The Skylarking Interview with Andy Partridge

The Skylarking Interview with Andy Partridge
The Warner Bros. Music Show 1986

Song excerpts and interview with Andy Partridge, includes one segment with Todd Rundgren. Produced, edited and voice-over by George Gimarc.

Featuring :
Summer's Cauldron; Grass; The Meeting Place; That's Really Super, Supergirl; Ballet for a Rainy Day; 1000 Umbrellas; Season Cycle; Earn Enough for Us; Big Day; Another Satellite; Dear God; The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul; Dying; Sacrificial Bonfire.

[OldMod]

Great to hear this, thank you. I bought Skylarking on release here in England (no Dear God, it was originally a single B side here) Their best LP, without doubt for me, but Black Sea and English Settlement were also great, but others too. Thanks for popping this on here, fascinating stuff.

[keithkoenig]

SKYLARKING is my favorite XTC album, but 1979'S DRUMS AND WIRES is another top shelf XTC album.

[arkestar]

My all time fave XTC album. Plenty more all coming in at joint 2nd but this will always have the biggest place in my heart of hearts.[i've clearly got many, haven't U????]

[ArturoGofunkez]

Someone could write a book about the making of this album, so many interesting things going on!

[ericamate]

To me this album is the Stg Pepper lonely Heart Club Band of XTC

[dharmaart]

pretty funny in hindsight how Andy had to explain how they made the birds chirp in time

[HNSoFRArtsShow]

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Nous habitons la France nous adorons XTC.

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[AD]

The version I heard in the UK didn't have Dear God and though I love it, I still don't think fits. Shame they ditched Mermaid Smiledin the US, because I love it.

[krisscanlon]

Todd listened to this and remixed the interview and still could hear Andy's words clearly 😂! Those two have made a side career going on about the troubled recording. Dear God was a success but I feel Oranges Lemons was much better overall...better timing.

[Uniblab]

Seems there was spillover from the "Dukes" albums...?

[patkeeg]

Alone on a beautiful, tropical island, with a well tanned, very naked, Norah Jones to make juices, this is the album we listen to.

[troygaspard]

Yes, the Brits are weather crazy. for a good reason.

[dakinerhymes]

This album is on my top 10 of all time list. It is so far and away better than any other XTC album that I don't really even consider they have any others. I did not know, consciously anyway, that Todd Rundgren was the producer. When I found out accidentally, through the magic of google mind control apparatus I said to myself, "yeah, no wonder, wow good for everybody". Now I find out about all this controversy. Such a disappointment. The album is a masterpiece (only the weak song, "Dying") and anybody associated with it should be resting on their laurels. I don't want to take sides or pronounce judgments on anyone, but I will say that if Todd Rundgren thought he could write relevant songs and perform them he would probably be doing so. He is a brilliant producer but where is his music? BTW I never thought of the album as a song cycle. I thought it was a great collection of unrelated songs and that "Another Satellite" fit right in.