White Music

This article is about the XTC album. For other uses, see White Music (disambiguation).

White Music

Studio album by XTC

Released

20 January 1978

Recorded

28 April – 7 October 1977 at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England

Genre

Post-punk, new wave

Length

36:28

XTC chronology

White Music
(1978)

Go 2
(1978)

Singles from White Music

"Statue of Liberty"
Released: January 1978
"This Is Pop?"
Released: April 1978

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Q	^[2]
Robert Christgau	B+^[3]

White Music is the debut studio album by the English band XTC. It was released on 20 January 1978 and reached No. 38 in the UK album charts. It spawned the singles "Statue of Liberty" (released 6 January 1978) which was banned by the BBC for the line "sail beneath your skirt" and a re-recording of "This Is Pop?" (released 21 April 1978).

Track listing

UK LP: V 2095

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Radios in Motion"	Andy Partridge	2:54
2.	"Cross Wires"	Colin Moulding	2:06
3.	"This Is Pop"	Andy Partridge	2:41
4.	"Do What You Do"	Colin Moulding	1:16
5.	"Statue of Liberty"	Andy Partridge	2:55
6.	"All Along the Watchtower"	Bob Dylan	5:43

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Into the Atom Age"	Andy Partridge	2:32
2.	"I'll Set Myself on Fire"	Colin Moulding	3:04
3.	"I'm Bugged"	Andy Partridge	3:59
4.	"New Town Animal"	Andy Partridge	1:53
5.	"Spinning Top"	Andy Partridge	2:40
6.	"Neon Shuffle"	Andy Partridge	4:37

2001 Remastered CD: CDVX2095

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Radios in Motion"	Andy Partridge	2:54
2.	"Cross Wires"	Colin Moulding	2:06
3.	"This Is Pop"	Andy Partridge	2:41
4.	"Do What You Do"	Colin Moulding	1:16
5.	"Statue of Liberty"	Andy Partridge	2:55
6.	"All Along the Watchtower"	Bob Dylan	5:43
7.	"Into the Atom Age"	Andy Partridge	2:32
8.	"I'll Set Myself on Fire"	Colin Moulding	3:04
9.	"I'm Bugged"	Andy Partridge	3:59
10.	"New Town Animal"	Andy Partridge	1:53
11.	"Spinning Top"	Andy Partridge	2:40
12.	"Neon Shuffle"	Andy Partridge	4:37
13.	"Science Friction"	Andy Partridge	3:13
14.	"She's So Square"	Andy Partridge	3:06
15.	"Dance Band"	Colin Moulding	2:41
16.	"Hang on to the Night"	Andy Partridge	2:09
17.	"Heatwave"	Colin Moulding	2:12
18.	"Traffic Light Rock"	Andy Partridge	1:40
19.	"Instant Tunes"	Colin Moulding	2:34

A German import, ca. 1991, includes these same tracks but in a different order: the first eleven tracks as the original release (Radios in Motion as track 1, Science Friction as track 7, through Heatwave as track 11), followed by the bonus tracks Traffic Light Rock through Neon Shuffle as tracks 12-19 respectively. Another release (CAR 50691) uses slightly different song titles: "New Town Animal In A Furnished Cage", "Into the Atomic Age", "Hang onto the Night", "Science Fiction"; in some countries, the same differences in titles are applied to the CDVX2095 edition.

Note: tracks 13, 14 and 15 were the songs of the XTC first EP called "3D EP".

Personnel

Andy Partridge - guitar, vocals
Colin Moulding - bass, vocals
Barry Andrews - steam piano, clapped out organs
Terry Chambers - drums

References

↑ Woodstra, Chris. "White Music". Allmusic. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
↑ columnist (July 2001). Q: 139. Missing or empty |title= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Christgau, Robert. "XTC". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved January 17, 2014.

XTC

Andy Partridge Colin Moulding Barry Andrews Terry Chambers Dave Gregory

Studio albums	White Music Go 2 Drums and Wires Black Sea English Settlement Mummer The Big Express 25 O'Clock Skylarking Psonic Psunspot Oranges & Lemons Nonsuch Apple Venus Volume 1 Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

EP	3D - EP

Live album	BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert

Compilations	Waxworks: Some Singles 1977–1982 Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977–1982 The Compact XTC Chips from the Chocolate Fireball Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers Drums and Wireless: BBC Radio Sessions 77–89 Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 Upsy Daisy Assortment Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions

Box sets	Coat of Many Cupboards Apple Box

Demos Remixes	Homespun Homegrown Instruvenus Waspstrumental

Singles	"Science Friction" "Statue of Liberty" "This Is Pop?" "Are You Receiving Me?" "Life Begins at the Hop" "Making Plans for Nigel" "Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down" "Generals and Majors" "Towers of London" "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" "Senses Working Overtime" "Wonderland" "Dear God" "Mayor of Simpleton" "King for a Day" "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"

Related articles	Discography The Dukes of Stratosphear Urgh! A Music War A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC Fuzzy Warbles Take Away / The Lure of Salvage

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