone know which cuts they were? A Residents trivia question: What other "surprise" guest vocalist appeared on the Commercial Album (also uncredited)? What song did this vocalist sing on? "Say what you mean, make it rhyme, and give a back beat." --John Lennon to David Bowie on songwriting -- "So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither "No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski) (04/05/84)
XTC have not broken up, though they will probably never go on tour again. ``Mummer'' has finally been released in the United States on Geffen Records, and the earlier albums will be re-released as well. I suppose that means they expect the group to stay around for a while. Unfortunately, the old drummer is gone for good. Andy Partridge has produced a very nice solo album from Peter Blegvad (the singer for a lot of progrssive bands & such like Henry Cow). Colin Moulding (from XTC) and Anton Fier also appear on the album. The disk is only available as a import on Virgin Records. I have ``The Lure of Salvage/Take Away,'' but I can't seem to find ``Go +.'' ``Lure'' consists of mutated versions of stuff from ``Drums and Wires,'' and shows a real command of the studio to get novel sounds. Good stuff. ``Bob'' -- ``Bob'' (Robert P. Krajewski) ARPA: RpK@MC MIT Local: RpK@OZ UUCP: genradbo!miteddie!rpk or genradbo!miteddie!mitvax!rpk
oscar@utcsrgv.UUCP (Oscar M. Nierstrasz) (04/05/84)
The `other' Andy Partridge dub-album is called, I believe, `Take Away'. (I will check this tonight at home ...) It is similar to `Go +', being dub remixes of material found on `Drums & Wires' (rather than `Go 2'). Partridges `dub remixes' bear only the slightest of resemblances to the original cuts -- it's really rather tricky to try & identify where a re-processed song really comes from. Great stuff, though, and even more off-the-wall than XTC is to begin with (hard to believe!). I do not believe that XTC is breaking up, rumours to the contrary. Andy Partridge did have a `nervous breakdown' due to severe stage fright, but he and the others have resigned themselves to studio recordmanship. The only casualty appears to be their drummer (Chambers?) who said `f*ck this sh*t, man', married his girlfriend and moved to Australia. All this from a recent Trouser Press. "You can't own too many records." Oscar Nierstrasz @ utcsrgv!oscar