Re: XTC (Drums and Wires)

[jpalfke@PARCVAX.XEROX.COM (J. Peter Alfke)]

Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK> writes:

> There is also at least one single (Life Begins at the Hop, perhaps?)
> that's on the US version of an LP but not on the UK.

Actually, I've seen at least three versions of "Drums and Wires", and have two.
There is the original US version, the butchered Epic US version, and two
different British versions.
The songs that vary are:
  Life Begins at the Hop  (not on British versions, I think)
  Making Plans For Nigel  (I think this is on all but the fucking Epic/CBS
			   version...I couldn't find this song at all until
			   "Waxworks" came out.)
  Day In, Day Out	  (Obscure song on one British version.)

I think one British version may not have "Ten Feet Tall" but I could be
totally bogus here, yunnerstan.

Just how rare is "Go +" anyway?  I heard for years that it was impossible to
get, and then two copies showed up at Poo Bah about a year ago.  Well worth
having if you like "Take Away" (still in print and recommended for weirdies.
Shall we try to make a list of what XTC songs contributed to each track?  Some
are fairly obvious, like, (dig back into memory) the drum/synth track to
"Helicopter" for "The Rotary".  But where does "Cairo" come from?).

"She become a real live wire-o
 Since she learn how to do the Cairo..."

[Go +, by the way, has an all-black cover with "Go +" on it in white typewriter
print.  Happy hunting.]