Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80

Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) is an XTC compilation album which includes Mr Partridge's Take Away / The Lure of Salvage and the Go + EP.

Track listing

1. "Dance With Me, Germany" – 3:31 *
2. "Beat the Bible" – 2:20 *
3. "A Dictionary of Modern Marriage" – 2:40 *
4. "Clap Clap Clap" – 2:26 *
5. "We Kill the Beast" – 2:20 *
6. "Commerciality" – 3:07
7. "The Day they Pulled the North Pole Down" – 3:51
8. "The Forgotten Language of Light" – 4:19
9. "Steam Fist Futurist" – 3:10
10. "Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)" – 5:34
11. "Cairo" – 1:52
12. "The Rotary" – 3:20
13. "Madhattan" – 3:17
14. "I Sit in the Snow" – 3:14
15. "Work Away Tokyo Day" – 4:04
16. "New Broom" – 5:27

The Source Of The Tracks

1. "Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)"
2. "Jumping in Gomorrah"
3. "Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)"
4. "I Am the Audience
5. "The Rhythm"
6. "Refrigeration Blues" (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called "Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity").
7. "Heatwave" (using the backing tracks and slowing them down).
8. "Millions" (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals).
9. "Real by Reel" (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds).
10. "Pulsing Pulsing" (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's "Ornithology").
11. "Homo Safari" (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps).
12. "Helicopter" (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks).
13. "That is the Way" (backing track with new sounds added).
14. "Roads Girdle the Globe" (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added).
15. "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).
16. "Making Plans for Nigel" (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks).

• All tracks taken from Take Away/The Lure of Salvage except * from the Go + EP.