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NEW YORK—“I wish I hadn’t come up with this name,” sighed mastermind Andy Partridge. “Thinking about it now, it’s perfect. But it’s a pun and puns only last a few minutes at best and this one’s been going on for ages and ages.” XTC appear quite content to use uncertain humor as the surrounding structure for their neat little songs.

April 1, 1979
Toby Goldstein

THE BEAT GOES ON

The Agonies of XTC

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