XTC the Dukes of Stratosphear

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XTC the Dukes of Stratosphear

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XTC, Swindon's finest 1970's Punk Popsters playing at being Hippy Hipsters 'The Dukes of Stratosphear' ... XTC's musical alter-ego's in a (reinvented) 60's-mash-up-stylee of Psychedelic Punk...

Ian Brown vocalist with the Stone Roses was so impressed with The Dukes of Stratosphear and their album's psychedelic sound (and it's creative musical production) that he asked the album's producer John Leckie to produce the Stone Roses debut album...

Click on Link below for The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (Full Album) [HD] 8)
https://youtu.be/S0D9JyoccOo

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Been listening to a fair bit of Dukes recently. Pale And Precious is a good one - bit of a Beach Boys rip though :lol:

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Re: XTC the Dukes of Stratosphear

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I have all the releases.

The 2009 re-release of the original mini-album '25 O'Clock' has an additional 9 tracks including demos and unreleased.
The 2009 re-release of 'Psonic Psunspot' has an additional 6 demo versions.

Here's one of the previously unreleased tracks....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGNtZ_fAWXM

And here's another one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdijghUWm4

Oh. And another...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poJoWYKKCBE

Also, when recording the Dukes stuff, they wrote a track and decided to hold it back for the official Xtc album 'Skylarking'.
It was this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_s37sG1RM
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Speaking of demo stuff I forked out for the Fuzzy Warbles boxset last month, some real gems on there.

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Dutifully bought their albums, but never did anything for me. Why accept sincere imitations when the source bands are now readily available?
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Re: XTC the Dukes of Stratosphear

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Hoping that these might turn up in XTC's 5.1 remix series. Would be VERY trippy in glorious surround sound!!!
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