Chips from the Chocolate Fireball

Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
Compilation album by the Dukes of Stratosphear
Released	August 1987 (1987-08)
Genre	Neo-psychedelia
Length	62:59
Label	Virgin
Producers	John Leckie and ‘The Dukes’
XTC other chronology
The Compact XTC (1987) Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987) Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990)

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Chips from the Chocolate Fireball: An Anthology is a 1987 compilation album from XTC which was released under the pseudonym the Dukes of Stratosphear. It includes both the 1985 mini-album 25 O'Clock (as tracks 1–6) and the 1987 album Psonic Psunspot (as tracks 7–16), both of which were released on vinyl only.

Track listing

All songs written by Sir John Johns (Andy Partridge), except where noted.

1. "25 O'Clock" – 5:03
2. "Bike Ride to the Moon" – 2:23
3. "My Love Explodes" – 3:49
4. "What in the World??..." – 5:01 (Colin Moulding as "The Red Curtain")
5. "Your Gold Dress" – 4:42
6. "The Mole from the Ministry" – 5:58
7. "Vanishing Girl" – 2:59 (Moulding)
8. "Have You Seen Jackie?" – 3:21
9. "Little Lighthouse" – 4:31
10. "You're a Good Man Albert Brown (Curse You Red Barrel)" – 3:38
11. "Collideascope" – 3:22
12. "You're My Drug" – 3:19
13. "Shiny Cage" – 3:17 (Moulding)
14. "Brainiac's Daughter" – 3:59
15. "The Affiliated" – 2:31 (Moulding)
16. "Pale and Precious" – 4:58

Personnel

The Dukes of Stratosphear

• Sir John Johns (Andy Partridge) – vocals, guitar, bass guitar on "What in the World??..." and "Vanishing Girl", drums on "Pale and Precious"
• The Red Curtain (Colin Moulding) – vocals, bass guitar, guitar on "What in the World??..." and "Vanishing Girl"
• Lord Cornelius Plum (Dave Gregory)– Mellotron, piano, organ, fuzz-tone guitar
• E.I.E.I. Owen (Ian Gregory) – drums on all tracks except "Pale and Precious"
• Lily Fraser – narration

Production

• Produced by John Leckie and The Dukes

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