XTC - 1980 - Black Sea Demos (STU/FLAC)

(studio FLAC)

1980 Polygram Studios

Lineage:
cassette > Audacity > WAV > FLAC@blog > Audacity (splitting, edits, fades) > TLH flac 8
Andy Partridge - guitar, vocals
Dave Gregory - guitar, vocals
Colin Moulding - bass, vocals
Terry Chambers - drums

01 Living Through Another Cuba [instrumental]
02 Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
03 Rocket From A Bottle
04 Towers Of London
05 Smokeless Zone [instrumental]
06 Ban The Bomb [instrumental]
07 No Language In Our Lungs
08 Pearl [Andy Partridge solo]
09 Holding The Baby [Andy Partridge solo]
10 Monkeys In Human Skin Suites [Andy Partridge solo]
11 Burning With Optimism's Flames
12 Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins)
13 Travels In Nihilon
14 Don't Lose Your Temper
15 Respectable Street
16 Generals And Majors

Notes:
I checked around on the web but could find no trace of these demos, it really seems they never made the rounds before. All I could find were some inferior quality versions of two of the Andy Partridge solo tracks on youtube. But as I am not very knowledgeable at all when it comes to XTC I may be completely wrong :-)

Anyway, the sound quality is excellent with only little hiss considering the age of the tape. Madtaper Hans really must have kept his cassettes under very good conditions.

I considered moving the three Andy Partridge solo tracks to the end as they clearly are not part of the same session; but as you can easily move them around as you wish yourself I decided to keep the track order as it was on madtapers cassette. Personally I'll certainly put them at the end whenever I listen to these absolutely fabulous demos.