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Roads Girdle The Globe - 2001 Digital Remaster

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Andy Partridge described Roads Girdle the Globe as a cynical hymn to the motorcar. The guitars were recorded to be intentionally discordant, like machinery, and the bass, which Andy says is the melody instrument of the song, is revved like a car. He said on writing the song: "I was staying up late one night, and I saw a foreign film on television, which was the main spark to writing 'Roads Girdle the Globe.' It's a Finnish film from 1970, by a filmmaker who also wrote it. His name is Risto Jarva, and the Finnish title of the movie is Bensaa Suonissa. The English … read more
Andy Partridge described Roads Girdle the Globe as a cynical hymn to the motorcar. The guitars were recorded to be intentionally discordant, like mac… read more
Andy Partridge described Roads Girdle the Globe as a cynical hymn to the motorcar. The guitars were recorded to be intentionally discordant, like machinery, and the bass, which Andy says… read more

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XTC was a band from Swindon, England led by Andy Partridge (guitars, vocals) and Colin Moulding (bass, vocals). Active between the late 1970s and the mid 2000s, XTC's music ranged from jerky / riffs to lushly-arranged . They also drew heavily from vintage and from the 1960s, genres which they began to explore more deeply after creating The Dukes of Stratosphear side-project. While XTC failed to maintain significant commercial success after the 1980s, they have earned a devoted cult following, influencing many and… read more
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