The Disappointed (song)
| "The Disappointed" | ||||
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| Single by XTC | ||||
| from the album Nonsuch | ||||
| B-side | "The Smartest Monkeys" (Moulding) | |||
| Released | March 23, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 3:23 | |||
| Label | Virgin Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Andy Partridge | |||
| Producer(s) | Gus Dudgeon | |||
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"The Disappointed" is a song by XTC from their 1992 album Nonsuch, with the home demo later released on Coat of Many Cupboards (2002). It reached No. 33 on the UK Singles Chart, reached No. 1 on the Rolling Stone College album chart, 32 on the ARIA Charts, 68 on the Dutch Top 40, and reached No. 97 on the Billboard album chart in the United States. It was also nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 1993. It also appears on the compilations Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 (1996) and Upsy Daisy Assortment (1997).
"I fancied writing something that was up musically and dejected lyrically at the same time. It's about people who've been neglected in affairs of the heart, and they band together to form an organisation of the disappointed. Then they all congregate round this guy's house and declare him their king. It's in memory of morose teenage incapacity with the opposite sex." The song was originally inspired by Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared. Colin Larkin says the song, "could just as easily have acted as a personal epitaph." The Rough Guide describes the song as, "soaringly melodic."
The music video was directed by a daughter of Ranulph Fiennes. The band also lip synced the song on Pebble Mill at One.
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