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aceofwands
Anonymous and prolific cover artist has recorded more than 30 different XTC and solo Andy Partridge songs. |
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DJ Lunch Boy: “Adam Ant vs. XTC”
A mashup of bits from Adam Ant's “Apollo 9”, XTC's “Love at First Sight” and They Might Be Giants's “XTC vs. Adam Ant”.
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: “Another Satellite”
“We chose Another Satellite because we couldn't pull of the Squeeze song. And the "Mayor of Simpleton" bass line was too hard to figure out. Didn't know this song in the 80's, but I can imagine my dad listening to it if he liked cool music.” |
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The Florida Recounts: “Beating of Hearts”
“A cover and tribute to my hero Andy Partridge. Not my best really, but it did spur me on to co-found X-sTatiC, the XTC tribute in 2001. It took four years to get it in the set, but when we did in Swindon in 2005, I started crying at the end!” |
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Christo Mange-Bleu: “Brainiac's Daughter”
“This was fun. We covered this song by the Dukes of Stratosphear for the Theme Music group on Facebook. The theme was ‘Cast of Characters’. We had a week to record the song and make the video. Enjoy!” |
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Suture: “Dear God (early dark version)”
Release Date: 9/1/2003
From the Artist: “In 2001 SUTURE was invited to participate in the XTC tribute King for a Day. This MP3 collection features over 130 songs and was released in 2003. Only Sparks was available to work on the track before the deadline. . .”
(9 MB, mp3) |
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Independent Saint: “Dear God”
“This song originally written by XTC was rearranged and recorded by Independent Saint for The Way Out Project with Alma Ovcina.” |
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The Dukes: An XTC Tribute Band
“This is a Tribute to the most underrated band of all time: XTC. Musicians band together to apply their moxie at recreating the criminally underrated rock/pop band XTC's catalog via recording and live performance.” |
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Erich Sellheim
Prolific cover artist has recorded more than 30 different XTC songs, all in German. |
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Boojiboy Jnr: “Get Ur Freak In Motion”
Missy Elliot vs. XTC. “Ok..ok..I know the acapella's been used a gazillion times before and that Missy's been mashed to death but give me a break. This was the first mash up I ever completed, it's got sentimental value y'know. Anyway, it's ‘Get Ur Freak On’ spliced with of XTC's ‘Radios in Motion’ and some more extra drums and synths.”
(6 MB, mp3) |
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Go Home Productions
Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions is a fan of XTC and a masher. That is, a mashup/bootleg artist. Not a cad. That is, he was. An artist, not a cad, that is. Any gate, he has closed the door on that phase of his career by releasing GHP Complete, 16 CDs of bootlegs, official and unofficial remixes, including many tracks which sample or remix XTC. Some of those tracks include “I Can't Freak Her”, mixing XTC's “I Can't Own Her” with Adina Howard's “Freak Like Me”, “You Make Me Feel XTC”, which pits XTC's “Generals and Majors” vs. Sylvester's “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Message of Love”, a mashup of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's “The Message” and XTC's “Love At First Sight” “Franz Buffalo”, mashing Malcolm McLaren's “Buffalo Girls”, XTC's “I Am The Audience” and Franz Ferdinand's “Take Me Out”. But by far his best is “Making Plans For Vinyl”, which mixes Tweet's “Oops Oh My” with XTC's “Making Plans for Nigel”. |
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Bat Lenny: “Grass”
“This song was recorded in 1992 at a cabin in Webster, Wisconsin on 4 track cassette. It was originally released on a cassette with the "Dopey" issue of Pop Cult 'zine. Unfortunately it was shipped with a refrigerator magnet, resulting in less than desirable audio quality. So here it is, 22 years later, beautified.” |
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Mike Livingston: “Grass”
“Music and lyrics by Colin Moulding (XTC). Recorded for an XTC tribute album circa 2000. I'm very proud of this recording. I believe I capture the intent of the original, while adding to its sonic depth. Performed, produced, and mastered by Mike Livingston.” |
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Frost Circus: “I Defy You Gravity”
“One of my favorite Fuzzy Warble songs. I recorded this and then Robert Wegmann added stuff, mixed and produced it. He can magically turn anything into a work of art. Please follow him on Soundcloud he is topper most of the popper most. robertwegmann and robertwegmann.com/. Buy his latest cd. It is awesome!” |
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Go Home Productions: “Londinium Loves”
Go Home Productions mashes up Blur / XTC / The Kinks / The Beatles / Bon Jovi / The Bee Gees.
Mashup of the track “London Loves” from Blur's Parklife, taken from the GYBO Parkspliced project. Donate and download. (Thanks to Adrian Ransome.)
(7 MB, mp3) |
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Mitch Friedman
Mitch Friedman covers various XTC songs and sings his own, too. Not to mention the fact that Andy Partridge helps him out a bit here and there. . . |
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The Dunaways: “Mrs. McCartney's Porch”
The Dunaways have released an homage to XTC called “Mrs McCartney's Porch” on their album Great Western Tears. (Thanks to Mark Narkowicz of The Dunaways, Melbourne, Australia.) |
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Rob DeChaine: “Pearl”
“Recently, going through a batch of old home demos I made during the early 1990s, I came across a CD containing an 8-track work-up of Andy's unreleased ‘Pearl.’ Apparently, I'd proposed it to my then-band for an elaborated recording, and (alas) they must've nixed the idea. I recorded, mixed, and played all instruments, so no copyright issues. You'll see that I took liberties in ‘finishing’ the piece, imagining what Andy might have done with it on a shoestring budget.”
(3 MB, mp3) |
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Cavedoll: “River of Orchids”
NPR.org: “Cavedoll is prolific, almost to the point of absurdity. The neo-new wave group has released 13 albums in the past year. At the root of it all is the hyper-active imagination of frontman, Camden Chamberlain.” |
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Frédéric Quentin: “Senses Working Overtime”
“My name is Frédéric QUENTIN
Sound is quite good but the song doesn't seem to be finished, and it isn't.
I never succeeded to mix a song.
Melody and lyrics are the same but chords are changed.”
(9 MB, mp3) |
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Sgt. Rock
“En 1979 escuche por primera vez a XTC. Sobra decir que algo paso. Y el hecho es que con el tiempo, he podido descifrar muchisimas de estas canciones. Y no he tratado de reproducirlas, de copiarlas, de ‘hacer covers’... Estas son algunas versiones libres, hechas como simple ejercicio. Y estan hechas con todo el respeto posible, a Andy, Colin, Barry, Dave, Terry y a todos los que nos sigue pasando algo cada vez que escuchamos a XTC. Y mientras no me quiten el my space por no tener el copyright, apareceran todas ellas, alrededor de 30, como un simple homenaje, como un recorrido personal por la discografia oficial y no oficial de XTC. Siempre es como la primera vez. Atte. Sgt. Rock.” |
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Kim Simpson: “Snowman”
Kim Simpson: voice and guitar. Recorded 2/07 by Bill Doughty at the Bread Machine, Austin, TX. |
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Steve Dockery
Steve Dockery covers “Wake Up” and “Earn Enough for Us”. |
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Asa Butterfield: “Teenage Dirtbag vs Making Plans For Nigel”
The Xfm Rock School writes, “One of, if not the, youngest entry we've had for the Rock School, Asa Butterfield (7) from Thornhill Primary School, London would definitely get the stamp of approval from Xfm's resident remixer Eddy Temple-Morris with a bootleg, mash-up of XTC and Wheatus.” We wonder if this could be true. . . |
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Anna McCue: “Ten Feet Tall”
“I love the English band XTC and have recently been rediscovering their album, Drums & Wires. I've always wanted to record this song - I had some fun with it.” |
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Pugwash: “Thanks for Christmas”
“A really cool Pugwash christmas present to you . . . the ultra rare cover version of ‘Thanks For Christmas’ . . . that the lads did as a track for the Irish charity album It's All Bells. Enjoy a stoned sung - recorded - engineered and mixed fun-fest of frivolity that, if released, would have no bearing on anything BUT IT WOULD ‘STILL’ BE BETTER THAN THE FUCKING DARKNESS!!!!!”
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School For The Dead: “Thug”
“Thug” is “not an XTC song but it is a song based on many XTC lyrics and styles . . . littered with references to the band and to the songs”. |
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X-sTatiC
Once the definitive XTC tribute band in England (disbanded in October 2005). Hear them on their website, including their cover of “Dear God” recorded for the King for a Day tribute. |
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Easterling and Gildersleeve: “XTC”
A nod to XTC, sung in the style of XTC: “I grew up with XTC and they are still my favorite band in the whole dang universe! Andy, please forgive me for using my Partridge voice. You're the man!” |
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Charlie Crane: “Young Cleopatra”
Charlie says, “I figured that, since Miss Cleo is 14 years old in the song, it was best to record the song now when I'm 17 than record it next year and be hunted down by the CSOM. Granted, it's still a bit creepy, but at least it's not illegal. I wonder how Mr. Partridge got away with writing it at the age of 30?” |
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The Dukes of Silverlake: “Your Gold Dress”
IPO performance at Spaceland in Silverlake, California, July 27, 2004. Jason Falkner, Matt Mahaffey & various members of The 88 performed the Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock EP in its entirety. |
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