XTC
Summer's Cauldron
Skylarking
(1986)

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Grammarcop
May 06, 2013 - 16:28
Like a bug in brandy...


Poacher
Apr 18, 2013 - 03:21
fredriley wrote:
Lovely tweeters at the start. I could have listened peacefully to five minutes of them. Shame the song kicked in and spoiled the tranquillity...

Are you a closet twitcher? Anyway, they continue tweeting throughout the song so we can presume they approve and are in fact singing along. I for one approve.


Aud
Apr 18, 2013 - 03:19
ColdMiser wrote:
I love this album this time of the year



Maybe you have Spring but Minnesota has winter!


ColdMiser
Apr 05, 2013 - 12:48
I love this album this time of the year


GeorgeMWoods
Mar 17, 2013 - 16:14
Boring!


Ahnyer_Keester
Feb 14, 2013 - 07:12
Boy could I use some summer's cauldron today. Kind of chilly here!


Biscobret
Jan 18, 2013 - 13:26
This is such an outstanding LP - I'd forgotten about it. Even though it came out in my punk rock heyday, my friends & I always loved this disc!

A++++++ would listen again.


krysthal
Dec 13, 2012 - 14:32
Great album! Love XTC anytime. Particularly refreshing to hear... was hoping for Grass too.... and we GOT IT! Thanks Bill and Rebecca!!


Propayne
Sep 10, 2012 - 07:32
Summer is slipping away, "sigh"...


Proclivities
Jul 28, 2012 - 06:17
Bargamon wrote:

This is a top 100 album on many lists.

Great production by Todd Rundgren.

Not that he needs the Rock N'Roll Hall of Fame cheese to validate his career, but why the hell is this guy not in?

Writer? Producer? Video pioneer? Performer?

Does the HOF not like guys that shook up the establishment and spoke out?

Isn't that what ROCK is really all about?

I know what you mean, just from the bands Rundgren produced alone, but the R&R Hall of Fame is really pretty insignificant. It's essentially about what Jann Wenner and Dave Marsh (neither of whom are musicians) like. Anyhow, this is an excellent tune.


WayUpNorth
Jul 09, 2012 - 09:36
tormefan wrote:
Oh so evocative for a child of the 80s: that sound capturing the blissfully heightened purity of senses and limitless possibility of a 20-something (listening at top volume from cassette player of a Toyota model no longer made).... Had they not slipped in a song about God on the album (not unlike Crowded House Woodface) this could have been a great commercial hit in the good 'ole prudish USA. But it wasn't, so people who GOT it the first time around, like me, get to make smarmy comments about how fantastic and overlooked it was. Rundgren's production makes this an embarrasment of riches. Those crickets, apparently, can still make my heart race...

YES! YES! YES! {#Sunny}


Bargamon
Mar 23, 2012 - 12:37

This is a top 100 album on many lists.

Great production by Todd Rundgren.

Not that he needs the Rock N'Roll Hall of Fame cheese to validate his career, but why the hell is this guy not in?

Writer? Producer? Video pioneer? Performer?

Does the HOF not like guys that shook up the establishment and spoke out?

Isn't that what ROCK is really all about?


mike_chouinard
Mar 23, 2012 - 12:33
Wrong time of the year to play this, but still a great song and album. I try to crack Skylarking open for a listen every July or August.


fredriley
Mar 23, 2012 - 12:33
Lovely tweeters at the start. I could have listened peacefully to five minutes of them. Shame the song kicked in and spoiled the tranquillity...


lemmoth
Mar 23, 2012 - 12:33
Such an amazing album.


ziakut
Feb 01, 2012 - 20:12
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Perfect!


dingusbother
Nov 30, 2011 - 07:51
I've been a XTC disciple since ~1985 and have always been frustrated that few radio stations played them.

Thanks RP for restoring my faith in radio!!

XTC {#Notworthy}


KurtfromLaQuinta
Oct 29, 2011 - 17:06
Hooray!
Bill did the appropriate thing and played "Summers Cauldron"/ "Grass" today!


floydginger
Sep 15, 2011 - 11:48
Groovy Too! :)


sans
Sep 15, 2011 - 11:46
nadine_low wrote:
I agree...why no segue to 'grass'.
Though, anything XTC or Dukes of Stratospheare is always welcome every time...


You ask, RP listens.



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