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 11th best out of 30 albums by XTC on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by XTC is Skylarking which is ranked number 371 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,454.
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Chips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology) track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Chips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology) rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 54 Music Albums of 1987 | 26/54 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 51/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 94 Music Albums of 1987 | 78/94 | 1 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 51 Music Albums of 1987 | 47/51 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 28/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 54 Music Albums of 1987 | 14/54 | 4 |
| 2026 | Simon_bramhall | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 21/100 | 79 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1301-1400 | 49/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 74 Music Albums of 1987 | 50/74 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 40 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 289 | |||
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Chips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology) ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/18/2026 10:04 | cicadelic | 14,064 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 16:02 | AAL2014 | 4,310 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2023 10:56 |  LedZep | 5,142 | 79/100 |
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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 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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BestEverAlbums 08/31/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5421): By Simon_bramhall Romanelli 07/26/2026 16:53 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) LedZep 09/25/2023 10:56 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionChips From The Chocolate Fireball (An Anthology) comments
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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.
Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/30/2011 14:16 | #22463 | TOP COMMENT
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The alter egos of XTC make psychedelic music in the 80's that's a really good time. This is the complete 265 O'Clock album and the Psonic Psunspot EP combined.
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