Wire - IBTABA (It's Beginning To And Back Again) (1989)
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Wire - IBTABA (It's Beginning To And Back Again)
"Finest Drops" – 4:28
"Eardrum Buzz" – 4:16
"German Shepherds" – 4:39
"Public Place" – 6:05
"It's a Boy" – 3:59
"Illuminated" – 6:51
"Boiling Boy" – 8:17
"Over Theirs" – 9:24
CD bonus tracks
"Eardrum Buzz" (12" Version) – 4:15
"The Offer" – 2:55
"In Vivo" – 4:34
Wire Band Members / Musicians
Colin Newman
Graham Lewis
Bruce Gilbert
Robert Gotobed
Paul Kendall – production, engineer, mixing
John Fryer – production, mixing
Rico Conning – recording, mixing [9–11] (at Terminal 24 Studios)
Designland – sleeve Layout
It's Beginning To And Back Again, also known by its acronym IBTABA, is the 6th studio album by the British post-punk group Wire. It was released in 1989.
The title of the album derives from the lyrics of the third song, "German Shepherds". Half of the album consists of reinterpretations of live performances of material from the band's previous record, A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck. The recordings are "based on performances in Chicago, Portugal and London." Live tracks were deconstructed in the studio and remixed by Wire. The record contains the single "Eardrum Buzz", which was the band's most successful single in their history, charting at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #68 in the UK.
