The Dukes Of Stratosphere-The Mole From The Ministry

[DavidAlexanderMusic]

At :56 it gets so bad ass and Psychadelic

[pigfacemould]

awesome talent I m not worthy

[kataidamashi]

Great band, perfect album. A part of this song reminds me Buggles song "Elstree"(1981). But this makes this D.o.S. even more interesting. Dukes of Stratosphere showed how to make real outstanding psychedelic music, in years when a lot of bands were converting to psychedelic revival,with some good, bad and mediocre results.

[sharktroubles]

I read that Colin Moulding doesn't want to do music anymore as per a phone conversation from Andy Partridge. I will miss them! I love this song very much!!!

[ar4216]

I just listened to a very interesting interview with Colin on Rundgren Radio at blogtalk. It was two hours long with people calling in. You should check it out if you're a XTC fan. That show has also had Andy on.

[sharktroubles]

Thank you very much! XTC mean the world to me. They are so important and, in my opinion, haven't ever gotten their due. I will certainly check that out. Lookin' forward to it a great deal!!!

[eartant]

Anybody know what XTC are up to these days? I guess I should 'Google' them, huh?

[brentjohnpalmer]

"Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding are definately music-gods!"

And let's not forget Dave Gregory, the owner of the Mellotron you hear (which they picked up real cheap in the early '80s), and without whose technical prowess they wouldn't have been able to execute several ideas. :-)

[AliPut]

heads up - someone's uploaded the full video of this song on youtube - mad track, madder video, well worth the watch though. if you like this do a search for mole from the ministry full video

[mcdonnell220]

Probably the greatest song of the 1980s. :-)

Christian

[VictorConMalvaviscos]

I love all the songs on the Chips from the Chocolate Fireball album!

[Holymanm]

two words + emphasis... THE REPLACEMENTS!!!!!

[joshuacrime]

I disagree entirely. In the field of pop music, which is what I'm making my comparisons by, about all you have for truly unique acts were the Cars. Don't blow a bunch of avante garde jazz peopel into this, or old blues rockers that should have went the way of the great auk. Yeah, the Heads were great. REM was great. Etc. Compare them lyrically...to Andy Patridge? NO contest.

[joshuacrime]

I swear, the 80's was all Britain for music. Virtually nothing interesting was coming out of the US or anywhere else for that matter. It was always the UK. XTC were utterly amazing and I hope Andy and Co. make us some new magic every now and again.

[Dude421]

Idiot. What about the Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, N.W.A., Tom Waits, Violent Femmes, Minor Threat, Dinosaur Jr., the Pixies., X, Prong, New Edition, Ten Heads, Bad Company, Miles Davis, Billy Goat, Sun Ra, KRS-One, etc, etc... don't be so close, arrogantly-minded, will you? Oh, and the US is the ones with zydeco be-bop, blues and jazz, so I wouldn't start anything. but I agree: XTC are brilliant.

[siralexandergibson]

that's all shit music.

[Dude421]

????? Miles Davis is shit music???? Captain Beefheat is shit music????? Sun Ra is shit music???? Then wha,t pre-tell, do you listen to, gobshite?

[siralexandergibson]

first, fuck you. second, music is a dead language, obsolete - impotent in terms of being a truly orienting force in people's lives (you think you're enlightened, for example, connected to music's higher virtues, but look how you talk, act; you're a mindless animal). third, on the rare occasion that i do listen to music (nostalgia), it sure as fuck isn't pop/rock/jazz or any other primitive bullshit. you seem unaware of what's been done in the art beyond the popular realm. can't help ya.

[Dude421]

All dead language consists of one or more fundementals--but no one ever uses it for the pleading in which one deserves to navigate.

If it is a more, say, pathological find, with a calcyx and a tellis, a skeletal-structure, mass-commune opperatives; all the basis of "all for one", yank-yegging.

And no, I have no moral ground; I am not a denizen with "higher virtures", that didn't exist, because virtues are all of what you live by, so how can they be "higher".

Yes, I listen to those; so?

[Dude421]

But see, I was only conveying my part of the slipstream; someone had said the U.K. had and has the best music, however I was only merely reminiding them of how the U.S. has Jazz, and you could argue that Hungary has more gypsy jazz and viola instrumentals than any other country on the planet, but we weren't talking about Hungary, now were we?

[Dude421]

And by retoring: "it's all shit music", how are you any better than I am? It's all a fucking walk, anyway.... you won't tell me the music you digest because then I would have something to dilute, to tinker, all of it. No, I'm not prestine, and all of that shit, however I do have middle ears and so fourth, and with those I do enjoy music and sounds. Who doesn't. "give me a man who doesn't like music, and I give you a liar."

[Dude421]

I forbot about the The Roots

[cheapholiday]

Dude, you forgot about Huey Lewis and the News, but that's the power of love.

[Dude421]

As well as Captain Beefheart, oh toil then...