The Replacements and XTC were favs back in the day, especially XTC. Drums and Wires, English Settlement, always good. My wife knew Andy Partridge, she said he was a nice guy. Thanks!
The title of that album is one of the reasons that it took me so long to get into The Replacements. It's like titling your album "Ziggy Stardust" or "Dark Side of the Moon"
Hard to get what a breath of fresh air Mechanical Resonance was when it came out when it was released during the flood of glam metal albums. Always a favorite of mine. Learned to play guitar to it…especially Gettin Better
Wll Robert you've done again; another band I never knew existed, The Beat Farmers, that I find quite enjoyable (with the exception of the Happy Boy song, I was fully aware of that songs existence, although I had mentally blocked it out until you mentioned it). You channel has made my life more enjoyable.
I like “That thing you do” but I never thought or knew anyone who thought it sounded like The Beatles. It does sound like a one hit wonder band from the early 60s though, which is kinda the point if you’ve seen the movie.
Fun fact: the cover art for Hootenanny was designed by Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü (under the alias Fake Name Graphx), who also designed his own band's album covers.
I was without my stereo for about three months last year when we moved house. When I finally plugged it back in I chose Garden of Earthly Delights as the first track to road test everything and it pinned me against the wall. Early XTC has less synths, Black Sea probably their best.
Love the reviews and commentary! Really glad you liked "Hootenanny," to me that is the epitome of the Replacements and their drunken rock-with-punk-attitude abandon. If you haven't heard their rip-roarin' debut (Sorry Ma...) or the Stink EP, you'd like them I bet. And yeah, Tesla is probably best heard in a smoke-belching Camaro or a boombox at the kegger party, ha ha!
I just had to go look up the TH-cam video for Happy Boy. Couldn’t leave well enough alone. Curiosity got the best of me and damn it man, I really wish I had retained my ignorance. The Replacements. Such great songs.
Nonsuch was my first XTC purchase: the best rock radio station in Chicago (WXRT) had "Peter Pumpkinhead" in rotation when the album was released. I purchased the album based on that song, and I still listen to it on a regularly to this day ... my favorite tracks being "Holly Up on Poppy", "That Wave" and "Then She Appeared." Not long after purchasing Nonsuch, Rolling Stone had a special issue Best Albums of the 1980s, and Skylarking made the list, and justifiable so. Skylarking is XTC's best album start-to-finish.
XTC's English Settlement and Mummer are among my favorite albums by them, the later being a little darker or acoustic than usual in spots ("Human Alchemy" a great example of the former and "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" the later). Oranges and Lemons' "Garden of Earthy Delights" is almost an equal to Mummer's "Beating of Hearts", especially in the opening song department. Just my ramble, but there it is. (Drums and Wires and Black Sea are also great - the later being more sharper with "Generals and Majors", "Towers of London", and "Respectable Street")
It can be tricky to plug into XTC since they had a few phases and developed quite a bit over the years. I'd suggest their Go 2 album if you like angsty post punk; Drums & Wires and/or Black Sea (new wave), the two Dukes of Stratosphear records for top-notch 60s retro styles, and Nonsuch for intricate chamber pop (play side 2 first). I believe "Pink Thing" was Andy Partridge's attempt at one of those double-entendre tunes along the lines of "Squeezebox" by The Who. It's a British music tradition, apparently.
The Replacements were a great shining light in the 80s! My favorite is Pleased to Meet Me since it’s their most power pop-y album. But, I actually do really like most of the tracks on Don’t Tell a Soul; it’s their last album in 1990 that was their real low point. XTC is great too! Especially Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons ;) Great video as usual, Robert! :3
Oranges and Lemons was the first XTC album I heard beginning to end. It is the one the drew me in to explore their other albums which I bought. After buying pretty much all of them, O&L still remains one of my favorites. As for the others, English Settlement was excellent. I'd say overall a lot of their albums were somewhat inconsistent, many good songs and a few duds. I still like their early 90's album Nonesuch. I absolutely love quite a few of the songs, but the duds are pretty bad. Robert is correct about the Beat Farmers. Very difficult to find their music. I accumulated quite a few of the CD's since the 80's. I like them all. Tales of the New West might still be the best. I'd like to buy some of the vinyl, but I haven't seen any in the record stores I frequent.
The story behind the Replacements is such an interesting story, one of my favorite bands ever. My favorite song on this album is also Take Me Down to the Hospital
Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr is a most excellent biography on the Replacements. In it, we learn that they actually named their Let It Be album as a kind of dare: we're gonna name our album after the next song that comes on the radio... and they stuck with it to rile their manager, who was a huge Beatles fan! Think I remember that correctly.... There's loads of crazy (often drunk) shenanigans in the book obviously but it paints a well rounded portrait of the band and its members without becoming a Paul Westerberg hagiography. It's at times very sad, very funny, honest, frustrating, poignant and back to being hilarious. Also provides solid information on the creation of the music.
I have been enjoying the purple knif Show by Lux Interior on CD today. It's a radio show he did and it's the full Dj set of crazy rockabilly 45's complete with jingles and sound effects. It's a blast and the most entertaining thing I've bought for months. I also got the first 4 volumes of the Las Vegas Grind compilation LP's and they are all killer all the way through. I'm going to try to buy the rest of the series. Which means I'll get all of them except for one which will be inexplicably expensive. Always happens. Thanks for puking out the content Robert lol.
Glad you’re diving into the Replacements catalog. Definitely listen to their first LP Sorry Ma and Let it Be as I think you’d enjoy them both. I’d also recommend streaming Dead Man’s Pop, which is a recent remix of Don’t Tell a Soul. It’s the way the album was supposed to sound, and would have sounded, had the label not insisted on sending it off to Chris Lord-Alge for mixing. It’s shockingly good.
Oranges & Lemons has both some of my favorite and least favorite XTC songs. You pointed out some of the weaker tracks - I'd add Pink Thing (I find the lyrics dumb and the music dull) to the list as well as The Loving (boring). My fave tracks include Ant Heap (don't love the synths, but they don't really bother me), Scarecrow People (musically my fave on the album), Miniature Sun (great marriage of lyric and music), and Chalkhills (painfully wistful and beautiful).
The Repacements can be a shambolic mess, with glimmers of getting it together. So close to stardom, yet so far. Saw them open for Tom Pettyy and the Heartbreakers. What a beautiful drunken noise. Tesla? Sacramento's pride and joy. Decent blues based wrock. XTC? Too British for American ears. But college radio ate them up. Cheers.
@@willhouse Yes! To my ear, he's the most musical bassist in pop music history. He's so thoughtful about his lines - they're mini compositions. And his groove is deep.
Love both XTC and the Mats. I’d really recommend XTC “English Settlement”, earlier, smarter imo. And for the Mats my introduction to them was Pleased to Meet Me so that’ll always have a special spot for me.
I saw Tesla touring the Mechanical Resonance album - supporting Def Leppard while they were touring the Hysteria album. Newcastle (UK) City Hall - September '87 Tesla and D/Lep were both awesome on the night...
I need to give Tesla a solid listen. They're just one of those bands I never got into. Like Scorpions, Iron Maiden, and some like that. I never got to hang out with the guys who listened to those bands back in school, so I kinda resented the bands. Now I'm 50 and don't give a damn. 😂
Sadly i love That Thing You Do! Adam Schlesinger was a great songwriter imo. Here in the UK I picked up so many XTC singles in the bargain bins, probably because they were really an indie band but on a major label, They were ok but i could never get enthralled by them like, say , The Smiths...
Same as Dianabentley5751 comment. English Settlement is genius. I can never make up my mind about the other albums. I love the song "stupidly Happy" and even remixed it for a comp years ago ( They didn't use it, my loss not theirs lol ) but I don't like the rest of that album at all. I also agree with willhouse comment the Dukes of Stratosphear albums are both excellent. I will give "skylarking" another listen though since you said it was good. It's currently 8 quid in my local 2nd hand shop so I'll probably get it.
To this day I've never listened to Oranges & Lemons. I remember hearing Mayor of Simpleton on the radio in '89 and hating it, so didn't bother with the record. Still don't like that song but it's high time I finally gave that album a listen.
So, let me get this straight...you don't dig catchy powerpop...XTC's Mayor of Simpleton is, sorry, genius...plus Butch Walker nabbed the.hook & riff for "Freak of the Week" for his band the Marvelous 3...oh and That Thing You Do?? Are you a Fountains of Wayne fan?? The late great genius Adam Schlesinger wrote the title track...yes its total pastiche but its catchy as hell...and yes, catchy is good!! That Tesla album i used to have, it's good...i saw them live in 1987 supporting Def Leppard's Hysteria tour...the Beat Farmers are fun, i now see them every year on the Outlaw Country Cruise...also Outlaw Country West out of LA in 2022...they were tight with Mojo Nixon, who was almost in the band, but wacky drummer Country Dick Montana (who sang Happy Boy) had to tell him "Sorry we can only have one monkey in this band"...and CDM died onstage in 1995...on the last Outlaw Cruise, Mojo died of a heart attack...the next Outlaw Cruise #9, a bunch of bands & friends are doing a whole Mojo tribute...yes Dan Baird (formerly of the Georgia Satellites) will be there too, out of retirement...oh and lastly, Happy Boy was a hit on the Dr Demento show...
Me too...but Dan was just retired from touring, not making music in his house...his project The Chefs featured Stan Lynch on drums (from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)...his last live band, Dan Baird & Homemade Sin features GS drummer Mauro Magellan & lead guitarist Warner E Hodges, formerly of Jason & the Scorchers, now in his own kickass band The Warner E Hodges Band, who also feature on lead guitar Ben Marsden (also in the Wildhearts) & 2 other Brits...Warner is doing double duty on Outlaw 9...with both Dan Baird & his own band...Mojo will be proud, he & Jeremy Tepper are both much missed...
Glad you're digging XTC, but after watching so many more of your videos & starting to get to know your taste better I hafta say that *The Dukes of Stratosphear* is where you should go next in their catalog. They only ever did 2 albums under their alias, but those were remastered 5 years ago so we may get new vinyl pressings at some point... & if Andy Partridge can calm his extra-snooty ass for long enough, maybe we could even get a reunion because Dave Gregory seems to think that's a possibility. Anyhow! I digress. Plug in some headphones or listen in your car or something because stereo does *wonders* for these guys th-cam.com/video/ESuRFPd9Onk/w-d-xo.html
My local radio station plays “Love Song” by Tesla and it drives me nuts. Not because it’s a bad song but because the play the MTV video version which overdubbed fake crowd noise onto the track. So annoying. Not a terrible band though imo
Tesla is good ole GLAM metal. High vocals and catchy songs! I was playing mechanical resonance in my car the other day! Btw, if you like Tesla, then why not Winger?? They’re pretty similar… 🧐
When I hear 'Beatlesesque' suddlenly remember i have to wash my hair (and ive been bald since i was 20) because I would rather exit before i find myself explaining why I loathe Oasis, yet again.
The Replacements and XTC were favs back in the day, especially XTC. Drums and Wires, English Settlement, always good. My wife knew Andy Partridge, she said he was a nice guy. Thanks!
What was the context of their acquaintance?
Let it Be was my favorite Replacements album from the day it came out. Now the remix of Tim is. Its such a great improvement
The title of that album is one of the reasons that it took me so long to get into The Replacements. It's like titling your album "Ziggy Stardust" or "Dark Side of the Moon"
@@RobertFithen i am naming my Debut album Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band
@hubtunes9607 Mine's going to have a completely white cover and I'm calling it "The Beatles" .
Hard to get what a breath of fresh air Mechanical Resonance was when it came out when it was released during the flood of glam metal albums. Always a favorite of mine. Learned to play guitar to it…especially Gettin Better
It’s a great glam metal album!
especially „Let it Be“ by the Replacements is exceptional - highly recommended🎉
Wll Robert you've done again; another band I never knew existed, The Beat Farmers, that I find quite enjoyable (with the exception of the Happy Boy song, I was fully aware of that songs existence, although I had mentally blocked it out until you mentioned it). You channel has made my life more enjoyable.
Thanks! That's why I'm here for.
Hootenanny is my personal favorite 'Mats album. Within Your Reach is Paul Westerberg's finest moment.
Perhaps a video on Party Albums would be an idea... Keep up the great work!
Yes, that is a great idea. I will get around to it at some point.
I like “That thing you do” but I never thought or knew anyone who thought it sounded like The Beatles. It does sound like a one hit wonder band from the early 60s though, which is kinda the point if you’ve seen the movie.
Xtc's English Settlement may be my favorite album.
*Senses Working Overtime*
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Fun fact: the cover art for Hootenanny was designed by Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü (under the alias Fake Name Graphx), who also designed his own band's album covers.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
I was without my stereo for about three months last year when we moved house. When I finally plugged it back in I chose Garden of Earthly Delights as the first track to road test everything and it pinned me against the wall. Early XTC has less synths, Black Sea probably their best.
I've gone back and heard some of the earlier material. I'll be getting some of it for.sure.
Love the reviews and commentary! Really glad you liked "Hootenanny," to me that is the epitome of the Replacements and their drunken rock-with-punk-attitude abandon. If you haven't heard their rip-roarin' debut (Sorry Ma...) or the Stink EP, you'd like them I bet. And yeah, Tesla is probably best heard in a smoke-belching Camaro or a boombox at the kegger party, ha ha!
I've got to hear that Replacements debut.
@@RobertFithenit’s definitely their most straightforward punk rock album!
I just had to go look up the TH-cam video for Happy Boy. Couldn’t leave well enough alone. Curiosity got the best of me and damn it man, I really wish I had retained my ignorance.
The Replacements. Such great songs.
Damn, at least I haven't seen the video. I'll keep it that way.
You have to go to A Separate Reality when you're in Cleveland. It's the only thing that gets me excited about visiting home lol
Nonsuch was my first XTC purchase: the best rock radio station in Chicago (WXRT) had "Peter Pumpkinhead" in rotation when the album was released. I purchased the album based on that song, and I still listen to it on a regularly to this day ... my favorite tracks being "Holly Up on Poppy", "That Wave" and "Then She Appeared." Not long after purchasing Nonsuch, Rolling Stone had a special issue Best Albums of the 1980s, and Skylarking made the list, and justifiable so. Skylarking is XTC's best album start-to-finish.
Nonsuch is one of the greatest albums in rock history . Never gets old. imany great XTC records
XTC's English Settlement and Mummer are among my favorite albums by them, the later being a little darker or acoustic than usual in spots ("Human Alchemy" a great example of the former and "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" the later). Oranges and Lemons' "Garden of Earthy Delights" is almost an equal to Mummer's "Beating of Hearts", especially in the opening song department.
Just my ramble, but there it is. (Drums and Wires and Black Sea are also great - the later being more sharper with "Generals and Majors", "Towers of London", and "Respectable Street")
It can be tricky to plug into XTC since they had a few phases and developed quite a bit over the years. I'd suggest their Go 2 album if you like angsty post punk; Drums & Wires and/or Black Sea (new wave), the two Dukes of Stratosphear records for top-notch 60s retro styles, and Nonsuch for intricate chamber pop (play side 2 first). I believe "Pink Thing" was Andy Partridge's attempt at one of those double-entendre tunes along the lines of "Squeezebox" by The Who. It's a British music tradition, apparently.
From all of the suggestions, it sounds like they had quite a few great albums.
Tim is my favorite Replacements album..also Pleased to meet me!
Play the Black Sea lp by XTC , when they were recording as a tight 4 piece group and then side one of English settlement
The Replacements were a great shining light in the 80s! My favorite is Pleased to Meet Me since it’s their most power pop-y album. But, I actually do really like most of the tracks on Don’t Tell a Soul; it’s their last album in 1990 that was their real low point. XTC is great too! Especially Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons ;)
Great video as usual, Robert! :3
Thanks!
Oranges and Lemons was the first XTC album I heard beginning to end. It is the one the drew me in to explore their other albums which I bought. After buying pretty much all of them, O&L still remains one of my favorites. As for the others, English Settlement was excellent. I'd say overall a lot of their albums were somewhat inconsistent, many good songs and a few duds. I still like their early 90's album Nonesuch. I absolutely love quite a few of the songs, but the duds are pretty bad. Robert is correct about the Beat Farmers. Very difficult to find their music. I accumulated quite a few of the CD's since the 80's. I like them all. Tales of the New West might still be the best. I'd like to buy some of the vinyl, but I haven't seen any in the record stores I frequent.
I'd like to see Robert do a track by track revue of Napalm death "Scum" LP. And then rank the songs worst to best lol.
I've actually seen them live.
The story behind the Replacements is such an interesting story, one of my favorite bands ever. My favorite song on this album is also Take Me Down to the Hospital
Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr is a most excellent biography on the Replacements. In it, we learn that they actually named their Let It Be album as a kind of dare: we're gonna name our album after the next song that comes on the radio... and they stuck with it to rile their manager, who was a huge Beatles fan! Think I remember that correctly.... There's loads of crazy (often drunk) shenanigans in the book obviously but it paints a well rounded portrait of the band and its members without becoming a Paul Westerberg hagiography. It's at times very sad, very funny, honest, frustrating, poignant and back to being hilarious. Also provides solid information on the creation of the music.
Sounds like an interesting read
I have been enjoying the purple knif Show by Lux Interior on CD today. It's a radio show he did and it's the full Dj set of crazy rockabilly 45's complete with jingles and sound effects. It's a blast and the most entertaining thing I've bought for months. I also got the first 4 volumes of the Las Vegas Grind compilation LP's and they are all killer all the way through. I'm going to try to buy the rest of the series. Which means I'll get all of them except for one which will be inexplicably expensive. Always happens. Thanks for puking out the content Robert lol.
I didn't even know Lux had a radio show.
if you can transfer your mind to 1979 and think about what was current then, XTC's Drums and Wires is a standout.
Thanks. I plan on hearing more.
I taped my copy of Hootenanny for my friends, who then taped it for their friends. Great album!
That's how we used to do it.
listen to let it be by the replacements if you haven’t, one of the greatest albums ever
Thanks! I will.
@@RobertFithen i think you’d enjoy it since you enjoy hootenanny
Glad you’re diving into the Replacements catalog. Definitely listen to their first LP Sorry Ma and Let it Be as I think you’d enjoy them both. I’d also recommend streaming Dead Man’s Pop, which is a recent remix of Don’t Tell a Soul. It’s the way the album was supposed to sound, and would have sounded, had the label not insisted on sending it off to Chris Lord-Alge for mixing. It’s shockingly good.
Thanks! I definitely will
Oranges & Lemons has both some of my favorite and least favorite XTC songs. You pointed out some of the weaker tracks - I'd add Pink Thing (I find the lyrics dumb and the music dull) to the list as well as The Loving (boring).
My fave tracks include Ant Heap (don't love the synths, but they don't really bother me), Scarecrow People (musically my fave on the album), Miniature Sun (great marriage of lyric and music), and Chalkhills (painfully wistful and beautiful).
My four favorites too.
Those are some good ones.
The Repacements can be a shambolic mess, with glimmers of getting it together. So close to stardom, yet so far. Saw them open for Tom Pettyy and the Heartbreakers. What a beautiful drunken noise. Tesla? Sacramento's pride and joy. Decent blues based wrock. XTC? Too British for American ears. But college radio ate them up. Cheers.
Oranges 🍊 & Lemons 🍋 is the last great XTC album. The Colin Moulding penned King For A Day is my favorite track.
*The Mayor of Simpleton* has one of my fave bass lines of alllllll tiiime
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@@willhouse And "One of the Millions" is also great.
Different strokes, of course, but I think Apple Venus was brilliant. I was extremely let down by Wasp Star - a disappointing end of their catalog.
@@BassByTheBay Yeah, Colin Moulding is a sleeper BASS KINNNG
@@willhouse Yes! To my ear, he's the most musical bassist in pop music history. He's so thoughtful about his lines - they're mini compositions. And his groove is deep.
Love both XTC and the Mats. I’d really recommend XTC “English Settlement”, earlier, smarter imo. And for the Mats my introduction to them was Pleased to Meet Me so that’ll always have a special spot for me.
I've certainly got a lot to explore.
FYI Robert, XTC (actually an Andy demo) does a cover of Ella Guru from your fave Trout Mask Replica. Available on the 12" Mayor of Simpleton single.
For XTC check out Drums and wires, Black Sea and English Settlement, their best period
Hahaha!!!!!!! 9:22...you're lookin psycho Robert!
I saw Tesla touring the Mechanical Resonance album - supporting Def Leppard while they were touring the Hysteria album.
Newcastle (UK) City Hall - September '87
Tesla and D/Lep were both awesome on the night...
I saw that same tour in the US in Pullman Washington
Check out My Mind’s Eye records in Lakewood OH. Easy to get to from Cleveland. And welcome to Cleveland!
Thanks! It's one of two stores that I went to.
I need to give Tesla a solid listen. They're just one of those bands I never got into. Like Scorpions, Iron Maiden, and some like that. I never got to hang out with the guys who listened to those bands back in school, so I kinda resented the bands. Now I'm 50 and don't give a damn. 😂
Same here. I've stopped worrying about what's hip. Lol
Sadly i love That Thing You Do! Adam Schlesinger was a great songwriter imo.
Here in the UK I picked up so many XTC singles in the bargain bins, probably because they were really an indie band but on a major label, They were ok but i could never get enthralled by them like, say , The Smiths...
Same as Dianabentley5751 comment. English Settlement is genius. I can never make up my mind about the other albums. I love the song "stupidly Happy" and even remixed it for a comp years ago ( They didn't use it, my loss not theirs lol ) but I don't like the rest of that album at all. I also agree with willhouse comment the Dukes of Stratosphear albums are both excellent. I will give "skylarking" another listen though since you said it was good. It's currently 8 quid in my local 2nd hand shop so I'll probably get it.
You really need to check out XTC's psychedelic alter ego The Dukes of Stratosphear. They put out two albums in the '80s.
25 O'clock
Psonic Psunspot
I will definitely be checking it out.
@@RobertFithenexcellent!
Definitely Dukes of Stratosphere
Yayyyy, The Placemats!!!
Good luck at the rock & roll hall of shame. Guessing Tesla won't be in there.
To this day I've never listened to Oranges & Lemons. I remember hearing Mayor of Simpleton on the radio in '89 and hating it, so didn't bother with the record. Still don't like that song but it's high time I finally gave that album a listen.
It could become your favorite album of 1988. Lol
How could you forget Barnes & Barnes?
Never really liked XTC but I do like The Dukes of Stratosphere
Yus! I do like Dukes of Stratosphear more, love them!
Hey Robert, maybe try XTC white music or go2 great records
Thanks. I definitely want to hear more.
For the song Hootenanny, the members switched instruments for a laugh. Funny way to start the record. 😅
XTC Drums and Wires, that’s where it’s at (my opinion)
I definitely intend on checking out more.
So, let me get this straight...you don't dig catchy powerpop...XTC's Mayor of Simpleton is, sorry, genius...plus Butch Walker nabbed the.hook & riff for "Freak of the Week" for his band the Marvelous 3...oh and That Thing You Do?? Are you a Fountains of Wayne fan?? The late great genius Adam Schlesinger wrote the title track...yes its total pastiche but its catchy as hell...and yes, catchy is good!! That Tesla album i used to have, it's good...i saw them live in 1987 supporting Def Leppard's Hysteria tour...the Beat Farmers are fun, i now see them every year on the Outlaw Country Cruise...also Outlaw Country West out of LA in 2022...they were tight with Mojo Nixon, who was almost in the band, but wacky drummer Country Dick Montana (who sang Happy Boy) had to tell him "Sorry we can only have one monkey in this band"...and CDM died onstage in 1995...on the last Outlaw Cruise, Mojo died of a heart attack...the next Outlaw Cruise #9, a bunch of bands & friends are doing a whole Mojo tribute...yes Dan Baird (formerly of the Georgia Satellites) will be there too, out of retirement...oh and lastly, Happy Boy was a hit on the Dr Demento show...
Thanks for all the info. Great to hear that Dan Baird is out of retirement
Me too...but Dan was just retired from touring, not making music in his house...his project The Chefs featured Stan Lynch on drums (from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)...his last live band, Dan Baird & Homemade Sin features GS drummer Mauro Magellan & lead guitarist Warner E Hodges, formerly of Jason & the Scorchers, now in his own kickass band The Warner E Hodges Band, who also feature on lead guitar Ben Marsden (also in the Wildhearts) & 2 other Brits...Warner is doing double duty on Outlaw 9...with both Dan Baird & his own band...Mojo will be proud, he & Jeremy Tepper are both much missed...
What are your thoughts on Gentle Giant?
I have heard them but don't really remember. The album cover for "Acquiring the Taste" was memorable, though.
@@RobertFithen that's their second album. You could review their album Octopus,please
Glad you're digging XTC, but after watching so many more of your videos & starting to get to know your taste better I hafta say that *The Dukes of Stratosphear* is where you should go next in their catalog. They only ever did 2 albums under their alias, but those were remastered 5 years ago so we may get new vinyl pressings at some point... & if Andy Partridge can calm his extra-snooty ass for long enough, maybe we could even get a reunion because Dave Gregory seems to think that's a possibility. Anyhow! I digress. Plug in some headphones or listen in your car or something because stereo does *wonders* for these guys
th-cam.com/video/ESuRFPd9Onk/w-d-xo.html
The Dukes should be right up Roberts alley.
Thanks for getting to know my tastes. I will definitely check those out.
25 O'clock is a fantastic psychedelic album
Same boat here. Love the Dukes of Stratosphear, but just cannot get into XTC.
My local radio station plays “Love Song” by Tesla and it drives me nuts. Not because it’s a bad song but because the play the MTV video version which overdubbed fake crowd noise onto the track. So annoying. Not a terrible band though imo
That's strange. It's like they recorded the audio from TV.
Don't make fun but the Beatles are like nails on a chalkboard to me, don't kill me
Tesla is good ole GLAM metal. High vocals and catchy songs! I was playing mechanical resonance in my car the other day!
Btw, if you like Tesla, then why not Winger?? They’re pretty similar… 🧐
Tesla is blues-rock based 80's rock, Winger is much more pop-leaning with sing-songish vocals.
When I hear 'Beatlesesque' suddlenly remember i have to wash my hair (and ive been bald since i was 20) because I would rather exit before i find myself explaining why I loathe Oasis, yet again.
Your rendition of “ That Thing You Do” was terrible.
As is the song. I thought it was very fitting
@@RobertFithenFun Movie but a silly song.
X.T C Go To is the album to check out. Nirvana ripped it off also. Listen to Crowded Room