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Cover of Black Sea by XTC
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“Living Through Another Cuba” by XTC

From the album Black Sea (1980)

“Living Through Another Cuba” by XTC appears on 16 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1980 on the album Black Sea. Its best result is #965 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,030 alternative song of all time.

16countdowns
2stations
#965best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1999–2014years charted

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"Living Through Another Cuba" comes from XTC's 1980 album Black Sea, and it's Andy Partridge's baby: he wrote the words and the music and takes the lead vocal, spitting it out with the wiry, nervy urgency that made the band's records crackle.

Steve Lillywhite produced it and Hugh Padgham engineered, and they give the band a hard, punchy room sound where every guitar stab and drum hit lands like a jab. It's tense, twitchy and built to rattle.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 1267 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1267 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1271 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1270 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1624 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 1255 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 965 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 1255 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1255 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1616 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1593 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1612 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1655 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1720 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1783 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1846 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

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