White Music

White Music
Studio album by XTC
Released 20 January 1978
Recorded 28 April – 7 October 1977
Studio The Manor, Oxfordshire, England
Genre Post-punk, new wave
Length 36:28
Label Virgin
Producer John Leckie
XTC chronology
3D EP
(1977)		 White Music
(1978)		 Go 2
(1978)Go 21978
Singles from White Music
  1. "Statue of Liberty"
    Released: January 1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Q[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]

White Music is the first studio album by the English band XTC, released on 20 January 1978. It was the follow-up to their debut, 3D EP, released three months earlier. White Music reached No. 38 in the UK album charts and spawned the single "Statue of Liberty", which was banned by the BBC for the lyric "In my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt". In April 1978, the group rerecorded "This Is Pop" as their third single.

The track "Radio in Motion" received has become one of the band's better-known songs. In a 2009 interview, Andy Partridge stated, "We couldn't think of any better way to start off our first album than with the ‘kick the door in’, breezy opener we used in our live set... the lyrics are very silly, picked for their sonic effect rather than meaning. The first refuge of an inexperienced song writer, forgive me, but they do have a youthful scattergun energy."[4] The song is considered representative of the band's "agitated amphetamine rock" style of their earlier works, though others would call it "relatively tame mod-pop".[5][6] The song mentions Milwaukee in the lyrics because Partridge's aunt lived in that city.[7][4][8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Radios in Motion"2:54
2."Cross Wires" (Colin Moulding)2:06
3."This Is Pop"2:41
4."Do What You Do" (Moulding)1:16
5."Statue of Liberty"2:55
6."All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)5:43
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Into the Atom Age"2:32
2."I'll Set Myself on Fire" (Moulding)3:04
3."I'm Bugged"3:59
4."New Town Animal"1:53
5."Spinning Top"2:40
6."Neon Shuffle"4:37

Personnel

XTC
Technical

References

  1. ↑ Woodstra, Chris. "White Music". Allmusic. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ Q (magazine) July 2001 page 139
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "XTC". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Chalkhills: XTCFans: Andy's Take: "Radios in Motion"". chalkhills.org. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  5. ↑ Mauri, Ken (Feb 27, 2014). "Ken Maiuri's Tuned In". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Newspapers of New England. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Zaleski, Annie. "This is pop: XTC's giddy, incomparable "White Music" turns 40". Salon.com. Salon Media Group. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  7. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG : XTC". Robert Christgau Dean of American Rock Critics.
  8. ↑ "There's A Message In Milwaukee…". For Malcontents Only. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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