XTC - Nonsuch
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Artist: XTCEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-06
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
- The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
- My Bird Performs
- Dear Madam Barnum
- Humble Daisy
- The Smartfelt Monkeys
- The Disappointed
- Holly Up On Poppy
- Crocodile
- Rook
- Omnibus
- That Wave
- Then She Appeared
- War Dance
- Wrapped In Grey
- The Ugly Underneath
- Bungalow
- Books Are Burning
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Free Music Review: XTC : a great band forever
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a great fan of XTC in the 80's, when I was about 20 years younger than now (you do your own math). Short after entering the active life, I so much dedicated me to work and family life that I forgot to follow up on my student's life favorite bands.
I'm just rediscovering, by chance, what XTC has produced since "Skylarking". Amongst all their albums of the 90's and above, I must say that "Non Such" is a shock to me, as was "English Settlement" when released (in Vinyl that I still have !).
Not being a native English speaker person, I certainly miss most of the interest of the lyrics, but the music and melody are sufficient enough to love the band.
Non Such : definitely a great XTC album !
Nonsuch Poster
Patently incapable of making substandard records and equally hopeless at actually selling them, XTC's 10th studio album, Nonsuch (produced by Gus Dudgeon and benefiting from the crisp drum work of former Fairport Convention sticksman Dave Mattacks), was yet another sublime, literate and unpredictable Anglo-pop masterpiece, brimming with tuneful deviousness, intelligent arrangements and interesting subject matter but nevertheless avoided by the public as if it were an approaching tramp with a personal hygiene problem. That quirky Canadians Crash Test Dummies actually had a hit with an exact replica of "Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" can only be attributed to their choice of deodorant. A similar injustice befell single "The Disappointed" (Andy Partridge's anthem for the amorously disenfranchised and surely one of their best ever recordings), which narrowly failed to win an Ivor Novello Award. Still, typically for a band who've never enjoyed the full rub of the green, some of the finest moments on Nonsuch deal with either underachievement (as on Colin Moulding's "Smartest Monkeys", which questions how mankind can get to the moon but can't solve problems of hunger and homelessness); such anti-showbiz mundanity as walking the dog ("Humble Daisy"); or aspiring to a retirement home by the sea (another forlorn Moulding number fusing Noel Coward with the Beach Boys' pocket symphonies). Other than "The Disappointed", the real must-hear is the anti-censorship "Books are Burning", inspired by the Salman Rushdie affair and by German poet Heinrich Heine's famous quote, and musically pitched halfway between "Hey Jude" and Leo Sayer's "When I Need You", ascending to a climactic duel between the frying guitars of Partridge and Gregory. --Kevin MaidmentRemastered reissue of 1992 album. Virgin Records. 2001.
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