{"id":441,"date":"2007-09-26T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2007\/09\/26\/xtc-english-settlement\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:05:29","slug":"xtc-english-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/xtc-english-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"XTC &#8212; English Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1247\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1247\" title=\"XTC -- English Settlement\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/xtcenglishsettlement.jpg\" alt=\"XTC -- English Settlement\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">XTC -- English Settlement<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> XTC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> English Settlement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> &#8220;Later&#8230; maybe, like, &#8217;84&#8230; something&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I went to a hardcore punk throwdown last night with Double Negative, and got to meet my new buddy Kevin, singer of the band. More about that and their new album next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s record is <em>English Settlement<\/em> by XTC. Regular readers of this site will know that I&#8217;m no card carrying member of the XTC fan club, but this one is better than most. Which is a good thing because it&#8217;s a double album. If you&#8217;re going to release a double album please put in the extra effort. Otherwise&#8230; the obvious. My favorite song is the first one, &#8220;Runaways.&#8221; This is Mary&#8217;s record and I defer to her on the rating.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the slightly out of focus album jacket, but I did throw in a pic of one liner sleeve at no extra charge.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has more info about the album and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Settlement\">Andy Partridge&#8217;s breakdown<\/a> while touring in support of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: XTC Title: English Settlement Year: 1982 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Mary Acquired: &#8220;Later&#8230; maybe, like, &#8217;84&#8230; something&#8221; Keeper: Yes I went to a hardcore punk throwdown last night with Double Negative, and got to meet my new buddy Kevin, singer of the band. More about that and their new album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,460],"tags":[506,547,46,861,1033,1056],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-x","tag-506","tag-alternative","tag-music","tag-new-wave","tag-vinyl","tag-xtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}