XTC - Skylarking (w/ guest Chris Tull)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Musician and podcaster Chris Tull () joins Bill and Brian for one final episode in the old studio to discuss XTC's landmark album, Skylarking. We talk about the contentious relationship between main songwriter Andy Partridge and producer Todd Rundgren, the album's overarching theme of birth, life, and death, Colin Moulding's generous songwriting contributions, and Dave Gregory's idiosyncratic guitar-playing all while going through the album track-by-track. This episode sponsored by and .

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:03.2	And I'm Brian.
0:03.9	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.6	We're talking about XTC's Magnum Opus, Skylarking.
0:14.5	It frightens me when you come to mind
0:21.6	The day you dropped in the shopping line
0:27.6	And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs, all the signs
0:39.3	When the carriage you had your base was open wide
0:47.3	The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days.
1:03.3	And I felt so guilty when we played you up when you were ill, so ill.
1:10.5	What sticks in my mind is a sweet jar on the side. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it
1:14.4	great. We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do and we cap it all off with a
1:20.2	track-by-track review. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Don't we? Agreed that we do. We try to have a conversation not the conversation yeah i think i said uh when
1:32.8	i when i had to do the intro myself on the my bloody valentine episode i think i even said like
1:37.6	this isn't a documentary this isn't uh like a history of it's you know not what's important
1:43.5	it's what it's important to us about the record.
1:46.5	And not just us meaning me and you, Brian.
1:49.3	Yeah, but our guest.
1:50.7	Today, joining us as a musician, podcaster, and...
1:55.3	Comic book person.
1:56.6	Yeah, a guy who just does a whole lot of creative things.
1:59.7	Chris Toll.
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