XTC - Apple Venus, Volume 1
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Apple Venus Volume 1
The transcendental [B]'Harvest Festival'[/B] manages to make eyes meeting over a table of tinned peaches and digestive biscuits sound as momentous as [B]Brian Molko[/B] being made England manager...
It's an odd equation, but genius and laziness tend to go together. The reputation of Swindon's XTC as one of Britain's most inventive pop groups has been simmering gently due in no small part to the fact that they've done bugger-all for seven years. However, no sooner do they venture out from in front of the TV than they've got two albums ready to release....
- Jan 18, 1999
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XTC - Apple Venus, Volume 1 Lyrics
XTC - Easter Theatre Lyrics
Gold sun rolls around
Chocolate nipple brown
Tumble from your arms
Like the ground, your breasts swell
XTC - Frivolous Tonight Lyrics
Let us talk about
Some trivial things we like
A bit of this and that
Letâs chew the fat
XTC - Fruit Nut Lyrics
Tending my fruit, tending my fruit
Ah, you've got to have a hobby
A man must have a shed to keep him sane
XTC - Greenman Lyrics
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman
He wants to make you his bride
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman
Forever to him you're tied
XTC - Harvest Festival Lyrics
See the flowers 'round the altar
See the peaches in tins
'Neath the headmaster's chair
Harvest festival
XTC - Knights in Shining Karma Lyrics
Knights in shining karma tend your flame
And with love for armor they'll remain
Ever by your bed, guarding, still sleeping
XTC - River of Orchids Lyrics
Hey, I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus
I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus
Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play
I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway
XTC - The Last Balloon Lyrics
The last balloon is leaving
The last balloon from fear
The last balloon is leaving
Form that line right here
XTC - Your Dictionary Lyrics
H A T E, is that how you spell love in your dictionary?
K I C K, pronounced as kind
F U C K, is that how you spell friend in your dictionary?
Black on black, a guidebook for the blind
