Comments on: Tanya’s Army Of Awfulness: XTC – SERGEANT ROCK https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Helen Fay https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-2582348 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:41:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-2582348 Surely this is ironic? What we would now call incels. I had issues with the lyrics back in 1980, but knowing AP I think this was channeling a character, not a personal statement.

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By: Bart Simpson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-2560414 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:29:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-2560414 Hah, year years later, when listening to another rerelease of Black Sea, Andy Partridge brings up some sort of controversy with this song in the liner notes. I attempt to find out what he means, and this site is the first to come up on a Google search.

I like how this take completely gets the odd logic the band had in recording this song but then grabs it by the balls and carries on with the metaphor to it’s most bizarre end result. I’m glad this write up exists.

(from 2007)

(Christ, I’m late)

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By: Mark G https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-1251655 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:30:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-1251655 #6, that would be more a Barry Andrews lyrical device.

#7, You’ve bookmarked it? Oh Good..

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By: Neeproc https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-800382 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:51:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-800382 I always assumed XTC’s Sgt Rock was a veiled reference to the male genetalia. Did Andy Partridge refer to his erection as Sgt. Rock?

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By: Natalya https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-712020 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:11:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-712020 You are an uneducated idiot who most likely enjoy listening to pop rubbish. XTC in my opinion are a forgotten gem of a band, who unlike most current popular artists, write interesting songs. My guess is you like very conventional things, and that is fine for you. Go ahead and attack what you do not understand.

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By: The old man of the woods https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-697961 Mon, 10 May 2010 11:34:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-697961 You’ve just earned yourself a Forester fatwa for calling EMF “home-counties numbnuts” – Gloucestershire is not the home counties. The Forest of Dean (the part of Gloucestershire on the other side of the Severn) doubly so.

If you see a sheep – any sheep – be very, very worried.

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By: peter https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-609959 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:36:13 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-609959 clueless prick

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By: emma https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-298097 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:50:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-298097 Erm isn’t it meant to be an ironic comment on macho values? ‘Sgt Rock is going to help me, make the girl mine, keep her stood in line’. ‘If I could only be tough like him then I could win my own small battle of the sexes.’ Think the implication is meant to be that this won’t work in actualite!

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By: staggerlee https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/comment-page-1#comment-279162 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:08:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/tanya%e2%80%99s-army-of-awfulness-xtc-sergeant-rock/#comment-279162 Well, yeah, it’s not anything like their best song, is it? Andy P hisself cringes when it’s brought up — hates its guts. If I recall, he was trying for some kind of campy extended metaphor, based on Andy’s lifelong infatuation with comic books and toy soldiers, that just didn’t pan out. So it goes.

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