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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Apart from the superb 'Dukes Of Stratosfear' project I have ignored XTC over the last 30 odd years. Suddenly, after a chance encounter with their 'Apple Venus' album, I want their back catalogue, I want them all, and I want them now. I can clearly remember the day in November 1980 when The Jam released 'Sound Affects' and as I stood in the queue to buy my own copy the bloke in front was buying the recently released 'Black Sea' How I sneered. Horrible little cynical 16 year old that I was. How ridiculous, look at them in their diving gear! I'm the smart one here - give me miserable old Paul Weller any day. However, hearing Black Sea at long last after more than a quarter of a century, I am amazed at just how completely marvellous it is. It's very much of it's time, and of course it has dated - but it is lively, spiky and utterly positive, lyrically passing the baton from Ray Davies a decade earlier to Damon Albarn. Hearing again the four great singles (dismissed by me at the time as 'clever clever pop') they are quite simply superb and punctuate a filler free album, which (perhaps apart from the meandering thrash at the end) cannot fail but to entrhall on every play. This album is better than 'Sound Affects' - and it's never too late to discover that for yourself. Listen again to 'Generals and Majors' 'Love At First Sight' or 'Rocket From A Bottle' and try as you will to keep still. This is currently the daily soundtrack to breakfast time at home. It's time to embarras the kids............
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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XTC fans are almost all agreed that Black Sea rocks but for casual listeners alike it is one 1980s opus you must own. The album's reputation was hobbled by the unfortunate fact that it's only top 20 hit, "Sgt Rock", was an apalling sexist novelty: ignore that, and a few other bits of dated ballast, because the rest of it is mind-bendingly great and it flows brilliantly, culminating in "Travels In Nihilon" the most savage and dark comment on disappointed punk hopes. And one of the added b-sides, "Somnambulist" is a haunting gem that really should have gone on the original record. Occasionally daft they may be but these yokels have written some of the best British pop music of the last thirty years and some of it is to be found on this CD.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The best album in my view from the Swindon fourpiece XTC. Andy Partridge wrote most of the tracks here apart from Colin Moulding's 'Love at First Sight' and 'Generals and Majors'.
First issued in 1980 you can just hear the number of bands that have been influenced by this and other XTC albums over the years. Turn to Sgt Rock and turn the volume up, you will not regret it!
First issued in 1980 you can just hear the number of bands that have been influenced by this and other XTC albums over the years. Turn to Sgt Rock and turn the volume up, you will not regret it!
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The kind of album that's ALMOST PERFECT!!!
Rating: 8.5/10
Best tracks: `Towers of London', `Respectable Street', `No Language in Our Lungs', `Generals and Majors', `Sgt. Read more
Best tracks: `Towers of London', `Respectable Street', `No Language in Our Lungs', `Generals and Majors', `Sgt. Read more
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Published on 25 July 2009 by Mr. Simon Hodgetts
Oh well, you're all saying how great they are now, however back...
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Published on 11 Sep 2008 by Gary Mcghee
When they were flavour of the month
XTC built their artistic reputation on their early '3D' EP and 'White Music' debut album as well as gaining a modest but healthy following. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2006 by D. J. H. Thorn
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Published on 11 Dec 2004 by Jonathan James Romley
This phenomenon happens every twenty years or so
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