Summary from 14 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated XTC’s catalog across 16 albums from 14 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated XTC album is Skylarking (Remastered) (1986) with a 9.1/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Drums and Wires (Bonus Track Version) and Coat of Many Cupboards (Remastered). The discography on Rate.fm spans 1978 to 2002. Making Plans For Nigel ranks as the highest-rated XTC song on Rate.fm with a 9.1/10 average.
Skylarking (Remastered)
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the masterful chamber-pop of XTC’s 1986 album Skylarking and the fraught story behind the bucolic songs.”
Coat of Many Cupboards (Remastered)
“XTC are a frustrating band. Founding members (and at this point, the only ones left) guitarist Andy Partridge and bassist Colin Moulding are at once highly idiosyncratic, obsessively formal, brutally honest as songwriters, and yet suspiciously self-aware. When Partridge references, in ten separate interviews, the same "exorcism of influences" in regard to his fondness for the music of Brian Wilson”
Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Vol. 2)
“A certain age-old question has once again raised its nappy-ass head, troubling the small segment of society that spends way too many hours writing about pop music. The question: what makes one person love a song that another person hates? How can my co-workers prefer Lit to Mingus? Is there an actual reason, defensible on a theoretical level, for how I can love Shudder to Think and hate Queen? The”