With "No Children", I sort of flipped a coin as to whether or not to put that or "Palmcorder Yajna". (Both of these also almost made it instead of "Best Ever Death Metal Band..." on the mix, actually. "Palmcorder" didn't make it because it was 4 minutes long. I think "No Children" didn't, just because it's proably one of the ones most people have heard, of the select few who've heard the Mountain Goats.) I think "No Children" won out because it was one that had more listens on my Audioscrobbler page.
"All Of A Sudden" is one that somehow really clicks with me. There's something about it that just makes me want to listen to it on repeat. Which is weird, because there's parts of the song that I simultaneously don't really like and like. (Like the way Andy does the sorta whine/warble on "iiiiiiiiiiiiiit's toooooo late".) For some reason, though, I think the clicking moment can be placed when I first saw the music video for it. Which is odd, considering that it's not even that good of a video. (Though it's one of the better XTC music videos, but that says more about their other videos, heh.)
And, yeah, "Knuckle Down" will get no love from me. In fact, when I burned my mom a copy of English Settlement, I removed the 3rd side (Melt the Guns; Leisure, It's Nearly Africa; Knuckle Down, if you've never seen the vinyl and, you know, couldn't guess that it's the 3rd quarter of the album.), moved up the 4th side and added the B-sides from Rag And Bone, basically in the order they appear on R&BB. (Starting with "Over Rusty Water" which REALLY WORKS, so... yeah.) It both Fills Up A CD Almost Exactly, and Really Works As An Album. If only there was a remastered version of an R&BB-type compilation...
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Date: 2005-01-29 03:42 pm (UTC)"All Of A Sudden" is one that somehow really clicks with me. There's something about it that just makes me want to listen to it on repeat. Which is weird, because there's parts of the song that I simultaneously don't really like and like. (Like the way Andy does the sorta whine/warble on "iiiiiiiiiiiiiit's toooooo late".) For some reason, though, I think the clicking moment can be placed when I first saw the music video for it. Which is odd, considering that it's not even that good of a video. (Though it's one of the better XTC music videos, but that says more about their other videos, heh.)
And, yeah, "Knuckle Down" will get no love from me. In fact, when I burned my mom a copy of English Settlement, I removed the 3rd side (Melt the Guns; Leisure, It's Nearly Africa; Knuckle Down, if you've never seen the vinyl and, you know, couldn't guess that it's the 3rd quarter of the album.), moved up the 4th side and added the B-sides from Rag And Bone, basically in the order they appear on R&BB. (Starting with "Over Rusty Water" which REALLY WORKS, so... yeah.) It both Fills Up A CD Almost Exactly, and Really Works As An Album. If only there was a remastered version of an R&BB-type compilation...