I like "Don't Lose Your Temper," but "The Somnambulist" is easily the worst song on that version of the album, and it's stuck right in the middle and grinds the whole thing to a halt, so I always leave that one out.

The XTC catalogue is a bit of a nightmare in that regard. Pretty much all of their reissues are an hour long or more, and it's not always easy to figure out where the album ends and the bonus tracks begin. Fortunately, the bonus tracks are usually fine. Usually. White Music goes on way too long thanks to them, and I don't think they add anything of value to Big Express at all.

I do like the bonus tracks on Mummer, I just don't like listening to an hour straight of Mummer. It's nowhere near a bad album, it's just very samey, which is true of many XTC albums, but the low-key nature of that particular one makes the samey-ness really wear me down more than normal. I think the first three tracks are excellent, though, and actually, most of the songs are fine on their own. It's just, in aggregate, it all becomes too much. There's nothing on it I dislike as much as "This World Over" or "Here Comes President Kill Again," though.