XTC - 03. Generals and Majors video free download

David Cruttenden

I was there. Magazine were the support act...best gig ever

MoveOverCasanova

damn well played - alone the vocal melody is impossible to sing for the average human being -- and somehow i always feel likle the audience does not appreciate at all how brillant they are

George H.

"Songwriting partnership"?That's interesting because as far as I know they never wrote ONE song together-they only wrote separately.

gus grig

Mindlifting!!!

wayne252525

What excellent live performers they were ... played their great songs with passion, while still staying true to them and not mucking around too much with the melody lines or arrangements ... Great concert this ... living in Melbourne, I wish I had been there ! ..., Wayne

Nancy Bisset

WELL Said XTC War-mongers just can't stand freedom--> the MONEY is in the WARS. Oh how thirsty the Generals + Majors are for World War 3; Hummm. WELL at least this Fantab band can put it back into their faces. YEP. THEY know how to broach a hot topic. GO for it musicians of Grandeur. TELL IT LIKE IT IS. LOVE you and the musical gems you create for humanity. These musical wonders are helping to shake Humanities arses awake. Food for thought: Resonance; vibration, energies, beat, pitch ;-))

George H.

@LyncusBee Partridge and Moulding "was a songwriting partnership"?You really must not know the band too well then, because they NEVER wrote together. Partridge wrote most of the tunes,while Moudling was good for 2 to 3 songs on every release. Better dust off them LP's or CD's and check them credits out.

Jons-Petter Bengtsson

Possibly one of the best concerts ever. I wish I had been there... :(

sixthSigmaSnowball

@TheDustpile Could've been worse...they might ve laid Billy Bragg on you!

TheDustpile

Lefty singers are very adept at using music to engineer the ideas of young people to the extent of brainwashing. (Did you know, that in so-called 'hymn practice' at school, we kids were made to sing Bob Dylan and Ralph McTell songs in the 80s?!) Is this why Labour MPs are so keen to fund special recording studios with public money? Let's hear behind the scenes of a new top-notch Red session! Paste title into bar: LEFT WING RECORD MAKERS AND HEART BREAKERS!

The Wakz

I like the "gunshot" !

William Dunn

It's just incredible to see these clips of them live back then. They are all such phenomenal musicians. Such a tight band live.

bunglermoose

I think Colin Moulding is the Colin Moulding of XTC, and Andy Partridge is the Andy Partridge of XTC. I mean, you know -- that's just my opinion. Sarcasm aside: Rapture... if you remove the Beatles from the equation, you don't get XTC. :)

Joe Rudd

this band should have been up there with the beatles....i come to the comclusion that people just didnt get them enough ..betales were stupidly simple ...this was above the beatles

Tal Brott

man... they are all good. lets leave it at that!

CamboL

Moulding is truly gifted and inspired as well. The McCartney analogy is definitely appropriate, not to disrespect George Harrison who was an excellent songwriter himself. Partridge was the dominant personality in XTC and I would guess that if Colin had 10 brilliant songs ready for an album he would still only get 2 or 3 on there. That's ok though as the band had a dynamic that worked for them for a long time. Thankfully Partridge is a fine songwriter so regardless the albums had great songs.

streettb

"He (Moulding) wrote all of XTC's most melodic songs."--hmm, I respectfully disagree with this. To me, the analogy of Moulding to Harrison fits not only due to output (both had minimal song output relative to the main songwriters in their bands) but in their songwriting style, where melody and "hookiness" came more from labor than inspiriation. Partridge, Lennon, and McCartney seemed truly gifted, as if their lyrics and melodies were inspired manna from the heavens.

RobotWillie

This sounds almost exactly like the recorded version,which in this case is good, because the recorded version kicks ass.

streettb

I think a more accurate analogy would be Partridge=Lennon/McCartney and Moulding=George Harrison

Dan Mills

Partridge and Moulding was a song writing partnership that should have given them recognition equal to Lennon and McCartney.. i can whistle as many tunes!

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