Waxworks: Singles 77-82

XTC | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000000OMU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,509 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Science Friction

2. Statue of Liberty

3. This Is Pop?

4. Are You Receiving Me?

5. Life Begins at the Hop

6. Making Plans for Nigel

7. Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down

8. Generals and Majors

9. Towers of London

10. Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)

11. Senses Working Overtime

12. Ball and Chain

Editorial Reviews

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982) Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 Compilation album by XTC Released November, 1982 Recorded 1977-1981 Genre Pop rock Length 44:29 Label Virgin Records Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (1982) Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 is a compilation album released by XTC in 1982. Though it followed closely on the heels of the successful English Settlement album and its lead-off single "Senses Working Overtime", it failed to crack the Top 40 perhaps signalling their commercial decline in Britain. All twelve tracks appear on the first disc of 1996's Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992. It was initially released alongside a companion album, Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-1982.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars this is pop, November 29, 2011

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waxworks: Singles 77-82 (Audio CD)

With all their creative doodlings and artsy fartsy angles on New Wave, at their heart XTC were a great pop band, and this collection of singles proves that beyond a doubt.

3.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying, but incomplete, August 18, 2001

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"cutterraccoon" (Orlando, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waxworks: Singles 77-82 (Audio CD)

It's a true shame that in all the years of reprinting Waxworks on CD, Virgin never took the time to produce the "Beeswax" collection of B-sides during the same period. A double CD set of Waxworks/Beeswax would have made a nice offering to the digital XTC offerings.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice early XTC singles collection, September 3, 2005

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Bill Wikstrom (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waxworks: Singles 77-82 (Audio CD)

This collection was originally packaged with Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-1982 and released in November of 1982. It's basically a collection of Some Singles (ommitting No Thugs In Our House, Love At First Sight, Respectable Street and Ten Feet Tall) and unwitting rounds out the Terry Chambers/Touring/Quartet era (Terry left the band literally days after Waxworks was released). It's a nice introduction to the band to someone who is partial to New Wave and somehow does not know XTC. I lent a shoddy cassette copy to DAVEMMR years ago...I believe Drums & Wires converted him - I digress. Containing "Making Plans For Nigel", "Generals & Majors", "Senses Working Overtime", "This Is Pop" and Statue Of Liberty" which are some of the best singles released in the new wave era makes it a nice addition to any collection. The version of "Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down"(another GREAT single) included here is slightly remixed from the original single version (that version appears on the amazing Fossil Fuel collection). Half of the songs here are in their original "single edit" versions.
Beeswax: Some B-Sides was released on CD in Japan only in 1992 (the same year Waxworks was released on Geffen in the US)
Great for someone who's on the fence and just "likes" XTC.