Drums and Wires

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Drums and Wires
Studio album by XTC
Released	August 17, 1979
Recorded	June–July 1979 at The Town House, London
Genre	New wave
Length	46:57
Label	Virgin Records
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A-) link Rolling Stone link
XTC chronology
Go 2 (1978)	Drums and Wires (1979)	Black Sea (1980)

Drums and Wires is an XTC album released on August 17, 1979. It reached No. 34 on the UK album chart. It contained the successful singles "Life Begins at the Hop" (released on April 27, 1979 and reaching No. 44 on UK singles chart) which was on some issues of the album, "Making Plans For Nigel" (released on September 14, 1979 and reaching No. 17 on the UK singles chart) and the original recording of "Ten Feet Tall." A re-recorded version of "Ten Feet Tall" was released in March 1980 in the U.S. only - their first U.S. single (designed to coincide with the band's first American tour).

The album reached No. 176 on the U.S. Billboard album charts.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side 1: 1.2 Side 2: 2 Personnel

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

This album was originally released with at least 6 different track listings in various parts of the world. Some versions contained a two or three song 7" single in addition to the 11 or 12 song album. One version moved all of Colin Moulding's songs to side one. Another version of the LP contained 14 songs. [1]

The most "official" lineup seems to be this one:

[edit] Side 1:

1. "Making Plans for Nigel" (Colin Moulding)
2. "Helicopter"
3. "Day In Day Out" (Moulding)
4. "When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty"
5. "Ten Feet Tall" (Moulding)
6. "Roads Girdle the Globe"

[edit] Side 2:

1. "Real by Reel"
2. "Millions"
3. "That Is the Way" (Moulding)
4. "Outside World"
5. "Scissor Man"
6. "Complicated Game"

The original run of the LP had a free 7" single "Chain Of Command"/"Limelight" (Moulding). - "Life Begins at the Hop" (Moulding) a 7" single released before the LP, appears on other versions of the album, either as substitutions for these tracks, bonus songs on the single, or bonus tracks on CD releases:

[edit] Personnel

• Andy Partridge - Vocals, Guitars and Synthesizers
• Colin Moulding - Vocals and Bass
• Dave Gregory - Guitars, Keyboards and Background Vocals
• Terry Chambers - Drums, Percussion and Background Vocals
• Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory, Terry Chambers, Steve Warren, Hugh Padgham, Al Clark, Jumbo Van Reinen - Vernon Yard Male Voice Choir on "Roads Girdle the Globe"
• Dick Cuthell - trumpet on "That Is the Way"

XTC
Andy Partridge | Colin Moulding Dave Gregory | Terry Chambers | Barry Andrews
Discography
Studio albums White Music (1978) | Go 2 (1978) | Drums and Wires (1979) | Black Sea (1980) | English Settlement (1982) | Mummer (1983) | The Big Express (1984) | Skylarking (1986) | Oranges and Lemons (1989) | Nonsuch (1992) | Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999) | Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000) The Dukes of Stratosphear releases: 25 O'Clock (1985) | Psonic Psunspot (1987) | Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987) Compilations, instrumentals, demos, live and tribute albums: Take Away / The Lure of Salvage (1980) | Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (1982) | Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-1982 (1982) | The Compact XTC (1987) | Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) | Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers (1990) | BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1992) | Drums and Wireless: BBC Radio Sessions 77-89 (1994) | A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC (1995) | Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-92 (1996) | Upsy Daisy Assortment (1997) | Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions (1998) | Homespun (1999) | Homegrown (2001) | Coat of Many Cupboards (2002) | Instruvenus (2002) | Waspstrumental (2002) | Apple Box 2005 Fuzzy Warbles albums: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 1 (2002) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 2 (2002) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 3 (2003) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 4 | (2003) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 5 (2004) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6 (2004) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 7 (2006) | Fuzzy Warbles Volume 8 (2006) | Hinges (2006)
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