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product_id: 2775587
title: "Black Sea"
brand: "xtc"
price: "A$182"
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reviews_count: 12
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# Black Sea

**Brand:** xtc
**Price:** A$182
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Black Sea by xtc
- **How much does it cost?** A$182 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

1 x CD Album, Remastered, ReissueUK & Europe 20011Respectable Street3:382Generals And Majors4:053Living Through Another Cuba4:444Love At First Sight3:085Rocket From A Bottle3:306No Language In Our Lungs4:537Towers Of London5:248Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins)4:179Burning With Optimism's Flames4:1610Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)3:5711Travels In Nihilon7:0412Smokeless Zone3:5113Don't Lose Your Temper2:3314The Somnambulist4:38

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## Customer Reviews

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    Five stars
  

*by E***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2023*

Just one of my all time favorite albums.

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    Sail Away on the Black Sea with XTC
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2022*

This is a great example of a reissue worth every penny. XTC has done a marvelous job with their surround sound reissues, including both CD and Blue Ray mixes. I have other versions of Black Sea (imports, etc.), but this version has the best sound that makes you feel like you are in the studio itself. I was drawn in by Generals and Majors, and had to play Towers of London again and again because I was hearing things like never before. Colin Moulding does tend to have more original songs here, unlike future releases, so it is unique in that aspect. The liner notes from the band, and the photos included in the mini booklet make for a great reading experience. The packaging is on par for collecting and protecting your investment as well. Sincerely hoping that Big Express or Apple Venus receive this polish and shine!

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    Amazing Album, Disappointing Deluxe Package
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2018*

This album is 10 out of 5 stars, let's get that clear. I've loved and revered Black Sea for 36 or 37 years; I've had it on vinyl (with the green paper wrap--still have it!), cassette, CD, including remastered and import mini-CD versions. I waited a long time for this particular Deluxe version, as it was released out of sequence, with many later albums getting released ahead of Black Sea.So here it is. Just as with other XTC Deluxe versions, one disc is wasted on Blu-ray audio, at least for me. Do that many people even have Blu-ray Audio? Or is that like DAT or 5.1 or that other digital system (can't recall the acronym)?  People swear they sound great but I am not really in the market to spend hundreds on another, perhaps transient medium, and then to have to buy all new albums again. At age 60, I've been gutted many times having to update music and movie technology, not to mention all the remastered, remixed, Director's Cut, mono, wide-screen, HD, Blu-ray,  and anniversary editions every 5 years. Know what I mean? Honestly nothing ever sounded better than Meet the Beatles on my cheap toy record player in 1964.So the CD--the only disc I will hear-has the 5.1 new remastered version and some extra tracks, like an interesting single version of Respectable Street that has some censor-proof lyrical substitutions. And that's it. The Blu-ray has the 5.1, the original version remixed, and tons of other **** on it. Boo-effin-hoo!While the 5.1 version sounds great on my non-5.1 system it's really overkill. I'm forced to have it in a format I don't have, even on the low-tech regular CD for cheap sonically-challenged low-brows like me. Thanks for rubbing it in my face. I'd rather have the ORIGINAL VERSION REMIXED, thank you very effin much. That's the version tech tards like me with regular CD players want to hear, right? No thoughtfulness from the record company or the boys from Swindon on that, mate...Let me tell you another reason why I hate this 5.1 version: it is not the same "document" as the original album, which I've heard HUNDREDS of times. The gaps between the songs are too long, and where there should be cross-fades, the tracks end and a new track starts. You can "hear the silence". I mean, what kind of feeble meddling is that? The lovely cross-fade between Rocket From a Bottle and No Language in Our Lungs? Gone. As are others. Unforgivable.I'm sure the gaps and cross-fades are intact on the Blu-ray disc original mix, but I can only imagine - - or buy a new system.Although the greatest XTC album, English Settlement (yeah Skylarking , Yada yadda) remains to get the "Deluxe treatment" I may just sit that one out in protest. The last remastered versions from a while back sound great, so why waste my money on a package that will try to tech-bully me, be thoughtless,  and show me no respect?Other reissue series have been disappointing in some ways, but none so consistently and spectacularly as has that of XTC. Very sorry to say that, as this band is very dear to me. Wish that their fans mattered more than the tech format du jour. Respectable Street my ***!

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