What Are You Listening To?

[SteveO]

Your recommendation of XTC's English Settlement was a great one !!!!!,,,I love that album...thanks MH !!!!

from my library (vinyl)
　



Japanese import somehow ended up in my collection. Pulled the lyrics sheet out to find them in that squiggly language. At least when I flipped it over there was the english. Must have forgot to put my punk hat on for this one. Debut album and falls far short of their later work for me. The album did show some flash in the U.K. at #38 but failed to show up here. The group was always bigger in their homeland. Single of Statue Of Liberty was banned by the BBC for the line "sail beneath your skirt". Give me a break, Cover of All Along The Watch Tower was rather interesting and most covers of a classic such as that would turn me off, but that one held my interest because it was so different and unexpected. Not great, but different. Give it a listen. Of the 12 tracks, only half even got a passing grade.This album doesn't come close to the groups best work for me.
　

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
　

Worst Track - Cross Wires
　

Best Track - I'm Bugged

I'm bugged you all look like insects
In your brand new sunspecs
I'm bugged I'm bugged
I drop a little note through my sympathetics door
I think I'm going ga ga I just can't take anymore
At first I see 'em swarming from a dark and midnight nest
And when I see 'em fiddling well I think you've guessed the rest!

I'm bugged you all look like insects
In your brand new sunspecs
I'm bugged I'm bugged
I wake up in a cold sweat and I run into the street
And just like in my nightmare they are jiggling at my feet
I take a dead man's lighter and I burn them to the floor
But where there was a dozen there are now a hundred more
I'm bugged

1) Radios In Motion *
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6bprVMfd4
2) Cross Wires *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXPM5tptkk0
3) This Is Pop? **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy8gSdZdpy8
4) Do What You Do *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63qp-ec5UE
5) Statue Of Liberty **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjEuws9-HTM
6) All Along The Watch Tower **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRaVa7J5Rg
7) Into The Atom Age **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdnjPam9sc
8) Set Myself On Fire *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7AIfbDtPyk
9) I'm Bugged **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkcf67e-Go
10) New Town Animal In A Furnished Cage **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC--AW2ISec
11) Spinning Top *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTi5R8iwoKI
12) Neon Shuffle *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HopWZ4d7C3A

3's - 0
2's - 6
1's - 6

Grade - 1.5

so many albums, so little time