XTC Reel by Real: The Dukes of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot

				(1987) The Album The Songs Recording Information Reviews Discographical Details The Singles Art

Psonic Psunspot

Andy: “The Dukes were the band we all wanted to be in when we were at school. Purple, giggling, fuzztone, liquid and arriving. If you want to know where those cheap charlatans ‘The Beatles’, ‘Pink Floyd’, ‘The Byrds’, ‘The Hollies’ and ‘The Beach Boys’ stole their ideas from, well just listen to this and weep.”

Lyrics, Charts and More

1. Vanishing Girl
2. Have You Seen Jackie?
3. Little Lighthouse
4. You're a Good Man, Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)
5. Collideascope
6. You're My Drug
7. Shiny Cage
8. Brainiac's Daughter
9. The Affiliated
10. Pale and Precious

2009 APE House reissues also include bonus tracks:

1. No One At Home (demo)
2. Little Lighthouse (demo)
3. Collideascope (demo)
4. Shiny Cage (demo)
5. Brainiac's Daughter (demo)
6. The Affiliated (demo)
7. You're a Good Man, Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel) (video)

Recording Information

Recorded at Sawmills Studios, Fowey, Cornwall, in June 1987.
Produced by John Leckie and ‘The Dukes’.
Engineered by John Leckie and John Cornfield.
Originally released in August 1987 as an LP in the U.K.
Sir John Johns - singing, guitar, brain buds.
The Red Curtain - electric bass, song stuff.
Lord Cornelius Plum - mellotron, piano, organ, fuzz-tone guitar.
E.I.E.I. Owen - drum set.
Lily and Lila Fraser - voices

Working titles for this album include Songs From The Knobstick Knebula, Nebular Knobsticks and Psonic Psunspot Pstockade.

Singles

Vanishing Girl

Art

The Dukes of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot LP cover	cover of the Psonic Psunspot UK cassette	cover of the US Psonic Psunspot cassette
Geffen US cassette of The Dukes Of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot	Psonic Psunspot reissue promotional cover	The Dukes of Stratosphear: Vanishing Girl promo single
The Dukes of Stratosphear: Vanishing Girl promotional 12-incher cover	The Dukes of Stratosphear	The Dukes of Stratosphear
The Dukes of Stratosphear promo photo	The Dukes of Stratosphear promotional photograph circa 1987	masquerading as psychedelic minstrels The Dukes Of Stratosphear, Q, April 1989
Psonic Psunspot promo poster	Psonic Psunspot advertisement from Melody Maker, 8 August 1987	The Dukes' logo from Psonic Psunspot (monochrome)
The Dukes' logo from Psonic Psunspot (grays)

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