Coat of Many Cupboards

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Coat of Many Cupboards
Coat of Many Cupboards cover
Box set by XTC
Released March 25, 2002
Recorded 1977-2001
Genre Pop rock
Length 220:01
Label Virgin Records
Professional reviews
XTC chronology
Homegrown
(2001)
Coat of Many Cupboards
(2002)
Instruvenus
(2002)


Coat of Many Cupboards is a Boxed set by XTC released in 2002. It acts as an anthology of their fifteen-years on Virgin Records. It is their first compilation of any kind to include tracks by their alter-ego, The Dukes of Stratosphear.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD: XTCBOX1

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Science Friction" [CBS Demo] – 3:32
  2. "Spinning Top" [Live] – 3:00
  3. "Traffic Light Rock" [Live] – 2:06
  4. "Radios in Motion" [White Music Version] – 2:54
  5. "Let's Have Fun" [White Music Outtake] (Colin Moulding) – 1:19
  6. "Fireball X15/Fireball Dub" [White Music Outtake] (Barry Gray) – 3:24
  7. "Heatwave Mark 2 Deluxe" [White Music Outtake] (Moulding) – 1:47
  8. "This is Pop?" [Single Version] – 2:42
  9. "Are You Receiving Me?" [Go 2 Outtake] – 3:23
  10. "Things Fall to Bits" [Go 2 Outtake] (Barry Andrews) – 2:26
  11. "Us Being Us" [Go 2 Outtake] – 2:55 (Andrews)
  12. "Life Begins at the Hop" [First Rehearsal Extract] (Moulding) – 1:09
  13. "Life Begins at the Hop" [First Recording, Unused] (Moulding) – 3:58
  14. "Making Plans for Nigel" [Demo Version] (Moulding) – 4:15
  15. "Ten Feet Tall" [Drums and Wires Version] (Moulding) – 3:14
  16. "Sleepyheads" [Drums and Wires Outtake] (Moulding) – 4:52

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Meccanic Dancin (Oh We Go)" [Live] – 2:34
  2. "Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age/Hang on to the Night/Neon Shuffle" [Live] – 6:52
  3. "Life Begins at the Hop" [Unused U.S. Single Recording] (Moulding) – 2:57
  4. "Real by Reel" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:44
  5. "When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:21
  6. "Helicopter" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:30
  7. "Towers of London" [Rejected Single Recording] – 6:07
  8. "Generals and Majors" [Rehearsal Tape, Demo Version] (Moulding) – 5:02
  9. "No Language in Our Lungs" [Black Sea Version] – 4:51
  10. "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" [Black Sea Version] – 3:37
  11. "Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)" [Live] – 4:08
  12. "Crowded Room" [Live] (Moulding) – 4:03
  13. "Senses Working Overtime" [Early Work Tape, Demo Version] – 3:31
  14. "Snowman" [Live] – 5:06
  15. "Ball and Chain" [Unused Single Recording] (Moulding) – 4:21

[edit] Disc three

  1. "Punch and Judy" [Unused Single Recording] – 2:35
  2. "Fly on the Wall" [English Settlement Version] (Moulding) – 3:17
  3. "Yacht Dance" [Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV] – 4:31
  4. "Jason and the Argonauts" [English Settlement version] – 5:59
  5. "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" [Home Demo] – 3:47
  6. "Wonderland" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 4:23
  7. "Ladybird" [Mummer Version] – 4:36
  8. "All You Pretty Girls" [Home Demo] – 4:13
  9. "Wake Up" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 4:12
  10. "The Everyday Story of Smalltown" [The Big Express Version] – 4:13
  11. "Grass" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 2:55
  12. "Let's Make a Den" [Home Demo] – 2:25
  13. "The Meeting Place" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 3:51
  14. "Dear God" [Band Demo] – 4:10

[edit] Disc four

  1. "Brainiac's Daughter" [Psonic Psunspot Version] – 4:03
  2. "Vanishing Girl" [Psonic Psunspot Version] (Moulding) – 2:44
  3. "Terrorism" [Home Demo] – 3:20
  4. "Find the Fox" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 2:37
  5. "Season Cycle" [Skylarking Version] – 3:21
  6. "The Troubles" [Home Demo] – 3:17
  7. "Mayor of Simpleton" [Early Work Tape, Demo] – 2:47
  8. "King for a Day" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 3:14
  9. "Chalkhills and Children" [Oranges and Lemons Version] – 5:06
  10. "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" [Home Demo] – 5:34
  11. "Omnibus" [Nonsuch Version] – 3:20
  12. "The Disappointed" [Home Demo] – 3:20
  13. "Bungalow" [Nonsuch Version] (Moulding) – 2:49
  14. "Didn't Hurt a Bit" [Nonsuch Outtake] (Moulding) – 3:54
  15. "Books are Burning" [Live on The Late Show, BBC TV] – 4:48


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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