White Music

White Music
Studio album by XTC
Released	20 January 1978
Recorded	28 April – 7 October 1977 at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England
Genre	Post-punk, new wave
Length	36:28
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	John Leckie
XTC chronology
White Music (1978) Go 2 (1978)
Singles from White Music
"Statue of Liberty" Released: January 1978 "This Is Pop?" Released: April 1978

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Q	[2]
Robert Christgau	B+[3]

White Music is the debut studio album by the English band XTC. It was released on 20 January 1978 and reached No. 38 in the UK album charts. It spawned the singles "Statue of Liberty" (released 6 January 1978) which was banned by the BBC for the line "sail beneath your skirt" and a re-recording of "This Is Pop?" (released 21 April 1978).

Track listing

UK LP: V 2095

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Radios in Motion"	Andy Partridge	2:54
2.	"Cross Wires"	Colin Moulding	2:06
3.	"This Is Pop"	Andy Partridge	2:41
4.	"Do What You Do"	Colin Moulding	1:16
5.	"Statue of Liberty"	Andy Partridge	2:55
6.	"All Along the Watchtower"	Bob Dylan	5:43

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Into the Atom Age"	Andy Partridge	2:32
2.	"I'll Set Myself on Fire"	Colin Moulding	3:04
3.	"I'm Bugged"	Andy Partridge	3:59
4.	"New Town Animal"	Andy Partridge	1:53
5.	"Spinning Top"	Andy Partridge	2:40
6.	"Neon Shuffle"	Andy Partridge	4:37

2001 Remastered CD: CDVX2095

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Radios in Motion"	Andy Partridge	2:54
2.	"Cross Wires"	Colin Moulding	2:06
3.	"This Is Pop"	Andy Partridge	2:41
4.	"Do What You Do"	Colin Moulding	1:16
5.	"Statue of Liberty"	Andy Partridge	2:55
6.	"All Along the Watchtower"	Bob Dylan	5:43
7.	"Into the Atom Age"	Andy Partridge	2:32
8.	"I'll Set Myself on Fire"	Colin Moulding	3:04
9.	"I'm Bugged"	Andy Partridge	3:59
10.	"New Town Animal"	Andy Partridge	1:53
11.	"Spinning Top"	Andy Partridge	2:40
12.	"Neon Shuffle"	Andy Partridge	4:37
13.	"Science Friction"	Andy Partridge	3:13
14.	"She's So Square"	Andy Partridge	3:06
15.	"Dance Band"	Colin Moulding	2:41
16.	"Hang on to the Night"	Andy Partridge	2:09
17.	"Heatwave"	Colin Moulding	2:12
18.	"Traffic Light Rock"	Andy Partridge	1:40
19.	"Instant Tunes"	Colin Moulding	2:34

A German import, ca. 1991, includes these same tracks but in a different order: the first eleven tracks as the original release (Radios in Motion as track 1, Science Friction as track 7, through Heatwave as track 11), followed by the bonus tracks Traffic Light Rock through Neon Shuffle as tracks 12-19 respectively. Another release (CAR 50691) uses slightly different song titles: "New Town Animal In A Furnished Cage", "Into the Atomic Age", "Hang onto the Night", "Science Fiction"; in some countries, the same differences in titles are applied to the CDVX2095 edition.

Personnel

• Andy Partridge - guitar, vocals
• Colin Moulding - bass, vocals
• Barry Andrews - steam piano, clapped out organs
• Terry Chambers - drums

References

1. Woodstra, Chris. "White Music". Allmusic. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
2. columnist (July 2001). Q: 139. Missing or empty |title= (help);
3. Christgau, Robert. "XTC". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved January 17, 2014.