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This is a great song. My personal pick is the title song from Bat Out of Hell. It is probably a little heavy on the guitar work to have braid appeal, but when Meat's band played this on UK TV,, it helped the album to break big.
I got it that you are working toward the non-obvious.
####in' awesome.
Nice shots of Wicker Park in there. I do miss the city.
Really like this. New to me.
I was never super into them either despite my friends. Does bring me back to some of my best years in Chicago, though. I lived in Wicker Park longer than anywhere else.
Oh you beat me! I moved there in 1996 but moved around a little (shockingly) and came back in 2000. I guess only ~10 years total. I miss it.20+ in the area.
1995 to 2016
I liked Pumpkinhead a good bit when it was charting, though it wasn't the stuff I'd have typically been listening to back then. "Life Begins at the Hop" is another of theirs I have always liked, even though it's not exactly unique or anything.
I'm sure a ton of people hate this song. They can eat a bag of male genitalia.
Great choices. I also like:
Not a big fan of this band, but they did an awesome cover of Love Vigilantes by New Order so respect.
Indeed, and they kept refining their skills over the years. Just about everything on Oranges and Lemons or the two Apple Venus albums are fantastic and would be above Senses Working Overtime for me. I’m about to post the same thing about Trey, that it is either an utter travesty or sheer ignorance that not more people know XTC. They are among the greats yet massively under appreciated.
Push On to the Day does it for me but no quibbles really. I heard Fishman once say (was it in a documentary?) that Trey pops out songs like mere mortals crap out, well, crap. But Trey’s output is appealing. A bit like Zappa in that so few people know who he is or appreciates what he is doing, it’s a real shame. And Zappa even had some novelty hits—Trey is even less known or less regarded. A musical genius of the highest order.
I will admit ignorance when it comes to XTC’s catalog. I’m sure they have a lot of better songs, but I don’t know them.
Don't give in to their brow-beating.
"Senses Working Overtime" is more than worthy of being the XTC pick. They just have a deep catalog, is all.
They’re one of those bands who is underrepresented I think due in part to them not performing live for most of their time because of their lead singer’s anxiety. However, the lead singer (Andy Partridge) has said that their songs got a lot better as a result and I agree. Sorry for the spoiler @krista4
There's no browbeating going on here.Don't give in to their brow-beating.
Like all of the he said, she said backstory with this song. Right up in my top tier of saddest songs ever.
I still love them. I don’t care. And Birdhouse in Your Soul is one of my top “sing at the top of my lungs and be happy” songs.
