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Track Listing
1. Science Fiction
2. Statue of Liberty
3. This Is Pop
4. Are You Receiving Me
5. Life Begins at the Hop
6. Making Plans For Nigel
7. Wait till Your Boat Goes Down
8. Generals and Majors
9. Towers of London
10. Sargeant Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
11. Senses Working Overtime
12. Ball and Chain
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
XTC's WAXWORKS is subtitled "Some Singles 1977-1982" and it is just that--a selection of their fine array of 45s which chart the course of a band arriving with a jump, finding it's legs and taking off and running. Not trying to be complete, it wisely shows just what can happen when a band is spurred along by the power of radio and the desire to have hits. Never cliched, their songs in fact stretched the boundaries of pop songs in subtle and ingenious ways. "Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down," though not a chart-topper is a wonderfully original new take on kiss-offs and regrets. "Making Plans For Nigel" delineates familial issues in a manner quite British, and thematically Kinks-ish. "Sense Working Overtime" is hooky dazzle and delight from start to finish. And that still leaves nine more equally fine slices.
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