{"id":2819,"date":"2010-07-06T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-06T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:56:13","slug":"xtc-as-its-music-was-meant-to-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/xtc-as-its-music-was-meant-to-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"XTC…As Its Music Was Meant to Sound!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This news<\/a> courtesy of Townsman cherguevara<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

XTC Skylarking Better Than You’ve Ever Heard It Date:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

In the course of world renowned mastering engineer John Dents [sic] work on preparing the new double vinyl set of XTC’s Skylarking<\/em> for release, an interesting and wonderful thing has been discovered. John has informed us that that somewhere in the chain from Todd Rundgrens [sic] Utopia sound studio and Londons Master room studio, way back in 1986, a fault has occurred that means all of the versions of Skylarking<\/em> you’ve ever heard, on CD or vinyl, have sounded…how shall we put this?… wrong. Read complete story here.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I usually cringe when I read about any significantly “restored-to-the-creators’-intent” reissue, but I’m a longtime XTC fan who’s always found Skylarking<\/em> to sound a bit thin and cold. I always blamed it on a combination of Rundgren’s tight ass constricting Partridge’s increasingly tight ass, with an assist to Todd’s boy and former Tubes<\/a> drummer, Prairie Prince<\/strong>. I’m curious whether any amount of added warmth and low tones will spark up some of the codified songwriting that has set in by that late date in the band’s career.<\/p>\n

[NOTE:<\/em> cher may have a different take on this<\/a> and, most likely, can assess the veracity of the supposed technical glitch.]<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/ins> cherguevara has called…<\/em>
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…this story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This news courtesy of Townsman cherguevara: XTC Skylarking Better Than You’ve Ever Heard It Date: In the course of world renowned mastering engineer John Dents [sic] work on preparing the new double vinyl set of XTC’s Skylarking for release, an interesting and wonderful thing has been discovered. John has informed us that that somewhere in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[87,66,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}