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Xtc
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1096
Xtc Album Rankings
1
Most Americans know XTC -- if they know them at all -- from 1989'sOranges And Lemons, with its one American chart single, "Mayor Of Simpleton." Shame, that.
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2
It's sometimes hard to believe so much time passes between reviews of certain artists here at "The Daily Vault"; I'm constantly reminded just how long it's been with my daily excursions into the Pierc
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3
The fact that certain bands bust their chops for so long and receive no attention from radio or the record-buying public is a sin.
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4
The present and future of XTC collide in a double album thats like moving into further and further into an exotic forest, always with more to discover the deeper into you get.
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5
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) finds Partridge and Moulding at the top of their game, making the collection a fitting match for past XTC triumphs...
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6
Just getting better all the time! This album is perhaps the peak of XTC as predominately a guitar led band. More instrumentation and textures would be added into the mixture for future releases.
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7
After a seven year break from making records, XTC finally won their freedom from Virgin and set about recording a new album.
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8
XTC took full advantage of their studio-bound status withThe Big Express, creating their most painstakingly detailed, multi-layered, sonically dynamic album to date.
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9
FollowingGo 2, keyboardistBarry Andrewsleft XTC and, rather than finding a replacement keyboard player, the band opted to recruit another guitarist (who could also play keyboards),Dave Gregory.
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10
Andy Partridge quit touring during promotional duties for 'English Settlement'. XTC had been driven to tour and tour and tour by their management.
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11
I was born in the Devonshire countryside. A very rural and reclusive lifestyle. XTC were four young lads from Swindon. Swindon is a bit further up in the West Country than I was.
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12
Back to the very beginning with a demo presented to CBS records to open.
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13
The thumping, organ and guitar stylings of the danceable 'Meccanik Dancing' sets things off in more than fine fashion.
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14
Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding return from a seven-year hiatus in fine form with Apple Venus Volume 1 (Volume 2 will be released later in the year and is expected to be pure pop music).
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16
XTC finally shook themselves loose of Virgin Records in early 1998, freeing themselves to finally begin recording and releasing records.
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21
Instead of releasing the complete double-disc set Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-92, the American division of Geffen decided to assemble Upsy Daisy Assortment, a 19-track budget-priced collection
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25
Released after Mummer 's relative moroseness, this album is a return to the perky, angular pop at which the band excelled.
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