XTC New Compilation Round Up
Hello, your dear helmsman Andy Partridge here. I want to pick your brains and I have my hand whittled cocktail stick at the ready. XTC would like to release an APE version of RAG AND BONE BUFFET, hooray! lots of new notes, photos and a sparkling remastering job. Thats all good, but we also think there is a sister volume to be found. Yes, another herd of B sides, extra tracks or odious oddities that found themselves escaped into the wider world and we’d like your help in rounding them up.
The new disc has a working title, BRIC-A-BRAC BREAKFAST, and we already know some of the songs that will be included. Tracks like SPIRAL, SAY IT, WHERE DID THE ORDINARY PEOPLE GO? etc. What we’d like you to do is if you can think of a favourite piece of missing work from XTC {the 12 inch remix of KING FOR A DAY anyone?} then post your suggestions as comments below. What tracks can you think of that may have slipped the net? That aren’t included in RAG AND BONE, or aren’t sitting snug on a regular album somewhere, something you would like brought back from the grave?
Happy tapping, and i’ll be over to look at the results shortly.
Wow, this is a huge list. Where to start?
All the live b-sides not yet on CD:
“Set Myself on Fire” and “Battery Brides” (”Towers of London” single)
“Living Through…” and “Generals & Majors” (”Sgt. Rock” single)
“Burning with…,” “English Roundabout,” “Cut It Out” (”Love on a Farmboy’s Wages” 12″)
“Beatown,” “Roads Girdle the Globe,” and “This is Pop?” (”Love at First Sight” Canadian single)
“Are You Receiving Me?” (Australian and Japanese “Nigel” singles)
“I’m Bugged” and “Science Friction” from the “Hope and Anchor Festival” album.
Original 7″ mixes of “Heaven is Paved with Broken Glass” and “Wait till Your Boat Goes Down”
The first four songs in the “Homo Safari” series
Hard-to-find demos:
Living in a Haunted Heart
Skeletons
My Paint Heroes
The Good Things
Rip Van Reuben
Compilation Tracks:
Ella Guru
The Good Things (studio version)
The two short bits on the Geffen Christmas promo CD
Bags of Fun with Buster
And sure, let’s have the 12″ inch mix of “King for A Day,” with it’s groovy syncopated piano (that would be the “Czar Mix”).
What can I say, I want it all!
I’ll “+1″ on all that was mentioned above me, but if there’s not enough room, the important ones will suffice:
-the ‘homo’s’ that are NOT ‘bone-us tracks’ on other CD’s
-”Ella Guru”
-BAGS OF FUN!…………. which I have not heard!
Anything above, plus certainly “Cherry In Your Tree”, “Third Stone From The Sun”, “Strawberry Fields”, etc.