XTC - Skylarking (1LP 200g) pulp fiction Most recently

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Freddie Freeloader

had never sung live and liked rock and pop artists like Cindy Lauper (perhaps one of her earliest influences as a singer)

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and for their innovations using live instrumentation in performance and recording long before it became common place in the power book scene

XTC - Skylarking (1LP 200g) pulp fiction Most recentlyXTC were holed up with eccentric producer Todd Rundgren for this 1986 album in which band and producer battled, sniped and argued throughout. You'd never guess listening to the more pastoral parts of the record and despite what the band think, it's a really great album. This version is the reverse polarity edition which sorted out some of the original album's sound issues. Also includes notorious US hit 'Dear God' which was inexplicably left off the