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Senses Working Overtime
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Senses Working Overtime
| cover = Senses Working Overtime (XTC single - cover art).jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = XTC
| album = English Settlement
| released = January 1982
| recorded = 1981
| studio = The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 4:34 (single edit)
4:53 (album version)
| label = Virgin
| writer = Andy Partridge
| producer = Hugh Padgham, XTC
| prev_title = Respectable Street
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = Ball and Chain
| next_year = 1982
| misc =
}}
"'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). The album and single became the highest-charting records XTC would ever have in the UK, peaking at number five and number 10, respectively.
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."
Track listing
#"Senses Working Overtime" (Andy Partridge)
#"Blame the Weather" (Colin Moulding)
#"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'
*Terry Chambers drums, drum synthesiser
*Dave Gregory electric 12string guitar, percussion
*Colin Moulding fretless bass, backing vocals
*Andy Partridge lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Mandy Moore version
"Senses Working Overtime" was the third single released from Moore's third studio album 'Coverage' (2003). It was written by Andy Partridge and produced by John Fields.
The song was included on Moores first greatest hits album 'The Best of Mandy Moore' (2004).
Other versions
* 1995: Spacehog, 'A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC'
References
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