phrygian - discography

		(Comments by Andy Partridge )
2001	Homegrown

2000	Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Vol. 2)

1999	Homespun

1999	Apple Venus (Vol. 1)

1998	Transistor Blast (compilation)

1997	Upsy Daisy Assortment (compilation)

1996	Fossil Fuel - The Singles 1977-92 (compilation) So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1996	The Tiny Circus of Life (compilation) So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1992	Nonsuch

1996	Explode Together (The Dub Experiments 78-80) (compilation) So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1989	Oranges and Lemons	About Oranges and Lemons (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Strip it down, build it up, here comes the dragster, polished and chrome, it's big, it's long and supercharged with song. She's hard and she's fast, eats future and shits past. Fifteen songs, a flourescent feast, you'd better be hungry."

1996	Drums & Wireless - BBC Radio Sessions 77-89 (compilation) So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1992	BBC Radio One Live in Concert (compilation)

1990	Rag and Bone Buffet (compilation)	About Rag and Bone Buffet (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "So the world goes urrph! grunt! shifts gear and in comes the new technology of compact discs. Suddenly someone says, but what about all those vinyl B-sides, psuedo-name singles, film tracks and giveaways that are going to be lost forever? Embarassed that this is the only reason the Rag And Bone compilation exists, it then goes and gets great critical reviews. Sometimes I can't figure you folks out!"

1996	The Compact XTC - The Singles 1978-85 (compilation) So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1986	Skylarking	About Skylarking (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Musician and Producer Todd Rundgren squeezed the XTC clay into its most complete/connected/cyclical record ever. Not an easy album to make for various ego reasons but time has humbled me into admitting that Todd conjured up some of the most magical production and arranging conceivable. A summer's day cooked into one cake."

1984	Big Express	About The Big Express (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "If Mummer was a gentle chug through the countryside, then The Big Express is a loco derailing itself in the rusty goods yard. An altogether more industrial affair. Slashing electric guitars, sheets of steel bass and diesel oil drums. an iron opera, steam powered and brick encased."

1983	Mummer	About Mummer (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Five years of solid touring "wigs out" yours truly and the band comes off the road. The result was a record built in troubled times. Is he dead? Will they split? Have they lost it? The answer is no, no and no. Try a spoonful, out of the sour came forth the sweet."

1982	English Settlement	About English Settlement (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "I gave away my electric guitar in a TV contest and had to buy a new one, suddenly all these new tunes poured out! Colin gets fretless, Dave goes 12-string, Terry still "just 'its 'em". This 15-track warehouse of songs sounds expansive, fresh, unfinished and vast. It was to become many people's favourite XTC album."

1982	Waxworks - Some Singles 1977-1982 So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.	About Waxworks: some Singles 1977-1982 (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Spooky, unreal, dripping and unstable. The thrills and horrors of modern life in three-minute scenarios. No adult allowed unless accompanied by a child."

1982	BeesWax - Some B-sides 1977-1982 So Sorry! These album images are unavailable right now. I'll remedy this soon.

1980	Black Sea	About Black Sea (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "The band are becoming a slick-sounding, commando, trouble-shooting unit, ready to go anywhere on earth, songs written on the hoof, rehearsed in dressing rooms and slammed down here on our hardest album. The live machine captured with minimum trimmings."

1979	Drums and Wires	About Drums and Wires (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Twang! Barry goes, Dave comes and the band is reborn. We revel in electric guitars, voodoo tom toms and the discovery of our songwriting muscle (which is becoming delightfully erect)."

1978	Go 2	About Go2 (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Four weeks worth of songs, hastily scribbled on hotel notepaper and beermats. We were living out of carrier bags, and in rental vans, making nasty noises at each other and with each other. Something had to give and here it is."

1978	White Music	About White Music (from a Nonsuch ad insert): "Four years worth of songs saved up and recorded (virtually) live in one short burst. Noisy, angular, stark, triangular and desperate for your attention. Four young snots dismantling pop!"