Take Away / The Lure of Salvage

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Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage
Studio album by Andy Partridge
Released	1980
Genre	Dub
Label	Virgin Records
Producer(s)	John Leckie & Andy Partridge
Andy Partridge chronology
	Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage (1980)	Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (1982)

Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage is a record containing dub versions of XTC tracks released under the "Mr. Partridge" moniker of Andy Partridge. It was released on February 29, 1980 on Virgin Records. Side A is titled "Take Away" and side B "The Lure of Salvage." Partridge made Take Away... totally royalty-free for a cost of 2,000 pounds, and asked Virgin to set the price low. Virgin sold the album with the maximum price of 3.99 pounds.

The cover picture is taken from a post card of Jayne Mansfield in a swimming pool. The figures floating on the water are hot water bottles shaped like her, some of which Partridge scribbled out.

The back cover reads as follows:

"This used to be some XTC records. It is now a collection of tracks that have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other sounds or lyrical pieces. All initial sound by XTC. Additional sound/lyrics by Andy Partridge. Put and take by John Leckie and Andy Partridge on 10/10/79. Alan Jakoby was the tapir. Destructed/constructed at Regents Park Recording Company. If you liked Go+ then this record weighs approximately the same amount."

Andy took existing XTC songs and separated different tracks from the songs to give the experiment/addition of sounds of the track a whole new identity.

Available on the Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 CD, along with the EP Go+.

[edit] Track Listing

1. "Commerciality (Signal Ad)" (Andy Partridge) (3:08)
2. "The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (3:50)
3. "The Forgotten Language Of Light" (Andy Partridge) (4:17)
4. "Steam Fist Futurist" (Andy Partridge) (3:09)
5. "Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)" (Andy Partridge) (5:32)
6. "Cairo" (Andy Partridge) (1:52)
7. "The Rotary" (Andy Partridge) (3:21)
8. "Madhattan" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (3:17)
9. "I Sit In The Snow" (Andy Partridge) (3:12)
10. "Work Away Tokyo Day" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (4:05)
11. "New Broom" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (5:27)

[edit] The Source Of The Tracks

1. "Refrigeration Blues" (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called "Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity").
2. "Heatwave" (using the backing tracks and slowing them down).
3. "Millions" (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals).
4. "Real by Reel" (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds).
5. "Pulsing Pulsing" (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's "Ornithology").
6. "Homo Safari" (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps).
7. "Helicopter" (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks).
8. "That Is The Way" (backing track with new sounds added).
9. "Roads Girdle the Globe" (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added).
10. "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).
11. "Making Plans For Nigel" (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks).

[edit] Personnel

• Andy Partridge - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion & Vocals
• Barry Andrews - Keyboards, Piano, Organs, Saxophone & Vocals
• Dave Gregory - Guitars, Keyboards & Vocals
• Colin Moulding - Bass & Vocals
• Terry Chambers - Drums, Percussion & Vocals
• Dick Cuthell - Trumpet on "Madhattan (That Is The Way)"
• Marianne Partridge - Handclaps on "Cairo"

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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