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@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:00 AM

TOWERS OF LONDON was released on this day in 1980. #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:00 AM

Where it all began. The first release under the XTC name, the 3D-EP was released on this day back in 1977. Did you buy a copy back then? #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:37 AM

Another day, another XTC anniversary as the band's second studio album, Go 2, was released on this day in 1978! Best track? (I think mine's Battery Brides). Is Go 2 your favourite XTC album? #XTCmusic

The text-heavy front cover of the XTC album, Go 2. Black background and white courier-type text.
@orwax.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:01 PM

🗽*"B-BOOOOHH...!"*
#MusicSky
#XTCmusic

@orwax.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 11:54 AM

...posting a few...😎
#MusicSky
#XTCmusic

@orwax.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 11:50 AM

Thursday is as good as any other day to be an XTC day...
#MusicSky
#XTCmusic
youtu.be/7DCtdVdvuE0?...

@colinmathstutor.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 9:04 PM

Stick it in the diary folks #XTCMusic

@alisoneales.comSep 30, 2026, 9:04 PM

Well, that was splendid, as always. Thank you @mealygarage.bsky.social for another @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social, see youse all at the Nonsuch party #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 9:00 PM

And that's your lot for this month. Thanks for joining in this listen-along! We're getting closer to the end of the parties. The next party will be for 1992's NONSUCH album, on Wed 28 October at 9pm (GMT) - hope you can make it! #XTCmusic

Graphic for the Nonsuch Listening Party. "XTC Listening Party. Wed 28 Oct - 9pm (GMT). Nonsuch (1992). Tracklisting - - Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - My Bird Performs - Dear Madam Barnum - Humble Daisy - The Smartest Monkeys - The Disappointed - Holly Up On Poppy - Crocodile - Rook - Omnibus - That Wave - Then She Appeared - War Dance - Wrapped In Grey - The Ugly Underneath - Bungalow - Books Are Burning. #XTCmusic."
@alisoneales.comSep 30, 2026, 8:58 PM

#XTCmusic

@alisoneales.comSep 30, 2026, 8:58 PM

Here it is. My favourite. I just think it is a perfect song, to be honest #XTCmusic

@alisoneales.comSep 30, 2026, 8:56 PM

This album is very triplet-heavy isn't it #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:55 PM

CHALKHILLS AND CHILDREN - A gorgeous closer. Since they acknowledged that the track sounded like The Beach Boys, the use of wind chimes was a homage to The Beach Boys' 1967 song, "Wind Chimes". #XTCmusic

An Oranges and Lemons promo poster featuring a photo of the band on the left and the illustrations from the front sleeve on the right - Colin seems to be playing a tree here, though!
@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:52 PM

MINIATURE SUN - "The first half goes up -- a love song, how great it is. What great things the sun does for life. Then something happens in the middle. He's been rejected. And the other half is all down. He's upset and angry. And the sun is cruel." - Andy Partridge, sleeve notes. #XTCmusic

An Andy Partridge illustration showing green hills and a road on the lower third of the image, and then a figure with a split-face sun head. One half of the face is yellow and coyly smiling. The other half is red and angry.
@benbaker.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:51 PM

I think you'll find.... #XTCmusic

The Pink Panther in Ceefax
@alisoneales.comSep 30, 2026, 8:50 PM

Well *I* think Pink Thing is about a strawberry Opal Fruit Andy found in his jacket pocket #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:48 PM

PINK THING - A song very much open to interpretation with regards to what it's about... Personally, I think it's about Mr Blobby (ignoring the fact he debuted on British telly three years later). #XTCmusic

Newspaper clipping, Leicester Daily Mercury, 17 Mar 1989. "Oranges still get the pip! XTC: Oranges and Lemons. Pop's eternal triers plug away remorselessly in their bid for mega-stardom with an excellent LP. Andy Partridge and the boys seem destined to remain unloved in Britain at least, partly due to their reluctance to tour or make videos. I can see why they are so good - why can't anyone else?"
@michaelellisday.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:45 PM

Fox also produced Perspex Island for future AP collaborator Robyn Hitchcock, which gave him a #1 with So You Think You're In Love. #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:44 PM

HOLD ME MY DADDY - "I played it for my father and he wondered what the hell it was about. It was a bit touchy. Maybe he was embarrassed. It was a very difficult song to write." - Andy Partridge, sleeve notes. #XTCmusic

Newspaper clipping, Fraserburgh Herald, 31 Mar 1989. "XTC, 'Oranges & Lemons' (Virgin V 2581) - The influence of African music seems to be spreading into more and more unlikely corners these days, and 'Hold Me My Daddy' shows that XTC haven't been immune to its' charms either. Late sixties psychedelia also seeps from the grooves of this double-album too, including an update of the "All You Need Is Love" theme entitled "The Loving". Andy Partridge and company could well have become a very effective little pop band if they'd been willing to keep their natural quirkiness under control, but the unexpurgated XTC is a far more interesting proposition as far as I'm concerned."
@xtclisteningparty.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:40 PM

There's also this audio of Andy's isolated vocals from Across This Antheap for those who haven't heard it before. He really gives it some laldy, especially in the latter half (which is a little lost in the final mix). #AcrossThisAntheap #XTCmusic

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