XTC- Generals And Majors REACTION & REVIEW 

This is a really fantastic album, beginning to end.

Great, catchy song, but Justin, you have to react to the whole Black Sea album where Terry chambers was at his best!😉

From the Best album they made imo

Black Sea is XTCs post punky Masterpiece. So many great songs.

The perfect XTC Album für several reasons. For once it had been the first album AT ALL to feature a new way of recording drums. It happened a bit by accident, but Black Sea it was. Listen to the change of drum sound from then on, choose you musician. Another great reason, it includes so many real fine songs, you won't fail to feel the magnificence. Do the whole album song by song, and each will be your highlight of the week. Art Pop, pure Art Pop. Enjoy ☺️

I knew XTCs singles which charted during my childhood but have only come to really appreciate their music through JPs' reactions over the last few years. Thanks, mate !

This type of music would be all over MTV in another two or three years . XTC almost invented a certain sub genre of new wave.

The Black Sea album is awash with wonderfully off-kilter guitar riffs. Play Living Through Another Cuba and Love At First Sight back to back (one runs into the other) and you'll see what I mean.

Such an awesome album from A to Z!

Check out Towers Of London next. You'll never forgive yourself if you don't.

This was my very first XTC song and though it had some similarity to the New Wave sound evident at the time there was something truly unique and in its own orbit about it so I was instantly hooked and believe it or not it was that complex choral structure o in the chorus when we get to the -jors syllable in "generals and ma-jors" that gives this song such a deep element going from sarcastic fun to something cosmic in a minute instance.

The first track on this album (right before this one) is 'Respectable Street', and it's the song they perform in the concert film "URGH! A Music War" that I know someone sent to you a while back. If you haven't seen it yet, that version would be a great reaction, though the studio version is great as well.

I recommend Paper And Iron from the same album!

XTC Day!!!!! Woot!!!!!! This album is great from beginning to end. "RESPECTABLE STREET," to "TRAVELS IN NIHILON"... can't go wrong. You nailed the "category"... Intelligent Pop Music. Cheers!

Hey Justin, you've covered XTC loads but never delved into their first 2 albums, White Music and Go 2. Can I suggest you take a look at "This is Pop" , "Radios in Motion" and "Statue of Liberty" from the former and "Battery Brides" and "Beatown" from the latter? Keep up the effort - great entertainment- many thanks.

Such a great band. Drums & Wires is my favorite. Complicated Game. Give it a go! Ten Feet Tall too.

Such a great band. Black Sea and English Settlement are masterpieces

Spending time with you and XTC? If that’s not a good time, then I don’t know what is.

Hi Justin. Dave from Somewhere (In Time). You're right, it's a catchy song with a serious message - but that was typical of quite a few new wave artists and bands in the late 70s and early 80s. Was privileged to see the band live on this tour, at London's Lyceum Ballroom, not long before they stopped touring.

XTC are great though i have to give this album a listen still! As a kind of new fan

Lifelong XTC fan (note the shirt I'm wearing) Enough said. Justin it would be a favour to yourself to continue with this masterful album, I think you know it's the right thing to do. 😉

Timeless.

Finally .. back to XTC.. PLEASE PLEASE LOOK FOR B SIDE” heavens paved with broken glass” PLEASE ,

so underrated

XTC were all over the radio here in Aotearoa new zealand I've been a fan since i was a kid

One of many XTC albums that could be my favorite album if it’s the one I’ve listened to most recently.

For a different take on violence by XTC give a listen to 'Beating of Hearts' from "Mummer", the opening track.

I ❤ XTC

FINALLY the L/R audio issue has been fixed, just in time for a bangin' track like this one! 😊👍❤ 'Towers Of London' next? 😉

KNowing how you like progressive rock, you have to listen to XTC's song "Wake Up" and try to follow the rhythm patterns.

This song is so pertinent in todays uncertain world ,as it was on its first release. Some things just never seem to change

Great song, so catchy

Quit pooting around and do the entire album please. It will be World War III by the time we hear everything in this pivotal album. Hold on, checking my heart rate… I better stop. Enjoyed this morning XTC… see, I simmered down nah!

Don’t know if you’ve listened to these songs yet but I recommend Towers Of London and Respectable Street!!!!!

Hey there! The whistle was REAL - story goes one of the band members heard this guy whistling in an office or something - loved his power and grabbed him for the recording. In my top 20 songs ever. Cheers all.

Just a so-so track by Colin Moulding. Nowhere near the best of his songs. Just meh for me by his standards.

While it's the perfect season for it, I really wish you would react to "Summer's Cauldron/Grass" (in one ) from XTC's Skylarking. It's so delightfully sublime and and cleverly crafted.

I don't think you've reacted to any music by the band, Magazine, yet? Groundbreaking stuff from the same era.

Kia Ora JP brother how ya doing? I Love XTC and this song is a RIPPER ✊🤘👏👏👏

all XTC is great. The perfect foil to the Beatles. A mirror of the generation before. Try Dukes

Great Colin track, and in case nobody else posts it, there's a great BBC documentary on the making of the "Black Sea" album at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ne35P7kbucs.htmlsi=pBR2hsCWRKMO2Phw

Hey, I know this one!!! Don't know how long or where i listened this. I didn't know I knew Xtc! Great!

And another shout-out! Thank you! IMO Colin Moulding's catchiest song. The whole album is great (hint, hint...) Andy's later song "All You Pretty Girls" has a similar use of backing harmonies and counterpoints, but has a very different feel.

Perfect pop as you say with the depth of lyrics and thought I. The arrangement

Nice review my friend absolutely agree with you 👍

Great reaction. I love the more straightforward side of XTC, but I love more yet songs how Complicated Game , Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her or River of Orchids. Please Justin, do one of that songs the next XTC Reaction.Thanks.

And agree that you should give the entire album a go - one of their best and certainly them (along with Drums And Wires) at their edgiest .

Virgin founder and CEO, Richard Branson, is in the official music video as a general because he was a fan of the band. And they get to yank his pants down!

Generals Melchett to the Private Baldrick. "Don't worry my son. Should you falter. Know that Captain Darling and I are right behind you". Captain Blackadder " About 35 miles behind you"😂 BBC Blackadder Goes Forth Comedy Based on WW1

Call this: Intelligent Pop Music!

XTC 's music always takes me to my happy place 😊

Ahhhh....more delicious XTC.....

In a league of their own, for sure.

Jeux Sans Frontiers. 1980. Games without Frontiers. PG. Whistle pip pop. The Lilac Time: all for love and love for all. 1989. Andy Partridge's production? Possibly. I could be mistaken. Chairs!

Great live performance and great music and the band sounds amazing

Great reaction! ❤❤

Black Sea + XTC back on the channel!!!

Ah yes - yet another example of a great , great band . To be expected .

One of my favourite songs from XTC

Anrd? 🤣

XTC at their most accessible. They just got better and better as time went on.

The whistling is real, not a synth.

Great summer song, and one of Colin Moulding's best. Black Sea is easily my favorite XTC album by a country mile (wait til you get to "Sgt Rock" 😎). So many great songs, and Steve Lillywhite's production just kills. The video to this one is fun, plus it includes Sir Richard Branson.

Even tho this is a Colon M song, I think you can hear Andy’s ‘polytonal’ influence in the arrangement (2nd verse Eb and E natural in the same phrase group) so good! “Rocket From a Bottle” is a fabulous Andy P song from this album

I LOVE THIS SONG. 😁

Yeah!!! This is a classic killer album - you'll love it! And I'll love the review...

This is a belter JP , my personal fav of their hit singles 👏 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A fun happy tune about people's strained psyche during the cold war. People who lived through it remember how accepting a reality of eminent death was always in the back of our heads.

"Mayor of Simpleton" is a great XTC track, perhaps my favorite. Definitely worth checking out.

I'm going to cry if we don't get into this album. It's SO good. It's the audible version of Pringles. If I remember rightly, you've already heard 'No Language In Our Lungs' from this album. I'll need help to get this album played. I might have to call Sgt. Rock. 😉

I saw XTC live in LA in 1981. They tore it up. Lots of energy, lots of great songs (including this one). Their drummer was a beast.

Andy Partridge said on a documentary, that they made, gentle exploritary pop music. A journey through their albums is well worth it to see how they grew but there's good tracks all through their career. If ever a band derserved bigger sales it was XTC.

one of my favorites !! from any band

"Oh What A Lovely War!" was a musical and movie based on songs from WW1, about how the young men were stampeded towards carnage by all the instruments of drumming up war fever, which included music hall songs, "coward" shaming, patriotic rah-rah and appeals to religion and brotherhood. It's well worth a watch and a listen at some point, especially the soldiers' songs towards the end as the cynicism, bitterness and sorrow set in. I'm not at all a musicals person, but this is one of the few I like, because it's about something real and important.

Average pop. Not a big fan.

No, XTC never make me feel much more than indifference I'm afraid. I suppose it doesn't help that it comes straight after the genius that is The Enid's debut album.