Longtime HTV readers know I came around to XTC later than their claque expected. Gifted melodists working in the era of punk, Colin Moulding and Andy Partridge worked up a flop sweat to deny those gifts in their early years; only the Brits could get away with a vocal like Partridge’s in “Radios in Motion.” Matters got easier in 1984-1986 when the psychedelic necrophilia of the Dukes of Stratophear project produced more straightforward material than the dissonances of The Big Express offered. Which is why the baited nostalgia of “Peter Pumpkinhead” offends me. Imagine playing Nonesuch after hearing about the band’s reputation! Few putative melodic masters sound so ugly.
Yet I appreciate gestures like the Stratosphear’s “25 O’Clock,” a catchier version of Bill Wyman’s “In a Lonely Land.”
The Hague
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Meh
Garden of Earthly Delights
Wake Up
Sound, Solid
Vanishing Girl
Playground
Runaways
Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
Beating of Hearts
Good to Great
Respectable Street
Life Begins at the Hop
Making Plans for Nigel
River of Orchids
Summer’s Cauldron
25 O’Clock
Radios in Motion
Humanizing The Vacuum 
Good lord, how I hated “Nonesuch.” My fandom ended there. Then to be followed by Partridge’s stupid recording strike against Virgin Records helped matters not a whit.
Exactly.
I named my list of fav films in Letterboxd after them https://letterboxd.com/moviegoergeek/list/garden-of-earthly-delights/
But the song is unlistenable, pretty much like El Bosco is unwatchable. Great title, though.