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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 22h

Great timing! Have a pick from that album today! 😀

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 22h

#AngieHart is just the best. Still listen to her solo stuff!

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 22h

We still watch the YouTube clips of the TC&I shows in Swindon back in (OMG) 2018. Tight AF.

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 22h

Awesome guitar lick by the late-great #AlanMurphy. Chugs along incredibly well.

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 14 / 15

Making Plans for Nigel
(from Drums and Wires, 1979)

A New Wave track that everyone seems to love. And rightly so. It’s a #ColinMoulding classic with an enduring
#TerryChambers drum beat. Happy in their work, indeed. 😬

youtu.be/yp-WJXOb2V4

Making Plans For Nigel

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, Jason! Will be in Tokyo late October and the photo walks sound interesting! Please DM to discuss 👍

Senses Working Overtime (Remastered 2001)

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 13 / 15

Senses Working Overtime
(from English Settlement, 1982)

#TerryChambers’ innovative drum parts, particularly in the bridge, propel this track along like a freight train. An odd subject for a song, but seems to work. 🤔

youtu.be/kjt7AdLYT2w

Mayor Of Simpleton (2001 Remaster)

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 2d

Ok that one is fantastic 😀

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Day 12 / 15

The Mayor of Simpleton
(from Oranges and Lemons, 1989)

A complex bass line from #ColinMoulding lifts this delightful track to great heights. Who cares if it’s a drum machine? It’s the 80s!

youtu.be/L6FObPezIAk

Then She Appeared (2001 Remaster)

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 4d

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Day 11 / 15

Then She Appeared
(from Nonsuch, 1992)

An exquisite composition with wondrous contributions from all involved, not least the lyrics by #AndyPartridge.

“All Edward leered”? Mr. Lear would be chuffed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J33G...

XTC - Generals and Majors - Black Sea [1980]

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 4d

Spotify – Web Player

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Day 10 / 15

Generals and Majors
(from Black Sea, 1980)

A fantastic guitar hook by #DaveGregory drives this awesome #ColinMoulding track. And don’t underestimate the entire Black Sea album, either. Fantastic stuff.

youtu.be/uCuZ11IW1CY

YouTube video by Anglerfish Deepcuts

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly that, yes!

YouTube video by SuspectDevice78

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 5d

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Day 9 / 15

Statue of Liberty
(from debut White Music, 1978)

Featuring great keyboard work from original member #BarryAndrews, this catchy number was banned by the BBC for its suggestive lyrics. “How 1978!” Always a favourite.

youtu.be/u22bDpsZ9Fg

XTC - Statue Of Liberty

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 6d

My first copy was on cassette and was missing Mermaid Smiled, but it had Dear God.

Do you have the original cover art?

Dear God (Remastered 2001)

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 7d

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Day 8 / 15

Dear God
(from Skylarking, 1986, but was originally a non-album single)

The impact this song had on our small Irish Catholic city was extraordinary. What started with hushed whispers ended with open revolt.

youtu.be/pAHL9AfY4Yk

My Bird Performs (2001 Remaster)

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 8d

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Day 7 / 15

My Bird Performs
(from Nonsuch, 1992)

Another #ColinMoulding number that, for an album often described as dark, is as gleeful and playful as could be. Feeling down? Put this one on and be transformed.

youtu.be/-fx8D1ixbys

XTC -Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her -

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 8d

I feel a sense of nostalgia that is best summed up with…

“My uncle has a country place that no one knows about…”

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 8d

A little #Calgary, #Alberta morning today…

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 9d

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Day 6 / 15

Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
(from The Big Express, 1984)

“He who hesitates is lost.”

Arguably, the finest track on this underrated album. You can smell the salt air and the wind whipping at your overcoat.

youtu.be/SilKZK47XTc

YouTube video by egidio sabbadini

Three Wise Men Aka XTC - Thanks For Christmas

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🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 10d

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Day 5 / 15

Thanks For Christmas
(a 1983 single released as “The Three Wise Men”)

This Holiday gem was instantly recognizable as XTC by their fans. But speculation abounded. Could it be Culture Club? China Crisis? Heaven 17?

youtu.be/jw1RuGho2Yc

YouTube video by Llaryhi

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 10d

And it’s surprising how well the lyrics hold up “en français”!
Give it a try! 😀

“L’enfant est chaud ce soir
Il fait si chaud ce soir”

🇨🇦 CIDK Radio @cidkradio.bsky.social · 10d

How different “Making Plans for Stephen” would sound, too!