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
haha i'd forgotten that kooky keyboard bit just before the middle eight :D
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
will forever associate this song with:
I saw this when it aired and fell off the couch in shock. It's XTC! On a US network TV show!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
xpost Poor Bill!
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
as a guy who was perennially picked last for any sports team AND an XTC fan that scene really hits home
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Seriously.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
6. Generals and Majors (1477 points, 18 votes)http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/06-GeneralsAndMajors.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
sliiiightly regret putting this behind Travels In Nihilon on my ballot now, but I had to really
oh shit a new song! yeah this one's rly good as well, voted. language is BETTER but this was the single so fair enough
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
kinda wanna read Kriegstein's Sgt. Rock story tbh
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
So, my brother and I have both always thought that Suede totally stole the bridge from Generals and Majors for the chorus of Moving. Never really seen anyone else comment on it. Is it just us?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
listening to G&M just now I did the 'Hey!' and timed it perfectly :D
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
these are the songs of my childhood. like, this is a big deal
this song is good n catchy and polemical in the right way. at the same time it is oddly simple for an XTC song - like, upon giving it a try, I figured out how to play it almost immediately.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
it's not oddly simple for a colin moulding song imo - he always played it way straighter. not that that's a bad thing with the playing talent at his disposal
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
5. Making Plans for Nigel (1650 points, 19 votes)http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/05-MakingPlansForNigel.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
lol @ everyone thinking this would win
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
only slightly disappointed that song image does not involve Nigel Tufnel
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
anyway, seeya colin, u were a good songwriter
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Is Life Begins at the Hop really going to miss out?
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
oh shit maybe not
welcome back colin
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
but then how is mole going to miss out? guess it's too silly/obv beatles pastiche for ilx ;)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
i did not feel the need to vote for making plans for nigel, but it is undeniably a 'glorious slice of catchy post-punk' or whatever u call it nowadays
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link