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Drums and Wires
(CD, 2003)

Primary Artist: XTC

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Format: CD
Aug 2003
Record Label: Virgin Records (UK)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 766487968027
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Track Listing
1. Making Plans For Nigel
2. Helicopter
3. Day in, Day Out
4. When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
5. Ten Feet Tall
6. Roads Girdle the Globe
7. Reel by Reel
8. Millions
9. That Is the Way
10. Outside World
11. Scissor Man
12. Complicated Game
13. Life Begins at the Hop
14. Chain of Command
15. Limelight

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Distributor:Phantom Import Distributi
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Remastered U.K. edition.
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.

Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination...Here they began to find themselves in thwacking rock...
Q (07/01/2001)

3 stars out of 5 - ...XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination...Here they began to find themselves in thwacking rock...
Q (07/01/2001)

Ranked #20 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980.
CMJ (01/05/2004)

New wave gets refined...


If these guys were the Beatles of new wave, this is their REVOLVER...



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