Colin Mouldings Bass guitar makes this song for me, also the candlewick green style intro, not to mention the piano and the peeling bells in the chorus, and the beautiful lyrics all perfectly arranged. F@*k me, what a song this is...........
The sound of the hooter was a daily feature of the town; life was controlled by it, clocks and watches adjusted by it, and meals got out of the oven and dished up in readiness for the menfolk when it blew. It was a small but important part of the life of the town."
Today there is still one way to hear the hooter.
Swindon pop group XTC immortalised it in their 1986 single, "The Meeting Place". The hooter was the inspiration behind the song, and its unmistakable tones form the introduction to it.
Colin Mouldings Bass guitar makes this song for me, also the candlewick green style intro, not to mention the piano and the peeling bells in the chorus, and the beautiful lyrics all perfectly arranged. F@*k me, what a song this is...........
thedrunkenfool 2 months ago
swindonweb
the hooter...
dodgerman20001 4 months ago
The sound of the hooter was a daily feature of the town; life was controlled by it, clocks and watches adjusted by it, and meals got out of the oven and dished up in readiness for the menfolk when it blew. It was a small but important part of the life of the town."
Today there is still one way to hear the hooter.
Swindon pop group XTC immortalised it in their 1986 single, "The Meeting Place". The hooter was the inspiration behind the song, and its unmistakable tones form the introduction to it.
dodgerman20001 4 months ago
xtc is just the best!!!!!
canne290 7 months ago in playlist XTC
Some say I looked like James Hetfield from Metallica, But I am buttersoft for XTC!
puntagordy 10 months ago
@puntagordy I love Metallica, Def Leppard, Queen, Quo etc. but also a huge fan of XTC.
GloucesterAdam 9 months ago
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! :D!!
glomeglozer 10 months ago
I mind buying this cassette in 1986. And thinking that was something influenced by the '60's that wasn't a pastiche or a piss take.
I only discovered their alter ego's years later. And even they are up there with the '60's.
kirkwallboy 11 months ago
Love the base line.
lcacwelder 1 year ago 4
Great great great...bloody perfect British nutjob creation by Mr. Partridge and the boys.
grantjames333 1 year ago 5
smoke on the ground one of my faaavorites.
clarkrinehart 2 years ago