design [cover] Andy Partridge design [cover] Pearce Marchbank lacquer cut by Nick Webb producer [put and take] Andy Partridge producer [put and take] John Leckie recorded by Alan Jakoby sounds [additional sound by], lyrics by [additional] Andy Partridge sounds [all initial sound by] XTC written-by Andy Partridge tracks a2, b2, b4, b5 written-by Colin Moulding Phonographic Copyright (p) Virgin Records Ltd. Copyright (c) Virgin Records Ltd. Produced At Regents Park Studios Pressed By CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton Destructed/constructed at Regents Park Recording Company. This used to be some XTC records. It is now a collection of tracks that have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other songs or lyrical pieces. If you liked 'Go+' then this record weighs approximately the same amount. On 10.10.79 Alan Jakoby was The Tapir.
P 1980 Virgin Records Ltd. C 1980 Virgin Records Ltd.
Side one – Take Away
Commerciality (Signal Ad) (Andy Partridge) (3:08) – remix of Refrigeration Blues (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity) The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down (Colin Moulding/Partridge) (3:50) – remix of Heatwave (using the backing tracks and slowing them down) The Forgotten Language Of Light (Partridge) (4:17) – remix of Millions (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals) Steam Fist Futurist (Partridge) (3:09) – remix of Real by Reel (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds) Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950) (Partridge) (5:32) – remix of Pulsing Pulsing (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's Ornithology) Cairo (Partridge) (1:52) – remix of Homo Safari (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps) Side two – The Lure of Salvage
The Rotary (Partridge) (3:21) – remix of Helicopter (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks) Madhattan (Moulding/Partridge) (3:17) – remix of That Is The Way (backing track with new sounds added) I Sit In The Snow (Partridge) (3:12) – remix of Roads Girdle the Globe (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added) Work Away Tokyo Day (Moulding/Partridge) (4:05) – remix of Red / Day In Day Out (original beginning, then all nine of Barry Andrews' sax parts from Red played simultaneously, and Day In Day Out sped up with a new bass line) New Broom (Moulding/Partridge) (5:27) – remix of Making Plans For Nigel (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks) Matrix / Runout: V2145 A (Side A label) Matrix / Runout: V2145 A (Side B label) Matrix / Runout: V-2145-A-1 1 0 NICK W Λ (Side A, variant 1, etched exc. 1 0 Λ, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V-2145-B-2 2 Λ (Side B, variant 1, etched exc. 2 Λ, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V 2145 A2 Nick W ∴ (Side A, variant 2, etched) Matrix / Runout: V-2145 B-2 ∴ (Side B, variant 2, etched) Matrix / Runout: V-2145-A-1 2 0 NICK W Λ (Side A, variant 3, etched exc. 2 0 Λ, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V-2145-B-1 C B (Side B, variant 3, etched exc. C B, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V-2145.A-2 2 Nick W Λ (Side A, variant 4, etched exc. 2 Λ, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V-2145.B-2 D (Side B, variant 4, etched exc. D, stamped) Matrix / Runout: V-2145.A-2 2 Nick W Λ (Side A, variant 5) Matrix / Runout: V-2145.B-2 5 B (Side B, variant 5)