XTC used similar chalk carving imagery for their "English Settlement" LP, they being from the West Country as well,and it appeared before Gogmagog did,1985....who copied who(?) is another question the experts can't disagree on, but as I'm an expert too,and an XTC fan, i'm declaring "English Settlement" the winner.......better record too,yet the Uffington White Horse loses out to The Cerne Giant as the more eye-catching chalk carving thingamajig .
The Rude Man,as the local oiks call it,or, less naughtily,the Cerne Giant, is carved into the chalk hillsides of Dorset,and no-one knows when it was actually made.The experts have now narrowed it down to between 700AD and somewhere during the 10th century.
Before he took up making repetitive electronic drone music, Gogmagog ,was a legendary Giant who roamed the hillsides and the byways of southwestern Britain, no doubt causing no end of trouble. There was no Police Force back then of course, so these types of chaps could do what the fuck they wanted.....up until they were about thirty five naturally,because life spans were not too generous back in the dark ages.
Well this ain't no XTC album, but it has its place,droning away in the background as you do something else, maybe that Fondue Soirée you always wanted to do.Then the guests start asking if you'd turn it off and put some XTC on. My favored miesterwerk from the lads from Swindon,is always on the bottom of any XTC fans list,...it's "Go2" for me i'm afraid....not always popular in the johnny-come-lately section of the XTC fanclub. They all go for that shit Todd Rundgren atrocity one instead...."skylarking"...ugh!...Andy agrees with me.
They need to listen to side A and B of The Folding Staircase's "Gogmagog" they do.
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An XTC fan from former Yugoslavia here. XTC top list of albums among really many fans in the successor-countries of that fallen country is pretty much the same as the chronological list of their releases, with Black Sea and English Settlement swapping places. So the best is the first one, and so on. Lot of people who actually listen XTC records do not own anything released after English Settlement. And the number of bands from that period in Yugoslavia who tried to sound like XTC was annoying, with wrong angularity in sound and those awful nasal voices.
Come now, English Settlement released 1982, long before. - you knew that? And it's who copied whom!
It just feels like a 1985 record...hence the mistake....i will fix it....i feel i must to avoid being hailed by the Fake News crowd.
Thanks very much, Jonny. This'll go down a treat.
THANKS!!!!!!!!
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