XTC - Funk Pop A Roll video free download

Harriet Thornton

XTC - Funk Pop A Roll

John Ashdown

My favourite track from Mummer and yes I love Andy singing "don't listen to me, I've always been poisoned by this industry" The final bit where he sings "Bye-Bye" always made me wonder if he was ready to quit as he was already shunning live work through stage fright/breakdown, whatever you want to call it! I love XTC and think these two guys wrote some of England's finest punk new wave post punk songs. me love u long time XTC!

Aidan Buckley

I think The Futureheads based their entire sound round this song

Roger Paynter

I was fortunate enought to play drums in a band that covered this song as well as "Making Plans for Nigel." We had the music cold but I had to sing. Andy's job is safe. What an inspired musical legacy they created!

Joe Ray

I could have directed a much better video than this. I would have had XTC playing this in real time with split screens like Pomplamoose did in their earlier videos. In the "they can fix you rabbits up" part would feature footage of record store, with big displays of all the music this song is dissing. When this came out, Michael Jackson must have been real popular, because I used to always see "Bad" as part of this sequence in my imagination. I love XTC, but most of their video's seemed lame - stupid lip-synching and trying to visualize the song's words way too much. 

tyler abele

Haha on xtc right now the shirty

Austin Lucas

"And across the backs of its *willing* slaves."

Jesus way, truth, life

GENIUS BAND

Austin Lucas

I think the Minutemen song "The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts" Might be similar to this, Lyrically. And they were both written at about the same time.

lynseyvlogson

This is so 80s and I love it.

xnonsuchx

I didn't see Andy Partridge in bikini undies, did I? Time for a dink! ;-)

smith john

Dave Gregory - the master of the electric 12 string guitar!

InParticularNobody

you're in for some treats then ;)

somethingdiffrant

Editing that footage must have been so fun!!!

Iain Meek

So that's where this popvideo comes from. Fantastic. Brilliant band. When will they tour again ... in their wheelchairs? Who would care? With ideas like this.. and dance the night away. What fun!

hejafish

Funk pop a roll consumes you whole Gulping in your opium so copiously From a disco, everything you eat is waste But swallowing is easy when it has no taste

Hoover Grepa

Everything you eat is waste But swallowing is easy when it has no taste Brilliant lyrics!! And so true!!

PremiseTester

Funk-Pop-A-Roll beats up my soul. Not my favorite song of XTC's, but one of the most memorable "bites" of all time.

reivenlocke

Great '97 memory of "Upsy Daisy Collection", which also has this song on it. I got selected to go to Japan on the JET Programme and I bought that CD as a congratulations gift to myself. This was the song I played the most.

Grace Smith

I Deserted XTC after 'Mummer'. What a fool i was. I am now re-discovering this most precious of bands. Sheer brilliance. Funk pop a roll indeed Mr.Partridge.

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