XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me) (instrumental)

This is my cover of XTC's Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me). It is on the Black Sea album and despite what Andy and Co. say about it, I absolutely love this song. It's a fun song to listen to and to play, and I love all those 60's fuzzy guitars that Dave G. sprinkles over the chorus. I even attempted to somewhat emulate the monophonic synth they put over the middle eight, and the Line6 effects work nicely if I may say so.

This song is a bit of a tribute to KookyMiss2, another YouTuber who went from making silly sock puppet videos to some rather nice XTC drum covers. She did a cover of this song, and I would like her to keep doing those XTC (or other) drum covers. Keep it up, Miss!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• XTC
• Sgt
• Rock
• Is
• Going
• To
• Help
• Me
• Black
• Sea
• Andy
• Partridge
• Colin
• Moulding
• Dave
• Gregory
• Terry
• Chambers

[TooFastToLive09]

excellent work =] do have any bass tabs for this song or no where i can find some cos i cant seem to find any guitar or bass tabs anywhere

[joshuacrime]

The XTC fansite has a lot of tabs on them. I don't use them, but I contributed the Rocket From A Bottle solo on it, and I just figured out the solo for Extrovert so I will probably put it up there as well. That site has links to other places as well, maybe they have some tabs.

I don't smerk tabs. It's much better for you if you don't use them unless you're REALLY stuck. It's better ear training if you just plug away.

[modestmaus]

Not gonna lie: I have a wicked fun time singing over this and your other instrumental XTC covers. It's a pity there will never be an actual XTC karaoke album but I'll be damned if this stuff isn't at least a real nice replacement. Bravo! I hope many more people get to hear this.

[joshuacrime]

Hahahah! Karaoke for XTC. I bet if Andy even caught wind of such a thing he'd temporarily suspend his pacifism and punch us all in the gob.

Glad you find it enjoyable. :)

[koenchik]

I am a big fan of XTC and this is excellent!

Koen

[joshuacrime]

Thanks much!

[JavelBleach]

Very good indeed. (Just missed the voice ;-)).

[stx377]

0:57-1:12 nice hypnotic!!!  my fav part

[jonskids]

Just came acoss this one - fantastic!

[tomasiooo]

great adaption!

[whouster]

It always amazes me that Andy finds this song cringeworthy - it's a perfectly crafted pop song!

Astonishingly accurate interpretation, the hat is off!

[sinbad0910]

Brilliant job!

[bluepowder2008]

awesome workings just show how much went into their songs and you play them so well..love your stuff

[montrose9272]

I've done this and other XTC at karaoke, actually:)

Love it; (especially the kazoo) keep up the good work.