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XTC — Summer's Cauldron
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Grammarcop
(A mitten surrounded by water)
Posted: May 06, 2013 - 16:28
 
Like a bug in brandy...

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: 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
(lost in lakecity)
Posted: 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
(Out in the Cold)
Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 12:48
 
I love this album this time of the year

GeorgeMWoods
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 16:14
 
Boring!

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

Biscobret
(Vashon, WA)
Posted: 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
(43.70654 -79.39837 Toronto, Canada)
Posted: 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
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 07:32
 
Summer is slipping away, "sigh"...

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: 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
Posted: 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
(In a good place)
Posted: 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
Posted: 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
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: 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
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 23, 2012 - 12:33
 
Such an amazing album. 

ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 20:12
 
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Perfect!

dingusbother
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: 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
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 17:06
 
Hooray!
Bill did the appropriate thing and played "Summers Cauldron"/ "Grass" today!

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

sans
(Philly)
Posted: 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.


AlonzoTheArmless
(metro Detroit)
Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 11:45
 
The first time I listened to this song on headphones, I thought the "buzz" at the beginning that went from one speaker to the next was a real bug. I probably instinctively swatted at the air.

bailey_comus
(Phoenix, AZ)
Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 11:43
 
I agree...why no segue to 'grass'.
Though, anything XTC or Dukes of Stratospheare is always welcome every time...
 

AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 09:23
 


Why no Grass after this? According to the song comments, that luscious segue was happening for a while. Why can't it happen all the time so that we can hear the two songs as they were meant to be heard?



ajb
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 05:11
 
keep 'em coming Bill

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 05:10
 
Great and often overlooked pop band!

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 05:09
 
GOD I'd forgotten how great these guys were...

I must be the Mayor Of Simpleton...

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: May 12, 2011 - 17:21
 
Damn!  Missed it!   I wanted to get "Upsey Daisy Assortment, which has every song I've heard of by XTC except, unfortunately, this one.
I guess I'll have to buy 2 albums.  Speaking of albums, I really like their album covers.


midigitguy
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 12:44
 
 rasta_tiger wrote:
Sounds like the vinyl is warped.
 
Part of Rundgren's brilliant production.  Listen to the lyrics and you'll understand why 'tis///

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe, PA)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 12:41
 
I love this song. Reminds me of College. The lyrics are intense.

rasta_tiger
(Sunnyside of the Street)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 12:39
 
Sounds like the vinyl is warped.

Grammarcop
(The Paris of the Midwest)
Posted: Mar 13, 2011 - 07:36
 
 LowPhreak wrote:

And here's the originally intended cover that was banned by Virgin Records:


{#Clap}
  
Want to worship at the church of women

Breathe ’em in until my head goes spinning around

Want to worship at the church

Let me worship at the church of women

Lyrics from XTC's Church of Women 


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 16:28
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
Great to read all of the comments from so many who fell under the charms of this album. I bought the CD in a bargain bin, totally unaware and with no expectations. Don't think it could have been described to me in a way that would have influenced purchase. An anomaly, akin to magic.
 
Some of my best music was purchased on vinyl, in bargain bins, with no expectations. That's where I first heard about Tommy Bolin, Photomaker, Refugee, Navarro (Carole King's backup band) and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. Sometimes, one must take chances. My question is:  Did you LIKE your purchase?  Just curious.  I'm getting more into XTC, though I probably wouldn't have chosen to listen to them willingly had I not heard some of their music here.  Now, I'm reconsidering. They make me feel good, and lately, I'm basing my musical choices on things that make me smile, or things that at least don't make me feel threatened.

And the wheel goes 'round.... and 'round...


apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 16:25
 
 LowPhreak wrote:

And here's the originally intended cover that was banned by Virgin Records:

 
well, yeah...

(former member)
Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 12:50
 
 gvan wrote:
The segue from this song into "Grass" is the aural equivalent of the bone turning turning into the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Brilliant!
 
Heh. What a great analogy.


LowPhreak
(United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.)
Posted: Jan 30, 2011 - 08:53
 
 meurglys3 wrote:
Skylarking is about to be re-issued on double vinyl with the originally intended cover.

ahem.
http://www.ape.uk.net/news/news_stories.php?newsid=356
 
And here's the originally intended cover that was banned by Virgin Records:


{#Clap}


gvan
(From inside the house!)
Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 07:10
 
The segue from this song into "Grass" is the aural equivalent of the bone turning turning into the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Brilliant!

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 07:08
 
One of my favorite albums of all time.

10 all the way. 

meurglys3
(England's legendary England)
Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 09:48
 
Skylarking is about to be re-issued on double vinyl with the originally intended cover.

ahem.
http://www.ape.uk.net/news/news_stories.php?newsid=356

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 09:45
 
This is the pinnacle of XTC....................great to hear XTC on the radio..........Thanks again

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 17:15
 
such an overlooked group.

tormefan
Posted: Aug 13, 2010 - 17:12
 
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...


justin_thyme
(Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i)
Posted: Aug 13, 2010 - 16:44
 
 Propayne wrote:

Todd Rundgren's production and engineering also ad to the greatness.
 
Absolutely!  Todd also did some re-arranging and, according to reliable rumor, played some of the acoustic guitar tracks, too.  This album wouldn't have succeeded without his input . . . well worth the $500K that he was paid for his services.



thenoizzbox
(Otterburn Park, Quebec, Canada)
Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 22:09
 
This album and their earlier English Settlement are two of the best albums of the dreary decade that was the '80s. Simply brilliant...

CCSandman
Posted: Jun 22, 2010 - 09:04
 
Play XTC's Young Savage, please! :-D

Dave_Mack
(Five bus, Jive bus!)
Posted: Apr 27, 2010 - 09:39
 
 lemmoth wrote:
No Grass again.  Boooo!!!
 
He did it this time!  Yay!  Sadly, there was a nasty glitch at the transition point, but it's better than nothing.


gshrieves
(Colorado, USA)
Posted: Apr 27, 2010 - 09:39
 
Well, we went into "Grass" today! Hooray! Lovely album.

ziakut
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 27, 2010 - 09:38
 
Ahhhh...like water on a burning beach!!! Refreshing and needed...thank you!

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 13:54
 
 squidish wrote:
Anyone else smell honeysuckle?
 
Coppertone on a women.
The senses reel. {#Meditate}

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 13:54
 
Great to read all of the comments from so many who fell under the charms of this album. I bought the CD in a bargain bin, totally unaware and with no expectations. Don't think it could have been described to me in a way that would have influenced purchase. An anomaly, akin to magic.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 13:52
 
No Grass again.  Boooo!!!