I was in a Starbucks today and these stupid moms were sitting next to me and they were talking the whole time about how God talks to them through their dreams and how trusting in Jesus is the answer. I felt like I was mayor of Simpleton while in there.
@1wild52 Todd produced "Skylarking," an album that Andy HATED making and said so in many an interview. I played that album to death the summer it was released. A notable track is "Earn Enough for Us." Do check it out. (As well as my video for the XTC rarity "Cherry in Your Tree.")
@basehead617 I'm suprised you like XTC. Usually people who make comments about Elvis Costello like yours, usually don't know a damn thing about music. So who agrees with you about this besides you and maybe one of your friends?
It's more than brilliance and genious that xtc bring to music. It's inspiration, innovation, anger, complexity, musicality, humour and blah blah blah. Most musicians in Sydney Australia with any taste buds in 1984 were constantly listening to and purposefully riiping off xtc.
"If depth of feeling is a currency, then I'm the man who grew the money tree." So many great lines in this one song. Listening to it over and over today.
killer pop song, very underated by the public. hooks, harmonies,solid beat. whats not to like! along the same lines as elvis costellos/ whats so funny about peace love & understanding. both brilliant songwriting samples.
@MrQuoteMan This was XTC's biggest American single. They were not one-hit wonder. They had three or four rock radio hits. This was one of them. I was 13 in 1989 and whilst I was building my Who, Metallica and Rolling Stones catalog collections (I already had all of Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Iron Maiden and KISS' catalogs at the time) I enjoyed this song which was a refresher from the Poison, Bon Jovi, Guns and Roses infesting going down in rock.
@tjrtherocksponge I really liked this song and thought it should have been bigger on the charts.
I agree on Peter Gabriel and Geffen- I should have also mentioned Don Henley as well. He was doing really good with "The End Of The Innocence" LP in 1989.
I am not sure why some responders refer to XTC as "too intelligent or too clever" for the audience. It all boils down to the "sound," and how much mass appeal a band has. I absolutely love this band, one of my faves, but they are not "too" anything. They were just about perfect. Wahi'
Andy Partridge used to come in to the shop where i worked (in Swindon) and i used to serve him and it was only when i left the area and spoke to an old colleague of mine and he told me who Mr Partridge was! wish i'd known then cos i always had a bit of a thing for the guy who used to walk his dog and wear fab hats! oh well... happy days :-D
This is terrible. This is the perfect song, Bettina? You are obviously inbred and had to have been kicked in the head by a donkey in your trailer park as a child. Disgusted, disgusting... freaking awful.
@lawyerlarrry and you, Sir, are a disrespectful degenerate who was molested by monkeys. Would love to see you produce a song as good as this, but sadly that will be like getting poo out of a rocking horse.
i dont know how to write a big hit song.....i beg to differ, these geniues didnt have enough promtion and perhaps a bit too great to appeal to the masses.
XTC is the perfect example of a band that was making music that was too intelligent for the audience and the label. Geffen really screwed these guys over.
@GloucesterAdam I felt that Geffen Records didn't know what to do with them- at least in the States. Geffen was primarily a hard rock label, and XTC stood out like a sore thumb- especially when you consider who was on the roster at the time "Oranges And Lemons" was released. I thought they got better recognition by their home label Virgin Records in the U.K.- at least that was how it seemed to me.
@MyJunior1975 they had the attitude, look and style of a progressive rock band, but the sound of a new wave band, just one of those rare breeds of musicians, such as Allan Holdsworth, that happens to be absolutely brilliant, but just didnt have much of a target audience
@MjXllcommando When a band or an artist isn't easily categorized by a label or the radio, then those gatekeepers in the media are clueless on what to do with them. A favorite band of mine The Afghan Whigs suffered the same fate a few years after XTC.
@MyJunior1975 yeah, the only hope for bands like that is that they get so popular in breaking the mold that they create a new mold (like Hendrix, Black Flag, Van Halen etc.) in short its much easier for bands to have a defined genre and niche audience. it sucks
@richiguy Sadly, it didn't end with Donna Summer. Though I will give credit to Geffen for branching out and diversifying, but they slipped up in marketing and promotion in R&B (Donna Summer, Jennifer Holliday, Christopher Williams, David Peaston), hip hop (Silk Tymes Leather, The Roots, Killah Preist), and music legends not named Aerosmith (Joni Mitchell, Neil Young).
@MyJunior1975 Since they didn't have an Axl Rose type of frontman and bands like Tesla and Guns and Roses shared a label with XTC (here in the States anyway) Geffen focused on rockers who had long hair, tattoos and played meaningless fake metal drivel. Guns and Roses sucked as did Tesla. This song was their biggest Modern Rock Radio tune and also peaked at #15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Also Oranges and Lemons was XTC's highest charting US album (#45 in spring 1989).
The story of my love life. It's not in me to be a player, a thug or a total jerk. Oh well, I finally did find someone that loves the "simpleton" in me.
@GloucesterAdam you are so right. So long ago. Stil an underrated band with a nice sound. Guess they are kinda the same as Midnight Oil just not Aussie.
XTC was a great band, their sound reminded of the Beatles, here's another band called Luce, interesting song called "Buy a Dog" youtube.com/watch?v=2acYxdU-POw
Sorry about the duplicate post, I forgot the link.
I also don't troll. Do you think people ask to be gay, mentally impaired or the otherwise. I've been a skinhead against racial predjudice(SHARP) and am passionate about equalitye
TommyC503: Please get mental help. I don't know you, but what you wrote below is was psychotic bordering on megalomaniac. I think people should pray for you.
@bo12hughes okay check this. you've taken the time to write to TommyC505(from here after refereed to as "he") because you have an interest. He was in a scuffle with a fellow named "MyAccount4TrollingU" and clearly bested him in a battle of wits using multiple angles while paying attention to the details. I believe that you are indeed "MyAccount4TrollingU." My reason being the fact you replied in such away as he wouldn't be notified therefore not responding. Your thoughts?
more beatley than actual beatles like. they have the whole beat band thing down. i mean there were OTHER bands besides those liverpool monsters of rock. i hear all kinda stuff from the mid 60s w/ this lot...probably more kinks and hollies to me also lil mood blues. like a 80's badfinger ya know?
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@MyAccount4TrollingU Wait a second - thats impossible - since I fucked your mom in the ass and she had you 6 months later - that would make you my son (the only premature anal child in the history of mankind) and the scenario you describe would mean that you raped your own grandmother. Wow - you are dumb sick little fag. No wonder I never sent any analmony money - tell your mom I said hi.
I've often thought that if I were asked to name the most clever pop song of all time that this would be the song. You simply can't say enough about this band !
This is so good, so surpassing, so wonderful that tears are falling down my cheeks as I type this. The best pop band since the Beatles and boo to you that don't understand that.
@Aussieduck57 - While Andy wrote it (it's the same in his demo), it's SUCH a playful bassline for the time. Pat Mastellato (drummer) even said he had a hard time figuring out Andy's drum programming for some songs on the album.
@townsie74 ,townsie you are a legend and your carl is missed. he wasn't the mayor of simpleton, he was one of the best people i never met, but his legend lives on through his family xxxx
@ngmason - MANY have been influenced by XTC...even Suzanne Vega, REM and newer artists like Modest Mouse and the like. They are "a band's band" who are looked up to by many artists...even if unnoticed by many more casual listeners.
@xnonsuchx You got that right, They are a songwriter's band. One can learn many things from them if devoted enough since they made a lot of different songs and albums over their career and have released a lot of demo material (Although most of it is by Andy under his own name)
Greetings from America. Let's hope in our new decade you Brits will wake up out of your collective, drunken stupors and start making great music like this again!!
There's hope for you dumbasses yet, I just know it!
@tomthefunky Check out Flipron. They might not be your cup of tea but they are worth knowing. They're not heard because they're not really trying outside of writing their music, Their primary songwriter Jesse said he would rather spend time with his family than be in the limelight. They don't seem to play live much.
It's a love song for modest man.
I love this song!
summerof0067 3 days ago in playlist pservin69 さんのその他の動画
@1wild52...yes he did...thats why the production is boss!!!
alphatoddio 5 days ago
I was in a Starbucks today and these stupid moms were sitting next to me and they were talking the whole time about how God talks to them through their dreams and how trusting in Jesus is the answer. I felt like I was mayor of Simpleton while in there.
TheHolyMongolEmpire 6 days ago
@TheHolyMongolEmpire ...you are an idiot you atheist filth... : ]
TheManFromAcme 3 days ago
@TheManFromAcme
I can see you have the love of Jebus in your heart.
TheHolyMongolEmpire 2 days ago
XTC just takes everyday things and ideas and makes them into songs.
They are boss
teamtalonco 1 week ago
If I haven't said it before, the Greatest Pop Song Ever. And the girl looks just like Eleanor Bron, the actress from the Beatles' Help! movie.
glammer 2 weeks ago
no u cocksucker
clarkgolf234 2 weeks ago
Didn't Todd produce these guys?
1wild52 2 weeks ago
@1wild52 Todd produced "Skylarking," an album that Andy HATED making and said so in many an interview. I played that album to death the summer it was released. A notable track is "Earn Enough for Us." Do check it out. (As well as my video for the XTC rarity "Cherry in Your Tree.")
burpo 1 day ago
bassline from outer space.
hayzeephantayzee 3 weeks ago
... to the sixty-six people who disliked this video , Jersey Shore called ... they want their taste in music back .
torgo4ever 3 weeks ago 2
Colin's working that bass on this track.
beselbic 3 weeks ago
SONG FOR THE 99%
kojakbangbang7 3 weeks ago
.... needlessly typing to me as an aside
SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
and 4ths and 5ths and timing and upbeats and book readings
to absorb the paper between the fingers
SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
I think this is where Mike Meyers came up with Austin Powers
morgulthefriendly 1 month ago
I actually saw this video at a club. I doubt you'd find ANYTHING like this at any current club. Sigh.
burpo 1 month ago
Poetry in motion
MrBridge09 1 month ago in playlist XTC
i've always thought the last 30 seconds were brilliant
basehead617 1 month ago
Ew, how can you mention Elvis Costello in the same breath as these geniuses? He wishes he could write a song half this good.
basehead617 1 month ago
@basehead617 I'm suprised you like XTC. Usually people who make comments about Elvis Costello like yours, usually don't know a damn thing about music. So who agrees with you about this besides you and maybe one of your friends?
beddy2112 1 month ago
@basehead617 I think you're out of your mind. I'm as big a fan of XTC as you can get, but Costello is definitely a peer of theirs in good standing.
burpo 1 month ago
Don't know much about XTC but this song will always be part of my late 80's/early 90's life soundtrack.
BrotherApexx 1 month ago
It's more than brilliance and genious that xtc bring to music. It's inspiration, innovation, anger, complexity, musicality, humour and blah blah blah. Most musicians in Sydney Australia with any taste buds in 1984 were constantly listening to and purposefully riiping off xtc.
Long live the X.
wazmacmusic 1 month ago
@wazmacmusic They also had wit.
burpo 1 month ago
didn't know dwight schrute was in the band...
smyrnawednesday 1 month ago 2
I dedicate this song to Dolkite from Yahoo! Answers.
IrenaPrude 1 month ago
"If depth of feeling is a currency, then I'm the man who grew the money tree." So many great lines in this one song. Listening to it over and over today.
fijihuhu 1 month ago
love this!!!
torontonat 1 month ago
Lyrics plus music and harmony equals one great 'big hit song'!
timeout1958 2 months ago
killer pop song, very underated by the public. hooks, harmonies,solid beat. whats not to like! along the same lines as elvis costellos/ whats so funny about peace love & understanding. both brilliant songwriting samples.
robbdimartino007 2 months ago
THAT BASS LINE
snipersas 2 months ago 2
@snipersas - XTC has some of the most playful bass lines I've ever heard.
xnonsuchx 2 months ago
Pride of Swindon
MyFifaVideos 2 months ago
I beg to differ. He did write a big hit song! Or at least, it should've been...
MrQuoteMan 2 months ago
@MrQuoteMan This was XTC's biggest American single. They were not one-hit wonder. They had three or four rock radio hits. This was one of them. I was 13 in 1989 and whilst I was building my Who, Metallica and Rolling Stones catalog collections (I already had all of Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Iron Maiden and KISS' catalogs at the time) I enjoyed this song which was a refresher from the Poison, Bon Jovi, Guns and Roses infesting going down in rock.
tjrrockandrollmaster 1 month ago
@tjrrockandrollmaster
Yes, but in the grand scheme of the music world, XTC was never very popular compared to others at the time.
Don't get me wrong, I love them! I'm just saying that they should've been a lot bigger.
MrQuoteMan 1 month ago
I can't help but singing along with this song.
crimsonkng1 2 months ago
@tjrtherocksponge I really liked this song and thought it should have been bigger on the charts.
I agree on Peter Gabriel and Geffen- I should have also mentioned Don Henley as well. He was doing really good with "The End Of The Innocence" LP in 1989.
MyJunior1975 3 months ago
I love Andy,Dave and Colin!!
asayoung1 3 months ago
@asayoung1 I do too!!
switz223 2 months ago
65 people need to have the wax removed from their lugholes!
GloucesterAdam 3 months ago
Colin Moulding is the Mayor of Basselton!
SIZZLEBIZZLE1982 3 months ago
Great tune, great band.
canturgan 3 months ago
I am not sure why some responders refer to XTC as "too intelligent or too clever" for the audience. It all boils down to the "sound," and how much mass appeal a band has. I absolutely love this band, one of my faves, but they are not "too" anything. They were just about perfect. Wahi'
nativesspoken 3 months ago
Markdykeman
Lol, it does look like the opening to the avengers... What a great old show!
Fangheart25 3 months ago
People just did not get this band.
dbass1410 3 months ago
Wow, what a bassline!
dharmaseed 3 months ago
Thanks You Tube, this is the first time I've heard this in over 18 years. Forgotten how good it is.
Parkinish 3 months ago
great music from my childhood, such an underated band
Cheek1969 3 months ago
Anyone know who the "Girl from Simpleton " was ? I think she is beautiful and sexy as hell running around in that one piece body suit .
BillSing 3 months ago
Too obvious....Brilliant
judybatstn 3 months ago
Now THAT is a great song! :-)
atgf17 3 months ago
Andy Partridge used to come in to the shop where i worked (in Swindon) and i used to serve him and it was only when i left the area and spoke to an old colleague of mine and he told me who Mr Partridge was! wish i'd known then cos i always had a bit of a thing for the guy who used to walk his dog and wear fab hats! oh well... happy days :-D
VoiceofthePeople100 4 months ago
Why does youtube think Squeeze has any business on the same sidebar as XTC? They had one good (ok, great) song, XTC has dozens.
lacerda70 4 months ago
@lacerda70 i was thinking the same but opposite
dlp2006 4 months ago
Is that.... Dwight Schrute?
jrowen81 4 months ago
I would like to thank Lauren Faust A.K.A. Exec. producer of Friendship is Magic, for leading me to an amazing-sounding band.
gerritperson 4 months ago
@gerritperson O_O
Lauren Faust likes XTC?! Either I'm dreaming, its a great coincidence or I'm crazy.
101Volts 4 months ago
One of my dreams is a new album of the XTC's. Colin please come back to the music!!!
ThePieffe63 4 months ago
XTC is probably my favorite band. Andy Partridge is a great songwriter, great guitarist, and my all time hero.
acrovader 4 months ago
The girl looks like olivia wilde!
pjrg1919 4 months ago
might be
SuperMegaUberGenius 4 months ago
genius!!!
magocacana 4 months ago
Don't take extesey though. Bad drug. ("X"-"T"-"C")
kensethp12345 5 months ago
GREAT SONG!
kensethp12345 5 months ago
Rainn Wilson as Andy Partridge
vaughn2006 5 months ago 2
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This is terrible. This is the perfect song, Bettina? You are obviously inbred and had to have been kicked in the head by a donkey in your trailer park as a child. Disgusted, disgusting... freaking awful.
lawyerlarrry 5 months ago
@lawyerlarrry and you, Sir, are a disrespectful degenerate who was molested by monkeys. Would love to see you produce a song as good as this, but sadly that will be like getting poo out of a rocking horse.
GloucesterAdam 2 months ago 2
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lawyerlarrry 5 months ago
XTC packed more perfect ideas into a song than any band I've ever heard. They're intricate and effortless at the same time. Fucking genius!
muddstrosity 5 months ago 10
It honestly joys me when I read the comments on these songs and I know I'm not alone as someone who recognises XTC's pure brilliance.
ibazookajoe 5 months ago 20
nice^^
lumyingluo 5 months ago
Andy is the mayor of GENIUSton baby!
psychoannalist1 5 months ago
Oops band
skat1970 5 months ago in playlist XTC
Awesome bad then and still are now thanks for the upload
skat1970 5 months ago in playlist XTC
is that Dave Gregory or Neil Innes?
moseva 6 months ago
Really like this song.
The1957girl 6 months ago
This song was and still is great!
arealmanofgenius15 6 months ago
Great number!
floundermsu 6 months ago
i dont know how to write a big hit song.....i beg to differ, these geniues didnt have enough promtion and perhaps a bit too great to appeal to the masses.
lovedandhis 6 months ago 2
XTC is the perfect example of a band that was making music that was too intelligent for the audience and the label. Geffen really screwed these guys over.
MyJunior1975 7 months ago 28
@MyJunior1975 and Virgin records too.
GloucesterAdam 6 months ago
@GloucesterAdam I felt that Geffen Records didn't know what to do with them- at least in the States. Geffen was primarily a hard rock label, and XTC stood out like a sore thumb- especially when you consider who was on the roster at the time "Oranges And Lemons" was released. I thought they got better recognition by their home label Virgin Records in the U.K.- at least that was how it seemed to me.
MyJunior1975 6 months ago
@MyJunior1975 they had the attitude, look and style of a progressive rock band, but the sound of a new wave band, just one of those rare breeds of musicians, such as Allan Holdsworth, that happens to be absolutely brilliant, but just didnt have much of a target audience
MjXllcommando 6 months ago
@MjXllcommando When a band or an artist isn't easily categorized by a label or the radio, then those gatekeepers in the media are clueless on what to do with them. A favorite band of mine The Afghan Whigs suffered the same fate a few years after XTC.
MyJunior1975 6 months ago
@MyJunior1975 yeah, the only hope for bands like that is that they get so popular in breaking the mold that they create a new mold (like Hendrix, Black Flag, Van Halen etc.) in short its much easier for bands to have a defined genre and niche audience. it sucks
MjXllcommando 6 months ago
@MyJunior1975
Geffen screwed up many artists that did not fit their metal rock focus, starting from the artist they signed in 1980 Donna Summer.
richiguy 6 months ago
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MyJunior1975 6 months ago
@richiguy Sadly, it didn't end with Donna Summer. Though I will give credit to Geffen for branching out and diversifying, but they slipped up in marketing and promotion in R&B (Donna Summer, Jennifer Holliday, Christopher Williams, David Peaston), hip hop (Silk Tymes Leather, The Roots, Killah Preist), and music legends not named Aerosmith (Joni Mitchell, Neil Young).
MyJunior1975 6 months ago
@MyJunior1975 lol this song isn't exactly hard to get or "intellectual." It's a very catchy hook and "I love you" pop lyrics.
ironmonkeyheller 3 months ago 2
@ironmonkeyheller I wasn't talking specifically about this song, but their overall catalogue. That's what I was really referring to.
MyJunior1975 3 months ago
@MyJunior1975 Since they didn't have an Axl Rose type of frontman and bands like Tesla and Guns and Roses shared a label with XTC (here in the States anyway) Geffen focused on rockers who had long hair, tattoos and played meaningless fake metal drivel. Guns and Roses sucked as did Tesla. This song was their biggest Modern Rock Radio tune and also peaked at #15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Also Oranges and Lemons was XTC's highest charting US album (#45 in spring 1989).
tjrrockandrollmaster 1 month ago
@tjrrockandrollmaster And it's really sad becase Geffen didn't hit their stride with modern rock until the early 90's with Nirvana and Weezer.
MyJunior1975 1 month ago
When this song came out, one reviewer described it as THE perfect pop song. I still agree.
bonnybrook 7 months ago
when summer comes I always want hear this song.
I really love this nostalgic melody.
ponlady6621 7 months ago in playlist XTC
The story of my love life. It's not in me to be a player, a thug or a total jerk. Oh well, I finally did find someone that loves the "simpleton" in me.
vxy357 7 months ago
i love XTC
DanGoguen 7 months ago 3
62 people are simpletons ;)
larr933 7 months ago
@larr933 With 1,714 likes, I think they're fighting a losing battle.
VenetianMask1 7 months ago
excellent band
thebrewmiester10 7 months ago
@GloucesterAdam you are so right. So long ago. Stil an underrated band with a nice sound. Guess they are kinda the same as Midnight Oil just not Aussie.
clrncd15 7 months ago 8
I guess this is the original video from 1989. Very nice! Thanks to YouTube's pservin69 for the great post!
THEBAYCITYROLLERMAN 7 months ago
Forgot this was my song in 1986;-)
clrncd15 8 months ago
@clrncd15 you mean 1989 surely, as that was the year the song came out.
GloucesterAdam 7 months ago 4
Just a romantic song.
mintvstherobots 8 months ago
thumbs up if the last part is the best
misslogancouture39 8 months ago 2
Partridge should wear a tricorn more often, looks good on him.
jamestheflyingpirate 8 months ago
>mfw I see Lauren likes XTC
:O
LionheartMachinima 8 months ago
Wendy Wonderful...says it all.
What a great song, such a great group.
Gdkohlman 8 months ago
You know, I think he actually does know how to write a big hit song.
eruption257 8 months ago
@eruption257 I think Respectable Street shouldda gone straight to #1.
vonzeke 8 months ago 2
Love this song. Sneakily love Wendy Wonderful as well...
Audioadventures 8 months ago in playlist XTC
Wonderful fun video, with the feeling of the opening of the old Avengers TV series.
markdykeman 8 months ago
AMAZING SONG!
paulowalkingtree 8 months ago
pleeease be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton!
humdrumfeast 8 months ago
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XTC was a great band, their sound reminded of the Beatles, here's another band called Luce, interesting song called "Buy a Dog" youtube.com/watch?v=2acYxdU-POw
Sorry about the duplicate post, I forgot the link.
truthserum2000 8 months ago
XTC was a great band, there sound reminded of the Beatles, here's another band called Luce, interesting song called "Buy a Dog"
truthserum2000 8 months ago
EQUALITY.Damn I hate mistakes!
bo12hughes 8 months ago
I also don't troll. Do you think people ask to be gay, mentally impaired or the otherwise. I've been a skinhead against racial predjudice(SHARP) and am passionate about equalitye
bo12hughes 8 months ago
I hate prejudice, yousuperpussy
bo12hughes 8 months ago
TommyC503: Please get mental help. I don't know you, but what you wrote below is was psychotic bordering on megalomaniac. I think people should pray for you.
bo12hughes 9 months ago
@bo12hughes okay check this. you've taken the time to write to TommyC505(from here after refereed to as "he") because you have an interest. He was in a scuffle with a fellow named "MyAccount4TrollingU" and clearly bested him in a battle of wits using multiple angles while paying attention to the details. I believe that you are indeed "MyAccount4TrollingU." My reason being the fact you replied in such away as he wouldn't be notified therefore not responding. Your thoughts?
yousuperpussy 8 months ago
more beatley than actual beatles like. they have the whole beat band thing down. i mean there were OTHER bands besides those liverpool monsters of rock. i hear all kinda stuff from the mid 60s w/ this lot...probably more kinks and hollies to me also lil mood blues. like a 80's badfinger ya know?
kristoscan 9 months ago
i dunno but i blieve this video is to evoke the U.K., maybe i'm wrong ...LOL.
kristoscan 9 months ago
Brilliant band. Brilliant song!
PeterPumpkinhead1 9 months ago
Great music, but it turns me off sexually. Just thought I'd share that.
deathstarcafe 9 months ago
You drummers might recognize that name Pat Masteleto, if not....
Check out King Crimson, Construction of the light. YT won't let me give you the link.
larkstoungeinaspic 9 months ago
cool song
timetravellingone 9 months ago
gay
MyAccount4TrollingU 9 months ago
@MyAccount4TrollingU You must be a young fag
TommyC503 9 months ago
@TommyC503 Old enough to beat up your mom's pussy and dump my young sperm in 'er.
MyAccount4TrollingU 9 months ago
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@MyAccount4TrollingU Wait a second - thats impossible - since I fucked your mom in the ass and she had you 6 months later - that would make you my son (the only premature anal child in the history of mankind) and the scenario you describe would mean that you raped your own grandmother. Wow - you are dumb sick little fag. No wonder I never sent any analmony money - tell your mom I said hi.
TommyC503 9 months ago
@TommyC503 Lame comeback... rookie.
MyAccount4TrollingU 9 months ago
who is the lady in the video? she looks good man! beautiful song
Makesumsense 9 months ago
Takes a really smart person to write a song this great about being dumb.
edwdixon5 9 months ago 3
Loved oranges and lemons, that and Sky larking. This is a great song to send to someone your just crazy for. Cheers
karlmarxx999 9 months ago
my favorite atheist band
PrimatesCreatedGod 9 months ago 2
@PrimatesCreatedGod
They don't get better than this - unfortunately.
ingelaaaaaa 9 months ago
now THAT'S a dirty bassline
daemonarson 9 months ago
"and I can't unravel riddles, problems and puns, and the home computer has me on the run".. Great line. Love this song!!
TIMPANIMAN1 9 months ago 2
this song pops in my head now and then, since hearing it in 1988. lovely piece
Vidinotes 9 months ago
An amazing song from what has to be their best album, and there are great ones
castertunes1967 10 months ago
I've often thought that if I were asked to name the most clever pop song of all time that this would be the song. You simply can't say enough about this band !
LOOKN450 10 months ago 4
lol how sweet of a song :)
neonflames1999 10 months ago
WHEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
JoeyClimax 10 months ago
This is so good, so surpassing, so wonderful that tears are falling down my cheeks as I type this. The best pop band since the Beatles and boo to you that don't understand that.
melomane2010 10 months ago 3
@melomane2010 Yes, this is a very, very good song. It's melodic from the very start to the very end!
tiramasopa 10 months ago
My husband and I still sing this song to each other. Such a sweet, playful song.
tekalynn 10 months ago 2
Honestly, I think this is the perfect song.
BettinaBalser 10 months ago 32
@BettinaBalser were brains handed around --king for a day oranges and lemons please be upstanding
charlesremschel7 5 months ago
@BettinaBalser agreed, nothing can be added or taken away to make it better.
snipersas 4 months ago
Great song from a great period in music. Awesome bass line along with the CHiPS bass line.
dasteelers75 10 months ago 2
Musician's musicians. English Settlement is brilliant. So is Skylarking.
thruster37 10 months ago 7
Great catchy tune. The American version of this video is a bit different from this one.
liarsclub75 11 months ago 2
What a fantastic bass line in this !
Aussieduck57 11 months ago 40
@Aussieduck57 - While Andy wrote it (it's the same in his demo), it's SUCH a playful bassline for the time. Pat Mastellato (drummer) even said he had a hard time figuring out Andy's drum programming for some songs on the album.
xnonsuchx 11 months ago
@Aussieduck57 Take it from someone who's played bass for 30 years: This line is great fun to play!
GodslaveRocks 10 months ago
@Aussieduck57 To hell with your bass line. How about Wendy Wonderful!
headley62 6 months ago
@Aussieduck57 you're smart
sergiomng 6 months ago
this song got played at my brothers funeral an its kind of ironic..coz he was clever as fuck ...RIP Dr carl.r.towns love ya lots bro
townsie74 11 months ago 4
@townsie74 My condolensces on the passing of your brother.
pdrake074 11 months ago
@townsie74 RIP
stephen88hox 10 months ago
@townsie74 a lovely song to play and a lovely line in "if depth of feeling is a currency; then I'm the man who grew the money tree".
TheRussWhitley 10 months ago
@townsie74 ,townsie you are a legend and your carl is missed. he wasn't the mayor of simpleton, he was one of the best people i never met, but his legend lives on through his family xxxx
mygracie100 6 months ago
I like this! lol :)
florida1cowboy2 11 months ago 2
This great song just gets better & better with the passing of time, as I guess all good timeless stuff does........
jeffthrow6892 1 year ago 3
I knew Dwight Schrute could play the recorder, but I had no idea he could sing.
145inA 1 year ago 2
i listened to this growing up :) great stuff!!
abigailras 1 year ago
Has anyone noticed how similar this song's chorus is to "Still Alive" from Portal?
Pretty awesome that Jonathan Coulton was possibly influenced by XTC, now that I've heard this song.
ngmason 1 year ago
@ngmason - MANY have been influenced by XTC...even Suzanne Vega, REM and newer artists like Modest Mouse and the like. They are "a band's band" who are looked up to by many artists...even if unnoticed by many more casual listeners.
xnonsuchx 1 year ago 3
@xnonsuchx You got that right, They are a songwriter's band. One can learn many things from them if devoted enough since they made a lot of different songs and albums over their career and have released a lot of demo material (Although most of it is by Andy under his own name)
101Volts 11 months ago 4
"Well I don't know how to write a big hit song..."
Somehow I don't believe that.
Vertigo688 1 year ago 3
I've always been very interested in this band. They had a good run but then vanished. This was a really good tune.
Dbusdriver71 1 year ago 2
Great Bassline...
bassmanjoe 1 year ago 4
Greetings from America. Let's hope in our new decade you Brits will wake up out of your collective, drunken stupors and start making great music like this again!!
There's hope for you dumbasses yet, I just know it!
tomthefunky 1 year ago
@tomthefunky
I agree. The only british export these days are Susan Boyle.
Topographer 1 year ago 2
@tomthefunky Check out Flipron. They might not be your cup of tea but they are worth knowing. They're not heard because they're not really trying outside of writing their music, Their primary songwriter Jesse said he would rather spend time with his family than be in the limelight. They don't seem to play live much.
101Volts 1 year ago