XTC Reel by Real: Songs

An attempt to build an index to information concerning recordings made and songs written by XTC.  Herein you may find lyrics and annotations, charts and tablature, recording information, personnel, anecdotes, and more.  A work in progress.

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Songs

• A
  • Across The Antheap
  • Across This Antheap
  • The Affiliated
  • Alan Burston Bop
  • All Aboard for Bubble Land
  • All Along the Watchtower
  • All I Dream Of Is A Friend
  • All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)
  • All You Pretty Girls
  • Always Winter But Never Christmas
  • Am I The Kinda Girl?
  • Anchor
  • Anima mundi
  • Another Satellite
  • Aqua Deum
  • Are You Receiving Me?
  • The Art Song (Something Good With Your Life)
  • At The Sea
  • Atom Age
  • Autumn Comes Around

• B
  • Bags of Fun With Buster
  • Ball and Chain
  • The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
  • Ballet for a Rainy Day
  • Bang You're Alive
  • Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
  • Bearded aphrodite
  • Beat The Bible
  • Beating of Hearts
  • Beatown
  • The Beautiful People
  • Beetle
  • Big Day
  • Bike Ride to the Moon
  • Black Jewelled Serpent Of Sound
  • Black Swan Black
  • Blame the Weather
  • The Bland Leading The Bland
  • The Blimp Poet
  • Blow You Away
  • Blue Beret
  • Blue in Paradise
  • Blue Overall
  • Boarded Up
  • Bobba De Boop De Ba De Boobay
  • Books Are Burning
  • Born Out Of Your Mouth
  • Bosch
  • Brainiac's Daughter
  • Bruegel
  • Bronze coins showing genitals
  • Broomstick Rhythm
  • Brown-Out On Olympus
  • Bumpercars
  • Bungalow
  • Burning With Optimism's Flames
  • Bushman President (Homo Safari No. 2)
  • Buzzcity Talking

• C
  • C Side
  • Cairo
  • Candle Dance
  • Candymine
  • Car Out of Control
  • 'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)
  • Cave Girl
  • Ceramic avenue
  • Chain Gang
  • Chain of Command
  • Chalkhills and Children
  • Cheap Perfume
  • Cherry in Your Tree
  • Child Crusade
  • Child Then
  • Children Love Our Dear Helmsman
  • Child's Crusade
  • Child's Night
  • Chocolate Paper
  • Church of Women
  • Clap Clap Clap
  • Cockpit Dance Mixture
  • Collideascope
  • Commerciality (Signal Ad)
  • Community Worker Breakdown
  • Complicated Game
  • Countdown to Christmas Party Time
  • Crocodile
  • Cut It Out
  • Cross Wires
  • Crowded Room
  • Cuba Dub
  • Cynical Days

• D
  • Dame Fortune
  • Dance Band
  • Dance With Me, Germany
  • Dawn Treader
  • Day In Day Out
  • The Day They Pulled the North Pole Down
  • Dear God
  • Dear God (Oh My God)
  • Dear Madam Barnum
  • Deliver Us From the Elements
  • Desert Island
  • A Dictionary of Modern Marriage
  • Didn't Hurt A Bit
  • Difficult Age
  • The Disappointed
  • Disque Bleu
  • Divine Blood
  • Do The Dwarf (Wordy Rappaport)
  • Do What You Do
  • Don't Let Us Bug Ya
  • Don't Lose Your Temper
  • Don't You Ever Dare Call Me Chickenhead
  • Down In The Cockpit
  • Down a Peg
  • Dream Down
  • Dripping Basin
  • Dying

• E
  • Earn Enough for Us
  • Easter Theatre
  • Egyptian Solution (Thebes in a Box) (Homo Safari Series No. 3)
  • Ejac In A Box (MGOO)
  • Ella Guru
  • End of the Pier
  • English Roundabout
  • EPNS
  • Eurydice (after Rilke)
  • The Everyday Story of Smalltown
  • Everything
  • Everything Decays
  • Everything'll Be Alright
  • Extrovert

• F
  • Falling Into the Future
  • The Familiar
  • Find the Fox
  • Fireball XL5
  • The Floating World
  • Fly On The Wall
  • The Forgotten Language of Light
  • Frivolous Tonight
  • Frost Circus (No. 5 in the Homo Safari series)
  • Fruit Nut
  • Funk Pop a Roll

• G
  • Galveston
  • Gangway, Electric Guitar Is Coming Through
  • Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Generals and Majors
  • Genie In A Bottle
  • Girl In Water Colours
  • Glow
  • Gold
  • The Good Things
  • Goodbye Humanosaurus
  • Goodnight, Sucker
  • GOOM
  • Goosey Goosey
  • Grass
  • Great Fire
  • Great valley of gongs
  • Greenman

• H
  • Hand 19
  • Hand 20
  • Hand 21
  • Hand 22
  • Hang On To The Night
  • Happy Birthday Karen
  • Happy Families
  • Harvest Festival
  • Have You Seen Jackie?
  • Heartcall
  • Heatwave
  • Heaven is Paved With Broken Glass
  • Helicopter
  • Here Comes President Kill Again
  • Hey, It's Alan Burston!
  • The History of Rock 'n' Roll
  • Hold Me My Daddy
  • Holding the Baby
  • Holly Up On Poppy
  • Hot Leathers and a Fist of Fire
  • Homo Safari
  • Howlin' Burston
  • Human Alchemy
  • Humble Daisy

• I
  • I am a Cow Devil
  • I am the Audience
  • I Am the Walrus
  • I Bought Myself a Liarbird
  • I Can't Own Her
  • I Can't Tell What Truth Is Anymore
  • I Come All Over Summer
  • I Defy You Gravity
  • I Don't Want To Be Here
  • I Drew a Lemon
  • I Feel Blue
  • I Gave My Suitcase Away
  • I Lovely Cosmonaut
  • I Need Protection
  • I Overheard
  • I Remember the Sun
  • I Sit in the Snow
  • I Wish I Was a Kid Again
  • I Wonder Why The Wonderfalls
  • Ice Jet Kiss
  • I'd Like That
  • I'm Bugged
  • I'm Playing My Fano
  • I'm The Kaiser
  • I'm The Man Who Murdered Love
  • I'm Unbecome
  • If I Had My Way
  • In Another Life
  • In Hell's Despite
  • In Loving Memory of a Name
  • In My Hand
  • Instant Tunes
  • Into the Atom Age
  • It's Nearly Africa
  • It's Snowing Angels

• J
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Jason and The Argonauts
  • Jelly Baby
  • Jump
  • Jump the Gap
  • Jumping in Gomorrah

• K
  • King for a Day
  • King Strut
  • Knights in Shining Karma
  • Knuckle Down

• L
  • Ladybird
  • The Last Balloon
  • The Laugh Track
  • Leisure
  • Let's Ban the Bomb
  • Let's Have Fun
  • Let's Make a Den
  • Licky Licky Liquorice
  • Lie For A Lie
  • Life Begins at the Hop
  • Life is Always
  • Life is Good in the Greenhouse
  • Lightheaded
  • Limelight
  • Little Field
  • Little Lies
  • Little Lighthouse
  • Living in a Haunted Heart
  • Living Through Another Cuba
  • Lolly Let's Suck It And See
  • Looking for Footprints
  • Love at First Sight
  • Love on a Farmboy's Wages
  • The Loving

• M
  • Madhattan
  • Making Plans for Nigel
  • The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
  • Mantis on Parole (Homo Safari Series No. 4)
  • Mantle of peacock bones
  • Margaret Freeman
  • Mates
  • The Mayor of Simpleton
  • Me and the Wind
  • Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
  • Mechanical Planet
  • The Meeting Place
  • Melt The Guns
  • Merely a Man
  • Mermaid Smiled
  • Merry Christmas Song
  • Meteor
  • Mig
  • Miller Time
  • Millions
  • Miniature Sun
  • Missing pieces to the game of salt and onyx
  • MOGO
  • The Mole from the Ministry
  • Monkeys in Humanskin Suits
  • Moon on Your Dress
  • Moonlit Drive
  • Mopti Fake
  • Motorcycle Landscape
  • My Bird Performs
  • My Brown Guitar
  • My first Words Were MAKE REVOLUTION
  • My Genius
  • My Land Is Burning
  • My Love Explodes
  • My Paint Heroes
  • My Red Aeroplane
  • My Train is Coming
  • My Weapon

• N
  • Necessary Shadows (George Steiner)
  • Neon Shuffle
  • New Broom
  • New Country Squire
  • New Town Animal
  • New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage
  • New York Inside My Head
  • Nicely, Nicely Jane
  • Night Of The Comet
  • No Language In Our Lungs
  • No One At Home
  • No One Here Available
  • No Thugs In Our House
  • Noun Verbs
  • Now We All Dead (It Doesn't Matter)

• O
  • Obscene Procession
  • Ocean's Daughter
  • Officer Blue
  • Oh My Britannia
  • OMGO
  • Omnibus
  • One of the Millions
  • 1000 Umbrellas
  • Oodoo
  • Open A Can (Of Human Beans)
  • Opening Speech
  • Orange Dust
  • Orange Dust Slight Return
  • Outside World
  • Over Rusty Water

• P
  • Pagoda Tailfin
  • Pale and Precious
  • Paperchase
  • Papersnow
  • Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)
  • Pearl
  • Peck The Ground Like A Chicken
  • Pink Thing
  • The place of odd glances
  • Playground
  • Pluto
  • Poor Skeleton Steps Out
  • The Pot Won't Hold Our Love
  • Pretty Pretty Two Face
  • Priapple
  • Primal Gallery
  • Prince of Orange
  • Private Eye
  • Procession Towards Learning Land (No. 6 in the Homo Safari series)
  • Psychedelic Christmas
  • Pulsing Pulsing
  • Punch and Judy
  • Pupil Haze
  • Put It On Again

• Q
  • Quicksilver

• R
  • Ra Ra for Red Rocking Horse
  • Radios in Motion
  • Rain of Blows
  • Raising A Family In A House Full Of Mice
  • Real by Reel
  • Receiving Me
  • Red
  • Red Brick Dream
  • Refrigeration Blues
  • Reign of Blows
  • REM Producer Enquiry
  • Respectable Street
  • The Rhythm
  • Ridgeway Path
  • Rip Van Ruben
  • River of Orchids
  • Roads Girdle the Globe
  • Rocket
  • Rocket From A Bottle
  • Rook
  • The Rotary
  • Runaways

• S
  • Sacrificial Bonfire
  • Saturn Boy
  • Savannah
  • Say It
  • Scarecrow People
  • Science Friction
  • Scissor Man
  • Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
  • Season Cycle
  • Senses Working Overtime
  • Set Myself on Fire
  • Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
  • Shake You Donkey Up
  • Shaking Skin House
  • Shalloween
  • Shaving Brush Boogie
  • She Broke the Circle
  • She Fell In Love With A Detective
  • She's So Square
  • Shiny Cage
  • Ship Trapped in the Ice
  • Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)
  • Shut Up and Kiss Me!
  • Silver Sewing Machine
  • Silverstar
  • Skate Dreams Wet Car
  • Skeletons
  • Sleepyheads
  • The Smartest Monkeys
  • Smelt me into Steel One Hundredfold
  • Smokeless Zone
  • Snowman
  • Some Lovely (My Brown Guitar)
  • Someone's Been in My Room
  • The Somnambulist
  • Song for Wes Long
  • Sonic Boom
  • Space Wray
  • Spare a Penny
  • Spinning Top
  • Spiral
  • Spy in Space
  • Star Park
  • Standing In For Joe
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Steam Fist Futurist
  • Steel Bed
  • The Stinking Rich Song
  • Strange Tales, Strange Tails
  • Strawberry Fields
  • Stupidly Happy
  • Summer Hot As This
  • Summer's Cauldron
  • Super-Tuff
  • Susan Revolving

• T
  • Take This Town
  • Ten Feet Tall
  • Tenochtitlan's numberless bridges
  • Terrorism
  • Thanks for Christmas
  • That Wag
  • That Wave
  • That is the Way
  • That's Really Super, Supergirl
  • Then She Appeared
  • These Voices
  • Things Fall To Bits
  • Third Stone from The Sun
  • This World Over
  • This is Pop?
  • This is the End
  • Thrill Pill
  • Through Electric Gardens
  • Through the hill
  • Tin Toy Clockwork Train
  • The Tiny Circus of Life
  • Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)
  • Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
  • Torturetainment
  • Towers Of London
  • Toys
  • Traffic Light Rock
  • Train Running Low on Soul Coal
  • Travels In Nihilon
  • The Troubles
  • Tunes
  • 25 O'Clock
  • 2 Rainbeau Melt

• U
  • The Ugly Underneath
  • Ur Tannoy
  • Us Being Us

• V
  • Vanishing Girl
  • Visit to the Doctor
  • Volcano

• W
  • Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down
  • Wake Up!
  • Walking to Work
  • Wanking Man
  • War Dance
  • Was a Yes
  • Washaway
  • We Kill The Beast
  • Welcome to Volume 5
  • Well for the Sweat of the Moon
  • We're All Light
  • Western island of apples
  • What in the World?...
  • The Wheel and The Maypole
  • When We Get to England
  • When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
  • Where Did the Ordinary People Go?
  • Where Is Your Heart?
  • Whole Lotta Age
  • Winterwerk
  • Wonder Annual
  • Wonderland
  • Work
  • Work Away Tokyo Day
  • The World is Full of Angry Young Men
  • Wounded Horse
  • Wrapped in Grey
  • Wyborn Sign

• X
  • X Wires

• Y
  • Yacht Dance
  • You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful
  • You Are Here
  • You Like Me?
  • You're a Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)
  • You're Everything I've Never Had
  • You're My Drug
  • You're the Wish (You Are) I Had
  • Young Cleopatra
  • Young Marrieds
  • Your Dictionary
  • Your Gold Dress

• Z
  • Zombie Tots
  • Zonked Right Out (On Life)

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