Best XTC album for beginners

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My intro was the "Senses Working Overtime" video on MTV ca. 1982. I was 11. It thrilled me. That was the brief early period when MTV played lots of British post-punk. I didn't buy any XTC music then, but I always remembered the clip.

A few years later, in ninth grade, I picked up "Mummer" on vinyl in a used record store. I was hooked. Why did I choose "Mummer"? No idea. Probably I liked the cover, and maybe I'd heard "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" on college radio. (Thank you, Vanderbilt's WRVU.)

"Skylarking" came out not long after that and I was enchanted. I snapped up everything XTC that I could. Still have several of those cool 12" singles.
 
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