The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC

I paid for this music, don't come flaming me!

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• ballad
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• peter
• pumpkin
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• pumpkinhead
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• XTC
• crash
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• dummies
• dumb
• and
• dumber
• cover

[stluno]

This song is surely the culmination of XTC's career: underneath it is a perfectly-oiled complicated machine; on the surface it is an irresistible confection of gripping and affecting lyric, astute melody and instrumentation that gives it a momentum unsurpassed in rock music. It should become a national anthem.

[ilurvekimba1967]

That. Is. The. Best. Comment. Ever.

[ilurvekimba1967]

Hey, this video uploaded badly. Sorry if it sounds weird. My stupid movie program hates me and did this as revenge for me using it.

[andy3974]

It is a crime that this song is not better known but crappy as it is the CTD version has put money in Mr Partridge's pocket. XTC released masterpiece after masterpiece but critical acclaim does not feed the kids.

[Shalek]

I don't know which version I like best. They are quite different both, one happy, one murky. Maybe I am biased cause I heard the CTD's first and cause of Dumb and Dumber. Either way, thanks to XTC for writing such an awesome song.

[miketite]

I don't think a rotting pumpkin on a fence post was the true inspiration for this song -more like an excuse. The implicit lyrics and explicit video suggest otherwise, but sadly in these times such discussions are taboo and its considered a crime to accuse the government of a crime, so obviously they can't say outright "the songs about JFK -the last free-democratic president- and the governments involement in his assassination" (which is what all the evidence points to). Long live good music!

[neolithics]

I remember hearing this from a mixtape I borrowed. It was incorrectly labeled as the Crash Test Dummies version. I loved it an awful lot, and remembering it a few years later I looked for this version and discovered it wasn't CTD's, but XTC's. Thus began my love affair with a brilliant but sadly oft-forgotten band...

[duskota1]

peter pumpkinhead is about a jack-o-lantern that his kids carved that he found on his lawn so he stuck it on a fence post......... so every day when he walked down to his recording studio he would see that pumpkin.......... it would rot more and more every day and he started to fell bad about it........... so he made this pumpkin a hero in his song thus creating: Peter Pumpkinhead................. one of the greatest songs i have ever heard though.

[peanutula]

Though CTD made a reputable and well done cover of XTC's original, I believe that XTC's version is far superior.

[roomwithacatinit]

@jacksonfan221 Instead, they're all going deaf listening to scream-o crap.

[jacksonfan221]

I love the old music i wish more 13 yr old like would like this kind of music

[rhiandell1]

i love this song

[rhiandell1]

this song is well goood