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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Song Link: • XTC - Generals And Majors
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This is a really fantastic album, beginning to end.
Black Sea is XTCs post punky Masterpiece. So many great songs.
I knew XTCs singles which charted during my childhood but have only come to really appreciate their music through JPs' reactions over the last few years. Thanks, mate !
The perfect XTC Album für several reasons. For once it had been the first album AT ALL to feature a new way of recording drums. It happened a bit by accident, but Black Sea it was. Listen to the change of drum sound from then on, choose you musician. Another great reason, it includes so many real fine songs, you won't fail to feel the magnificence. Do the whole album song by song, and each will be your highlight of the week. Art Pop, pure Art Pop. Enjoy ☺️
This type of music would be all over MTV in another two or three years . XTC almost invented a certain sub genre of new wave.
Such an awesome album from A to Z!
Or X to C !
The first track on this album (right before this one) is 'Respectable Street', and it's the song they perform in the concert film "URGH! A Music War" that I know someone sent to you a while back. If you haven't seen it yet, that version would be a great reaction, though the studio version is great as well.
Yes! 💯
This was my very first XTC song and though it had some similarity to the New Wave sound evident at the time there was something truly unique and in its own orbit about it so I was instantly hooked and believe it or not it was that complex choral structure o in the chorus when we get to the -jors syllable in "generals and ma-jors" that gives this song such a deep element going from sarcastic fun to something cosmic in a minute instance.
Such a great band. Black Sea and English Settlement are masterpieces
Timeless.
The Black Sea album is awash with wonderfully off-kilter guitar riffs. Play Living Through Another Cuba and Love At First Sight back to back (one runs into the other) and you'll see what I mean.
"There Is No Language In Our Lungs" is surprisingly good, too.
XTC were all over the radio here in Aotearoa new zealand I've been a fan since i was a kid
Hi Justin. Dave from Somewhere (In Time). You're right, it's a catchy song with a serious message - but that was typical of quite a few new wave artists and bands in the late 70s and early 80s. Was privileged to see the band live on this tour, at London's Lyceum Ballroom, not long before they stopped touring.
Hey there! The whistle was REAL - story goes one of the band members heard this guy whistling in an office or something - loved his power and grabbed him for the recording. In my top 20 songs ever. Cheers all.
XTC Day!!!!! Woot!!!!!! This album is great from beginning to end. "RESPECTABLE STREET," to "TRAVELS IN NIHILON"... can't go wrong. You nailed the "category"... Intelligent Pop Music. Cheers!
This song is so pertinent in todays uncertain world ,as it was on its first release.
Some things just never seem to change
Great, catchy song, but Justin, you have to react to the whole Black Sea album where Terry chambers was at his best!😉
Yes yes yeah.
Such a great band. Drums & Wires is my favorite. Complicated Game. Give it a go! Ten Feet Tall too.
XTC 's music always takes me to my happy place 😊
so underrated
I recommend Paper And Iron from the same album!
One of many XTC albums that could be my favorite album if it’s the one I’ve listened to most recently.
I ❤ XTC
Check out Towers Of London next. You'll never forgive yourself if you don't.
Just do whole shebang!
Hey Justin, you've covered XTC loads but never delved into their first 2 albums, White Music and Go 2. Can I suggest you take a look at "This is Pop" , "Radios in Motion" and "Statue of Liberty" from the former and "Battery Brides" and "Beatown" from the latter? Keep up the effort - great entertainment- many thanks.
Lifelong XTC fan (note the shirt I'm wearing) Enough said.
Justin it would be a favour to yourself to continue with this masterful album, I think you know it's the right thing to do. 😉
English Settlement is an absolute masterpiece
Virgin founder and CEO, Richard Branson, is in the official music video as a general because he was a fan of the band. And they get to yank his pants down!
And another shout-out! Thank you! IMO Colin Moulding's catchiest song. The whole album is great (hint, hint...) Andy's later song "All You Pretty Girls" has a similar use of backing harmonies and counterpoints, but has a very different feel.
Perfect pop as you say with the depth of lyrics and thought I. The arrangement
Great song, so catchy
FINALLY the L/R audio issue has been fixed, just in time for a bangin' track like this one!
😊👍❤
'Towers Of London' next? 😉
A man of taste 👋
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - What?! Where??
😄 😉
Have a great week, Jay! And thank you!
😀🎵☀️
@@mightyV444 right back at ya mightyV 👌
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - Thank you! 😀👍
Call this: Intelligent Pop Music!
Too much Intelligent for some people...
In a league of their own, for sure.
Black Sea + XTC back on the channel!!!
Great live performance and great music and the band sounds amazing
For a different take on violence by XTC give a listen to 'Beating of Hearts' from "Mummer", the opening track.
Or a long Saturday Mummer reaction...
I saw XTC live in LA in 1981. They tore it up. Lots of energy, lots of great songs (including this one). Their drummer was a beast.
Just saw that wonderful drummer maybe 6 weeks ago, touring with 2 excellent (non-XTC) musicians as “EXTC.” With Andy’s blessing, they play sets of lovely, intelligent, uproarious XTC songs. Highly recommend-and also that the full Black Sea album be given its due, by JP!
One of my favourite songs from XTC
Nice review my friend absolutely agree with you 👍
Jeux Sans Frontiers. 1980. Games without Frontiers. PG. Whistle pip pop.
The Lilac Time: all for love and love for all. 1989. Andy Partridge's production? Possibly. I could be mistaken. Chairs!
Andy partridge produced some songs and John Leckie others.
Andy play in some songs too.
@@jtenaz I'd love JP to play "Fields" - Do you have a favourite from that LP?
@@HippoYnYGlaw The Laundry and Fields.
And agree that you should give the entire album a go - one of their best and certainly them (along with Drums And Wires) at their edgiest .
👍Yep! Drums and Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement are the pinnacle of XTC with Terry Chambers.
While it's the perfect season for it, I really wish you would react to "Summer's Cauldron/Grass" (in one ) from XTC's Skylarking. It's so delightfully sublime and and cleverly crafted.
Great reaction. I love the more straightforward side of XTC, but I love more yet songs how Complicated Game , Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her or River of Orchids. Please Justin, do one of that songs the next XTC Reaction.Thanks.
From the Best album they made imo
Generals Melchett to the Private Baldrick. "Don't worry my son. Should you falter. Know that Captain Darling and I are right behind you".
Captain Blackadder " About 35 miles behind you"😂
BBC Blackadder Goes Forth
Comedy Based on WW1
Hey, I know this one!!!
Don't know how long or where i listened this. I didn't know I knew Xtc!
Great!
KNowing how you like progressive rock, you have to listen to XTC's song "Wake Up" and try to follow the rhythm patterns.
Great reaction! ❤❤
Finally .. back to XTC.. PLEASE PLEASE LOOK FOR B SIDE” heavens paved with broken glass” PLEASE ,
What Rex Said….
XTC are great though i have to give this album a listen still! As a kind of new fan
Great summer song, and one of Colin Moulding's best. Black Sea is easily my favorite XTC album by a country mile (wait til you get to "Sgt Rock" 😎). So many great songs, and Steve Lillywhite's production just kills. The video to this one is fun, plus it includes Sir Richard Branson.
Even tho this is a Colon M song, I think you can hear Andy’s ‘polytonal’ influence in the arrangement (2nd verse Eb and E natural in the same phrase group) so good!
“Rocket From a Bottle” is a fabulous Andy P song from this album
A fun happy tune about people's strained psyche during the cold war. People who lived through it remember how accepting a reality of eminent death was always in the back of our heads.
This is a belter JP , my personal fav of their hit singles 👏
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I LOVE THIS SONG. 😁
Kia Ora JP brother how ya doing? I Love XTC and this song is a RIPPER ✊🤘👏👏👏
one of my favorites !! from any band
Yeah!!! This is a classic killer album - you'll love it! And I'll love the review...
all XTC is great. The perfect foil to the Beatles. A mirror of the generation before. Try Dukes
Don’t know if you’ve listened to these songs yet but I recommend Towers Of London and Respectable Street!!!!!
Spending time with you and XTC? If that’s not a good time, then I don’t know what is.
XTC at their most accessible. They just got better and better as time went on.
XTC at their best !
Ah yes - yet another example of a great , great band . To be expected .
I'm going to cry if we don't get into this album.
It's SO good.
It's the audible version of Pringles.
If I remember rightly, you've already heard 'No Language In Our Lungs' from this album.
I'll need help to get this album played.
I might have to call Sgt. Rock. 😉
I’m already hanging my head at how slow we’re going… I guessssss I should be glad to be here at all. Great album.
Andy Partridge said on a documentary, that they made, gentle exploritary pop music. A journey through their albums is well worth it to see how they grew but there's good tracks all through their career. If ever a band derserved bigger sales it was XTC.
That sums it up quite nicely :)
"Mayor of Simpleton" is a great XTC track, perhaps my favorite. Definitely worth checking out.
Justin reacted to the whole Oranges & Lemons album a while back... so he knows this song!
Ahhhh....more delicious XTC.....
"Oh What A Lovely War!" was a musical and movie based on songs from WW1, about how the young men were stampeded towards carnage by all the instruments of drumming up war fever, which included music hall songs, "coward" shaming, patriotic rah-rah and appeals to religion and brotherhood. It's well worth a watch and a listen at some point, especially the soldiers' songs towards the end as the cynicism, bitterness and sorrow set in. I'm not at all a musicals person, but this is one of the few I like, because it's about something real and important.
Also, it's interesting how this album was randomly named Black Sea, the northern part of a body of water that is the epicenter of a major war today.
@@bobholtzmann A war partly about Washington's plot to cut off Russia from the Black Sea and cripple its nuclear deterrent which requires subs in the Black Sea to be able to fire in winter, yes. It's fun watching NATO being humiliated for its imperialism and racist hubris, I must admit. God bless multipolarity.
I don't think you've reacted to any music by the band, Magazine, yet? Groundbreaking stuff from the same era.
Here's my reaction to all of Real Life :D They're great!
@@JustJP I knew I should have done my own search!
Great Colin track, and in case nobody else posts it, there's a great BBC documentary on the making of the "Black Sea" album at th-cam.com/video/ne35P7kbucs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pBR2hsCWRKMO2Phw
The whistling is real, not a synth.
According to Colin Moulding, it’s both - real whistling beefed up by synth, because none of them could whistle it quite well enough in the key of the song!
Anrd? 🤣
Quit pooting around and do the entire album please. It will be World War III by the time we hear everything in this pivotal album. Hold on, checking my heart rate… I better stop.
Enjoyed this morning XTC… see, I simmered down nah!
Just a so-so track by Colin Moulding. Nowhere near the best of his songs. Just meh for me by his standards.
No, XTC never make me feel much more than indifference I'm afraid. I suppose it doesn't help that it comes straight after the genius that is The Enid's debut album.
Try his song The Somnambulist.
@@jtenaz I shall give it a go shortly. 🙃
Cool that was ok, quite simple but I can dig it. Like a simple mood piece.
Average pop. Not a big fan.
AVERAGE? LOL. I have no idea what world you are on where this is somehow average compared to actual pop music of the same time period. Jack and Diane? Summer of 69? No. Not in the least.
You have average taste, and clearly weren't born with the XTC gene. Those that have it, get their brilliance. Those that don't, won't ever appreciate what they're missing.
The best part and more inventive in XTC are her deep cuts. But I love his singles too.