Vic's XTC Mix
Added 2021-01-27 20:22:41 +0000 UTCHello folks! I made a mix of one of my favorite bands. If you aren't familiar with them, they're sometimes referred to as the 80s Beatles, but they shouldn't be pigeonholed. They started out in the punk scene in the 70s, almost DEVO level stuff with melodic guitar parts, then progressed to more 60s-ish pop after they quit touring. They worked with Todd Rundgren to create the beautiful Skylarking record in 1986 and even went full psychedelia as their alter-ego The Dukes Of Stratosphere. Maybe this mix will inspire you to explore their catalog. Hope you enjoy it!
01 Wrapped In Grey
02 Helicopter
03 Earn Enough For Us
04 Funk Pop A Roll
05 Burning With Optimism’s Flames
06 Ladybird
07 Dying
08 Great Fire
09 Statue Of Liberty
10 You’re The Wish You Are I Had
11 Vanishing Girl (as The Dukes Of Stratosphere)
12 Extrovert
13 Tissue Tigers
14 Rocket From A Bottle
15 Knuckle Down
16 Mermaid Smiled
17 Leisure
18 Miniature Sun
19 The Good Things (as Terry & The Lovemen)
20 No Thugs In Our House
21 That’s Really Super Supergirl
22 Rook
23 No Language In Our Lungs
24 Chalkhills And Children
Comments
Drums and Wires is a stranded on an island album for me. Gonna check this mix out for sure.
Brian
2021-10-19 07:38:51 +0000 UTCThank you for sharing Vic! This band XTC is a new favorite of mine and I think you have excellent tastes as well as talented abilities.
fum_skeem
2021-07-24 19:16:33 +0000 UTCstill listening.
Danny Wolff
2021-06-12 08:50:33 +0000 UTCI'm two months late to the discussion but, yeah, this is indeed a huge oversight.
brian bonelli
2021-04-03 01:52:56 +0000 UTCI love this Vic thank you! Intro is a bop!
KatieMoe
2021-01-30 03:43:03 +0000 UTCLovinit! VB is such a hitmaker that the intro jingle is like top 3 of the tunes
Harald Andersson
2021-01-29 07:55:21 +0000 UTCthank you Vic! I'm for sure in need of a refresher/crash course in XTC.
chaoserene
2021-01-28 19:50:50 +0000 UTCnever heard of XTC but I put this on during my workout last night and now I am JACKED
Jay Goods
2021-01-28 17:25:40 +0000 UTCThank you, Vic!
Ted Maxwell
2021-01-28 15:45:30 +0000 UTCNice. Lots Brian Wilson sounds too. Vic, did you see this Rolling Stone article on Jon Brion? https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/jon-brion-meaningless-interview-1118584/amp/
Robert Franchini
2021-01-28 12:53:22 +0000 UTCone of my top 3. Earn Enough for Us one of the GOAT tunes
Tim P.
2021-01-28 10:17:20 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/qjMoWxwW8tQ
Jimmy Herring
2021-01-28 06:27:41 +0000 UTCAnd you hate the Dead ffs 🤦♂️
Brendan Livingston
2021-01-28 04:15:48 +0000 UTCWe aren't making plans for Nigel, which is probably best for him
Cody Neff
2021-01-28 04:01:10 +0000 UTCNiiice vic! I personally like towers of london. You missed that one
Brice Dismang
2021-01-28 03:44:18 +0000 UTCNamed my cat Nigel for obvious reasons. Love this mix a lot, and love you VBIV
Lady J.J. Armes
2021-01-28 01:50:48 +0000 UTCNice Vic, great set- one of my favorite bands too! Recently got the uk vinyl reissue of nonesuch, maybe their most underrated- such a great record
Michael P Stallmeyer
2021-01-28 01:09:22 +0000 UTCwhat is happening?! i haven’t listened to XTC in a decade and then went for a long XTC swim like THREE DAYS AGO and so quit following me around!
sari gordon
2021-01-27 22:51:41 +0000 UTCSo good! THANKS
Dillon Myrick
2021-01-27 22:40:49 +0000 UTCThanks for this Vic! definitely the best band to come out of my birthplace of Swindon lol, always loved skylarking but keen to check out more of them thanks to this
Fergus Campbell
2021-01-27 22:09:38 +0000 UTCYES! This is so cool! Thank you Vic. I did a deep dive into XTC about two years ago and they’ve been consistently my favorite band since. I can’t believe I went so long without hearing them. It makes me so very happy that people might be getting into them for the first time ❤️
Ellen Connaughton
2021-01-27 21:57:38 +0000 UTCvery nice Vic! one my favorite bands too, still so under appreciated but I hope this mix will turn more people onto them. I really love their early, noisier stuff with Barry Andrews on keys but their mid-period stuff post-English Settlement after they stopped touring is great too! I love that Optimism’s Flames and Funk Pop a Roll is on this list, but the track Wake Up is still way up there for me - those panning guitars on the intro is what really got me hooked on them.
Nick Hill
2021-01-27 21:56:37 +0000 UTCHell yeah! Thank you so much for this, Vic! Matt and Vic do not disappoint when it comes to mixes! This’ll be a hard act to follow for Tim and Doug!
Julian Dalrymple
2021-01-27 21:45:03 +0000 UTCI have one Andy Partridge story. In high school my media studies teacher got me into XTC. I loved them instantly. The teacher was also a songwriter and had recently recorded a CD of his tunes. They were good! Anyways, Apple Venus comes out and Andy comes to the states to do promotional events. I go to Tower Records in Boston with my teacher's CD to hand to his hero (He could not attend, I forget why). Anyway, I'm 18 and this CD clearly shows my 55 year old teacher on the front cover juxtaposed with a picture of him at Woodstock as a teenager, ok? When I get up to meet Andy I was super nervous. It seemed too long to explain who actually made the CD, so I handed it to him and said, "I made this would you check it out?" And Andy kept looking at the cover and then up at me and then finally asked a clarifying question, "You made this?" I was in too deep so I just doubled down. "Yes, hope you like it." He was so confused and knew I was lying but couldn't understand why. Then he signed Apple Venus and I left in shame.
Ryan Walsh
2021-01-27 21:26:53 +0000 UTCKnew I'd come across a Cardiacs fan around here somewhere!
Emmet O'Riabhaigh
2021-01-27 21:26:46 +0000 UTCThanks Vic! Never got into this band but I’ll check this out. I’ve been on a Cardiacs and death metal kick lately
Chase
2021-01-27 21:24:18 +0000 UTCVic this is really good. You dig deep into Fuzzy Warbles at all? If not check out "Young Cleopatra" song rules.
Ryan Walsh
2021-01-27 21:19:42 +0000 UTCme favourite band nice one vic
Robert Wood
2021-01-27 20:57:47 +0000 UTCyoooo! big XTC fan here. great mix
Derek Moalli
2021-01-27 20:56:07 +0000 UTCI love XTC, but now my priority is getting an extended "VB Gonna Be a DJ" on the next edition of Slaps Bops & Bangers
Sara Dennis
2021-01-27 20:49:31 +0000 UTCall deep cuts, no hits
Tim Brooks
2021-01-27 20:48:29 +0000 UTCI LOVE XTC! Can't believe "Respectable Street" didn't make the cut
Chef Jeff
2021-01-27 20:45:18 +0000 UTCThanks Vic! I've been needing an education in XTC
Austin
2021-01-27 20:44:13 +0000 UTCChris Cuomo approved!
Daron K
2021-01-27 20:41:06 +0000 UTCLove Tissue Tigers! One of their best B-Sides. Awesome mix Vic!
Peter Corda
2021-01-27 20:34:37 +0000 UTCAwesome, thanks DJ VB. Very late to the XTC game and only familiar with a few of the albums. Mostly Drums and Wires and English Settlement. Reel by Reel has some great guitar playing.
Matt M.
2021-01-27 20:31:26 +0000 UTCRight on, Vic! Thanks!
Natosha Woods
2021-01-27 20:30:35 +0000 UTCno "love on a farm boy's wages." this is fucked. t
Tim Heidecker
2021-01-27 20:30:15 +0000 UTCHonorable mention Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (v. topical in '21)
👽
2021-01-27 20:29:10 +0000 UTCThanks Mr. Vic 🙌
Jay Goods
2021-01-27 20:28:29 +0000 UTCthx for the cover art!
Kevin S.
2021-01-27 20:27:51 +0000 UTCNo Making Plans For Nigel? Love this, thanks Vic 🙏
Brendan Carroll
2021-01-27 20:27:22 +0000 UTCYes Vic - love XTC
Bethan McKnight
2021-01-27 20:26:48 +0000 UTCXTC :) :) thank u !!
Daniel Lucca Pujol
2021-01-27 20:24:17 +0000 UTC
