XTC-Oranges & Lemons CD- Geffen 1989 - Mayor Of Simleton! Excellent Condition

Description: Minor surface marks on Disc but plays perfectly. Case and inserts excellent Found this; Oranges and Lemons, from 1989, is a fantastic record, a lucid, technicolor sprawl of modernized Beatleisms and airbrushed psych-pop confectionary. Commercially, it was such a shame Tears for Fears had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time. Appropriately, given its title, several of the songs on Oranges and Lemons deal with Andy Partridge's newly acquired parental status (the jazzy "Pink Thing" is a cunning double-entendre about fatherly pride and his penis) as well as wryly address the wider failings of the world into which our children are born. Yes, like some sherberty, fructose-flavored lozenge, Oranges and Lemons is both bitter and sweet. But unquestionably excellent, as witnessed by the Byrds-like village-idiot love song "Mayor of Simpleton" and other highlights like "King for a Day" and "Poor Skeleton Steps Out." The Eastern mystique, serpentine guitars, and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" style chorus of "Garden of Earthly Delights" is conceivably what John, Paul, George, and Ringo would have sounded like if they'd hung around a little longer with the Maharishi. As for the dreamy, green-field tourist brochure panoramas of "Chalkhills and Children," think Brian Wilson drifting over the English countryside in a hang glider. Track Listings 1Garden Of Earthly Delights 2Mayor Of Simpleton 3King For A Day 4Here Comes President Kill Again 5The Loving 6Poor Skeleton Steps Out 7One Of The Millions 8Scarecrow People 9Merely A Man 10Cynical Days 11Across This Antheap 12Hold Me My Daddy 13Pink Thing 14Miniature Sun 15Chalkhills And Children

Price: 6 USD

Location: Onset, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-11-15T16:00:28.000Z

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