| "Senses Working Overtime" | ||||
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| Single by XTC | ||||
| from the album English Settlement | ||||
| Released | January 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
| Studio | The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England | |||
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| Length | 4:34 (single edit) 4:53 (album version) | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Andy Partridge | |||
| Producer(s) | Hugh Padgham, XTC | |||
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| "Senses Working Overtime" on YouTube | ||||
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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]
- ^ Hughes, Rob (18 August 2016). "Andy Partridge: The Big Interview". Prog. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- ^ "Mandy Says". Spin. Vol. 19, no. 11. November 2003. p. 28. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Partridge, Andy; Bernhardt, Todd (2016). Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-908279-78-1.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "XTC". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ Ingham, Chris (March 1999). "XTC - 'Til Death Do Us Part". Mojo.
- ^ Bernhardt, Todd (11 December 2006). "Andy discusses 'Senses Working Overtime'". Chalkhills.