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The most consistently good ones are probably Drums & Wires, Black Sea and Apple Venus Volume 1. But they're all worth while.
Don't neglect the albums they made as The Dukes of Stratosphear either.
I've got a Mike Kenneally album somewhere. Mike played guitar with Zappa and plays guitar and keys to an insanely high standard and you can hear that easily the biggest influence on his own material is XTC ( and has also collaborated with Andy Partridge). A guy who can play anything on guitar and what he finds most interesting is what XTC did, so every sense that XTC are a bit overlooked and a bit under rated on guitar social media.
As for the Dukes, those are great albums too.
By contrast, Nonsuch for example probably isn't as consistent an album, but overall I prefer it, the drum sound especially.
I never really got into XTC, although I don't dislike them at all. They had some great singles and they're clever, interesting people.
But I've always remembered a little jokey Andy Partridge track I heard on the radio once, about 40 years ago. It must've been less than a minute long. He went:
"The Fifties" - and played some Chuck Berry type thing
"The Sixties" - a Beatlesy thing, maybe a bit of sitar
"The Seventies" - some heavy rock guitar
"The Eighties" - some synth bleeps and boinks.
I'd love to hear it again.
https://youtu.be/ZzSGWmz-CAE
@merlin You beauty!!!!
I got it a bit wrong, but I wasn't too far off after one listen nearly 40 years ago. Never thought I'd hear that again.