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The Compact XTC: The Singles 1978-1985 is a compilation album by XTC released in 1987. It replaced Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 as a Greatest Hits album, adding six singles issued between English Settlement and The Big Express. It took advantage of the compact disc's greater storage capacity to limit it to a single disc. It was superseded by the double-disc set Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992, on which all eighteen tracks appear.

Despite being released in 1987 (as a result of Skylarking's success), its copyright is 1985. As an A-side collection the only singles missing from this compilation are "Ten Feet Tall" ,"Love at First Sight", "Respectable Street" and "No Thugs in Our House".