It's Beginning To And Back Again

It's Beginning To And Back Again
Studio album by
Wire
ReleasedMay 1989[1]
RecordedJune–December 1988
StudioKitsch Studios, Brussels, Belgium
Terminal 24 Studios, London, UK
Genre
Length47:37 (LP)
59:43 (CD)
Label
Producer
Wire studio album chronology
A Bell Is a Cup
(1988) 		It's Beginning To And Back Again
(1989) 		Manscape
(1990)
Singles from It's Beginning To And Back Again
  1. "Eardrum Buzz"
    Released: April 1989[3]
  2. "In Vivo"
    Released: July 1989[3]

It's Beginning To And Back Again, also known by its acronym IBTABA, is the sixth studio album by the British post-punk group Wire, released in May 1989 by Mute Records.

The title of the album derives from the lyrics of the third song, "German Shepherds". Half of the album consists of reinterpretations of live performances of material from the band's previous record, A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck. The recordings are "based on performances in Chicago, Portugal and London." Live tracks were deconstructed in the studio and remixed by Wire. The album contains the single "Eardrum Buzz", which was the band's most successful single in their history, charting at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #68 in the UK.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Pepper, Tracy (4 May 1990). "Back again". The List (120): 54. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Lester 2009, p. 179.
  4. ^ Lester 2009, p. 155.