XTC - Skylarking
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Release date: 03 March 2003
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- Summer's Cauldron (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Grass (2001 Digital Remaster)
- The Meeting Place (2001 Digital Remaster)
- That's Really Super, Supergirl (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Ballet For A Rainy Day (2001 Digital Remaster)
- 1000 Umbrellas (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Season Cycle (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Earn Enough For Us (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Big Day (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Another Satellite (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Mermaid Smiled (2001 Digital Remaster)
- The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Dying (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Sacrificial Bonfire (2001 Digital Remaster)
- Dear God (2001 Digital Remaster)
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XTC - Skylarking: Wikipedia Album Entry
Released in 1986. Produced by Todd Rundgren. In interviews, Andy Partridge has often said that the Rundgren was difficult to work with and that he disagreed with Rundgren's choices during the recording -- but upon reflection is very happy with the way the album turned out.
This album has a very "Beatlesque" feel to it. Often cited as XTC's best album.
Initially released with "Mermaid Smiled" in the UK, but then new pressings had "Dear God" added after it became a minor hit on alternative charts
Despite all that in November 22, 2010 APE Records re-issued Skylarking [2x12"] on remastered 45RPM vinyl covered in the original artwork and –supposedly– correct track-order.
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XTC - Skylarking Lyrics
XTC - 1000 Umbrellas Lyrics
1000 umbrellas
Upturned couldn't catch all the rain
That drained out of my head
When you said we were
XTC - Dying Lyrics
It frightens me when you come to mind
The day you dropped in the shopping line
And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs
All the signs
XTC - Dear God Lyrics
Dear God, hope You got the letter
And I pray You can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that You made in Your image
XTC - The Meeting Place Lyrics
Meet you in a secret place
Scuffling in the dirt, I wait
Whistle will blow, whistle will blow
XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul Lyrics
The man who sailed around his soul
From East to West, from pole to pole
With ego as his drunken Captain
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl Lyrics
I can't hold you down, if you want to fly
Can't you see I'm all broke up inside?
Well, just you use your two X Ray eyes
XTC - Summer's Cauldron Lyrics
Drowning here in summerâs cauldron under mats of flower lava
Please donât pull me out, this is how I would want to go
Breathing in the boiling butter, fruit of sweating golden Inca
Please donât heed my shout, Iâm relaxing the undertow
XTC - Season Cycle Lyrics
Season cycle moving round and round
Pushing life up from a cold dead ground
(It's growing green, it's growing green)
XTC - Sacrifical Bonfire Lyrics
Fire they cried
So evil must die
And yields are good
So men pull back hoods and smile
XTC - Mermaid Smiled Lyrics
From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
XTC - Grass Lyrics
Laying on the grass
My heart it flares like fire
The way you slap my face
Just fills me with desire
XTC - Earn Enough For Us Lyrics
I've been praying all the weeks through
At home, at work and on the bus
I've been praying, I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
XTC - Big Day Lyrics
It's your big day, your big day
So you want to tie the knot
Tie it tight, don't let it rot
XTC - Ballet For A Rainy Day Lyrics
Orange and lemon raincoats
Roll and tumble together
Just liked fruit tipped from a tray
XTC - Another Satellite Lyrics
My heart is taken, it's not lost in space
And I don't want to see your moony moony face
I say, why on earth do you revolve around me?
Aren't you aware of the gravity?
XTC - Sacrificial Bonfire Lyrics
Fire they cried
So evil must die
And yields are good
So men pull back hoods and smile
