In Germany, the catalogue number 802 320-420 was assigned (on a sticker) to the first 4,000 copies imported by Ariola from Britain.

See Notes in Vresion 3 for more.

Contains five tracks fewer than the original two-disc set. The missing five songs are "It's Nearly Africa," "Leisure," "Knuckle Down," "Fly on the Wall," and "Down in the Cockpit."

See Notes in Version 3 for more.

Contains five fewer tracks than the original two-disc set. The missing five tracks are "Yacht Dance," "Leisure," "Knuckle Down," "Fly on the Wall," and "Down in the Cockpit." The American issue used different editing from the Canadian and South African; for details see Notes on Continuity below.


Notes on LP Covers

The cover is a single (not gatefold) sleeve regardless of whether the album consists of one disc or two discs. Initially the British two-disc edition was meant to be a limited edition, but a single disc edition was never issued. The original UK edition had a textured cover with a white, non-textured horse figure debossed on it, resembling the actual landscape in Wiltshire where, amidst the green grass on the hill, the Uffington White Horse is carved out of the chalk. Two inner sleeves, one for each disc, provided the lyrics. In later issues, however, over several stages the green band name and album title were changed to white (presumably upon the record company's request), the textured cover got smoothed, and finally the printed inner sleeves were gone. It has been reported that there were copies with no band name or title on the cover, which must have been a printing error.

Most overseas issues respected the original concept on the cover, but not many used exactly the same design, and a lot of them reduced the two discs to one. The most faithful was the two-disc Australian issue, although their labels were black instead of green. The Canadian issue left the horse textured, and the French two-disc set opted to print the band name on the front and the album title on the back. Probably the most questionable example is the second (or later) run of the Italian edition, which came with a brown cover!

Other unique covers: The American single-disc issue on Epic used a much brighter green colour for the cover and an alternative letter set for the track listing on the back cover. This design was adopted by the South African edition, which in fact has the American catalogue number AL 37943 on the labels along with its own; The South African issue also printed two eye-catching copies that look like they have round stickers on the cover saying: "CONTAINS THE HITS: 'SENSES WORKING OVERTIME' 'RUNAWAYS' 'MELT THE GUNS' 'BALL AND CHAIN'" and "IT'S NEW MUSIC NOW"; and Mexican copies, at least the one we have, come with a sticker on the shrinkwrap saying "TECNO POP".

Some sleeves open at the right-hand side rather than the top. These ones originate from France, Greece (where a French cover was used), Israel, Mexico, USA (Epic), Yugoslavia, and possibly some others we are not aware of.

A few countries, such as Israel and Japan, preferred a lyric sheet to a printed inner sleeve.


Notes on Continuity

Like Black Sea and most other XTC albums, many of the tracks on English Settlement segue into the next track, with some songs fading in as the previous ones fade out. On Version 1 and Version 5 (CD Version 2), "Runaways" continues into "Ball and Chain" for about four seconds and "No Thugs" continues into "Yacht Dance" for about six seconds. "Snowman" starts about twenty seconds before the previous track, "English Roundabout," ends.

The difference in continuity between Version 1 and Version 2 is that on the latter "Jason" cross-fades with "Snowman," whose intro is a little shorter than on Version 1. "English Roundabout" does not connect to the next, final track.

On Version 3, the Canadian and South African issues are edited the same way as Version 2, except that "No Thugs in Our House" and "It's Nearly Africa" cross-fade. The "It's Nearly Africa" on these two editions (at least our reference copies) skips at the same place, which makes one suspect the same corrupted master was used in both countries. On the American issue, "Jason" is not joined with "Snowman," and "No Thugs in Our House" is almost separate from "It's Nearly Africa."

Contains two fewer tracks than the original two-disc set. The missing two tracks are "Leisure" and "Down in the Cockpit."

Contains the original 15 tracks.

The latest Japanese edition (TOCP-65715) is one of the "XTC Original Paper Sleeve Collection" series. The disc label is green, with the horse and tracks printed in white on it. It also includes a paper sleeve for "record one" and a gatefold insert for "record two."