XTC Notes and Comment

[J. Peter Alfke <alfke@csvax.caltech.edu>]

So the next single is "The Meeting Place"?   Not a bad choice, but XTC
almost never seem to release the right songs ... I think "Earn Enough
For Us" would do a lot for sales.

Anyhow, the LA Times' Calendar (entertainment) section yesterday reports
that "Dear God" is getting quite popular, has become the most requested
song on local teen wavo station KROQ (warms my heart thatdoes, lotsa
teenybopping atheists out there), and Geffen Records have finally  just
sat up and smelled the coffee --- only some magazine articles tipped them
off  to the fact that yes, XTC has such a song.  Then they dug through
the album for it and couldn't find it.  Gee  --- could it be on an *import*
single?
Anyhow, knowing the rich  aroma of big bux when they sniff it, Geffen is
re-releasing the album with  "Dear God" added, and probably also with a
big "CONTAINS THE HIT SINGLE" sticker (which they could put over the
female cover figure's mazongas, appeasing the PMRC).  It will indeed be
a (hit?) single  in the U.S. real soon, an A-side  in fact.

Also in the same columnn --- I.R.S. is starting a new sub-label to be
called P.M.R.C., with an emphasis on world-beat type music.  They  have
some expansion of their own for P.M.R.C. and claim it's not supposed to
be a jab at the Washington Wives, but their spokesman sounded pretty
happy about the coincidence.

I HATE Compaq keyboards.
						--Peter Alfke
						  alfke@csvax.caltech.edu
"SOCIETY IS A HOLE"