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MisterJunior
Surprised to see several negative comments on here. I've always thought of this record as being more or less bulletproof since I've never previously encountered anyone who'd heard it and didn't like it. To each his own, but I consider it one of the best albums of the 80s for sure, and one of very few I can think of where I wouldn't change a thing about it. Pretty much a pefect LP. On the one hand it's unfortunate that Rundgren and XTC never worked together again, but on the other it makes their one collaboration that much more special since it only happened the once. BTW -- the Steven Wilson remix is fantastic.
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weird5cience
This album has all the right ingredients, but I feel like the only tracks to fully deliver its potential are the first two. Side B particularly sucks a lot. I guess I just don't 'get' it
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CarolinaAFer
It's a great album, don't get me wrong, but now that I'm familiar with the rest of their work, it feels like it overshadows everything else. Being a quasi-concept record, I think it's a pretty closed listen, whilst all the others have great pop songs that don't need to be tied down to one big thing to be appreciated and they all have their own charm. For a first listener however, go for it.
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MachineOfaDream
I love this album pretty much EXCEPT for "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" and "Dear God". Not for religious reasons or anything. I appreciate that they were bold enough to record such a song.
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Paper_Okami
There are many many albums in a large variety of genres that I absolutely love... This is the only one I consider absolutely perfect, easily my favorite album of all time.
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HushSettleDown
I treasure my vinyl copy of this, even if I was lucky enough too pick it up for £2 from a charity shop!
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HushSettleDown
I wish more radio pop bullshit was this fucking good, then. I mean, jeez, talk about dumb things to say. [2]
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prominence_la
A long, long way from Drums and Wires - a maturation from quirky to masterful.
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PartySanCTG
I wish more radio pop bullshit was this fucking good, then. I mean, jeez, talk about dumb things to say.
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PartySanCTG
I liked the remaster for being quite a bit more bass-heavy, but I think cramming Dear God before Dying's a mistake. Dear God always felt to me a bit outta place on the album, since Todd Rundgren did basically force the whole sequence between Summer's Cauldron and Sacrificial Bonfire to be a concept album thing. It always made more sense to have Dear God last as a bonus track, since you get this whole life-death-here we go again cycle and then an angry misotheist screed that basically functions as a denunciation of the whole cycle. Shoving Dear God between Man Who Sailed Around His Soul and Dying doesn't seem to make much sense to me...
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KuriousBanana
This album has less than 95,000 listeners on Last.fm. I can't believe that more people aren't appreciating the sheer beauty and genius that is Skylarking.
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DanielBorges90
An exquisite production, i think it's somewhere between Talking Heads and The Beatles. Different enough to deserve much more reputation.
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PartySanCTG
Brill, and I'm curious now about the supposedly correct recent remaster. Then again, I don't have an LP player and think LPs are outdated, so I guess it'll be a long while before I'll hear it.
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