XTC-Dear God Lyrics (Reaction)
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Andy Partridge is a beast of a lyricist.
One of my favourite bands of the past 40+ years...And yes, Andy Partridge is one of the greatest lyricists of ever.
I love this song and its message. It's resonating even today, some 30+ years later. FTR, I am an anti-theist. This song almost brings me to tears when I think of all those under the spell of religion, believing in an all-knowing, omnipresent and omnipotent entity that will only break their hearts when "prayer" doesn't work. Peace and love to all. And thank you for this review.
Arguably the most lyrically intelligent and harmonically interesting rock band in history.
Swindon’s finest. Absolutely brilliant band that I grew up listening to. There are so many gems on all of their albums.
Today not have enough faith is not such a big deal.
Just imagine back in the 80s.
When this song came out.
My guy, people were extra hella triggered.😂
mate in florida some lad phoned into his local radio station threatening to bomb them if they didnt stop playing this😬
@@myspacetomdotcom Well, that's Florida.
@@keegany4r176 lmaoo yup, dated someone from there, dont think ill do that ever again lmao
As a 12 year old, seeing this video made me realize for the first time that others felt the same way about God as I did; that I wasn't alone.
I didn't know the word atheist, but I identified with every part of this song, every objection.
I'm so grateful to XTC for this song; I really needed it.
Fun fact! My mom, Jasmine, is the kid singing both parts in the song. She was 8 years old at the time, and she got the opportunity to record this through a producer friend :)
I'll assume you are being honest…Cool! Any more to the story? Would love to hear, as her voice is forever etched into my brain.
@@stupidas9466 yeah ofc! they went to record it at a studio in bearsville ny and my mom almost didn't get paid for this bc she was so young when it happened but she did end up getting money for it although I do forget the details as to what happened there. She told me that recording her part was really quick and only took 1 or 2 takes.
@@leahgrant7471 jasmine veillette?
@@elijahkattelman8629 yeah!
Shame they didn't use her in the video, but I guess they wanted to represent a young version of Andy.
great request, great band
XTC is an amazing band. The album Skylarking is great, end to end. Not to mention their other great albums...
This song is so profound I get goosebumps every time I hear it.
And I’ve been hearing it sporadically since the 80s.
Very brave of an American to openly listen to let alone like this song, it caused all sorts of chaos in Florida, bomb threats and knife threats because of this song, which just goes to prove the hypocrisy of religion, A God of peace and love supported by violence, with the full knowledge of leadership of the various divisions, murder in the name of God is like fkn for virginity, totally contrary to the supposed point it's basis.
Anyway thanks for your work 👍
No problem I no of. Kroq ca.
At 1:58 when your reaction is “that’s a trick question there” is the essence of this song for me. Thanks for that honest reaction. From there it’s up to the rest of us to answer the question for ourselves.
Amazing song, gives me chills every time I hear it.
You've just discovered the greatest band ever.
I was in high school in NY when this came out. Some kid went into the office and held the vice principal at knife point and made her play this over the PA system to the whole school during home room. Honestly.
He was arrested and spent some time in a mental institution.
Woooooooooow crazy a** day
Wow
Nice story pure fiction.
@@davidwright8371 : ¡ Ha ! ¡ Ha ! 'To believe or not believe.'
@@Lunatic4Bizcas there's plenty of folk believe just because some yokel floated some bullshit. That's how the 45th admistration stayed afloat.lie and don't stop lying😜
XTC - the Beatles of the 80's. This song still gives me goosebumps after hundreds of listens and learning to play it even. Andy did everything right on this one - words, music, and vocals all just work together perfectly to deliver a powerful message. The rest of the album is good, especially the more pop-ish "Earn Enough for Us" which I thought was a continuation of "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" from the excellent, but under appreciated album, "Mummer". My favorite XTC album though, is still 1982's "English Settlement". So many superb songs on there and it was especially refreshing at the time. Check the hit "Senses Working Overtime" or the excellent opener "Runaways". Some of the other greats on this album includes "Jason and the Argonauts", "Ball and Chain", "Melt the Guns", "No Thugs in Our House", and "Snowman". Thanks for listening and sharing! Keep going with XTC!
Peace from SF
Melt the Guns:
"Children will want them,
Mothers supply them,
As long as your killers are heroes.
And all the media
Will fiddle while Rome burns,
Acting like modern-time Neros."
English Settlement album, 1982
Sandy Hook Shooting, 2012
Every time i hear this song it moves me to tears... it only gets more poignant with time.
Diggin' deep into the archives. Sweet.
Generals and Majors would be another fun and great song from XTC to check out. Catchy as hell.
Hell of a song here. These are great, brother.
XTC, one of the greatest. Also, check out The Dukes of Stratosphear.
In Florida, a Panama City radio station received a bomb threat for airing the song during the height of the hysterical response, in some quarters, to the release of the single. Meanwhile, on the coin’s flipside, a student at Binghamton High School, New York, held a staff member at knifepoint, forcing them to play ‘Dear God’ over the public address system. As this snowball gained mass and momentum, several stations in the US and UK banned the song from airtime, and some shops refused to stock the single.
Ain’t this one right on time? Daaaaang.
Just about a perfect piece of songwriting.
This song always gets to me. Good message, love the guitar chords in it & the little boy singing adds a lot! Thx 💕💕💗
It's actually a little girl singing (the daughter of a friend of the producer, Todd Rundgren), although in the accompanying video, the words are mimed by a little boy ( the son of the bass player, Colin Moulding).
If you were ever on the fence between religion and atheism this should settle it for you
Amen :D
My son was 12 when he tried telling me f religion and I was so against it, heard this song and bawled my mf’ing eyes out. It settled me.
@@sarakhaldi5085 so atheist or religious? lol
Video is really great too.
New to your channel...really enjoying your takes, and the tunes you're choosing to react to! Keep 'em coming!
This song was accidentally played on KROQ in LA. It was the B Side to “Grass” when singles still existed. So many called in to hear it again. It became huge. They had Andy Partridge on and he hardly remembered recording this and didn’t remember the kid.
XTC “Senses Working Overtime” is very clever.
I’m so glad you covered this incredible song. So true and so good.
What a segue for my upcoming song I requested. You wanna talk about two opposite ends of the spectrum!!! HAHAHA! True “predestination” at work...HAHA!
Love XTC by the way. “Making plans for Nigel” is a real good tune, amongst others. “Senses working overtime” too.
Enjoy going down the XTC rabbit hole. This band is AMAZING. You could do nothing BUT xTC reactions and you'd come out the other side a better human!!!!
Agreed. Check out Across This Antheep.
@@aydnofastro-action1788 Great tune.
This song ended up being banned on MTV in their home country of England. I grew up going to church all the time. I have become very open-minded over the years, and I love this song. I understand the message here.
Just landed here . I love to see everyone listening to things thry normally wouldn't. Seems like every 8 - 10 I gotta revisit this song. This time I'm editing in current pictures to this video and reposting
The French philosopher and writer Voltaire lay in his bed dying, a bishop holding a crucifix stood at the foot of Voltaire's bed more in exasperation than in hope..."do you good sir renounce the devil? Voltaire replied "I do not think this a good time in my life to go around to making new Armen23.
Fucking goosebumps
DAX Dear God from last year is a track with the ( same title) A great video 👌 super lyrics but then he is a genius! so anything he decides to rap about has a strong powerful message to it 🔥 Mainly about the struggle with good and evil within himself and others and this world and I just love his work 😊 This song was interesting to listen to too. He doesn't believe in God yet he is singing to God !🌎
Elite level songwriting. You might want to check out Crowded House
Absolutely!!!
How about some Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Just found your channel- love this reaction! subscribed
XTC are very underated.
You should listen to No language on our lungs and Yacht Dance
I love your reaction to this! XTC are amazing. So many amazing songs.
Love XTC!
Peter Pumpkinhead - offiical video - is another amazing work. BTW, "Did you make disease and the diamond blue?" reminds me of William Blake from "The Tyger": "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
When they made they had the biggest album and song they did
Making plans for Nigel. Primus did a cover of it. Like XTC, better.
Yep. I first heard about XTC and Pink Floyd, because of Primus covers. Miscellaneous debris; excellent cover album (and shirt)
Top tune!
😍 Skylarking Album was my jam! Stunning band to see in concert. They always gave great energy and don't mind the audience singing off key. 😊🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Awesome - best songs on this channel
I wish everyone the best of everything . Health and wealth in all your journeys. ✌️♥️
Looks like you are my new favorite.
you have good vibe I can feel it
That bass line.
You really should have played the video that goes with this song, it's very memorable and makes this great song even more compelling.
It wasn't a trick question.
Go Blue!!!
Senses Working Overtime if you revisit XTC again. 😍🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Song speaks the truth. 👍
I, with all due respect to you disagree.
No it does not.
It sure does speak the truth!!
You should give Armageddon days by The The a listen…written in the 80’s but still as relevant today as it was back then
XTC is awesome, this is one of their best songs, I remember the controversy when it first came out. I'm showing my age here, lol. And Systems Working Overtime is another favorite.
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead , The Mayor of Simpleton and Generals and Majors, are all very poignant songs that are worth your time.
Skylarking, the album this is from is a must. I wish you could have gone straight into Dying, the next song on the album, as it makes a much deeper statement (if you can believe it) together.
react to Senses Working Overtime. one of the best XTC's songs
Perfect reaction. to a song that rivets everyone to their chair the first time they hear it. Look up the Doc XTC THIS IS POP! "the greatest unknown pop band in the know Universe " -Spin ,magazine. A friend once said to me about ths song. "just because he says this in a song doesn't mean he really doesn't believe in God..." And I said good point , he actually sounds like he IS talking to God....he just hates all the BS people have said and done in the name of God.
Go blue!
Great channel and song selection. I’d like to recommend Pink Floyd, song Dogs. It’s an amazing song.
Cool reaction! You knew it was bad ass.i think its at least as heavy as nib.- neal a.
Faith is not a virtue.
Do its a thin line between love and hate by the persuaders
One of the greatest songs ever written. You gotta be a cuckoo bird to believe in "god" ...
...unfortunately that fallacious and narrow thinking is what feeds the divide between believers and the truth...
I think another song as powerful as this is Armageddon Days Are Here [again] by The The.
Check out the Fixx "One thing leads to another "
I believe in God and Jesus. But i always loved this song. It’s what everyone goes through at some point in their life when they see the pains and disease and suffering in the world. You question your faith.
Neil Degrasse Tyson said that “if this world has so much suffering, kids born with cancer, etc, then maybe God isn’t all good, OR maybe God isn’t all powerful”. Something to that effect. It definitely makes you think.
Great song, great album, great band, but seems lots of reaction channels doing this one now. Any independent channels anymore?
Try covering Tom Waites live version of Chocolate Jesus.
Sarah McLachlan did a great cover of this too. Her version is a bit slower and, I think, really communicates the anger and sadness behind the lyrics. th-cam.com/video/uf60t3NaKvs/w-d-xo.html
Another great song with a similar vibe is How do you do by Shakira th-cam.com/video/m9Km9XgMNgw/w-d-xo.html
XTC. The band The Beatles could have been.
oh dear.... 6,666 views..😂
Oh...
🙏 pretty please
I love "skylarking" and "oranges and lemons" but I have always hated this song
Agreed, this song is depressing to the core. Don’t get me wrong I think XTC was a great band. So many awesome songs and so incredibly unique.
Most people I’ve run across who don’t like this song have their religious beliefs as the reason. Whether you believe in god or not it’s still a beautiful arranged and performed song
Great reaction. Check out Complicated Game by XTC. And more
Wow amazing. My favorite part of the song is when XTC made something original, and didn’t just listen to someone else’s song and “react” to it.
Fuckin cancer.
As reaction vids go, this, very poor. It's and interesting, and complex song addressing some serious issues. And what did we get, 'ooh, oh, is that a violin'.... Then, of course, subscribe cos that's all that matters, ha.... what about the song, composition, arrangement etc. what about the lyrics, you agree, disagree. Or cos its a hot topic, say nothing cos your scared of losing the odd viewer. Lazy reviewing, my first and last visit.