River of Orchids - XTC video free download

stoobieman

I've been an XTC fan since I was about 10 years old in 1978 and have been ever since. Now, and for the past several years, I teach this song to Year 12 students as a stunning example of layering/texture/polyphonic writing. In the coda there is at least 7 different melodic ideas simultaneously. It would make Bach proud. Besides all that, I just adore this music.

sutre7

Another Partridge gem. Love the Nyman/Glass influence.

Jeffrey Colin

I love XTC. I hope their music is what I hear when I am dying someday.

Julia Ayau

This has been one of my favorite songs since I was a little girl. It just makes me purely HAPPY. I can't even explain it. It makes me want to just rejoice in life

Pagan Sphinx

#xtc #orchestralmusic 

HerrDescartes

This is outstanding for vivid structure and innovative orchestration. As an aside, I first heard this on WXPN, the NPR station for the University of Pennsylvania which nowadays I can stream via the Internet and pretend I am in Philadelphia. W.C. Fields nailed it with "I'd like to see Paris before I die! Philadelphia will do..."

Scott McKie

a classic - beautiful tune & great lyrics.

Olavines

Great,... but what ever happened to Andy Partridge?

Meg Tamara

DUDE SOUNDS LIKE PAUL MCCARTNEY 

asxtc

Avid XTC fans waited 7 years for some new material after Nonsuch..and THIS is the first track that reaches your ears on Apple Venus. Blew me away.

jsilence418

Your ignorance is astounding, really, even for a 10 year old.

Frankincensed

I don't know if I'd put Partridge at the same level as Zappa. Zappa was more diverse, but Partridge certainly pulls in a close second.

BestSong Evah

always saved that lil pack of capris for days like these

xyaqua

Partridge is the all time poet laureate of pop. God genius tempo, timbre, key changes, music and lyrics. If you could convert Michelangelo Bounarrati's works to sound, this is what it would sound like. Sublime in its genius. peer of Bach, Vivaldi or either Scarlatti.

DrTomoculus

Thank you. I also wish Andy Partridge would realise he surpassed McCartney about ... oh 35 years ago. Lyrically, musically, artistically. The only person he needed to surpass was himself. The only other artist I think Andy Partridge should say I wish I was as good as that is the other guy in XTC creating their art, and that's Colin Moulding. They both went far beyond Beatle comparisons years ago. And personally I don't think McCartney's done anything beautiful since Revolver.

dntstop believin

Reminds me of Sting.

rob allred

He is an inspired composer - when I first heard XTC (Senses Working Overtime) I thought this is it! I sought out their previous album Black Sea which I soon came to love and will forever remember them with extreme fondness. Quite Billiant!

skagheaven

I wish Partridge were my father or at least a relative of mine, so that I could tell anyone and brag about it.

Vivalaleta Godfrey

Simply breathtaking.

Vivalaleta Godfrey

More than any other song I've heard from Xtc, this one sounds like a true even compilation between Andy and Colin; at least vocally.

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