Another great song from the World's Most Under-rated Band.  Love the bass line and tone.

Best song on this record might be "Your Dictionary." Boy, does that song pack a punch! Probably can't be played on RP, however, because of the powerful and judicious use of language to express anger. (You get the idea.) 

 

 bailey_comus wrote: 
So true.  Please don't play this one again - complete muck!  XTC were so much better than this.

WHY? There are so many excellent XTC songs.  This is not one of them.

 Misterfixit wrote: 


The Green Man reference is to an old English pagan folk figure - see the Wikipedia entry for a flavour.

Ah... Andy Partridge, the best warlock to ever pen a pop song.

 Dave_Mack wrote: 

This is the Double Contrabass Bassoon.  The only wind instrument which can go any lower (16 Hertz) is the Double Contrabass Surrousophone.  Rumor has it that the Double Contrabass Surrousophone playing the long note ("C͵͵͵" or 13.75 Hertz) can cause an accident release of the bowels.

I like XTC and absollutely love this song.  All you haters, get your own radio station.

This song is unbelievably creepy.

Am I alone in thinking that this strangely sounds like a Bollywood musical?

There's only one greenman!

Please to stop singing the greenman

Also not getting the hate. Do y'all also hate "Chalkhills and Children" and "Grass" too? Because they seem similar to me.

XTC is such a contradiction for me. I love their music but disagree with a fair amount of what they say in their words. I do have to admire their skill in music and message though.

Excellent bassooning at the beginning!  Possibly even contrabassoon.  Will have to hear that again.

This is far from my favorite XTC song, but I'm surprised by the negative comments.  Is it really all that bad?  I've surely heard worse.  Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol 2), made right around the same time, is a pop classic!

Terrible

Hmmm, this song and album do not seem to be on iTunes.

Pleasant and somewhat different tune.  I'll buy that!

It says this was last played on September 29, though it was played last night, on October 30. A bug?

I always liked XTC, and this is the best album cover yet.

Working on something here and for some reason it just got really f*cked up and now i'm really screwed. Have to do the damn thing all over again and it's gonna cost me hours to finish it.

And then there's this song playing. Out-of-this-world annoying, it's like it's laughing in my face because things all turned out wrong....

Oh, when......does.....the...hurting.............stop...........
Ow wait, that's now, it's over....
If only there were a rating below 1 for these rare occasions....

a little more annoying than usual from XTC.

Thanks Bill, I was just mentally requesting some XTC! For those who love this band, Chalkhills is an amazingly rich online resource.

As XTC goes, this ain't half bad.

Not sure I'm strong enough to keep from hitting the mute button on this one.  Bounderline 1, but I'll go with a 2 because I'm in a good mood.

 fredriley wrote: 
LMAO

Yes, I'm all for Wicca and Paganism, but this is kinda cheesy.  Just like all religious songs are when they talk about praising "him," whomever "he" may be.

This playlist sounds recycled, but i LOVE it RPNOSTALGIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!