XTC All along the watchtower 1978, New Wave, Post Punk

White Music is the first studio album by the English band XTC, released on 20 January 1978. It was the follow-up to their debut, 3D EP, released three months earlier. White Music reached No. 38 in the UK Albums Chart and spawned the single “Statue of Liberty“, which was banned by the BBC for the lyric “In my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt“. In April 1978, the group rerecorded “This Is Pop“ as their third single........ There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessman, just drinks my wine, and the plowmen dig my earth, Nobody all along this line knows it, what it is even worth There’s no reason to get all excited, the thief spoke, There are many here among us who feel that this life is nothing but one joke Him and me, we’ve been through all this, and this is not my fate, So let us stop talking oh so falsely now, the hour is getting late All along