My number one's from Apple Venus.....
― funk79, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
easter theatre i guess
that was in my 'maybes' list
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Battery BridesTissue TigersTake This Town
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Easter Theatre will defiantly make it.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
life begins at the hop isn't that good so maybe ilx has mercifully refrained (i was lying about no more negativity ;))
battery brides being top 10 would make my day
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Would love 'Easter Theatre' to make the top 10. Given up hope of my #1 placing though.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Life Begins at the Hop is great. Is there any chance Senses is not that popular on here?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
whoooooa
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
10. Towers of London (1426 points, 17 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/10-TowersOfLondon.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
good song, love the double-take middle-eight with those diddly keyboards contrasting the industrial thump of the rest of the song
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I saw them on the Black Sea. Real highlight of my high school show going days. Towers was great, esp. Dave G's beautiful guitar fill just before the "Londinium" part. Still gives me chills.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
strikes me as odd that Andy didn't insist on doing a more literal "construction"-sort of arrangement of this song, with parts being gradually added/accumulating, rather than the full barrel bang-n-clang from the first beat approach that they went with. It just seems like the kind of thing he would do.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
too low. holy crap, I've never know anyone that saw them.
― campreverb, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
**Black Sea Tour***
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
ok wanna get this done before leaving for home so the top 10 are gonna come a little quicker
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
!!!
I had a tape of their Cleveland show from that tour, and it was a blinder.
I also read that they were among the loudest bands of their era -- nearly Who-like in volume. Was that your experience?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Don't remember that Montgomery. It was at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago so the acoustics were shit anyway.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Oh haha, yeah, I've seen a few shows there, and I've never seen one that didn't sound completely awful.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
The BBC Radio 1 live disc sounds great, lots of Black Sea and before songs
― Dominique, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
I was away and missed the bulk of the top 20. Vanishing Girl was my #1 simply due to the fact that it's spent a solid couple months lodged in my head. It is the mother of all earworms
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
it's been retrospectively ruined a bit by sounding like 'the lion sleeps tonight', but fuck disney so yeah #1 accepted
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
9. Easter Theatre (1444 points, 16 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/09-EasterTheatre.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Towers my #1. Such a breathtaking middle-eight.
― chris_coolidge, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Vanishing Girl...It's one of the catchiest choruses of all time.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
when i first heard av vol 1 aged, what, 12 or 13, this was the mindblower. i played it to all my classmates. they were all 'ew wtf chocolate nipple brown'. but it was such a song! having the guitar solo after the first chorus and getting all *intense* after the second was kinda genius
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Easter Theatre is such an incredible and beautiful song. Very happy to see it so high.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
tbf of Apple Venus' big orchestral blowouts I slightly favour Greenman but fully understand why Easter Theatre is 'the one'
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'd say so. I haven't heard it since 1988, and I can still remember how it goes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
8. The Mayor of Simpleton (1448 points, 17 votes, 2 No. 1 votes))http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/08-MayorOfSimpleton.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
listening to this right now. it's pretty but wayyy too slick. or is that its appeal? will i yield in 15 listens' time
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Sigh...
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
second listen and yeah that bassline is doing strange things to me
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
Had no idea this was so popular.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
I batted around Street and Towers and Nigel as #1's for a minute, and then I realized 'oh wait, it's Simpleton'.
― campreverb, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
certs:
sensesnigellungsstreetmajorsearn
surely, BUT...maybe not somehow?:
mole
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
WYAGM Albert Brown
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
What this is?
So many great songs that aren't even going to place!
That is how great they are
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
But yet so many marginal songs that did place...
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
it's all fairly uncontroversial bangerz from here on out tbf
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
x-post
yeah! I guess we should cover the also rans on the ILXTC song compilation
― Dominique, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Didn't they release a single under the name The Fairly Uncontroversial Bangerz?
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
lol @ everyone who's surprised by this placing, even in the top 10. Mayor of Simpleton is one of the tentpoles of the XTC discog.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
7. No Language in Our Lungs (1456 points, 17 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/07-NoLanguageInOurLungs.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Photos have been brilliant throughout the countdown, but that one is absolutely killer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
^^
my #5
it's just... fucking enormous
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
I love everything about No Language in Our Lungs, and think it says as much about this subject as anyone has ever said -- which is saying something!
― Dominique, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
in fact, this being #7 means I'll probably have major problems with the top 5
will forever associate this song with:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8htYS8mf8iY
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
voice as instrumentguitar as voiceineloquence as eloquenceeloquence as blunt instrumentall as nothing
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
This was also my number 5. I thought this might have a good shot at winning. One of my favourite guitar solos ever.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link