Colin Moulding

Colin Moulding is a founding member of the new wave rock/pop group XTC, its second songwriter, vocalist, and bassist.

White Music (1978)

• We have the pool
  Ah - No that's cruel
  Why do you take me for
  A fool?
  Try the rails
  It's just not me
  No No No
  No - Siree
  • "Set Myself On Fire"

Go2 (1978)

• What makes you wander far
  Don't know who you are
  Now if the vibe is right
  I'll go out tonight
  • "Buzzcity Talking"

Drums And Wires (1979)

• We're only making plans for Nigel
  He has his future in a British steel
  We're only making plans for Nigel
  Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed
  • Making Plans For Nigel

Black Sea (1980)

• Generals and Majors ah ah
  They're never too far
  away from men who made the grade
  out in a world of their own
  They'll never come down
  until the battle's lost or made
  • "Generals And Majors"

English Settlement (1982)

• You caught mum chasing dad with a knife
  You ran away to escape from the fights
  Now you're lost in a maze of neon light
  And she's worried, he's worried, she's worried, oh...
  • "Runaways"

Mummer (1983)

• Can't you see
  Love and affection
  When it's put
  In your direction
  Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland
  • "Wonderland"

• Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
  We at your mercy and your reverence
  Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
  We've no defence we are impotent
  • "Deliver Us From The Elements"

• England can never repay you
  You gave your life to be buried alongside
  The place you loved
  The sermons attended when you were young
  Still echo round these churchyard walls
  • "In Loving Memory Of A Name"

The Big Express (1984)

• Yes, I weeping, a teardrop attack
  I give emotion at the drop of a hat
  When I remember days at school
  I remember many things, but
  Most of all, I remember the sun
  • "I Remember The Sun"

Skylarking (1986)

• Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
  It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
  Grass, grass.
  Things we did on grass
  • "Grass"

• The scapegoat blood spilled
  Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat
  And children grew fat on the meat
  Change must be earnt
  • "Sacrificial Bonfire"

Nonsuch (1992)

• Yes I'm talking about this war dance
  A patriotic romance
  And I know all you poets
  Have seen it all before
  About the stirring of those young hearts
  Back in the first world war
  • "War Dance"

Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)

• Pour ourselves a glass of stout
  And let our Rael Brook shirts hang out
  Nothing makes us more content
  To let us wallow in a bit of nonsense
  • "Frivolous Tonight"

• Some people say
  That I am out of my tree
  Or just a strawberry fool
  Someday they'll see
  Till then I'll blow you a raspberry
  'Cos apples and pears are me
  • "Fruit Nut"