Chips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology)
by The Dukes Of Stratosphear
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Chips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology) is ranked 12th best out of 30 albums by XTC on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by XTC is Skylarking which is ranked number 385 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,393.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/21/2025 16:02 |  AAL2014 | 3,582 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2023 10:56 |  LedZep | 4,872 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/02/2023 23:43 | kieranthewalrus | 615 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2023 20:21 |  Igtonumama | 10,790 | 63/100 |
| ! | 02/16/2023 06:31 | mash | 1,410 | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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The best way I can describe this album is its simply an obvious tip of the hat to every 60's band and style that influenced Mr.'s Partridge and Moulding. I prefer this album to many of the actual XTC studio albums and I am a huge fan of XTC. I have many friends who don't like XTC that much but love this album. The best part of this album is to play spot the influence - Early Pink Floyd, the Move, the Hollies, etc. You can classify this album as a novelty one off project by XTC but I think it might be one of their greatest achievements and stands up their with Skylarking, Black Sea, and English Settlement and this a compilation of both the EP and album by the Dukes comes highly recommended to XTC fans but also fans of 60s psychedelic music.
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