The Compact XTC

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The Compact XTC: The Singles 1978-1985
Greatest hits album by XTC
Released	1985 (1985)
Recorded	1977–1984
Genre	Rock
Length	68:33
Label	Virgin
Producer	John Leckie (tracks 1-2) Robert Lange (track 3) Martin Rushent (track 4) Steve Lillywhite (tracks 5-6, 8-10) Phil Wainman (track 7) Hugh Padgham and XTC (tracks 11-12) Bob Sargeant (track 13) XTC and Steve Nye (tracks 14-15) David Lord XTC (tracks 16-18)
XTC other chronology
Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977–1982 (1982) The Compact XTC: The Singles 1978-1985 (1985) Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987)

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The Compact XTC: The Singles 1978–1985 is a singles compilation album by XTC originally issued in 1985. It replaced Waxworks: Some Singles 1977–1982 as a greatest hits album (and, bizarrely, used the same catalogue number in the UK and some other countries), adding six singles issued between English Settlement and The Big Express. It took advantage of the compact disc's greater storage capacity to limit it to a single disc. It was superseded by the double-disc set Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–1992, on which all eighteen tracks appear.

Two UK Virgin Records singles are missing from this compilation: "Respectable Street" (1981) and "No Thugs in Our House" (1982), as well as "Take This Town" (1980) – an RSO Records released single issued from the soundtrack of the film "Times Square". 'International' singles missing are the re-recorded version of "Ten Feet Tall" (1980, North America) and "Love at First Sight" (1981, Canada).