XTC's Andy Partridge to Release Rarities Box

XTC fans, you owe me big time. My hands just took the test of a lifetime typing up the mammoth tracklisting for the nine-disc Andy Partridge Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album box set, and I'm pretty sure they failed.

The box brings together over 100 tracks from the XTC frontman's musical archives, all of which were grabbed from the band's Virgin Records era. The material is spread over eight volumes and includes songs and alternate takes of many XTC numbers that never made the final cut. In addition, Partridge has re-addressed and completed several songs especially for the series, which, by the way, is due in the U.S. on October 10 via his own label Ape House, which is distributed by Ryko.

The volumes (each of which features a Fuzzy Warbles stamp cover!) will be packaged in a special collectors box, as will an oversized booklet featuring notes entitled "A Brief History of Home Taping" by Partridge himself. Disc nine, Hinges, is a bonus album only available with this set.

Last but totally not least is the sheet of Fuzzy Warbles stamps that come inside the set.

Tracklisting:

Volume One:

01 Dame Fortune
02 Born out of Your Mouth
03 Howlin' Burston
04 Don't Let Us Bug Ya
05 That Wag
06 That Wave
07 Ocean's Daughter
08 Everything
09 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

Volume Two:

01 Ridgeway Path
02 I Don't Want to Be Here (AIDS benefit version)
03 Young Marrieds
04 No One Here Available
05 Obscene Procession
06 Miller Time
07 You're the Wish You Are I Had
08 Ra Ra Rehearsal
09 Ra Ra for Rocking Horse
10 Everything'll Be Alright
11 25 O'Clock
12 GOOM
13 Chain of Command
14 All of a Sudden
15 Summers' Cauldron
16 Then She Appeared
17 It's Snowing Angels
18 Ship Trapped in the Ice

Volume Three:

01 My Train Is Coming
02 Lighthead
03 Goodbye Humanosaurus
04 Humble Daisy
05 You Like Me?
06 Great Fire
07 Work
08 Mopti Fake 1
09 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

Volume Four:

01 Tunes
02 Bumpercars
03 The Art Song (Something Good With Your Life)
04 I'm Playing My Fano
05 Zonked Right out on Life
06 All I Dream of Is a Friend
07 Peck the Ground Like a Chicken
08 That's Really Super Supergirl
09 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

Volume Five:

01 Welcome to Volume 5
02 Young Cleopatra
03 I Defy You Gravity
04 Ice Jet Kiss
05 Broomstick Rhythm
06 Earn Enough for Us
07 Dear God (Skiffle version)
08 Crocodile
09 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

Volume Six:

01 Last Laugh Track
02 The Stinking Rich Song
03 Can't Tell What Truth Is Anymore
04 Candle Dance
05 The Tiny Circus of Life
06 The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
07 In My Hand
08 Difficult Age
09 Pink Thing
10 Shaking Skin House
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 Price of Orange
19 End of the Pier

Volume Seven:

01 2 Rainbeau Melt
02 Thrill Pill
03 Sonic Boom
04 I'm Unbecome
05 Ballet for a Rainy Day
06 1000 Umbrellas
07 Ejac in a Box (MGOO)
08 C Side
09 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 Holy Me My Daddy
17 Books Are Burning
18 Bobba De Boop De Ba De Boobay
19 Open a Can of Human Beans

Volume Eight:

01 Through Electric Gardens
02 Skate Dreams Wet Car
03 The Bland Leading the Bland
04 Silverstar
05 I Gave My Suitcase Away
06 Extrovert
07 Another Satellite
08 These Voices
09 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

Hinges:

01 Gold
02 Now We All Dead (It Doesn't Matter)
03 Rain of Blows (early version)
04 Reign of Blows
05 Jump
06 Shake You Donkey Up
07 Happy Families
08 Here Comes President Kill Again
09 Beating of Hearts

Stream: Andy Partridge: My Land Is Burning