Skylarking

Recorded at Utopia Sound Studios in Woodstock, New York, and at Cavum Soni (Sound Hole) in San Francisco, California.

Skylarking was produced by Todd Rundgren for Alchemedia Productions with assistant engineers Kim Foscato and George Cowan. The album was released in the UK on October 27, 1986. Skylarking climbed to number 79 in the UK charts and made it as high as 70 in the US.

Click on the image above to visit Todd Rundgren's nifty site... with XTC mentions.

The band was then comprised of:

Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding & Dave Gregory.

Additional Musicians:

The Beech Avenue Boys on backing vocals.
Prairie Prince on drums.
Mingo Lewis added some percussion.
Orchestral arrangements and computer programming by Todd Rundgren.

In Andy's words (from the Nonsuch promotional item)

The album featured these classic XTC tracks:

1. Summer's Cauldron
2. Grass
3. The Meeting Place
4. That's Really Super, Supergirl
5. Ballet for a Rainy Day
6. 1000 Umbrellas
7. Season Cycle
8. Earn Enough for Us
9. Big Day
10. Another Satellite
11. Mermaid Smiled
12. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
13. Dying
14. Sacrificial Bonfire