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Artist: XTC
Title: Skylarking (Corrected Polarity Edition) Source: CDDA
Genre: New Wave
Label: ACE
Ripdate: 10.9.2014
Storedate: 10.6.2014
Quality: avg. 240kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks: 15
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■ Release Notes:
Dear God attached, Andy Partridge's cover
concept realised, and polarity corrected,
this is Skylarking as XTC intended the
world to see and hear it.
Produced by Todd Rundgren, the album was
famously the most troublesome recording
experience of XTC's career, yet the
combination of the 'quintessentially
English' band and the American 'studio
wizard' resulted in one of the most
successful and artistically accomplished
albums of the mid-late 1980s.
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It looked perfect... on paper. Take XTC
(a band whose name was, by this point,
routinely prefaced with the words
'quintessentially English'), add Todd
Rundgren, musical Anglophile & legendary
producer (whose name was always prefaced
with 'studio wizard'), place in a studio
together in Woodstock for several weeks &
expect an album of Abbey Road proportions
to appear when finished and...it almost
worked out that way. It even managed,
eventually, to fulfil some of the
enormous weight of expectation that had
been placed on its shoulders prior to
recording & it now sounds better than it
ever did, though it took a most
circuitous route to get from there to
here.
For starters: Todd R. & Andy P. didn't
get on... at all. Recording sessions were
tense. Then Todd locked the band out of
the studio while mixing the album,
leaving depressed band members to return
to the UK uncertain as to the value of
what had been recorded. When the album
was finished, Virgin Records rejected
Andy's sleeve design concept for the very
good reason that many shops would simply
have refused to stock it; the Parents
Music Resource Center with their
'parental advisory' stickers, was a
recent industry issue, false though
widely believed stories about reversed
Satanic messages hidden on albums were
heading towards a court room & the sight
of pubic hair on something like a vinyl
sleeve was usually enough to encourage
some lazy politician or self-styled
religious 'leader' to re-discover the
proximity of the end of the world as
expressed, visually, on a record sleeve.
As Todd Rundgren once sang, "A man would
simply have to be as mad as a hatter to
try and change the world with a plastic
platter."
Then, there was the issue of Dear God.
Relegated from the album for fears that
the same sort of people who object to
pubic hair on album sleeves might object
to songs about God - especially in the
USA, yet issued in the US as part of a 4
song promo 12" single to promote an album
on which the song didn't appear by Geffen
Records, which then, unexpectedly, became
a hit song with people interpreting the
lyrics as they wished, necessitating the
re-sequencing of the album to include the
once rejected song which, in turn, helped
the album to become a slow burn/steady
seller all around the world & XTC's
best-selling & best known album to date,
leaving all participants belatedly
happy...& audiences & record companies
(both of them) eagerly awaiting the
follow-up...
THE END
Well, not quite:
When it came time to master the album on
vinyl in 2010, Andy Partridge - still
never entirely happy with the overall
sound of the finished album - took it to
award-winning mastering engineer John
Dent, who noticed something that had
never previously been spotted. Somewhere,
possibly in the transfer from the multi-
channel tape to the stereo master, a
polarity had been reversed. This is not
the same thing as a reversed left/right
channel which puts a stereo picture out
of phase & makes the sound unlistenable,
but a much more difficult to pin down
event that can be triggered by something
as simple as a badly wired plug in the
overall system which, nonetheless,
removes some of the punch & presence from
a finished recording.
With the polarity corrected, the album
complete with original artwork & Dear God
was issued on vinyl.
Now, some 28 years after its initial
recording & release, Skylarking finally
appears on CD as it was originally
intended to sound & in the packaging as
initially envisaged.
The end of the world is also 28 years
closer, but probably not imminent. Plenty
of time then, to hear afresh the most
popular album by one of the finest pop
groups of that or any other era.
When & if the multi-track tapes can be
found, a 5.1 Surround Sound edition to be
mixed by Steven Wilson is also planned.
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NR. TRACK TIME.
01~ Summer's caldron 03:18
02~ Grass 03:05
03~ The Meeting Place 03:12
04~ That's Really Super Supergirl 03:21
05~ Ballet For A Rainy Day 03:06
06~ 1000 Umbrellas 03:30
07~ Season Cycle 03:20
08~ Earn Enough For Us 02:56
09~ Big Day 03:31
10~ Another Satellite 04:17
11~ Mermaid Smiled 02:26
12~ The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul 03:23
13~ Dear God 03:34
14~ Dying 02:27
15~ Sacrificial Bonfire 03:45
Total Time: 49:11 min
Size: 84,6 MB
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