Colin Moulding

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Colin Moulding (born Colin Ivor Moulding, on 17 August 1955, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is the bassist, and a founding member of the new wave / rock / pop group XTC, and its second songwriter and vocalist. Though overshadowed by leader Andy Partridge, he wrote many of the group's most popular songs and their first two UK hit singles ("Making Plans for Nigel" and "Generals and Majors") were his compositions. He contributed five tracks to the album Skylarking and four each to Go 2, Drums and Wires, English Settlement and Nonsuch.

[edit] Songs

White Music (1978)
  • "Crosswires"
  • "Do What You Do"
  • "I'll Set Myself on Fire"
  • "Dance Band" (CD bonus track)
  • "Heatwave" (CD bonus track)
  • "Instant Tunes" (CD bonus track)
Go 2 (1978)
  • "Buzzcity Talking"
  • "Crowded Room"
  • "The Rhythm"
  • "I am the Audience"
Drums and Wires (1979)
  • "Making Plans for Nigel"
  • "Day In Day Out"
  • "Ten Feet Tall"
  • "That is the Way"
  • "Life Begins at the Hop" (CD bonus track)
  • "Limelight" (CD bonus track)
Black Sea (1980)
  • "Generals and Majors"
  • "Love at First Sight"
  • "Smokeless Zone" (CD bonus track)
English Settlement (1982)
  • "Runaways"
  • "Ball and Chain"
  • "Fly on the Wall"
  • "English Roundabout"
Mummer (1983)
  • "Wonderland"
  • "Deliver us from the Elements"
  • "In Loving Memory of a Name"
The Big Express (1984)
  • "Wake Up"
  • "I Remember the Sun"
  • "Washaway" (CD bonus track)
25 O'Clock (1985)
  • "What In The World??..."
Skylarking (1986)
  • "Grass"
  • "The Meeting Place"
  • "Big Day"
  • "Dying"
  • "Sacrificial Bonfire"
Psonic Psunspot (1987)
  • "Vanishing Girl"
  • "Shiny Cage"
  • "The Affiliated"
Oranges and Lemons (1989)
  • "King for a Day"
  • "One of the Millions"
  • "Cynical Days"
Nonsuch (1992)
  • "My Bird Performs"
  • "The Smartest Monkeys"
  • "War Dance"
  • "Bungalow"
Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)
  • "Frivolous Tonight"
  • "Fruit Nut"
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000)
  • "In Another Life"
  • "Boarded Up"
  • "Standing in for Joe"

[edit] Non album songs

  • "Blame the Weather"
  • "Didn't Hurt a Bit"
  • "Down a Peg"
  • "Find the Fox"
  • "I Need Protection"
  • "Let's Have Fun"
  • "Looking for Footprints"
  • "Officer Blue"
  • "Say It"
  • "Skeletons"
  • "Sleepyheads"
  • "The Good Things"
  • "The World is Full of Angry Young Men"
  • "Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen"

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