Talk About Collaborations Andy Already Have Done. Options

[Per Aronsson]

"Paperchase" and "New York Inside My Head" that Andy have written for and with Nicky Holland is two fantastic tracks.
If you haven´t heard them I strongly recommend that you try to find them. Superb lyrics as well:

The words upon the page threw the sky into a rage
So it washed them all away, a waste of paper
Now fragments of the truth swirl above my rainy roof
What my letterbox would call a waste of paper
South wind with your wide mouth
Blow the pieces through the trees
North wind with your cold breath
Freeze my heart, as I gather up a faster pace
I won't go on another paperchase

The trees that must have died as you buried me alive
In a tomb of empty talk, a waste of paper
And all the lakes of ink it took to tell me that you think
A marriage document is just a waste of paper
East wind with your kind face
Stop the mail train, blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps into the bin where they belong
I won't go on another paperchase

I'll trail behind until you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place

East wind with your kind face
Stop the mail train, blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps into the bin where they belong
I won't go on another paperchase
I'll trail behind until you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place

[Bill Wikstrom]

"Rocket" is indeed amazing!

The Lilac Time production/collaboration was pretty sweet.

His appearance on Ryuichi Sakamoto'S B-2 Unit was very cool.

The Robyn collaboration was very nice (we need more, more, more!).

I thought the songs he wrote for Terry Hall were great and so was the album it was on (Home).

The Heads song "Papersnow" made that album (have at least one decent track).

The songs he collaborated contributed to were absolutely amazing on the ultra-rare Studio Romantic album Saeko Suzuki (if ever an album was dying to be reissued). I only have a third-generation copied-cassette from the late 80's. A great album.

The Martin Newell TGLEM album was very good.

"Margaret Freeman" was pretty amazing on The Residents' Commercial Album.

But my favorite collaboration was - as should it be several other XTC fans - Andy's ill-fated collaboration with Mary-Margaret O'Hara. If that hadn't fallen through we'd never have had (an excuse for) The Dukes Of Stratosphere!!! Thank the lord that Andy and John Leckie were "heathens" (lol).

BTW the album that Mary-Margaret O'Hara ended up recording was actually very good (if a bit dull).

This post has been edited by Bill Wikstrom: Mar 9 2009, 01:15 PM