1000 Umbrellas - XTC

[KristinKellyrose]

and at the end of this song... "Season cycle moving round and round.. pushing life up from a cold dead ground.. it's growing greeeen".. you know what I mean lol

[JavelBleach]

Layers of rich arrangements, on what could otherwise be a Syd Barrett rant!

Exquis!

[lastigechels]

wow i thought the picture was a women givin' a man a blowjob... wtf.... it's just a flute... i must be brainwashed by all that shiddy crap pop songs on tv like lady blehgblehg...

[KristinKellyrose]

I love the strings! Great song!! :)

[andreaprodan]

Tears flowing become beautiful when you hear this song!

[Easleytee]

I've always heard the spirit of the Beatles in XTC's Skylarking. George Martin orchestrations abound.

Skylarking is a bona fide CLASSIC!!

[eastlake93]

This song was my catharsis when the love of my life dumped me almost twenty years ago.

[theMycon]

I like it- it's more of a "I'm ok, I was sad and got better. What's done is done and I've made my peace. Please stop with the damn pity." song than the general "woe is me, life is pain." like most lost-love-ditties.

[roba111111]

1000 umbrellas couldn't save you from the misery of not hearing this song

[toasteyes]

Great memories of being in my room in Jr high, flipping this tape over and over because of my love for it. Such a great song!

[seeitflyquickly]

hahahaha. dislikes?

[Swample]

brilliant



[lmsypj]

This album has a great feeling and theme to it.

[TheBrilliantGeniuses]

damn golden view vista

and just one thudand two thousand years and ten

so slow with the bucket

[MrDorkusMaximus]

I live this song. Thanks for posting it.

[probrojeffro]

Sgt. Pepper, Pet Sounds, Skylarking . . ..

[Paneeks1960]

@probrojeffro I couldn't have commented on this any better than this. Thanks ~ Its nice to know there is another person who understands my musical thoughts.

[ckg41700]

i love this song

[vicory]

Only Rook surpasses this. So incredibly British, pompous and beautiful.

[dontacmaiboll]

fantastic...

[bruhe]

I simply love the suspended dissonance of the final unresolved chord. You want it to complete but it just hangs there almost maddeningly, which goes perfectly with the song's almost frantic mood - like some kind of lunatic sorrow.

[perromanchado]

Song writing to the nth degree. Andy Partridge is amazing.

[ScottAln05]

Definitely conveys the thought of "misery." Irritating waste of talent and production time.

[misserinchase]

I love the composition, arrangement, "texture", musicianship (is that a word?), production--every aspect and every note!

Love this whole album!

[SCULLYTHEPRICK62]

Dave Gregory, their guitar player, arranged the strings on this song...absolutely brilliant---he's one of the most overlooked guitarist and musician ever..

[therealsoulproduct]

Great XTC song. It's like their own "Eleanor Rigby".

[Lyktwz]

Brilliant, beautifull, great, awesome...

[NewestViewest]

Here you've got a little Beatles, Todd, late Zep, and others. Brilliant.

[paraxicosis]

"Todd Rundgren deserves a LOT..."

not much

[motorwawt]

how can you hate on Todd? The guy releases so much good music, and wrote all the arrangements for Skylarking

[paraxicosis]

is a good musucian I dont hate it

[DursucheMillionen]

waren und bleiben genial,

wieder anfangen büdde!

[wannyyydilliamsss]

This is beautifully arranged, and lyrically superb. Wonderful stuff!

[17domino17]

Once again another one of my favorite songs in the world!

[Marixpress]

Excellent. 10 stars!

[cathoderoy]

Todd Rundgren deserves a LOT of credit for the brilliance of this record...all those little orchestral arrangements were exclusively his (although a bit Beatlish, but it's O.K. to steal from the Beatles, because everybody knows you're doing it, and it's like borrowing from old standards). What would this song sound like without the strings? Dave Gregory said Todd should give himself writing credit, but he said he thought production credit was good enough.

[kidderminsterbro]

so easy to say it's the best. but so many of andy p's are the best.

peace,

rich

[spektor45]

Yeah top tune, although every xtc song is a top tune. Hard to pick really!!

[perromanchado]

Brilliant

[chocoholicgrl]

thax for posting. this is my favorite song by XTC

[ErichoTTA]

Me too.

[OrkelTree]

Mine too. Skylarking is an awesome album, it never gets old.

Thanks!

[MusicJew158]

Probably one of my absolute favorite songs ever