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Drums & Wires
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Album: Drums & Wires
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Making Plans for Nigel More Info... 0:04
2)    Helicopter More Info... 0:04
3)    Day in Day Out More Info... 0:03
4)    When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty More Info... 0:03
5)    Ten Feet Tall More Info... 0:03
6)    Roads Girdle the Globe More Info... 0:05
7)    Reel By Reel More Info... 0:03
8)    Millions More Info... 0:05
9)    That Is the Way More Info... 0:03
10)    Outside World More Info... 0:02
11)    Scissor Man More Info... 0:04
12)    Complicated Game More Info... 0:05
13)    Life Begins at the Hop More Info... 0:03
14)    Chain of Command More Info... 0:02
15)    Limelight More Info... 0:02
16)    Life Begins at the Hop More Info...
17)    Homo Safari More Info...
18)    Chain of Command More Info...
19)    Limelight More Info...
20)    Bushman President More Info...
21)    Pulsing Pulsing More Info...
22)    Wait 'Til Your Boat Goes Down More Info...
23)    Ten Feet Tall (Electric Version) More Info...
24)    Officer Blue More Info...
25)    Over Rusty Water More Info...
26)    Sleepyheads More Info...
 
Album: Drums & Wires
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Making Plans for Nigel More Info... 0:04
2)    Helicopter More Info... 0:04
3)    Day in Day Out More Info... 0:03
4)    When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty More Info... 0:03
5)    Ten Feet Tall More Info... 0:03
6)    Roads Girdle the Globe More Info... 0:05
7)    Reel By Reel More Info... 0:03
8)    Millions More Info... 0:05
9)    That Is the Way More Info... 0:03
10)    Outside World More Info... 0:02
11)    Scissor Man More Info... 0:04
12)    Complicated Game More Info... 0:05
13)    Life Begins at the Hop More Info... 0:03
14)    Chain of Command More Info... 0:02
15)    Limelight More Info... 0:02
16)    Life Begins at the Hop More Info...
17)    Homo Safari More Info...
18)    Chain of Command More Info...
19)    Limelight More Info...
20)    Bushman President More Info...
21)    Pulsing Pulsing More Info...
22)    Wait 'Til Your Boat Goes Down More Info...
23)    Ten Feet Tall (Electric Version) More Info...
24)    Officer Blue More Info...
25)    Over Rusty Water More Info...
26)    Sleepyheads More Info...
 
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  • All tracks have been digitally remastered.
  • This third album marks a significant personnel change for XTC. Organist Barry Andrews departed and was replaced by guitarist Dave Gregory. While neither of the two wrote songs for the band, the change effectively removed the most "New Wave" element in XTC's original sound, ultimately setting the stage for a magnificent sonic expansion over the following several albums.
  • Opening with one of their biggest hits, "Making Plans For Nigel," the album finds the Partridge-Gregory guitar interplay exploring the rich fields of Captain Beefheart (the tag to "Day In Day Out" is pure Magic Band). The relative quiet of "Ten Feet Tall" sounds positively pastoral after the nonstop energy of the last two albums. With "Life Begins at the Hop" Colin Moulding was emerging as XTC's hit-bound writer, but since these charting entries he's remained pretty much in the shadows of the more prolific Andy Partridge.
Professional Reviews
Spin (p.104) - "New wave gets refined..."

Spin (p.102) - "If these guys were the Beatles of new wave, this is their REVOLVER..."

Q (7/01, p.139) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination...Here they began to find themselves in thwacking rock..."

CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - Ranked #20 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980".
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