"This Is Pop" | ||||
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![]() "This Is Pop?" single cover | ||||
Song by XTC | ||||
from the album White Music | ||||
Released | January 20, 1978 | |||
Recorded | 1977 | |||
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Label | Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Andy Partridge | |||
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"This Is Pop" is a song by the English rock band XTC from their 1978 album White Music. A rerecorded version, typeset as "This Is Pop?", was released as the group's third single.[4]
Background
[edit]Guitarist Andy Partridge wrote "This Is Pop" as a response to journalistic terms for music genres such as "punk", which he believed were redundant of "pop".[5] The song's opening F chord was based on the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964).[6]
Legacy
[edit]The song title was adopted for the 2017 documentary about the band, XTC: This Is Pop.[7]
Personnel
[edit]XTC
- Barry Andrews – keyboards
- Terry Chambers – drums
- Colin Moulding – bass, vocals
- Andy Partridge – vocals, guitar
References
[edit]- ^ Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Pleasently Antagonistic: New Wave". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. XTC - Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992 (1996) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ a b Mulholland, Garry (1 November 2006). "1978". Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco. Orion Publishing Group. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0752868314.
- ^ Ingham, Chris (March 1999). "XTC - 'Til Death Do Us Part". Mojo.
- ^ Branwyn, Gareth (5 January 2017). "Inside XTC's "Complicated Game"". Boing Boing.
- ^ Bernhardt, Todd (11 November 2007). "Andy discusses "This Is Pop"". Chalkhills.
- ^ Braxton, Mark (October 2017). "XTC: This Is Pop". Radio Times.
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