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“Love On A Farm Boy's Wages” by XTC

From the album Mummer (1983)

“Love On A Farm Boy's Wages” by XTC appears on 17 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1989 and 2014. It was first released in 1983 on the album Mummer. Its best result is #306 on the WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,216 alternative song of all time.

17countdowns
2stations
#306best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1989–2014years charted

"Love on a Farm Boy's Wages" comes off Mummer, the XTC album of 1983, and it belongs to Andy Partridge from top to bottom: he wrote the words and the music and sings the lead. Steve Nye co-produced it with the band, recorded it and mixed it, and Pete Phipps sits in on drums.

It's a gentle, rustic piece of work, all acoustic lilt and slow-turning hayfield haze, with a title that spells out the predicament before a note is played: courting on next to nothing. Partridge sounds perfectly at home in the pastoral world he conjures, wry and wistful in equal measure.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 332 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1991 310 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1994 306 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1999 1667 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1667 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1667 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1659 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1646 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1646 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1644 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1521 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1454 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1471 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1499 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1567 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1616 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1685 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: Love on a Farmboy's Wages; Love On A Farmboy's Wages.

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