The Official XTC Thread (alternative, house, indie, pop, rock)

Screen13 · 12-18-2010, 10:05 AM

For me, it was really catching the sounds when they were slightly fresh, and hearing a band trying to seriously break out and building up on what happened with Drums and Wires. While most of what was called Power Pop failing me, Black Sea was what I wanted the music to be, so it connects on both the quality of the music and what was happening at the time - it caught the fever that I was looking for. I hear a bold and sharp sound that hinted at the more interesting sounds elsewhere, and it was very focused - Maybe too focused and less creative for some, but for it's time it really broke down many walls of resistance.

I could imagine some kind of plans for Pop Domination moving around while making the album as the sound pretty much sounded like it was really wanting to be noticed. Over in The States, XTC were only just starting to get noticed, and being signed to RSO (The link to their inclusion on the Times Square soundtrack with one of their lesser/still good and catchy moments, "Take This Town") after having slight success on Epic, while things were going very smooth at least in The UK (if not most of the world, yet). I can't blame them for going for the gold on that album with a fine-tuned blast of sound which may not have been as inventive as their other works but was a good set which got their sound to a bigger audience, which was in the end a move that worked as most of their listeners moved along with their developments. XTC were a band that got the the more adventurous music listeners, and Black Sea was the step up to getting many of them who missed out on all that went on before, especially in The US.

12-18-2010, 10:05 AM	#32 (permalink)
Screen13 Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,388	For me, it was really catching the sounds when they were slightly fresh, and hearing a band trying to seriously break out and building up on what happened with Drums and Wires. While most of what was called Power Pop failing me, Black Sea was what I wanted the music to be, so it connects on both the quality of the music and what was happening at the time - it caught the fever that I was looking for. I hear a bold and sharp sound that hinted at the more interesting sounds elsewhere, and it was very focused - Maybe too focused and less creative for some, but for it's time it really broke down many walls of resistance. I could imagine some kind of plans for Pop Domination moving around while making the album as the sound pretty much sounded like it was really wanting to be noticed. Over in The States, XTC were only just starting to get noticed, and being signed to RSO (The link to their inclusion on the Times Square soundtrack with one of their lesser/still good and catchy moments, "Take This Town") after having slight success on Epic, while things were going very smooth at least in The UK (if not most of the world, yet). I can't blame them for going for the gold on that album with a fine-tuned blast of sound which may not have been as inventive as their other works but was a good set which got their sound to a bigger audience, which was in the end a move that worked as most of their listeners moved along with their developments. XTC were a band that got the the more adventurous music listeners, and Black Sea was the step up to getting many of them who missed out on all that went on before, especially in The US.