Senses Working Overtime

"Senses Working Overtime"
Single by XTC
from the album English Settlement
Released8 January 1982
Recorded1981
StudioThe Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Length
  • 4:53 (album version)
  • 4:34 (single version)
  • 3:32 (early tape version)
LabelVirgin
SongwriterAndy Partridge
ProducersHugh Padgham, XTC
XTC singles chronology
"Respectable Street"
(1981)		 "Senses Working Overtime"
(1982)		 "Ball and Chain"
(1982)
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"Senses Working Overtime" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released as the lead single from their 1982 album English Settlement. He based the song on Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" (1964).[3] The album and single became the highest-charting records XTC would ever have in the UK, peaking at number five and number 10, respectively.[4][5]

At the suggestion of its director, the song's music video was filmed at double-speed and then slowed down, to make the musicians appear "more graceful". Partridge recalled: "That one was done really quickly, in Shepperton Studios while we were rehearsing for the English Settlement tour. And so that's us rehearsing. ... [The half-speed idea has] been used a hell of a lot since then, but I think we were the first ones to do it."[6]

Track listing

  1. "Senses Working Overtime" (Andy Partridge)
  2. "Blame the Weather" (Colin Moulding)
  3. "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".

Personnel

XTC

Charts

Notable cover versions

References

  1. ↑ "Mandy Says". Spin. Vol. 19, no. 11. November 2003. p. 28. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ↑ Hughes, Rob (18 August 2016). "Andy Partridge: The Big Interview". Prog. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  3. ↑ Partridge, Andy; Bernhardt, Todd (2016). Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-908279-78-1.
  4. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "XTC". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Ingham, Chris (March 1999). "XTC - 'Til Death Do Us Part". Mojo.
  6. ↑ Bernhardt, Todd (11 December 2006). "Andy discusses 'Senses Working Overtime'". Chalkhills.
  7. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 344. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  8. ↑ "XTC – Senses Working Overtime" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know > Search results for 'XTC' (from irishcharts.ie)". Fireball Media, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "XTC – Senses Working Overtime" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "XTC – Senses Working Overtime". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  12. ↑ "Official Singles Chart on 2/5/1982 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  13. ↑ "Kent Music Report No 445 – 3 January 1983 > National Top 100 Singles for 1982". Kent Music Report, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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