
Complicated Game
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"I LIKE ACCIDENTS. I LIKE TO PUT MYSELF IN THE WAY OF MUSICAL HARM. I LIKE BEING AT THE WHEEL OF THAT MUSICAL CAR, AND AIMING IT AT THE WALL, JUST TO SEE WHAT SHAPE THE CAR'S GOING TO COME OUT. IT MIGHT COME OUT AN INTERESTING SHAPE THAT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME FOREVER TO DECIDE ON OTHERWISE." Andy Partridge
Complicated Game offers unique insight into the work of XTC founder Andy Partridge, one of Britain's most original and influential songwriters. It is also an unprecedentedly revealing and instructive guide to how songs and records are made. Developed from a series of interviews conducted over many months, it explores in detail some thirty of Partridge's songs-including such well-known singles as 'Senses Working Overtime' and the controversial 'Dear God'-from throughout XTC's thirty-year career, as well as an extensive interview dedicated solely to the art and craft of songwriting.
While the interviews cast new light on the writing of lyrics, the construction of melodies and arrangements, the process of recording, and the workings of the music industry, they are also filled with anecdotes about Partridge, his XTC bandmates, and their adventures around the world- all told with the songwriter's legendary humour.
This fascinating book also includes pages from Partridge's songwriting notebooks and reproductions of his original artwork designs; a guided tour of his hometown of Swindon; and a foreword by Steven Wilson, the guitarist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founder and leader of Porcupine Tree.
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- Intro
- Introduction by Todd Bernhardt
- Foreword by Steven Wilson
- Swindon: A Perambulation by John Morrish
- Chapter 1 This Is Pop
- Chapter 2 Statue Of Liberty
- Chapter 3 Meccanik Dancing
- Chapter 4 Beatown
- Chapter 5 Roads Girdle The Globe
- Chapter 6 Real By Reel
- Chapter 7 Complicated Game
- Chapter 8 Respectable Street
- Chapter 9 No Language In Our Lungs
- Chapter 10 Travels In Nihilon
- Chapter 11 Senses Working Overtime
- Chapter 12 Jason And The Argonauts
- Chapter 13 No Thugs In Our House
- Chapter 14 Beating Of Hearts
- Chapter 15 Love On A Farmboy's Wages
- Chapter 16 Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
- Chapter 17 The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
- Chapter 18 25 O'Clock
- Chapter 19 That's Really Super, Supergirl
- Chapter 20 Dear God
- Chapter 21 Mayor Of Simpleton
- Chapter 22 Chalkhills And Children
- Chapter 23 The Disappointed
- Chapter 24 Rook
- Chapter 25 River Of Orchids
- Chapter 26 I Can't Own Her
- Chapter 27 The Last Balloon
- Chapter 28 Stupidly Happy
- Chapter 29 Church Of Women
- Chapter 30 2 Rainbeau Melt
- Epilogue Songwriting 101
- Illustrations
- Footnotes
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