Something Beginning With 'X'.....

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My ridiculous alphabetical thing on NYLPM nears its end, and lo and behold I've got nothing for the letter X. Except for Blondie's 'X Offender', which I can't be arsed digging out. Help me please!!

― Tom, Saturday, 30 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A Xmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, I only the pesky chap hadn't used Christmas instead of Xmas. Pah, traditionalists.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 1 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Top album, to be sure, but I should have said: albums don't count. Otherwise I'd have used X-102 Discovers The Rings Of Saturn.

― Tom, Sunday, 1 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Seems the obvious choice would be Xanadu, by Olivia Newton John. Any strong feelings on that, one way or another? Wasn't it written by Jeff Lynne?

― Mark Richardson, Sunday, 1 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Only three come to mind off the top of my head: "Xanadu" by Rush (obviously off your list), "X-Static" by the Foo Fighters (as I remember, some pop-noise thing at the end of their first album), and of course the X-Files theme: not just the original but the PM Dawn and Spiritualized covers.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Tom. XTC fer'chrissake. Not too difficult to forget.

― Pete, Monday, 2 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pete, you wazz, it's a song I'm after, not a band. Given there is a band actually *called* X I could possibly have got the letter without too much trouble. There is "XTC Vs Adam Ant" by They Might Be Giants, but I've never heard it.

― Tom, Monday, 2 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

bailter space's 'x' a beautiful 3-chord mumbler.

― , Monday, 2 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You could always cheat and go the Roman numeral route...

"X" - Main (from 'Firmament II') "X" (or "XI", "XII") - Alfred Schnittke ('Psalms of Repentance')

or perhaps, "X-02" - KK Null ('Extasy of Zero-G Sex')

or even (and how did you forget this?)... "Xylophone Track" - The Magnetic Fields

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 3 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oops, should have looked before I leapt there Tom. I think you should do what they do in animal alphabet books. When they get to X they do Ox - because it has an x in it. Then you could to Living in a BoX by Living In A Box.

― Pete, Tuesday, 3 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

X-French T-Shirt by Shudder to Think X Marks the Spot: Something Dull Happened Here by the Monorchid

not much help, eh?

― John, Wednesday, 4 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Maybe you could cheat and go with dmX, though of course he's already been deconstructed and dissected (in a spirit of combined terror and awe) by someone sitting not too far away from here :).

"Xylophone Track" would be the easiest option, and probably the best. Oh, and Mark - "Xanadu" was actually a *collaboration* (why do I know these things?) between Olivia Newton-John and ELO, so presumably written by Jeff Lynne ...

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 4 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That "Ox" thing is a bloody scandal. Sigue Sigue Sputnik did "XX Sex", at least I think it was them, but I really can't be arsed to dig out my SSS tape and check.

Anyway, you'll find out today.

― Tom, Thursday, 5 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ah but Tom, it's Saturday and we still haven't found out! Lackadaisical is not the word :).

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 7 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ah, but we *do* know now. Incidentally, Tom, I think your review of "Xylophone Track" is one of the best pieces of writing I've read on the Magnetic Fields, the richness and perfection of their *sound* (which I agree is often overlooked).

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 9 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

XYZB by Moose. A classic Lp from the 90'sB

― Chris, Saturday, 28 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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