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Oranges & Lemons
Oranges and Lemons, from 1989, is a fantastic record, a lucid, technicolor sprawl of modernized Beatleisms and airbrushed psych-pop confectionary. Commercially, it was such a shame Tears for Fears had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time. Appropriately, given its title, several of the songs on Oranges and Lemons deal with Andy Partridge's newly acquired parental status (the jazzy "Pink Thing" is a cunning double-entendre about fatherly pride and his penis) as well as wryly address the wider failings of the world into which our children are born. Yes, like some sherberty, fructose-flavored lozenge, Oranges and Lemons is both bitter and sweet. But unquestionably excellent, as witnessed by the Byrds-like village-idiot love song "Mayor of Simpleton" and other highlights like "King for a Day" and "Poor Skeleton Steps Out." The Eastern mystique, serpentine guitars, and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" style chorus of "Garden of Earthly Delights" is conceivably what John, Paul, George, and Ringo would have sounded like if they'd hung around a little longer with the Maharishi. As for the dreamy, green-field tourist brochure panoramas of "Chalkhills and Children," think Brian Wilson drifting over the English countryside in a hang glider. --Kevin Maidment
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Tracks| 1 | Garden Of Earthly Delights | | 2 | Mayor Of Simpleton | | 3 | King For A Day | | 4 | Here Comes President Kill Again | | 5 | The Loving | | 6 | Poor Skeleton Steps Out | | 7 | One Of The Millions | | 8 | Scarecrow People | | 9 | Merely A Man | | 10 | Cynical Days | | 11 | Across This Antheap | | 12 | Hold Me My Daddy | | 13 | Pink Thing | | 14 | Miniature Sun | | 15 | Chalkhills And Children |
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