All You Pretty Girls

"All You Pretty Girls"
Single by XTC
from the album The Big Express
Released 3 September 1984 (1984-09-03)
Recorded 1984
Length 3:56
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s) Andy Partridge
Producer(s) David Lord, XTC
XTC singles chronology
"Love on a Farmboy's Wages"
(1983)		 "All You Pretty Girls"
(1984)		 "This World Over"
(1984)

"All You Pretty Girls" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1984 album The Big Express. It peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart, and its music video cost £33,000 to make.[1] Partridge remembers that song came about while he was "dicking around, playing some Hendrix. ... I was just playing this little two-note, quasi-Hendrix thing, and I liked the inherent melody in it. It felt like a really archaic old folk melody."[2]

With the exception of the opening, all the drum sounds in the recording were made with a LinnDrum. The choir sounds were a Mellotron sample played out of a speaker inside a fire bucket.[2]

Personnel

XTC

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1984) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[3] 55

References

  1. ↑ Ingham, Chris (March 1999). "XTC - 'Til Death Do Us Part". Mojo.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bernhardt, Todd (4 March 2007). "Andy discusses 'All You Pretty Girls'". Chalkhills.
  3. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
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