XTC - Skylarking Album

Tracklist

1	Ballet For A Rainy Day
2	Earn Enough For Us
3	The Meeting Place
4	1000 Umbrellas Arranged By [Strings] – Dave Gregory
5	Another Satellite
6	Grass
7	Dying
8	Big Day
9	Sacrificial Bonfire
10	Mermaid Smiled
11	The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
12	Season Cycle
13	That's Really Super, Supergirl
14	Summer's Cauldron

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
V 2399	XTC	Skylarking ‎(LP, Album)	Virgin	V 2399	UK	1986
M5G 24117, GEF M5G 24117	XTC	Skylarking ‎(Cass, Album, Club, CH,)	Geffen Records, Geffen Records	M5G 24117, GEF M5G 24117	US	1986
APELP113	XTC	Skylarking ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM)	Ape House	APELP113	UK	2018
GHS 24117	XTC	Skylarking ‎(LP, Album, RE, All)	Geffen Records	GHS 24117	US	1986
GHS 2411	XTC	Skylarking ‎(LP, Album, Club)	Geffen Records	GHS 2411	US	1986

Credits

• Artwork [Sleeve Drawings] – Dave Dragon
• Backing Vocals – The Beech Avenue Boys
• Composed By – Andy Partridge (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B3 to B5), Colin Moulding (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B6, B7)
• Engineer [Assistant] – George Cowan, Kim Foscato
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Cindy Palmano
• Producer, Engineer, Arranged By [Orchestral], Programmed By [Computer Programming] – Todd Rundgren
• Typography – Ken Ansell
• Vocals, Bass Guitar, Other [Bonfire] – Colin Moulding
• Vocals, Guitar – Andy Partridge
• Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboards [Chamberlin], Tipple [The Odd Tiple] – Dave Gregory

• Producer – Todd Rundgren
• Vocals, Guitar – Andy Partridge

• Arranged By [Orchestral Arrangements], Programmed By [Computer Programming] – Todd Rundgren
• Backing Vocals – The Beech Avenue Boys
• Composed By – Andy Partridge (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B3 to B5), Colin Moulding (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B6, B7)
• Engineer [Assistant, Mixing] – George Cowan, Kim Foscato
• Illustration [Sleeve Drawings] – Dave Dragon
• Performer [Time Bomb] – Prairie Prince
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Cindy Palmano
• Producer, Engineer – Todd Rundgren
• Typography – Ken Ansell
• Vocals, Bass Guitar, Other [Bonfire] – Colin Moulding
• Vocals, Guitar – Andy Partridge
• Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Mellotron [Chamberlin], Tipple [The Odd Tiple] – Dave Gregory

Notes

℗ 1986 Virgin Records Ltd.
© 1986 Virgin Records Ltd.
Mixed at Utopia Sound Studios, Woodstock, NY.

European release, printed in Western Germany
non-embossed cover
Issued with printed inner sleeve.
For European version with UK Category V 2399 on rear cover see here: XTC - SkylarkingIncludes insert with lyrics in English and creditsThis appears to be another Warner Bros. release with 'DIDX 001881' appearing on disc face just above the catalogue number. It also differs from XTC - Skylarking in that it was manufactured by DADC, rather than WEA Manufacturing.

Barcodes

• Barcode (Barcode on OBI): T4988037001404
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix A-side): V-2399-A
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix B-side): V-2399-B
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Groove A-side): V-2399A 111
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Groove B-side): V-2399B 111

• Barcode (Printed): 0 7599-24117-2
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): DIDX 1881 11A10
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): DIDX-001881 3
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): DIDX 1881 11A8
• Other (Mould on inner hub, Variant 3): [DADC logo] Made in USA - Digital Audio Disc Corp.

• Matrix / Runout (Runout A-side, stamped): DM 207905 A-2/10-86
• Matrix / Runout (Runout B-side, stamped): DM 207905 B-1/9-86
• Matrix / Runout (Center label A-side): DM 207 905 A
• Matrix / Runout (Center label B-side): DM 207 905 B
• Label Code: LC 3098
• Rights Society: GEMA
• Rights Society: STEMRA
• Rights Society: BIEM

Companies

• Made By – Virgin Japan Ltd

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Pressed By – Sonopress
• Printed By – TOPAC
• Produced For – Alchemedia Productions Inc.
• Published By – Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
• Mixed At – Utopia Sound

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Pressed By – DADC – DIDX 001881

Video

Album

14 tracks 45:43. Songs like Summers Cauldron, Season Cycle, Man Who Sailed Around His Soul and Dear God had existed for a while, so I knew this was going to be a gentler album. Released in 1986. The title was chosen as a double entendre, referring to a type of bird skylark, as well as the Royal Navy term skylarking, which means fooling around. 出版公司 Virgin Records. The top rated tracks on this album are Grass and Summer's Cauldron. Producers Todd Rundgren. There was a palpable evolution and maturation in XTCs sound that could be traced to Chambers secession, though he had no hand in the songwriting. Considered by many to be their finest album, Skylarking is a life-in-a-day semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks. Listen album. To favorites 10 Download album. XTC - Grass. Produced By Todd Rundgren. XTC - Ballet for a Rainy Day. XTC - Season Cycle. We were giving ourselves permission to be The Dukes Of Stratosphear in plain sight, XTCs Andy Partridge tells uDiscover Music. In fact, one of the titles I was rolling around in my head for it was Down And Butter Sun Field Magic. 发布日期 27 十月 1986. Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 27 October 1986. Produced by Todd Rundgren. Skylarking is a loose concept album centered around various cycles in life, such as the seasons, days, and years. Skylarking is a music album by XTC released in 1986. Listen free to XTC Skylarking Summer's Cauldron, Grass and more. Skylarking Q&A. XTC - Summer's Cauldron. XTC - The Meeting Place. XTC - Summer's Cauldron. XTC - Skylarking 1986. Alternative Rock. Type Album. Often cited as XTC's best album. The top rated tracks on this album are Grass and Summer's Cauldron. XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl. Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 27 October 1986 on Virgin Records. XTC - 1000 Umbrellas. Album Name Skylarking. Album 1986 15 Songs. XTC - Skylarking review: Skylarking is XTC's worthy analogy for Pet Sounds and Sgt. Skylarking Remastered 2001. Songs in album XTC - Skylarking 1986. Writers Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding. Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. This album is rated in the top 1 of all albums on . Initially released with Mermaid Smiled in the UK, but then new pressings had Dear God added after it became a minor hit on alternative charts Despite all that in November 22, 2010 Ape Records re-issued Skylarking on remastered 45RPM vinyl covered in the original artwork . Skylarking is ranked 382nd in the overall chart, 50th in the 1980s, and 5th in the year 1986. Band Name XTC. Skylarking is ranked 381st in the overall chart, 50th in the 1980s, and 5th in the year 1986. Rundgren may have devised the sequencing, helping the record feel like a song cycle even if it doesn't play like one, but what really impresses is the consistency and depth of Andy Partridge's and Colin Moulding's songs. It became one of XTC's best-known albums and is generally regarded as their finest work. Skylarking occurs somewhere in the middle of the bands twelve-album sequence. They released 5 studio albums with a consistent lineup before vocalistco-songwriter Andy Partridge fell victim to debilitating stage fright, which led the band to retire from touring and station themselves in the studio, after which drummer Terry Chambers withdrew his membership. Listen free to XTC Skylarking Summer's Cauldron, Grass and more. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer, most notably Summer's Cauldron and Season Cycle. Combining the charming pastoral feel of Mummer with the classicist English pop of The Big Express, XTC expand their signature sound by enhancing their intelligently melodic pop with graceful, lyrical arrangements and sweeping, detailed instrumentation. It's not bad for a track or three, but the childish lyrics, whimsical string arrangements, and run-of-the-mill '80s production are just too overloaded with cheese for me to enjoy a full 50 minutes of it. It may also stand as their like in quality. Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. Rundgren may have devised the sequencing, helping the record feel like a song cycle even if it doesn't play like one, but what really impresses is the consistency and depth of Andy Partridge's and Colin Moulding's songs. Late one morning in 1986, Todd Rundgren awoke at the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood to ominous news: A space shuttle had disintegrated in the stratosphere, killing the entire crew on live TV. XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl. On Skylarking, XTC puts together a mix of sunshine pop tunes and underwhelming Beach Boys impressions that, as a whole, don't go over too well. Produced by American musician Todd Rundgren, it is a loose concept album about a nonspecific cycle, such as a day, a year, the seasons, or life. It became one of XTC's best-known albums and is generally regarded as their finest work. Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. This album has a very Beatlesque feel to it. Often cited as XTC's best album. In the XTC timeline, Skylarking slots neatly between 25. Skylarking was a term for mucking about. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer. Genre: Psychedelic Pop. Today, we revisit the masterful chamber-pop of XTCs 1986 album Skylarking and the fraught story behind the bucolic songs. Punk 1986