Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80

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Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) is an XTC compilation album which includes 'Mr Partridge's Take Away/The Lure of Salvage LP and the Go + EP. Recorded during sessions on various breaks for the albums Drums and Wires and Black Sea, the album consists of remixes with additional overdubs and sometimes new vocals recorded by Andy Partridge. The material consists of tracks recorded for the band's first three albums. Partridge would also occasionally write new lyrics for some of the compositions included here as well.

Track listing

UK CD: CDOVD 308

All songs by Andy Partrdige except as indicated.

1. "Dance With Me, Germany" – 3:31 *
2. "Beat the Bible" – 2:20 *
3. "A Dictionary of Modern Marriage" – 2:40 *
4. "Clap Clap Clap" – 2:26 * (Colin Moulding)
5. "We Kill The Beast" – 2:20 *(Colin Moulding)
6. "Commerciality" – 3:07
7. "The Day they Pulled the North Pole Down" – 3:51 (Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding)
8. "The Forgotten Language of Light" – 4:19
9. "Steam Fist Futurist" – 3:10
10. "Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)" – 5:34 (Andy Partrdige & Colin Moulding)
11. "Cairo" – 1:52
12. "The Rotary" – 3:20
13. "Madhattan" – 3:17 (Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding)
14. "I Sit in the Snow" – 3:14
15. "Work Away Tokyo Day" – 4:04 (Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding)
16. "New Broom" – 5:27 (Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding)

• All tracks taken from Take Away/The Lure of Salvage except * from the Go + EP.