Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dame Forutne
2. Born Out Of Your Mouth
3. Howlin' Burston
4. Don't Let Us Bug Ya
5. That Wag
6. That Wave
7. Ocean's Daughter
8. Everything
9. MOGO
10. Goosey Goosey
11. Merely A Man
12. EPNS
13. Summer Hot As This
14. Miniature Sun
15. I Brought Myself A Liarbird
16. Complicated Game
17. Wonder Annual
18. Space Wray
19. Rocket

Disc 2:

1. Ridgeway Path
2. I Don't Want To Be Here (AIDS Benefit Version)
3. Young Marrieds
4. No One Here Available
5. Obscene Procession
6. Miller Time
7. You're The Wish You Are I Had
8. Ra Ra Rehearsal
9. Ra Ra For Red Rocking Horse
10. Everything'll Be Alright
11. 25 O'Clock
12. GOOM
13. Chain Of Command
14. All Of A Sudden
15. Summers's Cauldron
16. Then She Appeared
17. It's Snowing Angels
18. Ship Trapped In The Ice

Disc 3:

1. My Train Is Coming
2. Lightheaded
3. Goodbye Humanosaurus
4. Humble Daisy
5. You Like Me?
6. Great Fire
7. Work
8. Mopti Fake I
9. Collideascope
10. Mopti Fake 2
11. When We Get To England
12. Train Running Low On Soul Coal
13. Holly Up On Poppy
14. Strawberry Fields Forever
15. Autumn Comes Around
16. Child's Crusade
17. Little Lighthouse
18. This Is The End
19. Put It On Again

Disc 4:

1. Tunes
2. Bumpercars
3. The Art Song (Something Good With Your Life)
4. I'm Playing My Fano
5. Zonked Right Out On Life
6. All I Dream Of Is A Friend
7. Peck The Ground Like A Chicken
8. That's Really Super Supergirl
9. Brainiac's Daughter
10. Blue Beret
11. Gangway, Electric Guitar Is Coming Through
12. Mechanical Planet
13. Helicopter
14. The Ugly Underneath
15. OMGO
16. Where Is Your Heart?
17. Hey, It's Alan Burston!
18. Season Cycle
19. Countdown To Christmas Party Time

Disc 5:

1. Welcome To Volume 5
2. Young Cleopatra
3. I Defy You Gravity
4. Ice Jet Kiss
5. Broomstick Rhythm
6. Earn Enough For Us
7. Dear God (Skffle Version)
8. Crocodile
9. Motorcycle Landscape
10. Rook
11. Don't You Ever Dare Call Me Chickenhead
12. Mermaid Explanation
13. Mermaid Smiled
14. Aqua Deum
15. Me And The Wind
16. Smalltown
17. Blue Overall
18. Red Brick Dream
19. Jacob's Ladder
20. My Land Is Burning

Disc 6:

1. The Laugh Track
2. The Stinking Rich Song
3. I Can't Tell What Truth Is Anymore
4. Candle Dance
5. The Tiny Circus Of Life
6. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
7. In My Hand
8. Difficult Age
9. Pink Thing
10. Shaking Skin Hosue
11. Bike Ride To The Moon
12. My Love Explodes
13. Omnibus
14. Across The Antheap (Skylarking Demo)
15. Across The Antheap (Oranges & Lemons Demo)
16. Human Alchemy
17. Moonlit Drive
18. Prince Of Orange
19. End Of The Pier

Disc 7:

1. 2 Rainbeau Melt
2. Thrill Pill
3. Sonic Boom
4. I'm Unbecome
5. Ballet For A Rainy Day
6. 1000 Umbrellas
7. Ejac In A Box (MGOO)
8. C Side
9. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
10. Ladybird
11. Candymine
12. Visit To The Doctor
13. Cherry In Your Tree
14. Desert Island
15. Scarecrow People
16. Hold Me My Daddy
17. Books Are Burning
18. Bobba De Boop De Ba De Boobay
19. Open A Can Of Human Beans

Disc 8:

1. Through Electric Gardens
2. Skate Dreams Wet Car
3. The Bland Leading The Bland
4. Silverstar
5. I Gave My Suitcase Away
6. Extrovert
7. Another Satellite
8. These Voices
9. Song For Wes Long
10. Happy Birthday Karen
11. REM Producer Enquiry
12. The Loving
13. Shalloween
14. Was A Yes
15. Genie In A Bottle
16. Disque Bleu
17. Poor Skeleton Steps Out
18. I Don't Want To Be Here (Original Demo)
19. Chalkhills And Children

Disc 9:

1. Gold
2. Now We All Dead (It Doesn't Matter)
3. Rain of Blows (early version)
4. Reign of Blows
5. Jump
6. Shake You Donkey Up
7. Happy Families
8. Here Comes President Kill Again
9. Beating Of Hearts

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17840 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-07
• Number of discs: 9
• Format: Box set

Album Description
The Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album brings together over 100 songs from XTC frontman Andy Partridge's songwriting archive. Recorded over the years whilst Andy and XTC were signed to Virgin Records and later to the Idea and Ape labels, the material is spread across eight volumes featuring songs and alternate versions of many XTC favorites that never made it onto the respective final albums or never made the cut when the final tracklistings were decided. There are also songs Andy never got to complete that he's re-visited and finished off especially for this Fuzzy Warbles series.

Each disc has a unique Fuzzy Warbles stamp cover artwork and the collector's box to keep them all in is designed to imitate a stamp album. There is even a bonus CD, Hinges, which features nine extra tracks only available with this set. Inside each box is a landscape oversized booklet, in which Andy gives a fascinating insight to his recording process with "A Brief History of Home Taping." Describing his earliest experiences of recording music at home and the excitement of those first recording sessions, it all makes fascinating reading, tinged with just a hint of regret as to how the songwriting process has become so bland as recording technology makes things easier and easier.

The final piece of the Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album jigsaw is your own sheet of Fuzzy Warbles stamps to play with, if anyone could ever dare to part with them!

Amazon.com
When XTC stopped touring and became a studio-only entity, the finely jeweled arrangements that Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding had already favored took on incredible new breadth and depth. Since 2002, Partridge has been going through his own vast archives, releasing eight volumes in a U.K.-only series called Fuzzy Warbles. They are finally available in the U.S. in one gorgeously designed Collector's Album, along with a bonus disc, Hinges. With over 100 songs, the set includes early versions and demos of songs which appeared on XTC albums, previously unreleased gems, and songs for a wide range of outside projects, including the Disney movie James and the Giant Peach (which are so dazzling it boggles the mind that the deal ultimately fell apart). There are whims borne to fruition (an answering machine ditty), and flat-out brilliant slices of songcraft finally brought to light. What's truly remarkable is how complete are Partridge's sensibilities, as both a songwriter and arranger. Everything is considered and tended to--a background vocal here, a tambourine there--it all matters and it all sparkles. --David Greenberger

More Andy Partridge and XTC

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Customer Reviews

Fine set if you enjoy unrelated songs overlapping and never ending properly.
The content on these nine disks are fantastic. Some of the best songwriting of the last twenty-five years or so. Easily. However, if you are like a large segment of modern music-listeners you may utilize the shuffle button on your CD player, or, you own an Ipod and may hear tracks randomly, etc. Well, someone must have loaned Sgt. Pepper to Andy while they were mixing Black Sea because ever since the fadeout of "Towers Of London" and the barely-audible intro to "Paper And Iron" XTC fans have been treated to (whether we liked it or not) songs that either crossfade/start unnecessarily on top of the previous track or directly ending as the next track begins. It's been this way on every album ever since Black Sea. It's his redundant crutch/formula of either creating a false sense of an album experience or perhaps he thinks the listener may lose interest? Either way, it's been an irritating thing to come to expect album after album. The only time it's actually worked (or, more accurately, been seemingly appropriate) was when it was Todd Rundgren's idea when he was in charge of it on Skylarking. This mindless overlapping of tracks even exists on the great rarities/B-sides compilation/collection Rag 'N' Bone Buffet (explain that one to me).
The only thing those tracks have in common is their B-Side status. Talk about a contrived listening experience.

Now please don't get me wrong - if I were to have to narrow it down I'd have to say XTC is one of my all-time favorite bands. Perhaps this makes it more frustrating. Perhaps not. Either way Andy is up to his old, overused, one trick again. That's right. And on a demo collection of all things. A strum-and-hum-job from 1979 ("Complicated Game") fading into an eight-track Tascam demo from 1987. Must there be an artificial "experience" on all things XTC? Thanks to Andy, yes. There must never be any silence between tracks ever. And every song overlaps onto another (ala the Sgt.Pepper formula).

If you want there to be violently loud and seemingly clipped, chopped intros and outros then this set is just for you. If you actually like these songs to fade out, or enjoy having these songs simply ring out on their last note, or if you are partial to a second or three of silence between properly indexed tracks or your tracks to be simply properly indexed you will be irritated to no end. Enjoy.

Greetings From the Recording Shed
John Wesley Harding once wrote a wonderfully witty song called 'When the Beatles hit America,' a lyrical narrative of a dream the guitarist had, one in which the Beatles reunite and tour the US with a new album. After hearing the latest recording by the long-defunct pop-group, Harding quips, "It didn't sound a lot like P.S. I Love You... but it did sound like XTC... it sounded a LOT like XTC."

And that comparison continues to this day. Andy Partridge has been the brain trust of XTC for over twenty five years and even at this late date he shows no sign of letting up in his quest to produce muscially lush, lyrically dense pop songs, the sort we rarely hear these days. Every record the man has crafted has, in many ways, carried forward the musical inventiveness of that band to which Harding compared XTC.

Though one would not call this a proper "album," Fuzzy Warbles might as well be. Listening to this collection of richly-crafted, so-called demos is the musical equivalent of reaching into the grab bag of eternal promise with few, if any, disappointments. True, the compilation spans many years, but you wouldn't know it as the variety of the songwriting is supported by the meticulous care with which Partridge pursues his craft. Andy never shirks his duties, and even the weakest of tracks provides a unique bridge or lyric worthy of further attention.

Fun fun fun.

Has the Fat Lady sung for XTC?
If so, this is a great way to go out. 150+ songs that demonstrate what an extraordinary talent Andy Partridge is. Some are full songs, others little unfinished scribbles, but underneath it all there is some great melodies, a hallmark of the XTC ouevre. Don't miss this collection!

I'll still always be hoping for another XTC album.