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Date: 11/04/10
XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"
XTC is one of those bands I really keep meaning to check out. I mean, I remember them at the height of their public profile between 1979 and 1982 but - apart from their hits - I've heard very little else, despite them continuing for many years after that.
I used to have a blind spot about their song Making Plans For Nigel for obvious reasons, and although I can now hear that track without wincing, it still isn't in the same category as this; their only top ten single from the early part of 1982, and what might be termed 'English post-punk pastoral':
Update: The video originally embedded here - which showed XTC performing this track for TV - has since been removed by YouTube for "terms of use violation". Probably some twat of a corporate lawyer. This replacement doesn't have anything other than the single's sleeve to look at, but the music's just as cracking.
Update Update: Arse! This has been yanked as well, and the only other ones I can find are of the radio edit.
Update Update Update: I've found another one of the full version, although again with just a static image. But that doesn't matter:
