Post-Punk Post: XTC

I doubt I can add much to all that has been written about this band, except to add that their air-tight pop arrangements were absolutely magnificent.

XTC- Transistor Blast

Disc 1 (BBC Sessions, John Peel Show, Maida Vale Studios)
1. Opening Speech
2. Life Begins at the Hop
3. Scarecrow People
4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
5. Ten Feet Tall
6. Garden of Earthly Delights
7. Runaways
8. When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
9. I'm Bugged
10. Another Satellite
11. You're The Wish (You Are) I Had
12. Crosswires
13. Roads Girdle The Globe

Blast 1

Disc 2 (BBC Sessions, John Peel Show, Maida Vale Studios)
1. No Thugs In Our House
2. One Of The Millions
3. Real By Reel
4. The Meeting Place
5. Meccanic Dancing
6. Poor Skeleton Steps Out
7. Into The Atom Age
8. The Rhythm
9. This World Over
10. Snowman
11. Danceband
12. Making Plans for Nigel
13. Jason And The Argonauts

Blast 2

CD 3 Live (Sound & Sound simulcast on BBC 2 TV on March 9th 1978 and The Paris Theatre on January 17th 1979)
1. Radio's in Motion (1978)
2. Crosswires (1978)
3. Science Friction (1979)
4. Statue of Liberty (1978)
5. The Rhythm (1979)
6. I'll Set Myself on Fire (1978)
7. Newtown Animal in a Furnished Cage (1978)
8. All Along the Watchtower (1978)
9. Beatown (1979)
10. This is Pop (1978)
11. Danceband (1978)
12. Neon Shuffle (1978)

Blast 3

CD 4 Live (Hammersmith Palais, December 22, 1980):
1. Life Begins At The Hop
2. Burning With Optimism's Flame
3. Love At First Sight
4. Respectable Street
5. No Language In Our Lungs
6. This Is Pop
7. Scissor Man
8. Towers Of London
9. Battery Brides
10. Living Through Another Cuba
11. Generals and Majors
12. Making Plans For Nigel
13. Are You Receiving Me?

Blast 4

XTC-Life Begins At The Hop (TOTP 1979)


XTC- Respectable Street (1980)


XTC- Generals and Majors (1980 w/cameo by Richard Branson)


XTC- Love On A Farmboy's Wages (1983)