XTC - Skylarking
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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:
- Summer's Cauldron
- Grass
- The Meeting Place
- That's Really Super, Supergirl
- Ballet For A Rainy Day
- 1000 Umbrellas
- Season Cycle
- Earn Enough For Us
- Big Day
- Another Satellite
- Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
- Dear God
- Dying
- Sacrificial Bonfire
- Mermaid Smiled
Free Music Notes for Skylarking
Free Music Review: Dear God
Hit: 5 Stars
Everyone talks about this song as if it's a sin to question faith. Mother Teresa did it, why can't Andy Partridge? Listeners of XTC are intelligent to know that deep inside Andy Partridge is a complex, tortured soul that's too fragile for much of this world. Bravo to him for saying what many followers of God (in any religion) have thought in their darkest moments. I'm sure God prefers this to the Disney "la la follow your heart" crap.
The rest of the songs are phenomenal, personal favorite "Another Satellite." Although this is one of XTC's best albums, you don't get the full feel of the band with Todd Rundgren's heavy hand. Buy "Black Sea" or "English Settlement" first, then "Drums And Wires" before you get to this one. And for God's sake (pun intended), don't waste your money on a greatest hits CD.
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XTC's frothy, Beatle-esque concept album about birth, death, and the passing of the seasons is hardly soft-headed: its melodic inventiveness and lush orchestrations supports bitterness ("That's Really Super, Supergirl"), displacement ("The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"), and agnostic tirade ("Dear God") as often as it does the pleasures of sun and shower. The greatest achievement of XTC's post-Drums and Wires career, Skylarking is a must-have for the first days of spring. This deluxe, remastered version of the album contains a bonus track, "Mermaid Smiled." --Rickey Wright24-bit remastered reissue of 1986 album. Including the bonus track 'Dear God'.
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