XTC: Transistor Blast (FOUR CD SET OF BBC SESSIONS!!)

(To see my 3rd list of Ten Amazing XTC Videos - 1981-1982 - please visit the The Big Takeover.



Okay, here's a mammoth offering for you XTC devotees: an out-of-print four CD box-set that compiled most (if not all) of XTC's BBC recordings. Some of this material has appeared here before but this is your chance to get this absolutely massive XTC infusion in one fell swoop! Much more XTC HERE!

Tracklist:

Studio Sessions
1-1         IntroVoice – John Peel 0:49    
1-2         Life Begins At The Hop     4:20    
1-3         Scarecrow People     4:13    
1-4         Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her     4:21    
1-5         Ten Feet Tall     2:54    
1-6         Garden Of Earthly Delights     5:34    
1-7         Runaways     4:41    
1-8         When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty     3:07    
1-9         I'm Bugged     3:35    
1-10         Another Satellite     4:21    
1-11         You're The Wish You Are I Had     3:24    
1-12         Crosswires     2:10    
1-13         Roads Girdle The Globe     5:03    

Studio Sessions
2-1         No Thugs In Our House     5:23    
2-2         One Of The Millions     4:26    
2-3         Real By Reel     3:49    
2-4         The Meeting Place     3:08    
2-5         Meccanic Dancing     2:36    
2-6         Poor Skeleton Steps Out     3:27    
2-7         Into The Atom Age     2:27    
2-8         The Rhythm     2:55    
2-9         This World Over     4:33    
2-10         Snowman     4:42    
2-11         Danceband     2:41    
2-12         Making Plans For Nigel     4:07    
2-13         Jason And The Argonauts     5:42


1978/79 Live In Concert Recordings
3-1         Radio's In Motion     3:21    
3-2         Crosswires     2:06    
3-3         Science Friction     3:34    
3-4         Statue Of Liberty     2:58    
3-5         The Rhythm     2:55    
3-6         I'll Set Myself On Fire     3:27    
3-7         Newtown Animal In A Furnished Cage     1:55    
3-8         All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)  5:58    
3-9         Beatown     3:24    
3-10         This Is Pop     2:37    
3-11         Danceband     2:49    
3-12         Neon Shuffle     4:33

Live In Concert Hammersmith Palais 22.12.80
4-1         Life Begins At The Hop     3:55    
4-2         Burning With Optimism's Flames     4:29    
4-3         Love At First Sight     3:03    
4-4         Respectable Street     3:52    
4-5         No Language In Our Lungs     4:58    
4-6         This Is Pop     2:49    
4-7         Scissor Man     4:58    
4-8         Towers Of London     5:13    
4-9         Battery Brides     7:21    
4-10         Living Through Another Cuba     3:29    
4-11         Generals And Majors     4:47    
4-12         Making Plans For Nigel     4:21    
4-13         Are You Receiving Me?


CD1 and CD2 contain studio-recordings made for & transmitted on various radio shows (recorded/transmitted) by the BBC:
• John Peel Show: 1-12 (20.6.77/24.6.77); 1-9, 2-7, 2-11 (21.9.77/26.9.77); 2-5, 2-8 (13.11.78/23.11.78); 1-1, 1-5, 1-13, 2-3 (8.10.79/15.10.79).
• Kid Jensen Show: 1-2, 1-8, 2-12 (21.5.79/31.5.79); 1-7, 2-1, 2-10, 2-13 (14.1.82/25.1.82).
• Bruno Brookes Show Oct. 1984: 1-4, 1-11, 2-9 (-/19-22.11.84).
• Sunday Live: 1-1, 2-4 (-/22.2.87).
• Richard Skinner Show: 1-3, 2-6 (16.3.89/5.4.89).
• Andy Kershaw Show: 1-6, 2-2 (16.3.89/11.6.89).

CD3 contains recordings from two live performances in 1978 and 1979:
• recorded for Sight & Sound In Concert at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London (9.3.78): 3-1, 3-2, 3-4, 3-6 to 3-8, 3-10 to 3-12.
• recorded for In Concert at Paris Theatre, London (17.1.78): 3-3, 3-5, 3-9.

CD4 was entirely recorded for In Concert at Hammersmith Odeon (22.12.80).

Okay MRML readers, this is a pretty massive offering. So please let us know what you think of this collection in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find ALL FOUR Transistor Blast links).

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