Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage

Destructed/constructed at Regents Park Recording Company. This used to be some XTC records. It is now a collection of tracks that have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other sounds or lyrical pieces. If you liked 'Go+' then this record weighs approximately the same amount. On 10.10.79 Alan Jakoby was The Tapir. P 1980 Virgin Records Ltd. C 1980 Virgin Records Ltd. Side one – Take Away "Commerciality (Signal Ad)" (Andy Partridge) (3:08) – remix of "Refrigeration Blues" (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called "Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity") "The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down" (Colin Moulding/Partridge) (3:50) – remix of "Heatwave" (using the backing tracks and slowing them down) "The Forgotten Language Of Light" (Partridge) (4:17) – remix of "Millions" (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals) "Steam Fist Futurist" (Partridge) (3:09) – remix of "Real by Reel" (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds) "Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)" (Partridge) (5:32) – remix of "Pulsing Pulsing" (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's "Ornithology") "Cairo" (Partridge) (1:52) – remix of "Homo Safari" (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps) Side two – The Lure of Salvage "The Rotary" (Partridge) (3:21) – remix of "Helicopter" (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks) "Madhattan" (Moulding/Partridge) (3:17) – remix of "That Is The Way" (backing track with new sounds added) "I Sit In The Snow" (Partridge) (3:12) – remix of "Roads Girdle the Globe" (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added) "Work Away Tokyo Day" (Moulding/Partridge) (4:05) – remix of "Red / Day In Day Out" (original beginning, then all nine of Barry Andrews' sax parts from "Red" played simultaneously, and "Day In Day Out" sped up with a new bass line) "New Broom" (Moulding/Partridge) (5:27) – remix of "Making Plans For Nigel" (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks)