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Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions

by XTC · 16 Nov 1998 · Cooking Vinyl · 51 tracks · 3:14:43

  • new wave
  • pop
  • pop rock
  • rock

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Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1Opening Speech0:50
  2. 2Life Begins at the Hop4:20
  3. 3Scarecrow People4:14
  4. 4Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her4:22
  5. 5Ten Feet Tall2:54
  6. 6Garden of Earthly Delights5:34
  7. 7Runaways4:42
  8. 8When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty3:07
  9. 9I’m Bugged3:35
  10. 10Another Satellite4:21
  11. 11You’re the Wish You Are I Had3:24
  12. 12Crosswires2:10
  13. 13Roads Girdle the Globe5:04

Disc 2

  1. 1No Thugs in Our House5:25
  2. 2One of the Millions4:26
  3. 3Real by Reel3:49
  4. 4The Meeting Place3:09
  5. 5Meccanic Dancing2:36
  6. 6Poor Skeleton Steps Out3:28
  7. 7Into the Atom Age2:28
  8. 8The Rhythm2:55
  9. 9This World Over4:33
  10. 10Snowman4:42
  11. 11Dance Band2:41
  12. 12Making Plans for Nigel4:07
  13. 13Jason and the Argonauts5:43

Disc 3

  1. 1Radio’s in Motion3:22
  2. 2Crosswires2:06
  3. 3Science Friction3:34
  4. 4Statue of Liberty2:59
  5. 5The Rhythm2:55
  6. 6I’ll Set Myself on Fire3:28
  7. 7Newtown Animal in a Furnished Cage1:55
  8. 8All Along the Watchtower5:58
  9. 9Beatown3:24
  10. 10This Is Pop2:37
  11. 11Dance Band2:49
  12. 12Neon Shuffle4:33

Disc 4

  1. 1Life Begins at the Hop3:55
  2. 2Burning With Optimism’s Flames4:30
  3. 3Love at First Sight3:04
  4. 4Respectable Street3:53
  5. 5No Language in Our Lungs4:58
  6. 6This Is Pop2:50
  7. 7Scissor Man4:58
  8. 8Towers of London5:13
  9. 9Battery Brides7:21
  10. 10Living Through Another Cuba3:29
  11. 11Generals and Majors4:37
  12. 12Making Plans for Nigel4:21
  13. 13Are You Receiving Me?3:16

Running time 3:14:43

Tracklist of the first edition, from MusicBrainz.

The story

Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions is a 4-disc boxed set by the English rock band XTC, released by Cooking Vinyl in November 1998, just three months prior to the studio album Apple Venus Volume 1.

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Who made it

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The record

  • First released
    16 Nov 1998
  • Labels
    Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 152
    Canyon International PCCY-01309
    Festival Records D 89943
    TVT Records TVT 3240-2
  • Kind
    Album (live)
  • Formats
    CD 16 editions
  • Editions
    4 releases in 4 countries
  • Running time
    3:14:43
  • Barcode
    711297155228

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