The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Progressive pop[1]
new wave[2]
Length
4:34 (single edit) 4:53 (album version)
Label
Virgin
Songwriter(s)
Andy Partridge
Producer(s)
Hugh Padgham, XTC
XTC singles chronology
"Respectable Street" (1981)
"Senses Working Overtime" (1982)
"Ball and Chain" (1982)
Official audio
"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.
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