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XTC, Oranges & Lemons

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1086682

Disk length: 60m 52s (15 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1989

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Garden Of Earthly Delights 5:02
2. The Mayor Of Simpleton 3:58
3. King For A Day 3:38
4. Here Comes President Kill Again 3:34
5. The Loving 4:11
6. Poor Skeleton Steps Out 3:28
7. One Of The Millions 4:42
8. Scarecrow People 4:13
9. Merely A Man 3:26
10. Cynical Days 3:17
11. Across This Antheap 4:51
12. Hold Me My Daddy 3:47
13. Pink Thing 3:48
14. Miniature Sun 3:56
15. Chalkhills And Children 4:52

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Review

Oranges and Lemons, from 1989, is a fantastic record, a lucid, technicolor sprawl of modernized Beatleisms and airbrushed psych-pop confectionary. Commercially, it was such a shame Tears for Fears had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time. Appropriately, given its title, several of the songs on Oranges and Lemons deal with Andy Partridge's newly acquired parental status (the jazzy "Pink Thing" is a cunning double-entendre about fatherly pride and his penis) as well as wryly address the wider failings of the world into which our children are born. Yes, like some sherberty, fructose-flavored lozenge, Oranges and Lemons is both bitter and sweet. But unquestionably excellent, as witnessed by the Byrds-like village-idiot love song "Mayor of Simpleton" and other highlights like "King for a Day" and "Poor Skeleton Steps Out." The Eastern mystique, serpentine guitars, and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" style chorus of "Garden of Earthly Delights" is conceivably what John, Paul, George, and Ringo would have sounded like if they'd hung around a little longer with the Maharishi. As for the dreamy, green-field tourist brochure panoramas of "Chalkhills and Children," think Brian Wilson drifting over the English countryside in a hang glider. --Kevin Maidment24-bit remastered reissue of 1989 album. 15 tracks, including "The Mayor Of Simpleton."

Other Versions

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Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 52s

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 52s

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 52s

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 53s (+0m 1s)

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 55s (+0m 3s)

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 46s (-1m 54s)

Oranges & Lemons

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 60m 59s (+0m 7s)

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