XTC - Skylarking mp3

Tracklist

Credits

• Artwork [Sleeve Drawings] – Dave Dragon
• Backing Vocals – Beech Avenue Boys, The
• Composed By – Andy Partridge (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B3 to B5), Colin Moulding (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B6, B7)
• Engineer [Assistant] – George Cowan, Kim Foscato
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Cindy Palmano
• Producer, Engineer, Arranged By [Orchestral], Programmed By [Computer Programming] – Todd Rundgren
• Typography – Ken Ansell
• Vocals, Bass Guitar, Other [Bonfire] – Colin Moulding
• Vocals, Guitar – Andy Partridge
• Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboards [Chamberlin], Tipple [The Odd Tiple] – Dave Gregory

Notes

Original jackets are embossed.

Released with printed inner lyric sleeve.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 5 012981 239916

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.

Album

Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 27 October 1986 on Virgin Records. Produced by American musician Todd Rundgren, it is a loose concept album about a nonspecific cycle, such as a day, a year, the seasons, or life. The title was chosen as a double entendre, referring to a type of bird skylark, as well as the Royal Navy term skylarking, which means fooling around. It became one of XTC's best-known albums and is generally regarded as their finest work. Today, we revisit the masterful chamber-pop of XTCs 1986 album Skylarking and the fraught story behind the bucolic songs. Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Late one morning in 1986, Todd Rundgren awoke at the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood to ominous news: A space shuttle had disintegrated in the stratosphere, killing the entire crew on live TV. Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 27 October 1986. Skylarking is a loose concept album centered around various cycles in life, such as the seasons, days, and years. Skylarking Q&A. Produced By Todd Rundgren. Producers Todd Rundgren. Writers Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding. Combining the charming pastoral feel of Mummer with the classicist English pop of The Big Express, XTC expand their signature sound by enhancing their intelligently melodic pop with graceful, lyrical arrangements and sweeping, detailed instrumentation. Rundgren may have devised the sequencing, helping the record feel like a song cycle even if it doesn't play like one, but what really impresses is the consistency and depth of Andy Partridge's and Colin Moulding's songs. In the XTC timeline, Skylarking slots neatly between 25. Skylarking was a term for mucking about. We were giving ourselves permission to be The Dukes Of Stratosphear in plain sight, XTCs Andy Partridge tells uDiscover Music. Songs like Summers Cauldron, Season Cycle, Man Who Sailed Around His Soul and Dear God had existed for a while, so I knew this was going to be a gentler album. In fact, one of the titles I was rolling around in my head for it was Down And Butter Sun Field Magic. Skylarking is a music album by XTC released in 1986. Skylarking is ranked 379th in the overall chart, 50th in the 1980s, and 5th in the year 1986. The top rated tracks on this album are Grass and Summer's Cauldron. This album is rated in the top 1 of all albums on . Band Name XTC. Album Name Skylarking. Type Album. 发布日期 27 十月 1986. 出版公司 Virgin Records. Songs in album XTC - Skylarking 1986. XTC - Summer's Cauldron. XTC - Grass. XTC - The Meeting Place. XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl. XTC - Ballet for a Rainy Day. XTC - 1000 Umbrellas. XTC - Season Cycle. XTC - Skylarking review: Skylarking is XTC's worthy analogy for Pet Sounds and Sgt. It may also stand as their like in quality. Skylarking occurs somewhere in the middle of the bands twelve-album sequence. They released 5 studio albums with a consistent lineup before vocalistco-songwriter Andy Partridge fell victim to debilitating stage fright, which led the band to retire from touring and station themselves in the studio, after which drummer Terry Chambers withdrew his membership. There was a palpable evolution and maturation in XTCs sound that could be traced to Chambers secession, though he had no hand in the songwriting. Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. Considered by many to be their finest album, Skylarking is a life-in-a-day semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer, most notably Summer's Cauldron and Season Cycle