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Andy Partridge - The Official Andy Partridge Fuzzy Warbles Collector’s Album [9CD Box Set] (2006)

Andy Partridge - The Official Andy Partridge Fuzzy Warbles Collector’s Album [9CD Box Set] (2006)

BAND/ARTIST: Andy Partridge

  • Title: The Official Andy Partridge Fuzzy Warbles Collector’s Album
  • Year Of Release: 2006
  • Label: Ape House [APEBOX001]
  • Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative, New Wave, Post-Punk
  • Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
  • Total Time: 8:19:59
  • Total Size: 1.11 gb / 3.16 gb
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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!

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.

:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc One: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 1
01. Dame Fortune (2:40)
02. Born Out of Your Mouth (2:49)
03. Howlin' Burston (0:36)
04. Don't Let Us Bug Ya (2:44)
05. That Wag (4:53)
06. That Wave (3:43)
07. Ocean's Daughter (1:13)
08. Everything (3:17)
09. Mogo (2:16)
10. Goosey Goosey (3:55)
11. Merely a Man (2:50)
12. EPNS (2:40)
13. Summer Hot as This (4:16)
14. Miniature Sun (4:22)
15. I Bought Myself a Liarbird (3:04)
16. Complicated Game (2:43)
17. Wonder Annual (4:04)
18. Space Wray (1:46)
19. Rocket (5:22)

Disc Two: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 2
01. Ridgeway Path (0:57)
02. I Don't Want to Be Here (Aids Benefit Version) (4:02)
03. Young Marrieds (3:23)
04. No One Here Available (0:19)
05. Obscene Procession (4:14)
06. Miller Time (1:10)
07. You're the Wish You Are I Had (3:22)
08. Ra Ra Rehearsal (2:15)
09. Ra Ra for Red Rocking Horse (3:44)
10. Everything'll Be Alright (3:02)
11. 25 O'clock (2:22)
12. Goom (2:00)
13. Chain of Command (2:41)
14. All of a Sudden (1:10)
15. Summer's Cauldron (5:33)
16. Then She Appeared (2:59)
17. It's Snowing Angels (3:19)
18. Ship Trapped in the Ice (3:11)

Disc Three: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 3
01. My Train is Coming (2:44)
02. Lightheaded (3:29)
03. Goodbye Humanosaurus (3:12)
04. Humble Daisy (3:16)
05. You Like Me? (4:46)
06. Great Fire (3:39)
07. Work (3:03)
08. Mopti Fake 1 (0:58)
09. Collideascope (3:00)
10. Mopti Fake 2 (1:03)
11. When We Get to England (2:18)
12. Train Running Low on Soul Coal (4:19)
13. Holly Up on Poppy (3:02)
14. Strawberry Fields Forever (4:02)
15. Autumn Comes Around (1:06)
16. Child's Crusade (2:38)
17. Little Lighthouse (5:16)
18. This is the End (5:06)
19. Put it on Again (0:55)

Disc Four: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 4
01. Tunes (0:24)
02. Bumpercars (3:59)
03. The Art Song (Something Good with Your Life) (2:52)
04. I'm Playing My Fano (1:12)
05. Zonked Right Out on Life (5:17)
06. All I Dream of is a Friend (3:44)
07. Peck the Ground Like a Chicken (1:26)
08. That's Really Super Supergirl (3:41)
09. Brainiac's Daughter (1:48)
10. Blue Beret (3:07)
11. Gangway, Electric Guitar is Coming Through (1:50)
12. Mechanical Planet (3:54)
13. Helicopter (3:52)
14. The Ugly Underneath (3:14)
15. Omgo (2:03)
16. Where is Your Heart? (2:58)
17. Hey, it's Alan Burston! (0:23)
18. Season Cycle (4:51)
19. Countdown to Christmas Partytime (5:37)

Disc Five: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 5
01. Welcome to Volume 5 (0:25)
02. Young Cleopatra (3:52)
03. I Defy You Gravity (4:18)
04. Ice Jet Kiss (0:37)
05. Broomstick Rhythm (3:37)
06. Earn Enough for Us (3:03)
07. Dear God (Skiffle Version) (1:00)
08. Crocodile (3:49)
09. Motorcycle Landscape (4:39)
10. Rook (3:45)
11. Don't You Ever Dare Call Me Chickenhead (2:12)
12. Mermaid Explaination (1:05)
13. Mermaid Smiled (2:27)
14. Aqua Dream (2:36)
15. Me and the Wind (4:20)
16. Smalltown (4:02)
17. Blue Overall (3:10)
18. Red Brick Dream (1:23)
19. Jacob's Ladder (6:15)
20. My Land is Burning (6:56)

Disc Six: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6
01. The Laugh Track (2:47)
02. The Stinking Rich Song (2:54)
03. I Can't Tell What Truth is Anymore (2:48)
04. Candle Dance (1:57)
05. The Tiny Circus of Life (3:10)
06. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul (2:58)
07. In My Hand (2:50)
08. Difficult Age (3:44)
09. Pink Thing (3:17)
10. Shaking Skin House (4:25)
11. Bike Ride to the Moon (1:31)
12. My Love Explodes (1:56)
13. Omnibus (3:13)
14. Across the Antheap (Skylarking Demo) (2:50)
15. Across this Antheap (Oranges & Lemons Demo) (5:37)
16. Human Alchemy (5:58)
17. Moonlit Drive (3:12)
18. Prince of Orange (2:54)
19. End of the Pier (4:15)

Disc Seven: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 7
01. Rainbeau Melt (3:37)
02. Thrill Pill (0:47)
03. Sonic Boom (2:51)
04. I'm Unbecome (4:04)
05. Ballet for a Rainy Day (3:13)
06. 1000 Umbrellas (1:39)
07. Ejac In a Box (MGOO) (3:08)
08. C Side (0:20)
09. Seagull Sreaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (3:38)
10. Ladybird (5:15)
11. Candymine (2:25)
12. Visit to the Doctor (3:29)
13. Cherry In Your Tree (2:54)
14. Desert Island (5:14)
15. Scarecrow People (4:18)
16. Hold Me My Daddy (4:14)
17. Books are Burning (4:23)
18. Bobba De Boop De Ba De Boobay (0:31)
19. Open a Can of Human Beans (4:45)

Disc Eight: Fuzzy Warbles Volume 8
01. Through Electric Gardens (5:00)
02. Skate Dreams Wet Car (2:05)
03. The Bland Leading the Bland (4:09)
04. Silverstar (1:23)
05. I Gave My Suitcase Away (3:22)
06. Extrovert (3:38)
07. Another Satellite (5:12)
08. These Voices (1:03)
09. Song for Wes Long (0:57)
10. Happy Birthday Karen (1:05)
11. REM Producer Enquiry (2:37)
12. The Loving (4:18)
13. Shalloween (3:22)
14. Was a Yes (2:24)
15. Genie In a Bottle (1:37)
16. Disque Bleu (3:18)
17. Poor Skeletons Step Out (2:22)
18. I Don't Want to Be Here (Original Demo) (4:16)
19. Chalkhills and Children (5:01)

Disc Nine: Globe Hinges
01. Gold (3:31)
02. Now We All Dead (It Doesn't Matter) (3:16)
03. Rain of Blows {Early Version} (1:45)
04. Reign of Blows (5:07)
05. Jump (5:36)
06. Shake You Donkey Up (3:27)
07. Happy Families (2:30)
08. Here Comes President Kill Again (3:32)
09. Beating of Hearts (4:17)

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  • mldekker
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