PETE SHELLEY XL1

XL1 JPEG

CD released (UK) Jul 1994 as Grapevine Label Ltd. GRACD202
Vinyl released 1983 (UK) as Genetic (Island) XL1
Cassette released 1983 (UK) with dub remixes on side 2 as XLC1
Vinyl released (US) as Arista AL68017

#42 on the UK album chart.

Pete Shelley notes:
'The title comes from the cat # and not the track of the same name.' (???, I'm confused.)
'ZX Spectrum code' is a computer program for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum which printed lyrics in time with the music and displayed graphics. Genetic vinyl edition has a locking groove before 'ZX Spectrum code' so you won't play it by accident. Designed by Shelley and Joey Headon.

Arista edition released with the same tracks in a different order but 'ZX Spectrum code' is omitted.

The 1994 CD has informative liner notes identical to those found in the Homosapien CD.

Produced and engineered by Martin Rushent and Pete Shelley at Genetic Sound 1983.

LP Side 1

  1. Telephone Operator
  2. If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)
  3. What Was Heaven?
  4. You Know Better Than I Know
  5. Twilight
LP Side 2
  1. (Millions of People) No One Like You
  2. Many a Time
  3. I Just Wanna Touch
  4. You and I
  5. XL1
  6. ZX Spectrum code
Cassette side 1
  1. Telephone Operator
  2. If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)
  3. What Was Heaven?
  4. You Know Better Than I Know
  5. Twilight
  6. (Millions of People) No One Like You
  7. Many a Time
  8. I Just Wanna Touch
  9. You and I
  10. XL1
Cassette side 2 [dub mix tracks]
  1. Homosapien
  2. I Don't Know What It Is
  3. Witness the Change
  4. Telephone Operator
  5. Many a Time
  6. If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)
  7. No One Like You
  8. ZX Spectrum code
CD running order (note the mixup with tracks 11 and 12):
  1. Telephone Operator
  2. If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)
  3. What Was Heaven?
  4. You Know Better Than I Know
  5. Twilight
  6. (Millions of People) No One Like You
  7. Many a Time
  8. I Just Wanna Touch
  9. You and I
  10. XL1

    [Track 11 is listed as 'Telephone Operator / Many a Time'. Track 12 is listed as 'If You Ask Me / No One Like You'. The listing below is correct, and all five songs are streamed together without any silence separating them. The CD cover lists the running time correctly as as simply 18:57 for both CD tracks. 'I Just Wanna Touch' (the only song not mentioned on the cover as being present in the dub mix) has no vocals, whereas the other songs have at least some sung lyrics.]

  11. Many a Time [dub] [5:45]
  12. Telephone Operator / I Just Wanna Touch / If You Ask Me / No One Like You [dub] [13:12]

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