The Meeting Place (song)

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"The Meeting Place"
Single by XTC
from the album Skylarking
B-side"The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"
Released2 February 1987 (1987-02-02)
Recorded1986
Length
  • 3:14
  • 3:51 (home demo version)
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Colin Moulding
Producer(s)Todd Rundgren
XTC singles chronology
"Grass"
(1986) 		"The Meeting Place"
(1987) 		"Dear God"
(1987)

"The Meeting Place" is a song written by Colin Moulding of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1986 album Skylarking. It was the second single issued from the album and reached number 100 on the UK Singles Chart.

Background

"The Meeting Place" is built on a "circular" guitar motif that reminded Moulding of the children's programme Toytown. He characterised it as "a childish, nursery-rhyme, bell-like, small town riff. As if you were looking down on Toytown, and it was me in the landscape, meeting my wife beside the factory or something, in our teens."[1] The industrial noises at the beginning were samples sequenced on a Fairlight,[1] one of which was the sound of the Swindon Works hooter, which was used as a signal for its workers. Swindon Works closed within a year of the song's recording.[2] Among influences on the song, Moulding cited Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones' "Factory Girl" (1968), and Billie Jo Spears' Blanket on the Ground" (1975).[1]

Promotional video

The Channel 4 music program The Tube produced videos for "The Meeting Place" and "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" filmed in Portmeirion with the band wearing costumes from The Prisoner.[citation needed]

Track listing

12-inch vinyl, side one

  1. "The Meeting Place"
  2. "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"

12-inch vinyl, side two

  1. "Terrorism" (home demo)
  2. "Let's Make a Den" (home demo)
  3. "Find the Fox" (home demo)
  4. "The Troubles" (home demo)

Charts

Chart (1987) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[3] 100

References

  1. ^ a b c Bernhardt, Todd; Moulding, Colin (26 January 2009). "Colin discusses 'The Meeting Place'". Chalkhills.
  2. ^ Farmer, Neville (1998). XTC: Song Stories: The Exclusive Authorized Story Behind the Music. Hyperion. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-7868-8338-7.
  3. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
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