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40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 17:23
by Mike Boom
Released in January 1982
A Top Ten hit AND a masterpiece
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 17:54
by ChrisB
Absolutely. Brilliant band, brilliant song and surely, one of the strangest records to make the Top 10
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 18:06
by Tom Waits For No One
To me they're very, very beautiful.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 19:03
by mudshark
For me English Settlement is their best album and Senses Working Overtime one of the best songs on it.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 19:40
by ChrisB
mudshark wrote:For me English Settlement is their best album and Senses Working Overtime one of the best songs on it.
Seconded.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 20:01
by Neige
Great, great song from a great album (though I still prefer Apple Venus myself)
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 21:15
by pcqgod
Great track, though I prefer "Ball and Chain" from that album.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 21:31
by ChrisB
Indeed. Very often prefer Colin's songs, tbh
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 11 Jan 2022, 00:10
by Mike Boom
Neige wrote:Great, great song from a great album (though I still prefer Apple Venus myself)
Indeed, Apple Venus is a stunning record, they don't come much better than that, and I keep hearing new things in it, the Orchestrations are just mind-blowing and beautifully recorded.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 11 Jan 2022, 18:07
by Matt Wilson
The LPs are almost all great. I love the Dukes stuff as well.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 11 Jan 2022, 19:34
by Mike Boom
I would rate them thusly (minus the Dukes)
Apple Venus Volume 1
Skylarking
Nonsuch
Wasp Star
English Settlement
Black Sea
Oranges & Lemons
The Big Express
Mummer
Drums and Wires
Go 2
White Music
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 13 Jan 2022, 09:42
by Tom Waits For No One
Mike Boom wrote:I would rate them thusly (minus the Dukes)
Apple Venus Volume 1
Skylarking
Nonsuch
Wasp Star
English Settlement
Black Sea
Oranges & Lemons
The Big Express
Mummer
Drums and Wires
Go 2
White Music
Pretty much how I would rate the albums, but with some elbowing and shuffling of the top four.
For me it would be:
Nonsuch
Apple Venus Volume 1/Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (like the White Album)
Skylarking
I think they would be interchangable depending on the time of year; winter, spring, summer, autumn if that makes any sense at all.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 18 Jan 2022, 02:59
by Mike Boom
Tom Waits For No One wrote:
For me it would be:
Nonsuch
Apple Venus Volume 1/Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (like the White Album)
Skylarking
I think they would be interchangable depending on the time of year; winter, spring, summer, autumn if that makes any sense at all.
I always think of them as
Skylarking - Summer
Apple Venus - Winter
Nonsuch - Fall
Just got the Wilson remix of Skylarking and really enjoying the bonus tracks Let’s Make A Den, Extrovert, the Troubles and especially Little Lighthouse
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 07 Feb 2022, 22:12
by Mike Boom
https://thequietus.com/articles/31096-xtc-english-settlementInteresting article from the Quietus about English Settlement and Andy's "attack of the Brian Wilsons"
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 08 Feb 2022, 00:00
by mudshark
Interesting article indeed. Thanks Mike!
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 08 Feb 2022, 02:13
by Hightea
While I love the song I tend to listen to the other albums these days.
Re: 40 years ago - Senses Still Working Overtime
Posted: 13 Feb 2022, 19:30
by The Slider
After Love on A Farmboy's Wages, it is my favourite 3 minutes of XTC.