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Homegrown (The Wasp Star Home Demos)

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (May 22, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: May 22, 2001
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Tvt
  • ASIN: B00005K9S9
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #245,258 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Playground
2. Stupidly Happy
3. In Another Life [Excerpt of Orginal Demo]
4. In Another Life [Jug Band Version]
5. Some Lovely
6. Boarded Up
7. I'm the Man Who Murdered Love [Early 'Other Song' Cassette Idea]
8. I'm the Man Who Murdered Love [Tamla Demo Excerpt]
9. I'm the Man Who Murdered Love
10. We're All Light [Early Cassette Idea]
11. We're All Light
12. Standing in for Joe [Lounge Version]
13. Standing in for Joe
14. Wounded Horse
15. You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful
16. Lie for a Lie [Cassette Demo]
17. Church of Women
18. Pot Won't Hold Our Love [Early Cassette Idea]
19. Everything Decays [Early Cassette Idea]
20. Wheel and the Maypole

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Rather like those school mathematics exams in which you were expected to hand in all your arithmetic doodlings as well as your final answers, Homegrown is XTC proffering the various porta-studio jottings and embryonic ideas which eventually added up to the Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) album (a pass with flying colors, lest we forget). Songs don't write themselves. Even seasoned scribes like Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding need to put a bit of elbow grease into it. Thus, every fumbling bedroom troubadour in the land will empathise with Partridge as he mutters and busks his way through a gestative "Wheel and the Maypole" or signs off an early draft of "The Man Who Murdered Love" (nothing like the final version) with a self-questioning "yeah, there might be something there." Rest assured--demos or not--this is a highly listenable collection of quality pop with illuminating sleeve notes from the composers in question. Colin Moulding's marital-strife-flavored "In Another Life," for example, was inspired by Stanley Holloway, Andrew Gold, and 1970s sitcoms like George and Mildred. --Kevin Maidment


Product Description

Homegrown documents the recording sessions of the critically acclaimed album Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2). Derived from 8 track cassettes, open reels and digital recorders that Andy and Colin recorded in their respective home studios, Homegrown presents the raw map of the songs that would later make up the album. 20 tracks! 2001 release.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting listening - perfect for songwriters, July 16, 2001
By Jeffrey Belcher "gigusa" (East Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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Wasp Star, XTC's wonderfully poppy follow up to Apple Venus Vol 1, is an incredible exercise in songwriting know-how. "Homegrown" is a great inside look at the songwriting process for this album, complete with informative descriptions on the songwriting process.

As a songwriter myself, "Homegrown" is an intriguing look at the growing experience that is writing a song. I'm often inspired and impressed when listening to this album and reading through the notes. Not groundbreaking listening for the lay-person I imagine, but the album is a cool source of knowledge and a nice lesson for me. Hope you like it.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars For completists only, May 22, 2001
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Just as "Homespun" was a demo record of Apple Venus Vol.1-this "Homegrown" is the demo album of Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol.2). It is an interesting album for fans of XTC but is certainly not for the casual listener. It's the type of album you will listen to once and probably never again because let's face it-they are demos after all. Interesting to hear how the album got made but strictly for XTC completists only.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars XTC - YOU REALLY HAVE TO LOVE THEM, June 19, 2001
By Mitchell Cassman (ELMWOOD PARK, IL USA) - See all my reviews
OK...If you don't love XTC you probably will hate this CD. If you do love them this CD is really cool. Home Demos take us through the infancy of a song all the way to maturity. We hear the original idea's that Andy Partridge muttered in to his tape tape recorder as well as studio rehersals. As I said if you love XTC you'll love every minute of this disc.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting portrait of the creative process.
"Homegrown" is a collection of demos for pieces on XTC's "Wasp Star"-- if you haven't checked out the album, you should definitely look there first. Read more
Published on July 28, 2006 by Michael Stack

4.0 out of 5 stars Insight in the the evolution of great music
I think the other reviews are being a bit harsh. I would recommend this to any XTC fan and I rate the material on Wasp Star as just as good as anything from the Black Sea/... Read more
Published on June 2, 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars for completists only
Up until early 1999 XTC was my all-time favorite band. I anxiously awaited the release of Apple Venus Vol. Read more
Published on May 28, 2001 by Christian Bonner

3.0 out of 5 stars With a little soil, sun and water these grew into Wasp Star
Although I'd definitely recommend most of XTC's back catalog ahead of this collection of demos, Homegrown will be fascinating listening for both fans and musicians. Read more
Published on May 25, 2001 by Wayne Klein

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