XTC discography

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XTC have released twelve original albums and over thirty singles since being signed to Virgin Records in 1977.

Contents 1 Studio albums 2 The Dukes of Stratosphear releases 3 Compilations, instrumentals, demos, live and tribute albums (with chart position) 4 Fuzzy Warbles albums 5 Other compilations 6 Singles 7 EPs

[edit] Studio albums

White Music
Released: January 20, 1978 Chart positions: #38 Track listing: Side A: Radios in Motion, Cross Wires, This Is Pop?, Do What You Do, Statue of Liberty, All Along the Watchtower Side B: Into the Atom Age, I'll Set Myself on Fire, I'm Bugged, New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage, Spinning Top, Neon Shuffle

Go 2
Released: October 6, 1978 Chart positions: #21 Track listing: Side A: Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!), Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian), Buzzcity Talking, Crowded Room, The Rhythm, Red Side B: Beatown, Life Is Good in the Greenhouse, Jumping in Gomorrah, My Weapon, Super-Tuff, I am the Audience

Drums and Wires
Released: August 17, 1979 Chart positions: #34; #176 Track listing: Side A: Making Plans for Nigel, Helicopter, Day In Day Out, When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty, Ten Feet Tall, Roads Girdle the Globe Side B: Real by Reel, Millions, That Is the Way, Outside World, Scissor Man, Complicated Game

Black Sea
Released: September 12, 1980 Chart positions: #16; #41 Track listing: Side A: Respectable Street, Generals and Majors, Living through Another Cuba, Love at First Sight, Rocket from a Bottle, No Language in Our Lungs Side B: Towers of London, Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins), Burning with Optimism's Flames, Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me), Travels in Nihilon RIAA Certification: Silver

English Settlement
Released: February 12, 1982 Chart positions: #5; #48 Track listing: Side A: Runaways, Ball and Chain, Senses Working Overtime, Jason and the Argonauts Side B: No Thugs in Our House, Yacht Dance, All of a Sudden (It's Too Late) Side C: Melt the Guns, Leisure, It's Nearly Africa, Knuckle Down Side D: Fly on the Wall, Down in the Cockpit, English Roundabout, Snowman RIAA Certification: Silver

Mummer
Released: August 30, 1983 Chart positions: #51; #145 Track listing: Side A: Beating of Hearts, Wonderland, Love on a Farmboy's Wages, Great Fire, Deliver Us from the Elements Side B: Human Alchemy, Ladybird, In Loving Memory of a Name, Me and the Wind, Funk Pop a Roll

The Big Express
Released: October 15, 1984 Chart positions: #38; #181 Track listing: Side A: Wake Up, All You Pretty Girls, Shake You Donkey Up, Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her, This World Over Side B: (The Everyday Story of) Smalltown, I Bought Myself a Liarbird, Reign of Blows (Vote No Violence!), You're the Wish You Are I Had, I Remember the Sun, Train Running Low on Soul Coal

Skylarking
Released: October 27, 1986 Chart positions: #90; #70 Track listing: Side A: Summer's Cauldron, Grass, The Meeting Place, That's Really Super Supergirl, Ballet for a Rainy Day, 1000 Umbrellas, Season Cycle Side B: Earn Enough for Us, Big Day, Another Satellite, Mermaid Smiled, The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul, Dying, Sacrificial Bonfire

Oranges & Lemons
Released: February 27, 1989 Chart positions: #28; #44 Track listing: Side A: Garden of Earthly Delights, The Mayor of Simpleton, King for a Day, Here Comes President Kill Again Side B: The Loving, Poor Skeleton Steps Out, One of the Millions, Scarecrow People Side C: Merely a Man, Cynical Days, Across This Antheap Side D: Hold Me My Daddy, Pink Thing, Miniature Sun, Chalkhills and Children

Nonsuch
Released: April 27, 1992 Chart positions: #28; #97 Track listing: Side A: The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, My Bird Performs, Dear Madam Barnum, Humble Daisy, The Smartest Monkeys Side B: The Disappointed, Holly Up on Poppy, Crocodile, Rook Side C: Omnibus, That Wave, Then She Appeared, War Dance Side D: Wrapped in Grey, The Ugly Underneath, Bungalow, Books Are Burning

Apple Venus Volume 1
Released: February 17, 1999 Chart positions: #42; #106 Track listing: Side A: River of Orchids, I'd Like That, Easter Theatre, Knights in Shining Karma, Frivolous Tonight Side B: Greenman, Your Dictionary, Fruit Nut, I Can't Own Her, Harvest Festival, The Last Balloon

• Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000) #40; #108

[edit] The Dukes of Stratosphear releases

• 25 O'Clock (1985) (Vinyl only 12" EP)
• Psonic Psunspot (1987) (Vinyl only album)
• Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987) (CD compilation of 25 O'Clock and Psonic Psunspot)

[edit] Compilations, instrumentals, demos, live and tribute albums (with chart position)

• Take Away / The Lure of Salvage (1980)
• Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (1982) #54
• Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-1982 (1982)
• The Compact XTC (1987)
• Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990)
• Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers (1990)
• BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1992)
• Drums and Wireless: BBC Radio Sessions 77-89 (1994)
• A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC (1995)
• Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-92 (1996) #33
• Upsy Daisy Assortment (1997)
• Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions (1998)
• Homespun (1999)
• Homegrown (2001)
• Coat of Many Cupboards (2002)
• Instruvenus (2002)
• Waspstrumental (2002)
• Apple Box (2005)

[edit] Fuzzy Warbles albums

The "Fuzzy Warbles" series is a collection of demos and sketches from Andy Partridge's tape archive. They do not include any of Colin Moulding's songs and are produced and compiled by Partridge.

• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 1 (2002)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 2 (2002)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 3 (2003)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 4 (2003)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 5 (2004)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6 (2004)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 7 (2006)
• Fuzzy Warbles Volume 8 (2006)
• Hinges (2006)

[edit] Other compilations

• Eighties Goldies (1980) A French Cassette-Only Compilation of the first six Singles & B-sides.
• The Tiny Circus of Life (1992) Limited French compilation.
• Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground (2004)

[edit] Singles

Where available, chart positions are given for each country of release. Includes commercially available XTC singles, and commercially available singles credited to The Dukes of Stratosphear, The Colonel, and The Three Wise Men.

Release Date	Title	Chart positions				Notes	From Album
		U.K.	CAN	U.S.	AUS
October 1977	"Science Friction" (Partridge)					7" single withdrawn in UK, though released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. 12" released as 3D - EP.	Non-album release
January 1978	"Statue of Liberty" (Partridge)						White Music
April 1978	"This Is Pop?" (Partridge)					Completely re-recorded version of a track from White Music.	Non-album release
September 1978	"Are You Receiving Me?" (Partridge)				#86	Initially a non-LP single. Track included on some later pressings of Go 2.	Non-album release
April 1979	"Life Begins at the Hop" (Moulding)	#44			#94	Initially a non-LP single. Track included on some later pressings of Drums and Wires.	Non-album release
September 1979	"Making Plans For Nigel" (Moulding)	#17	#14		#94		Drums and Wires
January 1980	"Ten Feet Tall" (Moulding)					US release only. Completely re-recorded version of a track from Drums and Wires.	Non-album release
March 1980	"Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down" (Partridge)						Non-album release
August 1980	"Generals and Majors" (Moulding)	#32		#104	#24		Black Sea
October 1980	"Towers of London" (Partridge)	#31
October 1980	The Colonel: "Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen" (The Colonel) i.e. Moulding					Pseudonymous single by XTC's Colin Moulding, with Terry Chambers on drums.	Non-album release
November 1980	"Take This Town" (Partridge)					UK release only. From the Times Square soundtrack. B-side by The Ruts.	Non-album release
December 1980	"Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)" (Partridge)	#16					Black Sea
January 1981	"Love At First Sight" (Moulding)					North American release only.
March 1981	"Respectable Street" (Partridge)					Remixed single version, featuring slightly rewritten and re-sung lyrics.
January 1982	"Senses Working Overtime" (Partridge)	#10	#36		#12		English Settlement
February 1982	"Ball and Chain" (Moulding)	#58			#97
May 1982	"No Thugs In Our House" (Partridge)
April 1983	"Great Fire" (Partridge)						Mummer
June 1983	"Wonderland" (Moulding)
September 1983	"Love On A Farmboy's Wages" (Partridge)	#50
November 1983	The Three Wise Men: "Thanks For Christmas" (Balthazar/Kaspar/Melchior)					Pseudonymous Christmas single.	Non-album release
September 1984	"All You Pretty Girls" (Partridge)	#55			#76		The Big Express
November 1984	"This World Over" (Partridge)
February 1985	"Wake Up" (Moulding)
April 1985	The Dukes of Stratosphear: "The Mole From The Ministry" (Johns) i.e. Partridge					Pseudonymous single by XTC's alter ego The Dukes of Stratosphear.	25 O'Clock
September 1986	"Grass" (Moulding)						Skylarking
February 1987	"The Meeting Place" (Moulding)
March? 1987	"Earn Enough For Us" (Partridge)					Released in Canada and Australia only.
June 1987	"Dear God" (Partridge)					Originally the non-album B-side to "Grass". Later an A-side, and included on later pressings of Skylarking. Reached #15 on Billboard's Rock Album Tracks Chart (US).
July 1987	The Dukes of Stratosphear: "You're A Good Man Albert Brown" (Johns) i.e. Partridge					Pseudonymous single by XTC's alter ego The Dukes of Stratosphear.	Psonic Psunspot
January 1989	"The Mayor of Simpleton" (Partridge)	#46	#42	#72		Reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart (US).	Oranges & Lemons
April 1989	"King For A Day" (Moulding)					Reached #11 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart (US).
August 1989	"The Loving" (Partridge)
March 1992	"The Disappointed" (Partridge)	#33			#32		Nonsuch
May 1992	"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" (Partridge)	#71
September 1992	"Wrapped In Grey" (Partridge)					Withdrawn, only a few copies known to exist.
April 1999	"Easter Theatre" (Partridge)						Apple Venus
June 1999	"I'd Like That" (Partridge)	#121
May 2000	"I'm The Man Who Murdered Love" (Partridge)	#144					Wasp Star
December 2005	"Where Did The Ordinary People Go?" (Moulding)					Internet-only release.	Non-album release
		Chart positions
		U.K.	CAN	U.S.	AUS

[edit] EPs

• 3D - EP (October 7, 1977)
• "Go +" (October 1978) 6-song EP of dub mixes, included with first edition of Go2, reissued on Explode Together
• Live & More EP (April 1981 — Japan Only)
• 5 Senses EP (September 1981 — Canada Only)
• Demo Tracks (July 1992 — Japan Only)
• "A Hello Selection" (November 1994) (Andy Partridge) limited edition 4-song EP of demos, only available to members of They Might Be Giants' Hello Recording Club

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