"Though it was challenging, it wasn't difficult. Mattacks walked into a situation that might have felt hermetically sealed, considering how long XTC had spent tinkering while all of this played out. (The latter convinced Partridge and coleader Colin Moulding.) Dudgeon also arrived with an overflowing briefcase of quirks – but XTC were too antsy to push back.Īt this point, Partridge told Past Daily, he "would have done it with the window cleaner." Things had taken so long to get going that Moulding and bandmate Dave Gregory were reportedly reduced to working at a car-rental store to stay afloat between royalty payments. XTC finally tabbed drummer Dave Mattacks of Fairport Convention and he, in turn, recommended Gus Dudgeon, a veteran producer who arrived with a resume including Elton John, David Bowie, Queen and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. All that genuine disappointment filtered into this." "I think the disappointment with the musical career, with not getting the recognition that I thought we were due, and certainly not getting the financial recompense that we were due, is in there.
Is it any surprise that Partridge was hard at work completing a song called "The Disappointed"? "My marriage, my disappointment with that, is in there," Partridge told Todd Bernhardt in 2009. They also still had to secure a drummer, since XTC stopped employing one when they left the road. Meanwhile, they were still in litigation with an ex-manager. There was also a flirtation with Bill Bottrell, who'd engineered Dangerous for Michael Jackson, but XTC were left at the altar again. Tom Lord-Alge and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones were reportedly too expensive. Padgham didn't feel he had the time to produce the record himself. Steve Lillywhite and Hugh Padgham were set to return to coproduce a follow-up, but then Lillywhite dropped out over scheduling issues. Then XTC's career started doing XTC things again. charts since English Settlement, and produced their highest-ranking U.S. The LP represented XTC's best showing on both U.S. That is, until 1989's sun-speckled Oranges and Lemons. But XTC struggled to recover on the charts. Their music became more interesting, with deeper lyrical themes and exciting new complexity.
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