Chalkhills: XTC Discography: Promotional Releases and Giveaways

XTC Apple Bite A Selection From Apple Box
sampler
2005 October

promo, gatefold paperboard sleeve. Also available, as a free extra item, with the limited edition Apple Set collection.

Spiral (3'15); Say It (2'39); Easter Theatre; Frivolous Tonight; Greenman; Stupidly Happy; In Another Life; The Wheel and The Maypole.

CD, Idea UK, IDEACD009, 31 October 2005.

XTC Selections From The Box Set Coat of Many Cupboards
sampler
2002

Science Friction (CBS demo); This is Pop (Single version); Life Begins at the Hop (Unused first recording); Towers of London (Rejected single recording); Generals and Majors (Rehearsal tape); Ball and Chain (Unused single recording); Love on a Farmboys Wages (Home demo); Wake Up (Home demo); Dear God (Band demo); Troubles (Home demo); Mayor of Simpleton (Early work tape); The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (Early home demo).

CD, Caroline USA, CAR 69995, 2002. promo, paperboard p/s.

XTC Stupidly Happy
single
2000

Stupidly Happy (album version) (4'12); Stupidly Happy (callout hook) (0'09).

CD, TVT USA, TVT 3261-2P, 2000. promo, b/i, no p/s.

XTC Playground
single
2000

Playground.

CD-5, Pony Canyon Japan, DSP-1521, 2000. promo.

XTC Greenman
single
1999 May?

Greenman (radio edit 4'21).

CD-5, TVT USA, TVT 3252-2P, May? 1999. promo.

XTC I'd Like That
single
1999 February

I'd Like That (3'50).

CD-5, TVT USA, TVT 3251-2P, 15 February 1999. promo.

XTC What Do You Call That Noise? Selections from the Box Set Transistor Blast
sampler
1998

Speech (0'49); Life Begins At The Hop (4'19); Scarecrow People (4'14); No Thugs In Our House (5'22); No Language In Our Lungs (4'58); Making Plans For Nigel (4'05); The Rhythm (2'56); This Is Pop (2'37); Roads Girdle The Globe (5'02).

CD, TVT USA, TVT 3246-2P, 1998. promo, paperboard p/s.

XTC Dear Madam Barnum
single
1992 June?

Dear Madam Barnum (2'53).

CD-5, Geffen USA, PRO-CD-4447, June? 1992. promo, die-cut paperboard stock sleeve with plastic window.

XTC Gribouillage
ep
1992 April

free with the first 2,500 copies of the French Nonsuch CD (CD262792).

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (4'38 demo); My Bird Performs (3'29 demo); Dear Madam Barnum (2'39 demo); Humble Daisy (3'22 demo); The Smartest Monkeys (2'56 demo).

CD-5, Virgin France, SA 3251, 27 April 1992. digipak with double-sided poster stapled inside.

XTC Radios In Motion ... A History of XTC
sampler
1992 March

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (edit); The Mayor of Simpleton (3'58); King For a Day (3'35); Dear God (3'36 LP version); Grass (3'05); Love On a Farmboy's Wages (3'58); Senses Working Overtime (4'45); Making Plans for Nigel (3'58).

CD-5, Geffen USA, PRO-CD-4397, 24? March 1992. promo, gatefold paperboard sleeve.

XTC This Is Not The New Album
sampler
1992 March

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (5'00); Books are Burning (4'51); Crocodile (3'56).

CD, Geffen USA, PRO-CD-4396, 24? March 1992. promo, gatefold paperboard sleeve.

XTC NAC (Nonsvch Adult Contemporary) Sampler
sampler
1992 March

My Bird Performs (3'51); Wrapped in Grey (3'46); Rook (3'45); Books Are Burning (4'51).

CD-5, Geffen USA, PRO-CD-4398, 24? March 1992. promo, gatefold paperboard sleeve.

XTC Window Box
cassette
1991 September

distributed at the XTC Music and Friends Convention 1991.

Always Winter But Never Christmas (demo); Rip Van Ruben (demo); Bungalow (demo); The Dukes of Stratosphear: It's Snowing Angels.

CT, Little Express Canada, LE 02, 8 September 1991. limited edition of 200, die-cut textured fold-out cover with lyrics.

XTC Rag & Bone Buffet 4-Song Sampler
ep
1991

Extrovert; Heaven is Paved With Broken Glass (remix); Blame the Weather; Respectable Street (single version).

CD-5, Geffen USA, PRO-CD-4251, 1991. promo, cardboard sleeve, picture CD.

XTC Selections From Mummer
ep
1983

Great Fire (3'47); Love On a Farmboy's Wages (3'58); b/w Wonderland (4'43); Funk Pop a Roll (3'01).

12", Virgin USA (Geffen), PRO-A-2117, 1983. promo, no p/s.

XTC Blame the Weather
single
1982 April?

Blame the Weather; Tissue Tigers (The Arguers).

7" EP, Trouser Press USA (Epic, Virgin, Eva-Tone), Flexi #4 (113824XS), April? 1982. red flexi-disc, possibly released in February. included in Trouser Press magazine, issue #72, available only to subscribers and those who were friends of Ira Robbins.

XTC Looking for Footprints
single
1982 February

Looking for Footprints.

7", Lyntone UK, FLEXIPOP 016 (LYN 11032), 26 February 1982. flexi-disc, available in red, blue, green, and yellow. included in Flexipop! magazine, issues #16, #26, and #32. no p/s.

Looking for Footprints; b/w Looking for Footprints.

7", Lyntone UK, FLEXIPOP 016 (LYN 11032), 26 February 1982. limited edition of 50, promo, no p/s.

XTC Limelight
single
1979 October

free with first 15,000 copies of Drums and Wires LP (VA 13134).

Limelight (2'25); b/w Day In, Day Out (3'05 early fade); Chain of Command (2'30).

7" EP, Virgin USA (Atlantic), PR 344 (ST-PR-344-A/B-MO), October 1979. promo, stereo, no p/s.
7" EP, Virgin USA (Atlantic), PR 344 (ST-PR-344-A/B-ST), October 1979. promo, stereo, no p/s.
7" EP, Virgin USA (Atlantic), PR 344 (ST-PR-344-A/B-SP), October 1979. promo, stereo, no p/s.

XTC Chain of Command
single
1979 August

Chain of Command (2'30); b/w Limelight (2'35).

7", Virgin UK, VDJ 30, 17 August 1979. promo, no p/s. free with Drums and Wires LP (V 2129)
7", Virgin Australia, L-37,059, 1979. no p/s. free with Drums and Wires LP (L 37059).
7", Ape House UK, APELP103C, 20 November 2020. reissue, 2014 remaster, 200g vinyl, included with Drums and Wires LP.

XTC GO+
ep
1978 October

dub versions of songs from Go 2.

Dance With Me, Germany; Beat the Bible; b/w A Dictionary of Modern Marriage; Clap Clap Clap; We Kill the Beast.

12" EP, Virgin UK, VS 233-12, 13 October 1978. given away free with first 15,000 copies of Go 2 LP (V 2108).
12" EP, Virgin UK, VS 233-12, 26 January 1979.
12" EP, Ape House UK, APELPX102, 19 May 2023. included with initial pressings of the 2023 remastered Go 2 LP.

XTC XTC Interview Virgin Tapes
interview
1978 Winter

interview for the release of White Music.

CT, Virgin Tapes UK, no catalogue number, Winter 1978. promo, stock sleeve, Maxell C46.

XTC Live at Eric's Virgin Tapes
live tape
1977

recorded live at Eric's, Manchester, 1977.

Radios In Motion; Cross Wires; Let's Have Fun; Fireball XL5; Science Friction; I'm Bugged; New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage; Hang on to the Night; All Along the Watchtower; She's So Square; Do What You Do; Spinning Top; Neon Shuffle; Traffic Light Rock; [unknown].

CT, Virgin Tapes UK, no catalogue number, 1977. promo, stock sleeve, Maxell C60.

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