COAT OF MANY CUPBOARDS

'''Coat of Many Cupboards''' is a Boxed set by XTC released in 2002. It acts as an anthology of their fifteen-years on Virgin Records. It is their first compilation of any kind to include tracks by their alter-ego, The Dukes of Stratosphear.

Contents

Track listing

CD: XTCBOX1

Disc one

Disc two

Disc three

Disc four

Track listing

CD: XTCBOX1

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

Disc one

#"Science Friction" [CBS Demo] – 3:32
#"Spinning Top" [Live] – 3:00
#"Traffic Light Rock" [Live] – 2:06
#"Radios in Motion" [''White Music'' Version] – 2:54
#"Let's Have Fun" [''White Music'' Outtake] (Colin Moulding) – 1:19
#"Fireball X15/Fireball Dub" [''White Music'' Outtake] (Barry Gray) – 3:24
#"Heatwave Mark 2 Deluxe" [''White Music'' Outtake] (Moulding) – 1:47
#"This is Pop?" [Single Version] – 2:42
#"Are You Receiving Me?" [''Go 2'' Outtake] – 3:23
#"Things Fall to Bits" [''Go 2'' Outtake] (Barry Andrews) – 2:26
#"Us Being Us" [''Go 2'' Outtake] – 2:55 (Andrews)
#"Life Begins at the Hop" [First Rehearsal Extract] (Moulding) – 1:09
#"Life Begins at the Hop" [First Recording, Unused] (Moulding) – 3:58
#"Making Plans for Nigel" [Demo Version] (Moulding) – 4:15
#"Ten Feet Tall" [''Drums and Wires'' Version] (Moulding) – 3:14
#"Sleepyheads" [''Drums and Wires'' Outtake] (Moulding) – 4:52

Disc two

#"Meccanic Dancin (Oh We Go)" [Live] – 2:34
#"Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age/Hang on to the Night/Neon Shuffle" [Live] – 6:52
#"Life Begins at the Hop" [Unused U.S. Single Recording] (Moulding) – 2:57
#"Real by Reel" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:44
#"When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:21
#"Helicopter" [Unused Single Recording] – 3:30
#"Towers of London" [Rejected Single Recording] – 6:07
#"Generals and Majors" [Rehearsal Tape, Demo Version] (Moulding) – 5:02
#"No Language in Our Lungs" [''Black Sea'' Version] – 4:51
#"Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" [''Black Sea'' Version] – 3:37
#"Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)" [Live] – 4:08
#"Crowded Room" [Live] (Moulding) – 4:03
#"Senses Working Overtime" [Early Work Tape, Demo Version] – 3:31
#"Snowman" [Live] – 5:06
#"Ball and Chain" [Unused Single Recording] (Moulding) – 4:21

Disc three

#"Punch and Judy" [Unused Single Recording] – 2:35
#"Fly on the Wall" [''English Settlement'' Version] (Moulding) – 3:17
#"Yacht Dance" [Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV] – 4:31
#"Jason and the Argonauts" [''English Settlement'' version] – 5:59
#"Love on a Farmboy's Wages" [Home Demo] – 3:47
#"Wonderland" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 4:23
#"Ladybird" [''Mummer'' Version] – 4:36
#"All You Pretty Girls" [Home Demo] – 4:13
#"Wake Up" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 4:12
#"The Everyday Story of Smalltown" [''The Big Express'' Version] – 4:13
#"Grass" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 2:55
#"Let's Make a Den" [Home Demo] – 2:25
#"The Meeting Place" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 3:51
#"Dear God" [Band Demo] – 4:10

Disc four

#"Brainiac's Daughter" [''Psonic Psunspot'' Version] – 4:03
#"Vanishing Girl" [''Psonic Psunspot'' Version] (Moulding) – 2:44
#"Terrorism" [Home Demo] – 3:20
#"Find the Fox" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 2:37
#"Season Cycle" [''Skylarking'' Version] – 3:21
#"The Troubles" [Home Demo] – 3:17
#"Mayor of Simpleton" [Early Work Tape, Demo] – 2:47
#"King for a Day" [Home Demo] (Moulding) – 3:14
#"Chalkhills and Children" [''Oranges and Lemons'' Version] – 5:06
#"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" [Home Demo] – 5:34
#"Omnibus" [''Nonsuch'' Version] – 3:20
#"The Disappointed" [Home Demo] – 3:20
#"Bungalow" [''Nonsuch'' Version] (Moulding) – 2:49
#"Didn't Hurt a Bit" [''Nonsuch'' Outtake] (Moulding) – 3:54
#"Books are Burning" [Live on The Late Show, BBC TV] – 4:48