XTC

[FULIGIN%UMASS.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Lee)]

>From: voodoo jazz acid noise hippy <ZAPHOD@wwu.edu>
>
>I bought XTC's Drums and Wires on CD, and was rather surprised to find
>out HOW different it is from the LP I bought...

     Ah! Things are looking up, more XTC questions on Love-Hounds! : -) As
you noticed, the packaging of the 'Drums and Wires' CD is really screwed up -
my theory is that they re-organized the tracks for the CD, but then copied
the packaging from the first UK edition of the album, and went so far as
putting that information on the CD label itself. The actual track listing is:

1. Making Plans For Nigel
2. Helicopter
3. Day In, Day Out
4. When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
5. Ten Feet Tall
6. Roads Girdle The Globe
7. Limelight
8. Real By Reel
9. Millions
10. That Is The Way
11. Outside World
12. Scissor Man
13. Complicated Game
14. Chain Of Command

     "Day In, Day Out", "Limelight", and "Chain Of Command" were all on a
free 7" that was included with the first US edition of the album. DIDO (I
love acronyms!) was substituted for 'Life Begins at the Hop' on most
subsequent US versions of the album. Why 'hop' didn't make it onto the CD
also, I do not know...

>...Is this CD a rarity? I asked the people behind the counter, and they had
>no idea.

     As far as I know, every edition of the CD has the same problem - mine
does, as does a friend's, which he bought three years ago when it was first
released...

                                                        -Peter E. Lee
                                                   XTC junkie (and Kate fan)

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