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| ディスク:1 | |||
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| 1. Science Friction - CBS demo | |||
| 2. Spinning Top - Live at Erics in Liverpool | |||
| 3. Traffic Light Rock - Live at Erics Liverpool | |||
| 4. Radios In Motion - White Music version | |||
| 5. Lets Have Fun - White Music out take | |||
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| ディスク:2 | |||
| 1. Meccanik Dancing - Live At Sydneys Marconi Club | |||
| 2. Atom medley - Into The Atom Age/Hang On To The Night/Neon Shuffle - Live at Sydneys Marconi Club | |||
| 3. Life Begins At The Hop - unused U.S single recording | |||
| 4. Real By Reel - unused single recording | |||
| 5. When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty - Unused single recording | |||
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| ディスク:3 | |||
| 1. Punch And Judy - unused single recording | |||
| 2. Fly On The Wall - English Settlement version | |||
| 3. Yacht Dance - Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV | |||
| 4. Jason And The Argonauts - English Settlement version | |||
| 5. Love On A Farmboys Wages - Home demo | |||
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| ディスク:4 | |||
| 1. Brainiacs Daughter - Psonic Psunspot version | |||
| 2. Vanishing Girl - Psonic Psunspot version | |||
| 3. Terrorism - Home demo | |||
| 4. Find The Fox - Home demo | |||
| 5. Season Cycle - Skylarking version | |||
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Thus, it's interesting to hear an extra verse in an early run through the bible-belt-bothering "Dear God" ("see 'em singing holy songs and start piling up the neutron bombs") or contemplating how much better, judging by Andy Partridge's home demo, "Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" could have sounded if they hadn't tagged on that E Street Band harmonica. Baffling, too, to hear how three songs from Drums and Wires were re-recorded as potential follow-ups to their first chart hit "Making Plans For Nigel" but were ignored in favour of the dreary and--seeing as it sunk without trace--prophetically titled "Wait 'Til Your Boat Goes Down".
Although comparisons to The Beatles became commonplace in later years, there was something about those early tunes--reading comics in bed on "Science Friction", wanting to be with "all my chums" on "Meccanik Dancing" and partaking of "nuts and crisps and c-c-c-cola on tap" at Church hall youth social events on "Life Begins At The Hop"--that was rather more Enid Blyton's Famous Five than Fab Four. But they did share some of the Moptops goonish wit, as evidenced by "Shaving Brush Boogie" from 1982's much-bootlegged Drunken Jam Sessions, although the public really ought to have heard the marvellous Hawkwind needlework tribute "Silver Sewing Machine". That this belated archaeological anthology will outsell most of those early singles is perverse. But despite their meagre chart history, XTC always did have a much brighter future than British Steel.--Kevin Maidment
曲目を参照すれば分かるように、未使用テイク、デモテイク、未発表ライブテイクを中心にした一大コンピレーションとなっている。この手の企画ボックスでは、公式テイクをよく知るファンなら楽しめるが、初めて聴く人にはあまり面白くない、ということがありがちだ。とはいえ、既発音源を多くし過ぎると未発表曲集としての魅力が薄れてしまう。難しいところである。
発売された「COAT OF MANY CUPBOARDS」を入手し、ブックレットに目を通し、CD4枚を聴き終えて、少々驚いたことを正直に告白しよう。この未発表音源を中心としたセットは、それと意識せずに楽しめるだけのクオリティを達成している。もちろん同曲の別テイクが何回か収録されているあたりは通常のアルバムとは異なるのだが、単に珍しいから入れた、というようなテイクがないのだ。
アルバムとしはあまり好きではなかったNonsuch時代を含むCD4など、聴いていてあまりに「いい曲だなぁ」とどきっとすることの連続。自分はあのアルバムの録音とかアレンジとか音質が好きではなかっただけなのかも知れない、と考え直してしまったほど。
繰り返し聞くに堪えるクオリティの未発表曲集というのは珍しいのではないだろうか。初めてXTCを聴く、という人でもあまり心配ないと言える内容。
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