XTC - Skylarking FLAC

Tracklist

Versions

Credits

• Backing Vocals – The Beech Avenue Boys
• Engineer [Assistant] – George Cowan, Kim Foscato
• Illustration [Original] – Hans Erni
• Illustration [Sleeve Drawings] – Dave Dragon
• Photography By – Cindy Palmano
• Producer, Engineer, Arranged By [Orchestral], Programmed By [Computer] – Todd Rundgren
• Typography – Ken Ansell
• Vocals, Bass – Colin Moulding
• Vocals, Guitar – Andy Partridge
• Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer – Dave Gregory
• Written By – Andy Partridge (tracks: A1, A4 to A7, B1, B3 to B5)
• Written-By – Andy Partridge (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B6, B7), Colin Moulding

Notes

This version is a transparent cassette shell with white print, it has "AR" on both sides.
It has the original track list with the song "Mermaid Smiled" instead of "Dear God."

Barcodes

• Barcode (Text): 0 7599-24117-4
• Barcode (Scanned): 075992411745
• Pressing Plant ID: AR

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.
• Mixed At – Utopia Sound
• Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Produced For – Alchemedia Productions Inc.
• Duplicated By – Allied Record Company

Video

Album

Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 27 October 1986 on Virgin Records. Produced by American musician Todd Rundgren, it is a loose concept album about a nonspecific cycle, such as a day, a year, the seasons, or life. The title was chosen as a double entendre, referring to a type of bird skylark, as well as the Royal Navy term skylarking, which means fooling around. It became one of XTC's best-known albums and is generally regarded as their finest work. Today, we revisit the masterful chamber-pop of XTCs 1986 album Skylarking and the fraught story behind the bucolic songs. Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Late one morning in 1986, Todd Rundgren awoke at the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood to ominous news: A space shuttle had disintegrated in the stratosphere, killing the entire crew on live TV. Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 27 October 1986. Skylarking is a loose concept album centered around various cycles in life, such as the seasons, days, and years. Skylarking Q&A. Produced By Todd Rundgren. Producers Todd Rundgren. Writers Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding. Songs in album XTC - Skylarking 1986. XTC - Summer's Cauldron. XTC - Grass. XTC - The Meeting Place. XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl. XTC - Ballet for a Rainy Day. XTC - 1000 Umbrellas. XTC - Season Cycle. Listen free to XTC Skylarking Summer's Cauldron, Grass and more. 14 tracks 45:43. Released in 1986. Produced by Todd Rundgren. This album has a very Beatlesque feel to it. Often cited as XTC's best album. Combining the charming pastoral feel of Mummer with the classicist English pop of The Big Express, XTC expand their signature sound by enhancing their intelligently melodic pop with graceful, lyrical arrangements and sweeping, detailed instrumentation. Rundgren may have devised the sequencing, helping the record feel like a song cycle even if it doesn't play like one, but what really impresses is the consistency and depth of Andy Partridge's and Colin Moulding's songs. Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. Considered by many to be their finest album, Skylarking is a life-in-a-day semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer, most notably Summer's Cauldron and Season Cycle. Skylarking is a music album by XTC released in 1986. Skylarking is ranked 375th in the overall chart, 49th in the 1980s, and 5th in the year 1986. The top rated tracks on this album are Grass and Summer's Cauldron. This album is rated in the top 1 of all albums on . Album 1986 15 Songs. Skylarking Remastered 2001. Punk 1986