WHAT IS THIS? 🎵 XTC - Dear God REACTION
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One of the greatest bands of all time!!!
Came to say the same 👍
AMEN! I've been listening to music for decades and own thousands of albums... XTC is my #1 band.
If not, at the very top.
@@johnmavroudis2054 I concur John. 59 years old and just haven't heard anyone better.
Helped me get through my 20 s
These lyrics are the heart of the song:
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world round
The hurt I see helps to compound
The Father, Son, and holy ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
In a world filled with so much suffering and brutality, how am I supposed to deal with the idea of a divine being that is both omnipotent and benevolent? A god of this world can't be both.
Beautifully said….I love this song (mostly because i agree with what he says) but I think most people don’t get the deeper message. Thank you for putting it so succinctly!😊❤
Yup, we live in a fallen world unfortunately.
XTC are a vastly underrated band, and this song is one of their best.
If this is their best, then they are not underared..overrated ide say.
Thanks for finally reacting to XTC!! For what it’s worth, I have always loved XTC and still I’ve always been a person of faith. This song spoke to me 40 years ago and it still resonates with me today. While I’m sure that Andy Partridge probably wrote it as an anthem to Atheism, it can also reflect the experience of a sincere crisis of faith that many of us have when we encounter humanity’s cruelty, exploitation and hypocrisy. Confronting God honestly and telling Him that we are angry, grieved and are blaming Him for what his creatures are doing while admitting to Him that we’re also feeling pretty hopeless and betrayed isn’t all that uncommon. For some it can result in a total loss of faith but for others it can inspire a raw, honest and authentic dialogue that can lead to the restoration of their faith.
I love XTC and Andy Partridge is an impressive lyricist. I’ve often thought that one of the signs of really good song writing is the ability to capture experiences that are universal but also leave enough room for it to be relatable to people with very different beliefs and life experiences. I think he does a very good job with this one! 😊
Although I don't understand how this song can restore anyone's faith, I respect your willingness to face it head-on and without claiming to be offended.
@@shmeggylou5671 Thanks! I get what you mean but for me the song really captures and expresses the experience of a crisis of faith in God more than offering any real solutions to that crisis. I think the universality of the song is that it helps us feel connected to others who’ve experienced something similar even if they ultimately come to different conclusions. 🙂
Their Dukes of Stratosphear stuff is really good also. :-)
Appreciate your insight. Also long time XTC fan, 40+ years and counting......
In music as in any art the artist's intent is all that matters, how you want to perceive it and react to it is up to you. Andy Partridge at the time of writing the song was an Atheist and I believe still is.
Eclectic is a good word to describe XTC. One of my favourite bands. You should do Senses Working Overtime - a real classic.
the difference between lemon and lime:)
Brad & Lex, you'll love their "Senses Working Overtime", "Generals and Majors" and "Making Plans for Nigel"!!
These three songs are far and away my favourite songs by XTC.
I also love their stimulating, ska-inflected song, _English Roundabout._ The guitar is outstanding on that number, imo. Is that Andy Partridge playing lead on that one? I tried to look it up, but I think it said there was another guitarist on that one, playing lead, anyway. Colin Moulding wrote some great songs, too, love him.
Mayor of Simpleton!
Don't forget the ethereal Wonderland.
All classics
XTC is one of the most interesting rock bands ever, in part because they did so much to self-sabotage their career, like not touring because the band's leader, Andy Partridge, developed stage fright, and changing their sound at the whim again of Padrtridge. They started out as a punk or post-punk band, but then went through a period of doing psychedelic and psychedelic tinged music (some of it under the name Dukes of Stratesphear, a fictional overlooked band from the late 60s.) Also trying to get people to buy their albums on C at a time when many people lacked CD players. This song was originally a bonus track on the Skylarking album that was made a hit by radio DJs, forcing a repressing of the album. It briefly made the band popular until three divorces (The two songwriters each got divorced and they divorced their record label after finding out they were being cheated out of royalties) ended their string of hits. They did come back eventually, but their momentum was gone.
They also limited their appeal in that the band's second writer was better at writing catchy hooks, but he would generally get 2 of the 10 songs on an album. A lot of the suggestions for other songs people are giving are Moulding songs. (They had very English names). It is not that Moulding's songs are better, but that they have more hot potential.
Partridge comes off as a bit of a genius who did not care about what anybody thought. He eventually alienated everybody else in the band. And his divorce can be predicted from some of his song lyrics going back to Snowman in the early 80s with the chorus "It isn't even winter and I'm shivering, shivering
Waiting for the love that's not delivering
And what I want to know, man
(Why, oh, why)
Does she treat me like a snowman?"
and then he announced his divorce in the early 90s in Madam Barnum with
If I'm not the sole fool
Who pulls his trousers down
Then dear Madam Barnum
I resign as clown
Despite this they were very much a band's band. Not everybody in the 80's listened to XTC, but the bands that people listened to in the 80's listened to XTC. They were a staple on college radio stations.
I remember when XTC came on KROQ radio with Jed the Fish to promote their first album of the 90s, and Jed congratulated them on being #1 on the Alternative charts. Andy Partridge laughed and said, "Alternative to what? Selling records?"
Well said, though I think I would be one of a few people that understand what you mean.
@@Johnny_Socko Hahaha! Classic Andy!
Man, the Dukes of Stratosphear stuff has been in regular rotation on my playlist since the mid 80s.
I absolutely love late 60s psychedelia, and the Dukes fit right in.
Someone currently creating similar stuff: Rosalie Cunningham/Purson. Some great vids on TH-cam to check out
Thanks for reacting to this. First time hearing it and I loved it. Definitely adding it to my playlist.
Quote for you “A man without God is still a man. A God without man is nothing”
Great song! Great message! Religion is mythology. He wasn't cutting down the tree, he was just beating on it, taking out his anger.
tree of good and evil?
@@kenhoyer8601 Yggdrasil, the world-tree?
@@kenhoyer8601State religion in UK... Punk is punk.
Sooo glad y’all did this one! It’s fantastic. It didn’t get a lot of air play across the US in the late 80s; there was actually a bomb threat called in to one station threatening them, if they ever played it again.
It got a lot of play in L.A. Los Angeles and New York were the only 2 cities in the U.S. that had a radio station that brought PUNK and New Wave to the airwaves.
@@nicholasn6698 not so much here in Arkansas and the rest of Middle America. Lol I loved it though.
I was in Texas of all places and it got a lot of airplay and I wasn't aware of much push back at all.
What are you, some kind of asshole? There was a very good reason that it was banned. I am an agnostic, but was offended by the song on behalf of my Christian friends. Wise TF up and grow TF up.
I used to hear it a lot on WBRU, the alternative radio station run by Brown University students. I didn't know there was a music video. I wonder how often or even if MTV played it?
Thanks for the reaction! Love you guys!!. XTC has some great songs. This is one of the more controversial ones It made you think, yes?! XTC is sadly underrated. These songs are all worth a listen and a reaction. The Mayor of Simpleton - Senses Working Overtime - King For A Day - Making Plans for Nigel - Generals and Majors.
I was a Christian when this came out and was conflicted because I liked the song. I am conflicted no more
Congrats on freeing your mind from the BS cult of religion.
@@colin72 thank you. I wish it had happened earlier
Nothing wrong with examining ones own faith. Or lack of faith either.
@@melaniesweeten5401 indeed. My past belief in this religion is quite clear to me now. It was just belief
@@reality1958 I spent too many years not asking the right questions and making the same excuses. So I find songs like this, with such heartbreaking honesty, very inspiring.
XTC emerged in the punk/new wave sphere and made some very clever stuff... one of my favorites... this video is a touch obvious, but the sentiment is pretty sharp... loved your comments on this one Brad...
The fact it sparked debate shows the song worked and did what it was supposed to do. Ask questions.
XTC are one of the best British post-punk bands. Seriously underrated
I haven't even watched it yet and I am overjoyed that you are doing XTC. They were so important to me when I was in a post punk band in my twenties. They were heroes to us. British heroes. They are so creative and so savage at what they do and so intelligent. Incredible musicians as well.
Mayor of Simpleton & Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead are two songs you should react to by them.
The first is a great love song and the second is another tackle on faith and religion.
I met Andy Partridge once. He's a really nice guy. Many artists bare their struggles with faith in song and Andy is one of them.
I would to see the reaction to Helicopter ! 🤣
I had no idea Ballad was about faith and religion. I remember thinking it was about JFK but that never sat right. I just ordered both of XTC’s so maybe there’s insight there.
XTC were a great band loads of great tunes you need to listen to a few more of their songs you'll enjoy them.
XTC is one of those bands that need some context. You're coming in halfway through their career, and listening to a track the lead singer actually never wanted to release as a single because he thought it was too obvious. Oddly, the American college stations loved it. Anyway, as British bands go, they are one of the most influential with other musicians, because they were so brilliantly innovative musically and lyrically. They're also my favourite band. Anyway, go back to something like Making Plans for Nigel, and listen to the albums Drums and Wires and Black Sea, which marked the beginning of the big drum sound that engineer Hugh Padgham went on to develop with Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. XTC is a band for people who love music as art and commentary. If you're just looking for pretty melodies and singles you can hum along to, they're not the band for you.
Anyway, you can sing a long to their songs! ♥️😬🔝
Brilliant dissection of "faith" in song.
The Smiths, XTC, and REM were my 80s playlist.
Love this song. THANK YOU for doing XTC. Their catalog is wide, varied, and BRILLIANT. Andy Partridge, who wrote the song (and sang it) wasn't a big fan of a song because he said you can't have all the complexity you need in a 3-minute pop song. Having said that, I think think he did a remarkable job. He's got a great way with words... and you should definitely check out some of their other incredible work: "Senses Working Overtime," "Mayor Of Simpleton," "Wrapped In Grey," "Harvest Festival," "Love On A Farmboy's Wages," "Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead"... and if you're really feeling adventurous: "COMPLICATED GAME"... which is sledgehammer of a song.
So so so many, Indeed!
Senses working overtime, mayor of simpleton, so many great songs, English Settlement, Skylarking, oranges n lemons
Genre: College Alternatiive, specifically '80s College Alternative. Pixies, R E.M., XTC, Camper Van Beethoven, The Smiths, The Cure, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Violent Femmes and early INXS (The album The Swing), are good starting points if you want to jump in further.
I am so happy you guys did this song. This wouldve been categorized as "College Rock". In the early 80s new bands would sign up with new record labels then free records would get sent out to college radios stations around the country. College radio wanted to play what main stream radio stations werent playing. If these bands caught on at these stations they would go to main stream radios stations. This is how U2, The B52s, REM and SO MANY other bands got started.
This captures a very specific brand of English atheism (or agnosticism at best). Love that you covered this!
XTC is awesome. Try Senses Working Overtime and Generals and Majors.
Makin plans for Nigel is the only XTC song I knew before this. Cool.😃🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Andy Partridge is an amazing songwriter. Love me some XTC. Have a listen to The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead.
Joe Jackson and XTC has that punk mixed with talent and skill... original yet pop
Catchy parts, yes!
XTC is a damned hook factory.
Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ... Earn Enough For Us ... Garden of Earthly Delights ... I'd Like That ... King for a Day ... Senses Working Overtime ... have fun down this rabbit hole!
This isn't the song I would have chosen to introduce you to XTC, for obvious reasons. Try "Mayor of Simpleton," I think you'll like it better.
XTC - Mayor of Simpleton
For me, one of the three most underappreciated bands of all time.
Making plans for Nigel, Generals and majors and Livin in a smokeless zone soooo much better
Very influential band in the 80s. Skylarking is a great album!
Oh man the song "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC is a must listen! One of the catchiest choruses of all time.
this is a powerful song... underrated band, one of the best.
XTC was one of the best British New Wave Rock bands of the 1970s and 80s.
"Generals and Majors" is a great anti-war song from the depths of the Cold War.
"Senses Working Overtime" is fantastic.
This song is from the album "Skylarking" which was produced by the legendary Todd Rundgren, but only because they were forced to by their record label.....this song was an anthem for me growing up expressing many conflicting thoughts about religion and the force and sound of this incredible song really did and still does resonate with me!....even though XTC vowed never to work with Rundgren again, they laid down some great tracks together!
The friction between Todd and Andy produced a diamond 💎
Brilliant song by a brilliant band.
Like deployed 👍
Very underrated band. Senses Working Overtime is another gem to check out!
Andy Partridge is some kind of Rock genius with this band and with the offshoots like The Dukes of Stratosphear.
Please do more XTC ✌
It’s a thinker with a brilliant melody.
Just questioning that’s it. We should all be allowed to question without fear. Great reaction
So many great songs from XTC… “King For a Day” and “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” being two of my favorites
Love XTC, very underrated, was wondering if you would get to them. Would be labeled as New Wave. Should check out "Making Plans for Nigel,""The Mayor of Simpleton,""Generals and Majors,""Senses Working Overtime," and so many more by them 👍🏼
About time you reacted to one of the greatest British bands. Now try Senses Working Overtime.
To hear XTC at their very best the b-side of their single Sgt Rock is Livin Through Another Cuba/Generals and Majors a live version that will blow you away. The band were so tight Sting was a big fan.
Andy Partridge, a brilliant song writer.
Straight JAM back in the day! 🤙
XTC, offending people who (deliberately?) miss the point for decades now.
The Fratellis - Whistle for the Choir
All the cool kids are listening to it
Ohhhh, XTC are soooo great!
Very good lyrics and a nice song, which got better as it got angrier.
Two other great tunes by XTC are The Ballad of Pumpkin Head and the Mayor of Simpleton. For this song you have to realize that XTC is from the UK and in the 80s, religious conflict was a hot topic between Protestants and Catholics. The Catholic church is much more of a controlling world institution in the UK (and Ireland) than in the US, and it is viewed as if it were an oppressive government as opposed to the general view of churches here in the US (like a side gig).
80s post punk. The most subtle sarcasm EVER.
You're in for a treat with this song
What I love about this song is, even if you don’t agree with the message, this is an immaculately constructed piece of music. I love everything about how this is put together: the opening chords, the music growing louder as Andy Partridge’s sense of doubt grows larger, the fact that it’s bookended by a child singing. It gives me goosebumps every time.
The Mayor of Simpleton - Senses Working Overtime BANGERS!
I remember yall did '80s/'90s new wave streams this past summer (June) and and another one earlier in the year (Jan/Feb).
The one in Jan/Feb, some chat member sent a good donation and requested this song, she dedicated to a deceased family member. She was sad that it didn't win a poll. I wonder if she will now see this reaction! lol
Anyways, XTC is alt rock, punk, new wave, they were an '80s and '90s band. This song is different from most of their stuff. Most of their songs are more punky and more energy. Check out the videos for "Senses Working Overtime", "Making Plans for Nigel" , "General and Majors" and others. They are similar to Talking Heads, Blur, The Las, B-52s, etc
Their earlier stuff is more punky but after '82 it became more sophisticated.
Also "The Battle of Peter Pumpkinhead".
Oh loved this song , needed to be said
XTC is one of my favourite bands, they are not for everyone, which is why I love them:)
Guys, XTC was all over the map. And this is a later one and they got more and more complex. But go back to the earlier stuff. They were revolutionary and so important in the music scene. There are just so many and they're all over the map but check out this song, Respectable Street. You'll get a good idea why they hit pretty hard and exploded. It's British; it's really tongue in cheek and hilarious but it's post punk also, so it's kind of up front with the attitude. It's funny as shit and these guys are incredible musicians and they were so tight as a band. They were unflappable.
This song takes some of it's inspiration from poet/illustrator William Blake who wrote both "The Lamb" and "The Tyger." One stanza of "The Tyger" reads (referring to The Tyger): "When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
Another great XTC song is "Peter Pumpkinhead"
XTC have a ton of musical masterpieces! 🔥❤😎 Try these next: "King For A Day", "The Smartest Monkeys", "My Bird Performs", "Making Plans For Nigel", "Wake Up", "Generals and Majors", "All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)", and "Then She Appeared".
I've always loved Complicated Game - it's so sinister.
Among the greatest bands ever. XTC are incredible. You should also try The Dukes of Stratosphear (their 60s-style psychedelic band).
Sarah Mclachlan did a cover of this song on one of her CDs. I used to skip it when I was still a believer in god, when my belief collapsed I had my morning alarm set to play this song for maybe 6 months. It was me holding out for a chance to regain my faith, but that never happened. 25 years have passed and I'm glad it never came back, one of the best things that has happened to me, though at the time it was tough to go through. It was 10 or more years later that I found out it was a cover, because of my first connection to this song, I find I prefer Sarah's version.
I knew the XTC version first, and have always liked it, but Sarah's cover blows it out of the water.
Yeah Sarah's version is on another level.
The little boy singing in the beginning of the video, his voice is really Bjork before she joined the sugar cubes. She joined a sugar cubes when she was 17.
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One of the things I like about XTC is that their music sounds to me like '60s folk rock except done in a more modern sound. If The Byrds existed in the '80s instead of the '60s they'd be XTC.
Great song and a great band, worthy of checking out
When this song first came out it led to a number of violent threats against the stations that broadcast it and was one of the major contributors to the "Parental Advisory" warnings on CD's from 1987 onwards.
thanks for responding to this!!!! love your open minds...
Love you guys and love how you interpret the songs and the metaphors you try and figure out. I get a different perspective. Thanks y’all 🙏
The Genre is New Wave and XTC was one of it's most influential group.
TY. XTC is my fav. Like a diamond XTC is multi facetted.
Great song! I have not heard it, in a really long time. Thank you for reminding me of this song, I always wanted to heart it, and I forgot who the band was! Now I know. It has been like for ever! I heard this back in 87, damn it has been a while...
One of the best songs of the 80s
One of my all time favorites. Makes one think no?
Great song. First band I saw live way back in the 1980's and still relevant.
One of my all time favorites! Underrated because they stopped touring.
Check out " Love on a Farm boys Wages"!
Brad getting deep and insightful in this one!🤘🤘
Daaang
Another brilliant Andy Partridge song. Powerful. And fair play..it brought out a relevant discussion amongst you guys. Always healthy. Great tune to boot.
new wave is the genre
Mind blown...I'd heard this tune on stream at work a day or two ago and brings back memories as a wee boy...small world that you both are reacting now lol. its a strange one but frankly as I grew up Catholic can see what he is saying. I will refrain from my interpretation as I feel that should be open ended however thank you for reacting to this!
I'm a huge XTC fan and have been since '83 or so. "Skylarking" is a fantastic album. This song freakin' BLOWS! Wahi' Valleys
Quite possibly the greatest punch to the balls of "god" ... perfect lyrics, music, video.
Lex is so pretty and cool.I love you two!
Love it.
“Senses workin over” is fantastic
Deep discussion. That's what a good art does. 👍❤🤙
👍 Great song
I’ve loved this song since it came out when I was about the same age as the little boy in the song and back then I was a believer but I started having doubts and too many questions in church around 9 so they kicked me out of Sunday school because I was asking too many questions they couldn’t answer
Can't believe you guys reacted to this...one of my fav songs. Thanks
Senses working overtime for the mayor of simpleton.
The debate at the end of this reaction is exactly why this song was written.
Absolutely one of those great songs you never forget..just stays with you...great choice..👃
Check out their side project called Dukes of the Stratosphere. So good!
Don’t think I’ve ever seen an XTC reaction on TH-cam!
The genre is Quirky English Pop.