XTC - Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me) Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we're listening to another one from XTC. We've really been enjoying XTC's work since we started this channel, and we can't wait to try some more. Enjoy!
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Saw them live at The Whiskey in Los Angeles around 1980. They were in the bill with The Troggs (Wild Thing). I'd love to hear you react to just about anything from XTC's great Oranges and Lemons album.
XTC were a great band - very talented.
I remember watching them perform this on Swap Shop, a Saturday morning UK kids' TV show. in 1981.
Only the second XTC song I had heard, after Making Plans For Nigel.
Yes, the Swap Shop video is in you tube
I had known XTC by name since 1980 but first heard '...Nigel' only in the mid 90's, followed by the OGWT live version of 'Statue Of Liberty' another 10 years later. But it was actually only two years ago that I did a first proper deep-dive into their repertoire, after their name had kept popping up all the time and I'd understood it as a nudge to do so; No regrets so far either! 😊👍
@@jtenaz - I think I'd watched that video a while ago, too! Didn't Andy even give away an acoustic guitar?!
@@mightyV444 I don't know much about guitars...electric I think th-cam.com/video/rZINryz2g8k/w-d-xo.html
@@jtenaz - Have a look 5.30 into the video! Andy's adding an acoustic guitar to the 'swap pile', after giving away the original(!) 'Sgt Rock' comic artwork, too! Very generous chaps! Quite entertaining, too! 😊 Oh! And thank you for the link! 😉👍
Check out "Are you receiving me?" Probably my fave track of theirs from 1978! Andy Partridge at his quirky best!. Shot a great vid too (TH-cam)
Great & much underrated band ❤
Love XTC.......Swindon's finest......congrats Chris for standing up and fighting "Manflu"👏👏
i know andy partridge wasn’t happy, subsequently, with the lyrics but it’s pretty clear to me; i always heard it from the standpoint of a teenage boy who thinks that projecting this comic character’s machismo is going to help him with the girls. i always thought it was quite an insightful song!
Another call for "Generals & Majors" and "Senses working overtime" greatly underrated UK band, keep up the good work!
Agreed. Great in Hot Fuzz too
While tongue in cheek, Andy Partridge has said that, subsequently, he wasn't happy with the aspirational macho-ness of the lyrics.
I think the "Make her stood in line" bit in particular had also not sat too well with many female listeners at the time.
I find that strange as the song does clearly seem to be a parody of those attitudes - even the instrumentation is comical.
Senses working overtime is brill
The cartoons come from the actual single... whcih was released as comic book within... and is sort of a comic book take on love. Andy used to read "SGT. Rock" but used the simplistic mentality of the brute man's take. I know Andy doesn't share his primitive take on relationships.... but this song is simply a catchy as hell, fun dip into the pop pool.
XTC... as always... amazing. Future reactions that's I'd recommend: "Harvest Festival" "Wrapped in Grey" "Jason and the Argonauts" (which has Andy's much more insightful look at women in the world) and "Playground." Thanks for the great reactions!!
Saw them live great music
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Thanks for doing a reaction on this wonderful song!
I remember Andy explaining what the song was about- a teenage boy who only knew the outside world through reading comics! Lyrically great but probably these days not particularly in line with woke ideology!
Cheers
I really liked this song in the late 70s early 80s when i was a teenager, still like it now in fact.
Yeah - the message of this one isn't particularly PC - but it's very tongue-in-cheek the way they do it. This was part of a great run of albums - Drums and Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement - where almost everything they did was great. Try "Towers of London" or "Generals and Majors" off this album.
Great suggestions, and the period of those 3 albums is also my favourite 😊👍
He said that he regretted the sexist lyrics
I never closely followed the band, but XTC were always a breath of fresh air when it came to the UK singles chart, and their lyrics were often worth paying attention to. This one seems even more apposite today, given that masculine inadequacy and nerdy fear of women seem to have become cause celebres.
I totally agree. Not heard much album material, but they wrote some highly intelligent singles!
Justin has blocked me from his channel, so any comments i make can't be seen. I just thought i'd put you in the picture. Feel free to let the other guys know, and maybe you could campaign on my behalf. Miss you all! 😉
@@CAdams6398 That's unfortunate. I'll pass the info on and see what I can do.
@@delorangeade That's remarkably kind of you. 😊
One of many excellent songs from the Black Sea 🌊 album. Some pretty heavy Production by Steve Lillywhite. Respectable Street , Burnin With Optimisms Flame & Towers Of London my favorite tracks. Excellent drums 🥁 by Terry Chambers 👌 ! ✌️
Those three are also my own favourites from 'Black Sea', plus 'Generals And Majors' 😀👍
@mightyboy1111 It's a brilliant record with a few songs marred by Simmons drums but they were " cool " at the time.
@@davidellis5141 - I remember them being regarded as the "drums of the future" at the time even; That's where we're NOW, and they sound sooo dated 😄 Interestingly, they have also been a recurring subject in my recent chats! 😄 SAGA's '81 album 'World's Apart' is pretty much the only one where those things still sound decent, in my opinion 🙂 As for XTC, have you watched this following show yet? th-cam.com/video/KD2sfQA5bHc/w-d-xo.html 😀👍
@mightyboy1111 No , But I will. Thanks 😊
@@davidellis5141 - You're welcome! And enjoy! 😊
The comic of the video is a poster in the inside of the single.
Is this the official video or one made by a fan? I've never seen it before.
"Living Through Another Cuba" is another great track from this lp and I think there is a live version on the B side of this. It may have been one of the other singles from the lp.
Poor Chris! May you get well again very soon! I've had a cold myself since Wednesday last week and am finally starting to get rid of it now 😌🙏 And that's such a silly song but also gets stuck in my head so easily 😅
One of his more poppier songs. The next song in the album,,Travels In Nihilon, is utterly different.
Get well soon!
This is a great track , but please do , this is pop ? Or statue of liberty , really fantastic singles ,many thanks ,keep up the great work .
I had the honour to work with Andy's dad in Swindon. His sense of humour really comes through in Andy's lyrics. Virgin though had no idea on how to promote XTC. That they didn't pick Yacht Dance or Snowman as singles was criminal
Statue of Liberty, play the album version not the radio play. Banned in the UK cause of having the fantasy of sailing beneath your skirt
@@andyf2837 my single version has those lyrics .
@@sexpistol7712 good stuff not the radio play. How pathetic were the bbc
Great song, and you might say ahead of its time in satirizing adolescent nerd misogyny. (Sgt. Rock was a hyper-masculine DC Comics hero, for those missing the context.) And yes, the comic art used in the video was from a fold-out poster included with the original single.
Sgt Rock is going to help meeeeeeee!! 🫶
If you ever listen to men and women in media their is always a battle of the sexes , men take the man's side and women take the women's side it's annoying . You always wonder why a lot of our British bands were not more known worldwide because they were so good ,
The Undertones would be great they were a very lively band , the hit my perfect cousin was angry but a funny post punk song about teenage angst .
Feargal Sharkey's old band 🙂 C&C had reacted to their song 'Here Comes The Summer' some time ago, in tandem with a Stiff Little Fingers one 🙂
@@mightyV444 I know , i was just asking about my perfect cousin .
@@michaeldooley5398 - Cool. I've not heard that one myself yet, so +1 😀👍
@mightyboy1111 Julie Ocean ( The Single version ) is really good & different for them .
@@davidellis5141 - I'll have a listen shortly. I don't know all that much more beyond 'Jimmy, Jimmy', to be honest 😅
Love XTC.. Next time you have an XTC outing, try 'Senses working overtime'.. That's a fav of mine.
Be well soon Chris 🍯 🍋
Get Cynthia to rub something into your chest ! Camphor/menthal
1 2 3 4 5 ..Senses Working Overtime 😊
Chris has a very smooth voice a AMSR voice if you know what that is , get well soon and get that voice back .
OOh ! Get well soon Chris , you do sound a bit rough , you can always try a Hot Toddy !
Yep , always liked XTC s early stuff , Cheers !
I loved your reaction to this tune it sounds kind of sexist but ya now back in the 80s it kind of was ETC great band I’m a female and never took offence lol just a good tune 🏴 great work now subscribing 👍
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I was only really a fan of this band's singles, but they were responsible for real crackers. Changing subject, i'd like to put in a request for The Dream Academies "Life In A Northern Town". Many thanks!
@Hanier Family: +1 for 'Life In A Northern Town' by Dream Academy , please! 😊👍
@mightyboy1111 Natty taste my man! 🤩
@@CAdams6398 - Thank you, Christian! And likewise! 😊👍 What's your opinion on Dario G's 'Sunchyme'?
Making Plans For Nigel is their classic IMO
He has a future in British steel .. 🏭
Man flu is a killer Chris , Go steady my friend 😅… it’s a fact that the common cold manifests itself MUCH worse in the male gender and that’s been verified by folk in white coats and NHS glasses !! True btw ….👀
Absolutely love XTC , this is a rich vein to mine C n C ! May I recommend Making plans for Nigel ?
They are quirky but fantastic musicians and writers , good call. !
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They already know that one 😉 And also 'Dear God', 'King For A Day', 'Mayor Of Simpleton' and 'Easter Theatre' 🙂
You either have "flu" (influenza) or not. "Man-flu" is a piss take on men to mean you actually are exaggerating normal cold symptoms.
@@normandavidtidiman9918so you’ve been stalking me for over a year .. W⚓️
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Hope you get better soon.
This is a great track and from what is probably the last of the LPs before they started to become a bit blander.
This is on 'Black Sea', right? I reckon the follow-up 'English Settlement' was pretty good, too! 🙂
@@mightyV444English Settlement is awesome 👌
@@mightyV444 It had a couple of great tracks as well but as the lps went on from here they had less standout tracks.
@@SPKdesign1 - I have to admit that so far, I know those later albums only by a bunch of songs I'd heard on C&C's and one other Reaction channel. But I do already have the same impression. I'd done my first proper deep-dive into XTC's discography only a couple of years ago, after having known them by name already for 4 decades and '...Nigel' since the mid 90's, 'English Settlement' was as far as I had gotten then (plus their Dukes Of Stratosphear stuff). I'll get into the rest eventually, but I'm pretty sure the trio of 'Drums And Wires', 'Black Sea' and 'English Settlement' matches my tastes best.
@@davidellis5141 - I don't know how keen you are on Reaction channels in general, but young Justin had recently started to check out that album on his JustJP channel, too! 😊👍