The Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock outsold XTC's The Big Express — the side project beat the main act

The Dukes of Stratosphear’s 25 O’Clock reportedly sold twice as many copies as XTC’s The Big Express, which had been released the previous year. There’s something delicious about the side project outselling the main act — the psychedelic parody became more commercially successful than the serious album it accompanied.