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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 06/25/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1309): Skylarking by XTC
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Today's album of the day
Skylarking by XTC (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1986.
Country: 
Overall rank: 394
Average rating: 80/100 (from 197 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Summer's Cauldron
2. Grass
3. The Meeting Place
4. That's Really Super, Supergirl
5. Ballet For A Rainy Day
6. 1000 Umbrellas
7. Season Cycle
8. Earn Enough For Us
9. Big Day
10. Another Satellite
11. Mermaid Smiled
12. Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
13. Dying
14. Sacrificial Bonfire
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?
Age: 28
Location: Missouri 
- #2
- Posted: 06/25/2014 21:09
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One of the best albums ever. Incredible flow, incredible storytelling, great lyrics, interesting rhythmically and instrumentally, this album is incredible. Also one of our quotes that shows up a bunch, the "grass" quote, everyone needs to NEEDS TO NEEDS TO here this, honestly should probably be higher on my chart.
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Mother Nature's Son
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- #3
- Posted: 06/25/2014 21:16
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Very good indeed, although not the best very Beatlesque very 80s-sounding album ever made! Award goes to "Time" by ELO
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Antonio-Pedro
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Age: 25
Location: Rain forest Kingdom 
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- Posted: 06/25/2014 21:49
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| Antonio-Pedro wrote: | | Wasn't this album from XTC that had "dear god"? |
yes, but not on the original release.
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Antonio-Pedro
Subspace Highway Traveler
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Rain forest Kingdom
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- Posted: 06/25/2014 22:02
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I haven't listened to this one in a while, but every time I listen to XTC I'm hit with a staggering indifference. Like, I see what they're doing, think it's alright, and think I should like it, but I just can't really get much into them. Maybe time will make them better for me, but as for right now I think this album is very okay.
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benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?
Age: 28
Location: Missouri
- #8
- Posted: 06/25/2014 22:03
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| Tonality wrote: | | yes, but not on the original release. |
Thank you Frogger for pointing this out to me. Fun fact about this album, not only was Dear God considered a 1 hit wonder by VH1 for some reason, but it was also banned in a variety of places. Also banned was the album cover, a vag with flowers stuffed in it. Both are getting rereleased soon though.
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- #9
- Posted: 06/25/2014 22:35
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Ugh, like an anthropomorphic unicorn dancing in a field of unnecessarily fragrant flowers. Their English Settlement days were far more interesting to me. "Dear God" is a fun song, though. Too bad it's not on here.
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
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Location: St. Louis
- #10
- Posted: 06/25/2014 22:57
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| SilverWalrus wrote: | | I haven't listened to this one in a while, but every time I listen to XTC I'm hit with a staggering indifference. Like, I see what they're doing, think it's alright, and think I should like it, but I just can't really get much into them. Maybe time will make them better for me, but as for right now I think this album is very okay. |
Basically this.
I don't have much of an opinion on this. Last I tried I remember not really liking it too much. It seemed so damn overly flowery. And that vocalist made me want to vomit. Idk, I was probably just in a particularly bad mood that day. Maybe I will revisit. Soon.
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