Senses Working Overtime

"Senses Working Overtime" is a single by XTC released in 1982. In the U.K., it hit the Top Ten and helped English Settlement reach #5 on the album charts, but it would also be their last Top 40 entry for a decade.

It has subsequently been covered by both Spacehog on the XTC tribute album A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC and by Mandy Moore on Coverage.

Music video

The video for "Senses Working Overtime" shows the band performing the song in an empty (minus the band and their instruments, amps, etc.) yet colorful room. The video was released on the Look Look video compilation.

Track listing

"Senses Working Overtime" (Andy Partridge)
"Blame the Weather" (Colin Moulding)
"Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)" (Partridge)

On the 12" release, "Egyptian Solution (Thebes in a Box) (Homo Safari #3)" (Partridge) was added to the A-side as track 2; the B-side comprised "Blame the Weather" and "Tissue Tigers" on both 7" and 12".

Mandy Moore version

"Senses Working Overtime"

Single by Mandy Moore

from the album Coverage

Released

January 17, 2004

Format

Digital download

Recorded

February 2003

Genre

Pop rock

Length

4:08

Andy Partridge

John Fields

Mandy Moore singles chronology

"Drop the Pilot"
(2003)

"Senses Working Overtime"
(2004)

"Extraordinary"
(2007)

"Senses Working Overtime" was the second official single released from Moore's fourth studio album Coverage. It was only released in the United States as a digital single and is a live version from the Sessions@AOL performance. In 2004, the label included "Senses Working Overtime" in the first compilation of Mandy Moore, The Best of Mandy Moore. Later, in 2007, included the single in the deluxe edition of the second artist compilation album, Super Hits.

Release and reception

Moore's version of "Senses Working Overtime" was released as the second single from her fourth album titled Coverage, on January 17, 2004 through Epic Records. Although Moore performed this song live on Sessions@AOL, the video was not used to promote the song. The video is available on Moore's DVD The Best of Mandy Moore.

XTC

Andy Partridge Colin Moulding Terry Chambers Dave Gregory Barry Andrews

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)

EPs	3D - EP

Live albums	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 Coat of Many Cupboards Apple Box

Other albums	Homespun Homegrown Instruvenus Waspstrumental

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

Mandy Moore songs

So Real	"So Real" "Candy" "Walk Me Home"

I Wanna Be with You	"I Wanna Be with You" "Everything My Heart Desires"

Mandy Moore	"In My Pocket" "Cry" "Crush"

Coverage	"Senses Working Overtime" "The Whole of the Moon" "Can We Still Be Friends" "I Feel the Earth Move" "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" "Drop the Pilot" "Moonshadow" "One Way or Another" "Anticipation" "Help Me" "Have a Little Faith in Me"

The Best of Mandy Moore	"Only Hope" "Secret Love"

Wild Hope	"Extraordinary" "Nothing That You Are"

Amanda Leigh	"I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week" "Song About Home"

Collaborations	"I've Got a Dream"

Other songs	"I See the Light" "Someday We'll Know" "Stupid Cupid" "When Will My Life Begin?"

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