Album · 2002

Coat of Many Cupboards

XTC

Label

Virgin

Catalogue

XTCBOX 1

Tracks

Runtime

234 min

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Tracklist

Disc 1

Science Friction (CBS demo)

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3:32

Spinning Top (live)

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3:00

Traffic Light Rock (live)

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2:06

Radios in Motion (White Music version)

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2:55

Let’s Have Fun (White Music outtake)

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1:20

Fireball XL5 / Fireball Dub (White Music outtake)

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3:24

Heatwave MKII Deluxe (White Music outtake)

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1:48

This Is Pop? (single version)

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2:43

Are You Receiving Me? (Go 2 outtake)

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3:23

Things Fall to Bits (Go 2 outtake)

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2:26

Us Being Us (Go 2 outtake)

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2:56

Life Begins at the Hop (first rehearsal extract)

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1:09

Life Begins at the Hop (first recording, unused)

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3:59

Making Plans for Nigel (demo from Swindon Town Hall)

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4:16

Ten Feet Tall (Drums and Wires version)

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3:14

Sleepyheads (Drums and Wires outtake)

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4:53

Disc 2

Wanking Man (live studio chatter)

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1:37

Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!) (live)

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2:34

Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age / Hang On to the Night / Neon Shuffle (live)

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6:52

Life Begins at the Hop (unused U.S. single recording)

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2:57

Real by Reel (unused single recording)

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3:45

When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty (unused single recording)

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3:21

Helicopter (unused single recording)

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3:30

Towers of London (rejected single recording)

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6:07

Generals and Majors (rehearsal tape)

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5:03

No Language in Our Lungs (Black Sea version)

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4:52

Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) (Black Sea version)

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3:37

Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) (live)

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4:08

Crowded Room (live)

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4:03

Senses Working Overtime (early work tape)

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3:32

Snowman (live)

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5:07

Ball and Chain (unused single recording)

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4:21

Disc 3

Shaving Brush Boogie (live studio recording)

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12:07

Punch and Judy (unused single recording)

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2:35

Fly on the Wall (English Settlement version)

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3:18

Yacht Dance (live)

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4:32

Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement version)

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5:59

Love on a Farmboy’s Wages (home demo)

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3:47

Wonderland (home demo)

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4:23

Ladybird (Mummer version)

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4:36

All You Pretty Girls (home demo)

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4:13

Wake Up (home demo)

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4:12

The Everyday Story of Smalltown (Big Express version)

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4:13

Grass (home demo)

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2:55

Let’s Make a Den (home demo)

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2:26

The Meeting Place (home demo)

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3:51

Dear God (band demo)

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4:10

Disc 4

Brainiac’s Daughter (Psonic Psunspot version)

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4:04

Vanishing Girl (Psonic Psunspot version)

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2:45

Terrorism (home demo)

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3:21

Find the Fox (home demo)

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2:37

Season Cycle (Skylarking version)

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3:22

The Troubles (home demo)

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3:17

Mayor of Simpleton (early work tape)

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2:48

King for a Day (home demo)

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3:15

Chalkhills and Children (Oranges & Lemons version)

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5:07

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (early home demo)

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5:34

Omnibus (Nonsuch version)

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3:21

The Disappointed (home demo)

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3:21

Bungalow (Nonsuch version)

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2:50

Didn’t Hurt a Bit (Nonsuch outtake)

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3:54

Books Are Burning (live)

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4:48

In print

First pressed 2002 — 2 pressings.

Credits

Andrew Swainson

Artwork

Andy Partridge

Instrument · acoustic guitar, vocals

Barry Andrews

Instrument · keyboards, vocals

Colin Moulding

Instrument · bass

Dave Gregory

Instrument · guitar, keyboards, vocals