XTC - Oranges & Lemons
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Artist: XTCEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Garden Of Earthly Delights
- Mayor Of Simpleton
- King For A Day
- Here Comes President Kill Again
- The Loving
- Poor Skeleton Steps Out
- One Of The Millions
- Scarecrow People
- Merely A Man
- Cynical Days
- Across This Antheap
- Hold Me My Daddy
- Pink Thing
- Miniature Sun
- Chalkhills And Children
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Free Music Review: A modern pop masterpiece!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a truly "GREAT" album. No qualifications or descriptions can do it justice. The songs are all top-notch, but it is the arrangements and production that nudge this one up to another plane. The band's previous LP "Skylarking" was a remarkable display of what Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding could do as songwriters. They let their Beatle-freak flag fly high and proud, and unleashed an album with depth, maturity and, most importantly, Style. Their next one is definitely the "White Album" to "Skylarking's" "Sgt Pepper." The song structures are more complex, the harmonic language is far more challenging, the playing (especially Moulding's cerebrally meandering bass) is far more involved. All of these traits are good things. When combined with Paul Fox's sparkly, imaginative production, XTC ends up with an album that aims as high as any more well known modern pop masterpieces, and which comes so damn close to sheer perfection, that its' minor flaws (one or two weaker songs) only render "Oranges and Lemons" more endearing. This is a contemporary classic if ever there was one.
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24-bit remastered reissue of 1989 album. 15 tracks, including "The Mayor Of Simpleton."Oranges and Lemons, from 1989, is a fantastic record, a lucid, technicolor sprawl of modernized Beatleisms and airbrushed psych-pop confectionary. Commercially, it was such a shame Tears for Fears had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time. Appropriately, given its title, several of the songs on Oranges and Lemons deal with Andy Partridge's newly acquired parental status (the jazzy "Pink Thing" is a cunning double-entendre about fatherly pride and his penis) as well as wryly address the wider failings of the world into which our children are born. Yes, like some sherberty, fructose-flavored lozenge, Oranges and Lemons is both bitter and sweet. But unquestionably excellent, as witnessed by the Byrds-like village-idiot love song "Mayor of Simpleton" and other highlights like "King for a Day" and "Poor Skeleton Steps Out." The Eastern mystique, serpentine guitars, and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" style chorus of "Garden of Earthly Delights" is conceivably what John, Paul, George, and Ringo would have sounded like if they'd hung around a little longer with the Maharishi. As for the dreamy, green-field tourist brochure panoramas of "Chalkhills and Children," think Brian Wilson drifting over the English countryside in a hang glider. --Kevin Maidment
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