XTC

...excerpt.ogg Virgin Records - A forty-five second (faded towards the end) excerpt from: Generals And Majors by XTC, created by me Ian Dunster 12:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC) using an mp3 obtained from the web some years ago. Copyright Virgin...

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...settled on a name: XTC. By this time, the punk rock movement was in full swing, and XTC had found their style, a unique brand of hyperactive pop mixed with funk, punk , ska, reggae, baroque pop and art rock. In 1977 XTC were signed by...

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Coat of Many Cupboards Coat of Many Cupboards is a box set by XTC released in 2002. It acts as an anthology of their fifteen years on Virgin Records. It is their first compilation of any kind to include tracks by their alter-ego, The Dukes of...

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...notes from the band. These editions are credited to "XTC as The Dukes of Stratosphear" and were released on Andy Partridge's Ape House record label (they are also the first XTC recordings to which Virgin Records have relinquished the rights).

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Take Away / The Lure of Salvage Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage is a record containing dub versions of XTC tracks released under the "Mr. Partridge" moniker of Andy Partridge. It was released on February 29, 1980 on Virgin Records. Side A is...

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...track, yielding the psychedelic feel. The album didn't meet with significant approval by XTC, but the band was under pressure to create a hit single and the label liked it, so they didn't argue much. As part of the promotional materials for...

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