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Track List
01) Science Friction
02) Statue of Liberty
03) This Is Pop?
04) Are You Receiving Me?
05) Life Begins at the Hop
06) Making Plans for Nigel
07) Ten Feet Tall
08) Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down
09) Generals and Majors
10) Towers of London
11) Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
12) Love at First Sight
13) Respectable Street
14) Senses Working Overtime
15) Ball and Chain
16) No Thugs in Our House
Cd 2
01) Great Fire
02) Wonderland
03) Love on a Farmboy's Wages
04) All You Pretty Girls
05) This World Over
06) Wake Up
07) Grass
08) The Meeting Place
09) Dear God
10) The Mayor of Simpleton
11) King for a Day
12) The Loving
13) The Disappointed
14) The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
15) Wrapped in Grey
01) Science Friction
02) Statue of Liberty
03) This Is Pop?
04) Are You Receiving Me?
05) Life Begins at the Hop
06) Making Plans for Nigel
07) Ten Feet Tall
08) Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down
09) Generals and Majors
10) Towers of London
11) Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
12) Love at First Sight
13) Respectable Street
14) Senses Working Overtime
15) Ball and Chain
16) No Thugs in Our House
Cd 2
01) Great Fire
02) Wonderland
03) Love on a Farmboy's Wages
04) All You Pretty Girls
05) This World Over
06) Wake Up
07) Grass
08) The Meeting Place
09) Dear God
10) The Mayor of Simpleton
11) King for a Day
12) The Loving
13) The Disappointed
14) The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
15) Wrapped in Grey
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First Released
1996
New Wave
Quirky
Rock/Pop
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Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 is a compilation album by XTC released in 1996. It was their third such Greatest Hits album following 1982's Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 and 1987's The Compact XTC. It collects all thirty-one of their Virgin Records UK singles in chronological order. It does not include their pseudonymous singles as The Dukes of Stratosphear, The Three Wise Men or The Colonel.
The two discs reflect their shift in popularity from Great Britain to the United States in the mid-eighties. Some of Disc 1's tracks ("Making Plans for Nigel", "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)", "Senses Working Overtime") were Top 40 hits in their homeland while a handful of songs from Disc 2 became popular on stateside college radio ("Dear God", "The Mayor of Simpleton", "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead").
With no little significance, the compilation closes out with "Wrapped in Grey", which had been released as the third single from 1992's Nonsuch and then quickly recalled and deleted by Virgin Records, an event which effectively ended XTC's association with the label.
It reached No. 33 on the UK album charts.
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Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 is a compilation album by XTC released in 1996. It was their third such Greatest Hits album following 1982's Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 and 1987's The Compact XTC. It collects all thirty-one of their Virgin Records UK singles in chronological order. It does not include their pseudonymous singles as The Dukes of Stratosphear, The Three Wise Men or The Colonel.
The two discs reflect their shift in popularity from Great Britain to the United States in the mid-eighties. Some of Disc 1's tracks ("Making Plans for Nigel", "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)", "Senses Working Overtime") were Top 40 hits in their homeland while a handful of songs from Disc 2 became popular on stateside college radio ("Dear God", "The Mayor of Simpleton", "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead").
With no little significance, the compilation closes out with "Wrapped in Grey", which had been released as the third single from 1992's Nonsuch and then quickly recalled and deleted by Virgin Records, an event which effectively ended XTC's association with the label.
It reached No. 33 on the UK album charts.
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