4x CD

Coat of Many Cupboards

Compilation by XTC

Released 25 March 2002

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Science Friction (CBS demo)
3:32
2
Spinning Top (live)
3:00
3
Traffic Light Rock (live)
2:06
4
Radios in Motion (White Music version)
2:54
5
Let’s Have Fun (White Music outtake)
1:19
6
Fireball XL5 / Fireball Dub (White Music outtake)
3:24
7
Heatwave MKII Deluxe (White Music outtake)
1:47
8
This Is Pop? (single version)
2:42
4.0 ★
9
Are You Receiving Me? (Go 2 outtake)
3:23
10
Things Fall to Bits (Go 2 outtake)
2:26
11
Us Being Us (Go 2 outtake)
2:55
12
Life Begins at the Hop (first rehearsal extract)
1:09
13
Life Begins at the Hop (first recording, unused)
3:58
14
Making Plans for Nigel (demo from Swindon Town Hall)
4:15
15
Ten Feet Tall (Drums and Wires version)
3:14
5.0 ★
16
Sleepyheads (Drums and Wires outtake)
4:52
CD 2
0
Wanking Man (live studio chatter)
1:37
1
Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!) (live)
2:34
2
Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age / Hang On to the Night / Neon Shuffle (live)
6:52
3
Life Begins at the Hop (unused U.S. single recording)
2:57
4
Real by Reel (unused single recording)
3:44
5
When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty (unused single recording)
3:21
6
Helicopter (unused single recording)
3:30
7
Towers of London (rejected single recording)
6:07
8
Generals and Majors (rehearsal tape)
5:02
9
No Language in Our Lungs (Black Sea version)
4:51
3.0 ★
10
Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) (Black Sea version)
3:37
11
Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) (live)
4:08
12
Crowded Room (live)
4:03
13
Senses Working Overtime (early work tape)
3:31
14
Snowman (live)
5:06
15
Ball and Chain (unused single recording)
4:21
CD 3
0
Shaving Brush Boogie (live studio recording)
12:07
1
Punch and Judy (unused single recording)
2:35
2
Fly on the Wall (English Settlement version)
3:17
3.0 ★
3
Yacht Dance (live)
4:31
4
Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement version)
5:59
5
Love on a Farmboy’s Wages (home demo)
3:47
6
Wonderland (home demo)
4:23
7
Ladybird (Mummer version)
4:36
4.0 ★
8
All You Pretty Girls (home demo)
4:13
9
Wake Up (home demo)
4:12
10
The Everyday Story of Smalltown (Big Express version)
4:13
11
Grass (home demo)
2:55
12
Let’s Make a Den (home demo)
2:25
13
The Meeting Place (home demo)
3:51
14
Dear God (band demo)
4:10
CD 4
1
Brainiac’s Daughter (Psonic Psunspot version)
4:03
2
Vanishing Girl (Psonic Psunspot version)
2:44
3
Terrorism (home demo)
3:20
4
Find the Fox (home demo)
2:37
5
Season Cycle (Skylarking version)
3:21
6
The Troubles (home demo)
3:17
7
Mayor of Simpleton (early work tape)
2:47
8
King for a Day (home demo)
3:14
9
Chalkhills and Children (Oranges & Lemons version)
5:06
3.0 ★
10
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (early home demo)
5:34
11
Omnibus (Nonsuch version)
3:20
12
The Disappointed (home demo)
3:20
13
Bungalow (Nonsuch version)
2:49
14
Didn’t Hurt a Bit (Nonsuch outtake)
3:54
15
Books Are Burning (live)
4:48

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Release credits

Andy Partridge
background vocals [4], electric guitar [3.4, 1.8], guitar [8], lead vocals [3.4, 3.7, 1.8, 2.9], synthesizer [2, 4]
Barry Andrews
keyboard [8]
Bill Price
engineer [8]
Colin Moulding
background vocals [2, 4], bass guitar [1.8, 3.4], fretless bass [2], lead vocals [3.2, 1.15]
Dave Gregory
12 string guitar [2, 4], electric guitar [2]
Howard Gray
assistant [2]
Hugh Padgham
engineer [3.2, 3.4, 2.9], producer [2, 4]
John Leckie
engineer [8], producer [8]
Pete Phipps
drums (drum set) [7]
Robert John “Mutt” Lange
producer [8]
Steve Lillywhite
producer [1.15, 2.9]
Steve Nye
mix [7], producer [7], recording [7]
Terry Chambers
drums (drum set) [1.8, 1.15, 3.2, 3.4], percussion [4]
XTC
producer [2, 7]

Issues

C
(Combined release view)
C
Coat of Many Cupboards
4x CD
25 March 2002
C
Coat of Many Cupboards
4x Digital Media
16 July 2010