XTC - Life Begins At The Hop

TOTP 1979.

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Music

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• XTC
• Life
• Begins
• At
• The
• Hop

[ricknblack]

a god dam british classic band,who were overlooked,andy partridge/colin moulding fekin brilliant....

[jangenk]

oh so awesome.... memories tell me what do you say

[MrReded69]

OMG!It's a Prince Valiant mullet!

[Brock2oon]

Not too often do songs make me nostalgic for a time period I wasn't part of in a country I've never been to.

[charlesremschel7]

@jangenk life begins at the  hop boys and girls

[psychoannalist1]

Well, world, you dropped the ball as usual. You love all your Nirvanas and Britneys and fricks and fracks. XTC did it all. They were and are brilliant. They invented styles that made millions of dollars for lesser bands and singers. Oh well. They will one day get their due, greatness can only slumber so long, and cream rises to the top. Hope the boys can finally get some decent money for their incredible work though.

[Equalizerfan]

Beautiful song

[TheKenfig]

@101Volts Yes, not their fault but you know, lots of kids will overlook a band that dont have a stupid image like Adam & The Ants or something

[101Volts]

@TheKenfig You know what, Andy did say someone from their record label thought they should have an image like ZZ Top, Only with lightning bolts painted on their faces. I'm not joking. Andy's comment on that? "We'd look like four kings of assholes!"

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

Achingly beautiful innocence, celebrating the simple life growing up in 1970s provincial England.. Desperately and unashamedly uncool, the quintessence of English eccentricity which seems to have all but died in the Cowell inspired factory farms. Of course "Funk Pop A Roll" would later deal with the dark forces of Cowellism in a brutal attack.

[TheKenfig]

Great single from a band that worked very hard and were very inventive but had relatively little reward for their talent because of a lack of 'image' that bands twice as successful had