Skylarking
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overview
Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on 27 October 1986 and produced by American musician Todd Rundgren. Skylarking is a "life-in-a-day" semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer, most notably "Summer's Cauldron" and "Season Cycle".
tracks
1. "Summer's Cauldron" 3:19
2. "Grass" (Colin Moulding) 3:05
3. "The Meeting Place" (Moulding) 3:14
4. "That's Really Super, Supergirl" 3:21
5. "Ballet for a Rainy Day" 2:50
6. "1000 Umbrellas" 3:44
7. "Season Cycle" 3:21
8. "Earn Enough for Us" 2:54
9. "Big Day" (Moulding) 3:32
10. "Another Satellite" 4:15
11. "Mermaid Smiled" 2:26
12. "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" 3:24
13. "Dying" (Moulding) 2:31
14. "Sacrificial Bonfire" (Moulding) 3:49
15. "Dear God" 4:24
All songs written and composed by Andy Partridge, except where noted.