White Music

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a b Zaleski, Annie. "This is pop: XTC's giddy, incomparable "White Music" turns 40". Salon . Retrieved 2 March 2022. a b Maher, Dave (2 February 2007). "Andy Partridge: XTC "Well and Truly in the Fridge" ". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. a b c Fortnam, Ian (19 February 2016). "Heavy Load: Andy Partridge". Louder Sound . Retrieved 17 November 2018. Bernhardt, Todd (16 December 2007). "Andy and Dave discuss 'Towers of London' ". Chalkhills . Retrieved 20 September 2017.

Ham, Robert (15 September 2014). "XTC Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum . Retrieved 8 December 2021. For the orchestral Apple Venus, the budget allowed a day of recording at Abbey Road [with] a 40-piece band [that failed to] match the mathematical precision of [the arrangements] [...] The [recordings had to be sampled], cut and pasted together to achieve the " Vaughan Williams with a hard-on" sound required.

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Nelson, Sean (13 April 2016). "Artistic Crap: Part One of a Serialized Interview with Andy Partridge of XTC". The Stranger . Retrieved 20 September 2017. Gregory never presented a completed idea for a song to the band partly because he felt intimidated by Partridge's scrutiny. [142] [nb 9] Since he "couldn't continue grinding out old blues clichés and power chords," he decided to "think more in terms of the songs as the masters and the instruments as the servants." [47] Discussing Gregory's contributions to the group, Farmer writes of "a precision and correctness that carries through from his prerehearsal of guitar solos to ... his encyclopedic knowledge of guitars and who-played-what-on-which-instrument-with-which-amplifier-in-which-studio-on-which-record-under-the-influence-of-what-star-sign-or-guru-or-drug." [142] There was no official announcement that we'd finished. I just got wind that Andy didn’t really want to make another record, but he didn't tell me and maybe he didn’t know himself. ... I just think we were two old men who didn't really talk much. Bernhardt, Todd (18 March 2017). "Andy discusses 'Wrapped in Grey' ". Chalkhills . Retrieved 25 September 2017.

a b Bernhardt, Todd; Partridge, Andy (24 March 2006). "The Lyrical Andy Partridge". Chalkhills . Retrieved 18 October 2018. a b Nelson, Sean (20 April 2016). "Failure Is Your Best Friend: Part Two of a Serialized Interview with Andy Partridge of XTC". The Stranger . Retrieved 16 November 2018. Maiuri, Ken (27 February 2014). "Ken Maiuri's Tuned In". Daily Hampshire Gazette . Retrieved 11 August 2018.

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a b c Doug (17 February 2008). "Andy Partridge interview". Rundgren Radio (Audio). Event occurs at 57:00–58:50, 1:45:00–1:46:25 . Retrieved 5 January 2018. Gregory, Dave; Moulding, Colin; Partridge, Andy (November 1984). "Recording The Big Express". One Two Testing (16). Zupko, Sarah (1999). "XTC, Apple Venus Volume 1 / Transistor Blast". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. He described himself as the band's "battery" [135] and expressed resentment "that the other three, inevitably, would go off sightseeing while muggins here would be needed for radio, TV and magazine interviews." [58] Moulding said he was "happy for him to do the talking." [136] Partridge commented in 2006 that virtually "every [English] band that comes up gets compared to us, whether it's the Kaiser Chiefs, or Franz Ferdinand, or the Futureheads." [57]

Gibbs, Ryan (19 May 2015). "Favorite Letterman Music Moments". The Young Folks . Retrieved 20 September 2017. a b Mendehlson, Jason; Klinger, Eric (24 April 2015). "XTC's 'Skylarking' ". PopMatters . Retrieved 20 September 2017. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau felt "Radios in Motion", "Statue of Liberty" and "This Is Pop" were aimed squarely at the American market, and that Partridge failed on the latter because "radio programmers resent anyone telling them their business." Conversely, he opined that Colin Moulding's songs were "aimed at bored Yes fans, which is why he missed—the lad doesn't know that Yes fans like being bored." [6]On Skylarking ... the band has accomplished the remarkable feat of pulling the kinks out of its music without sacrificing its peerless originality. The band members have become the deans of a group of artists who make what can only be described as unpopular pop music, placing a high premium on melody and solid if idiosyncratic songcraft. Another consideration Partridge had was the punk movement's antipathy toward pop music of the past: "A real Pol Pot kind of thing, which is ludicrous, and rather nasty." [2] Brelhan, Tom (25 February 2009). "XTC to Reissue Dukes of Stratosphear Side Project". Pitchfork . Retrieved 20 September 2017. We play the songs much too loud Mark Fisher, Mark Reed, David White in What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast Products

The record obviously left a lasting effect on a young and impressionable Hall who had just founded The Specials around the same time. “They’re one of the best groups that Britain ever produced. I don’t know why everyone goes on about someone like Morrissey making the best British pop when in fact XTC did it better than anyone else,” Hall declared. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Chris Woodstra said, "More dissonant than their latter period, the young band shines with directionless energy and a good sense of humor." [7] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune later called the album "quirky" and "pithy", [8] while Annie Zaleski of Salon later deemed it "a giddy and (yes) impossible-to-pigeonhole debut" that's "exhilarating and, truth be told, almost exhausting to absorb, simply because it's so relentless and energetic." [13]Pitchfork Staff (22 August 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 20 September 2017. Rachel, Daniel (2014). The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781466865211.