XTC, White Music - 53m 53s

Tracks & Durations

1. Radios in Motion	2:53
2. Cross Wires	2:06
3. This Is Pop	2:42
4. Do What You Do	1:16
5. Statue of Liberty	2:55
6. All Along the Watchtower	5:43
7. Science Friction	3:13
8. She's So Square	3:08
9. Dance Band	2:42
10. Hang On to the Night	2:09
11. Heatwave	2:11
12. Traffic Light Rock	1:40
13. Instant Tunes	2:31
14. Into The Atom Age	2:33
15. I'll Set Myself on Fire	3:02
16. I'm Bugged	3:58
17. New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage	1:53
18. Spinning Top	2:41
19. Neon Shuffle	4:26

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Review

Even if the throbbing "Radios in Motion" had its moments of teenage new-wave sloganeering ("All the kids are complaining that there's nowhere to go, all the kids are complaining that the songs are too slow"), White Music proves that XTC were always something more than bumpkin punks. For a start, Andy Partridge loved the Beatles, a sackable offence in those days. As this 1978 debut album proves, XTC's spiky muse--spasmodic rhythms, Partridge's scuffed guitars, Colin Moulding's stuttering bass lines, and Barry Andrews's spontaneous blurts of crocheting keyboards--was inalienably their own. Clearly more closely aligned to the likes of Wire, Devo, and the Talking Heads than to the big-city brigade, White Music was adroitly experimental and as awkward as it was irritable (as on "Crosswires," "I'm Bugged," and their sputtering dub version of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," which outshone the Clash's reggae efforts at this point), but also plagued by crippling commercial misfortune. XTC's indecently stymied career path hit the first of many obstacles when the lyrics to the potentially classic pop single "Statue of Liberty" ("In my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt") fell foul of the BBC's quasi-Victorian obscenity mores and failed to chart through lack of airplay. --Kevin Maidment24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1978 album. Includes 7 bonus tracks 'Science Friction', 'She's So Square', 'Dance Band', Hang On To The Night', 'Heatwave', 'Traffic Light Rock' & 'Instant Tunes'.

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