Member Since: 12/10/2005
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Influences: They were mentioned in "XTC vs. Adam Ant," an ironic tribute by They Might Be Giants, but did not appear on the track. TMBG later covered "25 O'Clock" on the A Testimonial Dinner tribute album. Primus covered the song "Making Plans for Nigel" on the "Miscellaneous Debris" EP and the song "Scissor Man" on the "Rhinoplasty" EP.The XTC tribute album A Testimonial Dinner was released in 1995. One track, "The Good Things," attributed to Terry and the Lovemen, was actually XTC themselves, using yet another pseudonym.Several of their most recent albums have titles that appear as lyrics in songs on the previous album.* Skylarking includes the song "Ballet For a Rainy Day", which contains the words "orange and lemon raincoats roll and tumble together just like fruit tipped from a tray".
* The next album, Oranges and Lemons, includes the song "Chalkhills and Children", which contains the words "while some nonsuch net holds me aloft".
* The next album, Nonsuch, includes the song "Then She Appeared", which contains the words "apple venus on a half-open shell".
* The next album is Apple Venus, vol. 1.The first two connections were pure coincidence, but a fan pointed out the connections and Partridge chose the title for Apple Venus by looking through the Nonsuch lyrics. The next album was Wasp Star, which is not a lyric from Apple Venus.The band appeared on the Carmen Sandiego: Out of this World CD as XTC with a song called "Cherry In Your Tree" and performed on several other tracks, purportedly at the request of the host of the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" TV show, Greg Lee, who is said to be a big fan.They also performed a remarkably faithful version of the Captain Beefheart track Ella Guru on a Beefheart tribute album Fast & Bulbous: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart.(wikipedia)
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