Senses Working Overtime

"Senses Working Overtime"
Single by XTC
from the album English Settlement
Released	January 1982
Recorded	1981
Studio	The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England
Genre	New wave [1] progressive pop [2]
Length	4:53 (album version) 4:34 (single version) 3:32 (early tape 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)
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Weekly charts Chart (1982) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) [7] 12 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [8] 31 Ireland (IRMA) [9] 15 Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] 34 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [11] 37 UK Singles (OCC) [12] 10

Year-end charts Chart (1982) Rank Australia (Kent Music Report) [13] 97

Mandy Moore version

"Senses Working Overtime"
Single by Mandy Moore
from the album Coverage
Released	February 10, 2004
Length	4:08
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Andy Partridge
Producer(s)	John Fields
Mandy Moore singles chronology
"Drop the Pilot" (2003) "Senses Working Overtime" (2004) "Extraordinary" (2007)
Audio video
"Senses Working Overtime" on YouTube

"Senses Working Overtime" was the third single released from Moore's third studio album Coverage (2003) as its opening track. It was written by Andy Partridge and produced by John Fields.

The song was included on Moore’s first greatest hits album The Best of Mandy Moore (2004).

Other versions

• 1995: Spacehog, A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC

References

1. "Mandy Says". Spin . Vol. 19, no. 11. November 2003. p. 28. ISSN   0006-2510.
2. Hughes, Rob (18 August 2016). "Andy Partridge: The Big Interview". Prog . Retrieved 17 November 2018.
3. Partridge, Andy; Bernhardt, Todd (2016). Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC. Jawbone Press. ISBN   978-1-908279-78-1.
4. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "XTC". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 December 2017.
5. Ingham, Chris (March 1999). "XTC - 'Til Death Do Us Part". Mojo .
6. Bernhardt, Todd (11 December 2006). "Andy discusses 'Senses Working Overtime'". Chalkhills.
7. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 344. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
8. "XTC – Senses Working Overtime" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
9. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know > Search results for 'XTC' (from irishcharts.ie)". Fireball Media, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
10. "XTC – Senses Working Overtime" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
11. "XTC – Senses Working Overtime". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
12. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
13. "Kent Music Report No 445 – 3 January 1983 > National Top 100 Singles for 1982". Kent Music Report, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

External links

• "Senses Working Overtime" on Chalkhills