This is one of my favorite songs to sing, whether I am listening to it or not, but there is just something fun about it. In particularly I love this line.

I'm on my knees but dancing!

That sums up just about every extreme feeling I've ever had toward a woman, emotionally or physically. I was on my knees but dancing last night.

This album is Volume 2 of Apple Venus. On Day 16 I posted a song off that album, I Can't Own Her, yet another song about longing for females.

Apple Venus and Wasp Star are two incredibly fine albums full of a lot of excellent songs. They're clearly the work of a pair of highly accomplished songwriters, being the only remaining members of XTC at the time, Andy Partridge (one of the greatest, if not the greatest, living voice in pop music) and Colin Moulding (who's aged voice has become incredibly soothing to hear). Everything is paced and balanced wonderfully. Apple Venus' opener, River of Orchids is beautiful. The song that appears on Wasp Star after this one, The Wheel and the Maypole is the perfect follow up, and the perfect way to end the series of albums.

If there's one thing that I can complain about when it comes to XTC, it's that other people look at me like I am fucking crazy when I listen to them (the same goes for most of Peter Gabriel's work), but I think that is just because I am a victim of my age, of surrounding myself with people my age who listen to, say, Mudvayne, and, uh, KoRn. In short, XTC's music, I love it, I love these two albums, I love almost every song off of them, but I don't get to listen to them much because I end up skipping them instinctively while others are in the car.

But it's OK, because I can sit down any time I want and lose myself in the cacophony of these albums, and I even get choice: Do I listen to to the lovely sweeping beauty of Apple Venus, or do I listen to the more rock-oriented Wasp Star and bounce around like a giddy school child?

A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth...

It's true, the Church of Women will have you give praise with a laugh, bark, and stutter.

Oh, extra note: it's fun to listen to these two albums and hear all the little guttural grunts and stutters that Andy Partidge punctuates all the songs with. As far as I can remember it's not prevalent on any XTC record up until this one. The stutter is obviously obvious, and the occasional "ung"s he elicits... but if you listen even closer, with some good speakers, you can hear background grunts and groans really low in the mix. Kind of fun. Lots of layers to this stuff.