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Compilations & Splits: Bands featured on multi-artist compilations (such as the Faith/Void split album and the Dischord 1981 LP, not various-artists albums like Let Them Eat Jellybeans) and albums that are collaborations between two co-credited solo artists or bands are indexed under their individual names, but will link back to the main release entry.

Numerical Artists/Albums: Artists with numbers in their monikers (e.g., 2NE1) are strictly alphabetized as if the numbers were spelled out. The same methodology goes for album titles (e.g. 3-Way Tie (For Last)) when being alphabetized under Artists with multiple entries in the list.)

Articles: Articles like "The" and "A" remain at the beginning of the name (i.e. The Beatles, The Cure) in most cases, not after a comma, but remain sorted as if the article was non-existent. If the band did not usually add an article as part of their name (i.e. Minutemen), it is not used.

Other Naming Conventions: If a solo artist (i.e. Prince) sometimes co-billed his backing band on albums, I still file them simply under their solo artist name and denote any co-billing in the hyperlinked footnotes. Similarly, if an artist frequently appended the name of his backing group (i.e. Sun Ra and his Arkestra) the alternate name for that release will be given in the footnotes as well.

And speaking of Prince: Any releases where he credited himself as his unpronoouncable symbol will still be listed as being by Prince.

Footnote notes: Footnotes may not be added right away due to either time constraints or temporary brain farts. But like everything else on this site, everything is perenially under construction, so keep that in mind!

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Artist Album Title Label Entry # Notes
A
Will Ackerman It Takes a Year Windham Hill #183
Adam And The Ants Kings Of The Wild Frontier CBS / Epic #28 See notes [1]
Prince Charming CBS / Epic #225
ALL Allroy Sez... Cruz #175
B
Beat Happening Beat Happening K Records #127
The Beatles Abbey Road Apple #163
The Beatles (The White Album) Apple #65
Beatles For Sale Parlophone #145
A Hard Day's Night Parlophone #44 See notes [1]
Help! Parlophone #199 See notes [1]
Let It Be Apple #224
Revolver Parlophone #2 See notes [2]
Rubber Soul Parlophone / Capitol #117
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Parlophone #141
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique Capitol #169
B-52's, The The B-52's Warner Bros. #47
Wild Planet Warner Bros. #15
Black Flag Damaged Unicorn/SST #7
In My Head SST #277
Loose Nut SST #23
Slip It In SST #174
BLACKPINK Born Pink YG Entertainment / Interscope #32
Blondie Parallel Lines Chrysalis #75
David Bowie "Heroes" RCA #188
Bright Eyes Cassadaga Saddle Creek #179
Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Atco #60
The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man Columbia #74
C
Can Future Days United Artists #84 See notes [1]
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated Metal Blade #208
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Safe as Milk Buddah Records #180
Trout Mask Replica Straight Records #88 See notes [1]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds From Her to Eternity Mute #204
Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight Epic #104
Circle Jerks Group Sex Frontier #138 See notes: [1]
The Clash The Clash CBS / Epic #50 See notes [1]
London Calling CBS / Epic #12
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen Columbia #218
Songs of Love and Hate Columbia #279
Ornette Coleman Dancing in Your Head Horizon/A&M #281
Alice Coltrane World Galaxy Impulse!/ABC #118
John Coltrane Giant Steps Atlantic #40
James Chance & The Contortions No New York Antilles #284 See notes [1]
Crass The Feeding of the 5000 Small Wonder / Crass Records #265 See notes [1]
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu Atlantic #56
The Cure Faith Fiction / Polydor #110
Seventeen Seconds Fiction / Polydor #53
D
Miles Davis Kind of Blue Columbia #69
Miles Davis at Fillmore Columbia #64
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Cherry Red / IRS / Faulty Products #22
Plastic Surgery Disasters Alternative Tentacles / Faulty Products #128 See notes [1]
Deicide Legion Roadrunner #194
Descendents Milo Goes to College New Alliance / SST #62 See notes [1]
Devo Duty Now For The Future Warner Bros. #13
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Virgin / Warner Bros. #190
Freedom of Choice Warner Bros. #34
New Traditionalists Warner Bros. #149
Dicks Kill From The Heart SST #166 See notes [1]
DNA No New York Antilles #284 See notes [1]
D.O.A. Bloodied But Unbowed CD Presents / Sudden Death #156
War On 45: March Into The 80s Alternative Tentacles #271
The Doors The Doors Elektra #134
The Soft Parade Elektra #206
Dos Justamente Tres Kill Rock Stars #214
Uno Con Dos New Alliance Records #130 See notes [uno]
Nick Drake Bryter Kater Island #211
The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... Roadrunner #146
E
Einstürzende Neubauten 2x4 ROIR #151
Strategies Against Architecture 80-83 Mute #119
Embrace Embrace Dischord #100
F
The Faith Faith/Void Split Dischord #132
The Fall Hex Enduction Hour Kamara #107 See notes [*]
Fear The Record Slash #39 See notes [12341234!]
fIREHOSE mr. machinery operator Columbia #177
Ragin', Full-On! SST #92
Flipper Album - Generic Flipper Subterranean #216
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters Roswell/Capitol #142
John Foxx Metamatic Virgin #139
Fugazi 13 Songs Dischord #126 See notes [1]
In on the Killtaker Dischord #176
Repeater Dischord #207
G
Gang of Four Entertainment! EMI / Warner Bros. #181
Mort Garson Mother Earth's Plantasia Homewood Records / Sacred Bones #173
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Charismaa / Atlantic #150
Germs (GI) Slash #83
Government Issue Dischord 1981: The Year in Seven Inches Dischord Records #106 See notes [1981]
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand Scat / Matador #81
H
George Harrison All Things Must Pass Apple #168 See notes [ॐ]
Grant Hart Intolerance SST #116
Guns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction Uzi Suicide/Geffen $276
The Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. Track Record #159 See notes [1]
Hüsker Dü Candy Apple Grey Warner Bros. #219
Everything Falls Apart Reflex #93 See notes [1]
Flip Your Wig SST #89
New Day Rising SST #49
Warehouse: Songs and Stories Warner Bros. #170
Zen Arcade SST #9
I
Ice-T The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say Sire/Warner Bros. #212
O.G. Original Gangster Sire / Warner Bros. #125
Hiromi Iwasaki album Victor #172
J
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking Warner Bros. #68
Ritual de lo Habitual Warner Bros. #191
The Jesus And Mary Chain Psychocandy Blanco y Negro/Reprise #3
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road DJM / MCA #4
Joy Division Closer Factory #210
Unknown Pleasures Factory #76
K
Kraftwerk Computer World Warner Bros. #97
King Crimson Red Island / Atlantic #102 See notes [1]
Klaatu 3:47 EST Daffodil / Capitol #193
L
LARD The Last Temptation of Reid Alternative Tentacles #182
Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual Portrait #25
LISA ALTEREGO Lloud / RCA #200
Richard Lloyd The Radiant Monkey Parasol Records #186
Lush Gala 4AD / Reprise #140
M
Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run Apple #37
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire Columbia #205
Bob Marley & The Wailers Rastaman Vibration Island #280
Mars No New York Antilles #284 See notes [1]
Merzbow Pulse Demon Release Entertainment / Relapse #30
Venereology Release Entertainment / Relapse #77
Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II SST #58
Mirage SST #165
Too High to Die London #108
MiniMoni MiniMoni Songs 2 Zetima #171
Minor Threat Out of Step Dischord #78
First Two 7"'s on a 12" Dischord #54
Minutemen Double Nickels On The Dime SST #5
The Punch Line SST #185
3-Way Tie (For Last) SST #67
What Makes a Man Start Fires? SST #35
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls and Marches Ace of Hearts
Vs. Ace of Hearts #52
Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon Reprise #66
Morning Musume Ai No Dai 6 Kan Zetima #18
Best! Morning Musume 1 & 2 Zetima #10 See notes [1]
Platinum 9 Disc Zetima #24
10 My Me Zetima #161
Giorgio Moroder From Here to Eternity Oasis/Casablanca #201
MX-80 Sound Crowd Control Ralph #21 See notes [1]
N
Akina Nakamori Variation Reprise/Warner Pioneer #282
Nitzer Ebb That Total Age Mute / Geffen #222
Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle Beggar's Banquet #48
O
Oasis Definitely Maybe Creation / Epic #160
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Virgin #41
P
Parliament Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome Casablanca #78
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance Blank/Mercury #215
Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn EMI Columbia / Tower #184
Wish You Were Here Harvest / Columbia #55 See notes [1]
Iggy Pop Lust for Life RCA #59 See notes [1]
Plasmatics Beyond The Valley of 1984 Stiff America #17 See notes [1]
Prince Diamonds and Pearls Paisley Park/Warner Bros. #73 See notes [0)+>]
Dirty Mind Warner Bros. #26 See notes [69]
1999 Warner Bros. #115 See notes [1]
Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet Def Jam / Columbia #31
Public Image Ltd. The Flowers of Romance Virgin / Warner Bros. #63
Metal Box / Second Edition Virgin / Island #19 See notes [1]
Pylon Gyrate dB Recs #192
Q
R
Ramones End of the Century Sire #189
Ramones Sire #220
Road to Ruin Sire #155
Rocket to Russia Sire #46
Rank and File Sundown Slash #167
Otis Redding Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul Volt/Stax #195
Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley EMI America #203
Mother's Milk EMI #87
R.E.M. Reckoning I.R.S. #33
Renaldo and the Loaf Songs for Swinging Larvae Ralph #105 See notes [1]
The Replacements Let It Be Twin\Tone #90
The Rita Anna Kolger Found In The River Phage Tapes #120
Rites of Spring End on End Dischord #178
Rollins Band The End of Silence Imago #196
Life Time Texas Hotel #136 See notes: [1]
Rosé rosie The Black Label/Atlantic #162
The Ruts The Crack Virgin #121
S
Saccharine Trust Paganicons SST #147
SCANDAL Best★SCANDAL Epic Records Japan #197
Sepultura Chaos A.D. Roadrunner / Epic #144
Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols Virgin / Warner Bros. #1
Shellac At Action Park Touch and Go #152
1000 Hurts Touch and Go #101
Slit Throats Joshi Noise Worship: Women's Most Violent Phage Tapes #95
The Smiths The World Won't Listen Rough Trade #91
S.O.A. (State of Alert) Dischord 1981: The Year in Seven Inches Dischord Records #106 See notes [1981]
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation Blast First / Enigma #57
EVOL SST #109
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star DGC #71
Goo DGC #96
The Specials The Specials 2 Tone/Chrysalis #85
SS Decontrol The Kids Will Have Their Say XClaim!/Dischord / Trust #148
Ringo Starr Ringo Apple #154
Steely Dan Aja ABC / MCA / Geffen #86
The Stooges Fun House Elektra #14
Raw Power Columbia #94 See notes [1]
The Stooges Elektra #76
The Street Sliders Tenshi Tachi Epic/Sony Japan #43
The Subhumans (U.K.) EP-LP Bluurg #122
Sugar Copper Blue Rykodisc / Creation #72 See notes [1]
Sun Ra and his Arkestra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy El Saturn / Evidence #36 See notes [1]
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions Southern Lord #213
SWA Sex Doctor SST #198
Swans The Glowing Man Young God / Mute #159
T
Tangerine Dream Phaedra Virgin #187
Rubycon Virgin #133
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks No New York Antilles #284 See notes [1]
The Teen Idles Dischord 1981: The Year in Seven Inches Dischord Records #106 See notes [1981]
Television Marquee Moon Elektra #123
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down We The Common Ribbon Music #157
They Might Be Giants Flood Elektra #133
They Might Be Giants Bar/None #209
Johnny Thunders L.A.M.F. Track Record #159 See notes [1]
So Alone Real #99
TLC FanMail LaFace #98
2NE1 Crash YG Entertainment #11
Token Entry From Beneath the Streets Positive Force #103
Peter Tosh Legalize It Columbia / Intel-Diplo H.I.M. #129
Tuxedomoon Desire Ralph / Charisma #42 See notes [1]
U
V
various artists Flex Your Head Dischord #135
Nordic Metal: A Tribute to Euronymous Necropolis #202
Not So Quiet on the Western Front Alternative Tentacles / Maximumrocknroll #221
Welcome to 1984 Maximumrocknroll #278
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat Verve #137
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve #45
Void Void/Faith Split Dischord #132
Voivod Killing Technology Noise Records #223
W
W (Double U) Duo U & U Zetima #51
Mike Watt Ball-Hog or Tugboat? Columbia #27
Hyphenated-Man clenchedwrench #124
The Secondman's Middle Stand Columbia #111
Weezer Pinkerton Geffen #114
Whiteberry Chameleon Pot Artist/Sony Music Japan #6
The White Stripes De Stijl Sympathy for the Record Industry / Third Man #131
Jah Wobble Jah Wobble's Bedroom Album Lado #70 See notes [30hz]
Wormrot Dirge Earache #112
X
X Los Angeles Slash #143 See notes: [X]
X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents Art-I-Ficial/EMI #217
XTC Black Sea Virgin / RSO #184
Y
Yaeji With a Hammer XL Recordings #61
yeule Evangelic Girl Is A Gun Ninja Tune #20
Glitch Princess Bayonet #29
Sertotonin II Bayonet #8
softscars Ninja Tune #16
Youth Brigade Dischord 1981: The Year in Seven Inches Dischord Records #106 See notes [1981]
Neil Young After the Gold Rush Reprise #82
Z

Archive Notes & Addenda

  1. US and UK editions have different track lists; UK deluxe CD has all tracks. ↩
  2. Canon UK edition, not to be confused with soundtrack album on United Artists.↩
  3. Canon UK edition, not to be confused with soundtrack album on Capitol.↩
  4. Canon UK edition (US edition on Capitol is three songs shorter).↩
  5. Small Wonder edition deleted "Asylum" and replaced it with a two-minute silent track called "The Sound of Free Speech"; Crass Records editions restored "Asylum" and are subtitled The Second Sitting. ↩
  6. Featured on multi-artist compilation album with Mars, DNA, and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks.↩
  7. Current editions on BMG.↩
  8. Later editions issued on Reprise after Frank Zappa retired the Straight and Bizarre imprints. Most recent edition issued by Bizaare through Third Man Records.↩
  9. CBS (now Columbia) edition is original 1977 album. Epic edition from 1979 was US/Canada version with altered track list and bonus 45. Canon UK edition first issued in US in 2000 as part of first remastering of the Clash catalog alongside US edition. US edition was deleted when the Clash remastered their back catalog in 2013.↩
  10. Current editions on Mute Records, licensed from Spoon Records (Can's own label).↩
  11. Current editions on Trust Records.↩
  12. CD editions append the In God We Trust, Inc. EP as bonus tracks.↩
  13. Current editions on ORG Music.↩
  14. Album was heavily pirated for several years until first legit reissue by Alternative Tentacles in 2012. Since 2024 the album is available physically from Superior Viaduct.↩
  15. Featured on multi-artist compilation album with Mars, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, and James Chance & The Contortions.↩
  16. Current edition on Cherry Red.↩
  17. Current editions on band's own label, Fear Records, through Atom Age Industries.↩
  18. CD combines the 12" EPs Fugazi and Margin Walker.↩
  19. Featured on multi-artist compilation with Teen Idles, S.O.A., and Youth Brigade.↩
  20. Current edition on Dark Horse Records/BMG.↩
  21. Credited alternately to Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers or just to The Heartbreakers.↩
  22. Current authotized editions available from Numero Group digitally and as part of the Savage Young Dü box set. Beware of pirated vinyl versions!↩
  23. Current worldwide editions available on Discipline Global Mobile, Robert Fripp's own label.↩
  24. Featured on multi-artist compilation album with DNA, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, and James Chance & The Contortions.↩
  25. Two separarte best-of albums (released 2001 and 2004 respectively) grouped together here by site author.↩
  26. Current edition through Ship To Shore Recordings.↩
  27. Current editions on the band's own Pink Floyd Records label.↩
  28. Current editions on Virgin Records.↩
  29. Current edition on MVD Audio.↩
  30. Current edition (deluxe 2CD set) available on Klangalerie.$#8617;
  31. Current edition on NPG Music/Sony.↩
  32. Current edition on NPG Music/Sony.↩
  33. Metal Box was the original limited edition release (3 12" 45RPM LPs in a film canister; 50,000 copies for UK/Europe and 10,000 for export).↩
  34. Current edition on 2.13.61/Dischord.↩
  35. Featured on multi-artist compilation with Teen Idles, Government Issue and Youth Brigade.↩
  36. Credited to Iggy & The Stooges.↩
  37. Credited to Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra.↩
  38. Featured on multi-artist compilation album with Mars, DNA and James Chance & The Contortions.↩
  39. Credited alternately to Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers or just to The Heartbreakers.↩
  40. Charisma/Virgin initially handled the album outside of USA. Current worldwide editions out on Cramboy/Crammed Discs.↩
  41. Appears digitally (CD and downloads/streams) as part of 2CD set Jah Wobble: The Early Years on 30 Hertz Records.↩
  42. Credited to Prince & The New Power Generation. Current edition on NPG Music/Sony.↩
  43. Featured on multi-artist compilation with S.O.A., Government Issue and Youth Brigade.↩
  44. Featured on multi-artist compilation with Teen Idles, S.O.A., and Government Issue.↩
  45. Current edition on Fat Possum Records.↩