{"id":9826,"date":"2019-04-27T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2019-05-18T22:41:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T05:41:42","slug":"xtc-meets-the-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/27\/xtc-meets-the-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"XTC Meets The Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/that_time_when_xtcs_andy_partridge_sang_for_the_residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Dangerous Minds (opens in a new tab)\">from Dangerous Minds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THAT TIME WHEN XTC\u2019S ANDY PARTRIDGE SANG FOR THE RESIDENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Oliver Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLZou7c8OQU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>During my childhood and adolescence, XTC was an enigma. When I first heard their minor hit \u201cDear God,\u201d the band had already long since retired from the stage, and then for years after 1992\u2019s <em>Nonsuch<\/em>, they seemed to have walked out on the record business, too. They could write a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9t2j8NcVpW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">song so anodyne<\/a> it has now crept into our nation\u2019s drugstores, yet they could also render an apparently note-perfect cover of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2Y7d_TaFR18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ella Guru<\/a>.\u201d None of the musicians I knew who had the chops to attempt such a feat even <em>liked<\/em> Beefheart.<\/p>\n<p>So while I played my tape of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2cx8xrK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waxworks<\/a><\/em> over and over again in my teenage bedroom, these were among my thoughts: Who was this Andy Partridge guy, anyway? How did he play those weird chords? Why was he so reclusive? Was it all because he was, like, <em>mental?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until I found a copy of the authorized biography <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2cPctHh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chalkhills and Children<\/a><\/em> that I learned the facts of the XTC story. In the intervening 20 years, I have, of course, forgotten most of these (except that Andy Partridge is not \u201cmental\u201d) and lost the book, but at that time I sort of expected XTC to tour again someday, and I would have given <em>a fucking eye<\/em> for one evening\u2019s entertainment from the swinging swains of Swindon. Part of the mystique came from listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/XTC-Black-Sea-Tour-81\/release\/2623579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bootlegs<\/a> and watching <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2d1kG5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urgh! A Music War<\/a><\/em>, and part was this: a stone Residents junkie, I knew that Andy Partridge sang lead vocals on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2cxfGbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commercial Album<\/a><\/em>\u2018s antepenultimate track, \u201cMargaret Freeman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/that_time_when_xtcs_andy_partridge_sang_for_the_residents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click to read full article at DM<\/a> ]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Dangerous Minds THAT TIME WHEN XTC\u2019S ANDY PARTRIDGE SANG FOR THE RESIDENTS by Oliver Hall During my childhood and adolescence, XTC was an enigma. When I first heard their minor hit \u201cDear God,\u201d the band had already long since retired from the stage, and then for years after 1992\u2019s Nonsuch, they seemed to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}