So I have come to the end of my look back at the albums of XTC, there are others that weren’t included but I don’t have anything after 1992 and am yet to get anything […]

So I have come to the end of my look back at the albums of XTC, there are others that weren’t included but I don’t have anything after 1992 and am yet to get anything […]
Nonsuch is the final album I will be looking at for now, although there are some further releases they aren’t readily available, unless you are prepared to pay £200 for a copy, and I’m not. […]
Oranges & Lemons 1989 The name of the album came from the old English nursery rhyme and was also referenced in the song “Ballet for a Rainy Day” on Skylarking. This was their second double album, after […]
Skylarking 1986 I know only three tracks well from Skylarking which were all, at some point, singles and appeared on the Fossil Fuel compilation I had, half of which now belongs to Dave and the […]
The Big Express 1984 I should have bought this when I saw it in the used bin, but I didn’t and I regret that. As I dais earlier, I ordered a copy from an online […]
Mummer 1983 I picked up a copy of Mummer at a record fair a couple of weeks ago, never owned it before and never heard it before. It is typically British in its title with […]
English Settlement 1982 The album that upon which sat one of the best pop singles ever written. Really, I mean it, it is that good. First though, I had this album and have no idea […]
Black Sea – 1980 I picked up my copy of this at a record fair this year and it was probably why I started listening to the band again and why I watched the documentary […]
Drums and Wires – 1979 Released in August 1979, only 10 months on from ‘Go 2’, and where I come into the story with the first track I heard, and loved, the single ‘We’re only […]
Go 2 – 1978 The second album release of 1978 was ‘Go 2’ in October with a Hipgnosis designed cover which deliberately rather underplays everything. Sound wise the tracks are coming from the same place […]
Music is such an odd thing. Sometimes it doesn’t connect and years can go by until, quite suddenly, it does. I was watching the XTC documentary ‘This is Pop” (which is excellent and recommended) for […]