XTC - Ballet for a rainy day+1000 Umbrellas video free download

degree7

Was this an Andy or Colin song? 

naakkve10

ballet for a rainy day has one of the best bridges there has ever been

Rob Yost

Excellent album...

MattMangels

AldofromBordeaux, I feel like it probably wasn't Todd who played piano. He seems to really feel uncomfortable playing piano! When I saw him at The Fillmore here in San Francisco a couple weeks ago he referred to the part of the show where he played piano as "the pressure cooker".

Pagan Sphinx

#xtc #chamberpop 

Raoul Duke

Really good. Todd's hand on the record shows through.

Patricia N

#sotd XTC, Ballet for a Rainy Day and 1000 Umbrellas

KidIndigo1

XTC... one of the most underrated, underexposed bands ever. Too bad... its opus is phenomenal. Go Andy.

Chris Kim A

*Ballet For a Rainy Day / 1000 Umbrellas** – XTC* – from their 1986 album, *Skylarking*Bonus factoid: *Skylarking* was produced by Todd Rundgren

paul wyles

Skylarking is my all-time fave album.one great track after another

Frankincensed

6:17 Rain scene outside mall from Minority Report.

Y Wang

Dear Bear Farmer

Culpano

just wonderful. XTC rule.

Richard Furness

Lyrics Shakespeare would have stood and applauded. The sheer breadth of imagery is astonishing.

Fernando González

Thats right! this albm is like a modern Sgt Peppers and many songs of it are very inspired in The Beatles.

Alfredo Liddiard

this song helped me a lot during though times, i always hink this as a "Elenor reagby" of the 80's, it's just an incredible song/songs

InParticularNobody

it's known as the archaic pronunciation - found a lot in (that other English genius...) Shakespeare. A device to stretch a word to fit the iambic pentameter - eg banish-ed. google for "pronouncing shakepeare's words by Dayle Coye". Interestingly if the text was "banished" then Elizabethans would assume it to have 3 syllables. If just two were intended to be spoken, the word would be written as "banish'd".

AldofromBordeaux

who plays acoustic piano on this one ??? Gregory, Rundgreen ?? another one

Tony Lovell

Not so... it blends in, as you hear in the intro to 100 Umbrellas. I think this is an iTunes liberty at wrong.

Tony Lovell

A lyrical singleton: "striped" pronounced as "biped". Valid, I know, but what does one call such a choice of emphasis, grammatically? I do not know.

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