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Discography
SINGLES
Close Lobsters - Going
To Heaven To See If It Rains
BLAZE15 7" -Going To Heaven To See If It Rains + Boys And Girls
BLAZE15T 12" -Heaven + Boys And Girls + Pathetik Trivia
Fire Records - Nov 1986
Notes: Pathetik Trivia is an early version of Pathetique
from Foxheads LP. The 12" run-out groove reads -"it ticked and exploded".
Engineered by Scott Rodger.
Close Lobsters - Never Seen Before
BLAZE20 7" -Never Seen Before + Pimps
BLAZE20T 12" -Never Seen Before + Pimps + Firestation Towers + Wide
Waterways
Fire Records - Apr 1987
Notes: Wide Waterways is an Only Ones cover version.
Firestation Towers is re-recorded from the C86 compilation. Pimps is an
early version of the Foxheads LP track (with female backing vocals!). The
12" run-out groove reads - "an intellectual kick in the head". Recorded
Feb 1987. Produced by Pascal Gabriel.
Close Lobsters - Let's Make Some Plans
BLAZE22 7" -Let's Make Some Plans + In Spite Of These Times
BLAZE22T 12" -Let's Make Some Plans + In Spite Of These Times + Get
What They Deserve
Fire Records - 1987
Notes: In Spite Of These Times is the same version as
on the Foxheads LP. Recorded July-August 1987 (the Foxheads LP sessions).
Produced by John A Rivers. Except: Get What They Deserve - recorded at
the Sound Factory, Larkhall and produced by Close Lobsters.
Close Lobsters - The Janice Long Sessions
SFNT008 12" -Nothing Really Matters + Heaven..Rains + Pathetic Trivia
+ Never Seen Before
Strange Fruit Records - 4.Apr 1988
Dutch East India Year: 1993 Available Formats: Cassette
Notes: 4 exclusive tracks recorded for the Janice Long
BBC Radio 1 show. Recorded 29th June 1986. Broadcast 15th July 1986. Produced
by Barry Andrews. Engineered by Martin Colley
Close Lobsters - Loopholes 7"
???? 7" - "Loopholes" b/w "What Is There To Smile About"
???? 7 " vinyl
Close Lobsters - What Is There To Smile About?
BLAZE25 7" -What Is There To Smile About? + From This Day On
BLAZE25T 12" -What Is There To Smile About + Loopholes + From This
Day On + The Skyscrapers Of St Mirin
BLAZE25CD CD5 -What Is There To Smile About + Loopholes + From This
Day On + The Skyscrapers Of St Mirin + Violently Pretty Face
Fire Records - 7.Sep 1988
Notes:Limited Edition 12" came with free Lobster Postcard
& Poster. 7" was in a gatefold sleeve. Skyscrapers was later re-recorded
for the Headache Rhetoric LP. 12" run-out groove reads - "Close the Paisley
Grammar". Produced by John A Rivers
Close Lobsters - Nature Thing
BLAZE34 7" -Nature Thing + Never Seen Before (live)
BLAZE34T 12" -Nature Thing + Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) + Paper
Thin Hotel + Never Seen Before (live)
BLAZE34CD CD5 -same tracks as 12"
Fire Records - Mar 1989
Notes: Hey Hey My My is a Neil Young cover version. Paper
Thin Hotel is a Leonard Cohen cover version. Produced by Phil Vinall. Engineered
by Howard Turner.
Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid
Caff Corporation - CAFF004 (7") Fall 1989
ALBUMS
Close Lobsters - Foxheads
Stalk This Land
Fire Records - FIRE LP09 (LP+CD) 1987
Close Lobsters - What
Is There To Smile About?
Enigma Records (CD5) 1988
Close Lobsters - Headache
Rhetoric
Fire Records - FIRE LP17 (LP+CD) 20.Mar 1989
COMPILATIONS
Various Artists
Bludgeoned: A Collection
Bludgeoned Records BLUD 1 (12") *DELETED*
Red Letter Day contribute: Coming Home
BLUE AEROPLANES -Action Painting
CLOSE LOBSTERS - All The Little Boys And Girls
RED LETTER DAY - Coming Home
POP PARKER - Rubber Bone Boy
INTERFERENCE - Better Life
THE SHRUBS - Dead Teachers (Eccentric CD Grey Mix)
BRILLIANT CORNERS - Delirious
JENNY & CAT CLUB - No One Loves You At All
ELEPHANT MEN - Hammy The Hamburger
BLYTH POWER - Sordid Tales From The Ffucke Masticke Room
THE DENTISTS - Ugly
CHORCHAZADE - Too Much Timex
GUS BUS - And Nothing (Live)
BILLY JENKINS - Discoboats At 2 o'cLOCK
Various Artists - Airspace II - The Sequel
Breaking Down Records - BREAK LP 3 (LP) 14.May 1990
Benny Profane - Maureen
Bob - Daymaker Part 2
The Brilliant Corners - Where Are The Supremes Tonight ?
Close Lobsters - Paper Thin Hotel
Cud - Strange Kinda Love
The Darling Buds - Shame On You (slightydelic mix)
The Driscolls - Time For Change
The Family - Shine A Light
Five Year Plan - Pumpin' For Jill
The Golden Dawn - No Reason Why
The Groove Farm - Just A Silly Phase I'm Going Through
Heavenly - And The Birds Aren't Singing
Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes - Untitled
Mega City 4 - Honestly
Mousefolk - Where Is David Tonight
St.Christopher - If I Could Capture
The Wedding Present - Don't Dictate
Various Artists - Airspace!
Breaking Down Records - BREAK LP 1 (LP) Jul 1989
The Groove Farm - Number One
Five Year Plan - See You In Heaven
The Golden Dawn - George Hamiltons Dead
Remember Fun - Clearly Blurred
Benny Profane - Rob A Bank
The Flatmates - Turning You Blue
The Beat Hotel - Going Through It
Close Lobsters - In Spite Of These Times (1st )
The Rosehips - Crazy Kind Of Normal
St.Christopher - To The Mountain
Rodney Allen - Circle Line
This Poison - The Great Divide -
The Field Mice - That's All This Is
Cud - Only (A Prawn In Whitby)
Stitch - You And Me
Various Artists - Alvin Lives (In Leeds) - Anti Poll Tax Trax
Spasm/Midnight Music (LP) May 1990
Close Lobsters - Float On
The Corn Dollies - Le Freak
Crocodile Ride - I Feel Love
Cud - Bohemian Rhapsody
Five Thirty - My Sweet Lord
The 14 Iced Bears - Summer Night
Robyn Hitchcock - Kung Fu Fighting
Lush - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
The Perfect Disaster - Wanderin Star
The Popguns - Bye Bye Baby
The Siddeleys - Love Grows ( Where My Rosemary Goes )
The Wedding Present - Make Me Smile ( Come Up And See Me )
Various Artists - Lets Try Another Ideal Guest House
Shelter/Rough Trade (LP) 1987
AC Temple - Make Mine Money
A Witness - Fag Lane Maurice Wind
The Bats - Block Of Wood
Close Lobsters - Lets Make Some Plans
The Dragsters - Fine Sense Of Humour
The Flatmates - Heaven Is Blue
The 14 Iced Bears - Like A Dolphin
The Hermit crabs - Surfing' Vietnam
The Househunters - Househunting
Laugh! - Shed Caved In
McTells - It Happens
One Thousand Violins - Beautiful Shirt
The Passmore Sisters - Difficult
The Pleasure Heads - Something You're Above
The Stars of Heaven - All About You
Talulah Gosh - My Boy Says
Television Personalities - Miracles Take Longer
3-Action - If Only I Had The Guts
Various Artists - NME C-86 Compilation
NME/Rough Trade (LP) 1986
The Age of Chance - From Now On,This Will Be Your God
A Witness - Sharpened Sticks
Big Flame - New Way
The Bodines - Therese
Bogshed - Run To The Temple
Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers
Fuzzbox - Console Me
Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes ( From The Heart
)
The MacKenzies - Big Jim
McCarthy - Celestial City
Miaow - Sport Most Royal
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head
Mighty Mighty - Law
The Pastels - Breaking Lines
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
The Servants - Transparent
Shop Assistants - It's Up To You
The Shrubs - Bullfighter's Bones
The Soup Dragons - Pleasantly Surprised
Stump - Buffalo
The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait
The Wolfhounds - Feeling So Strange Again
Various Artists - Out Of The Blue
(K7)
All Over The Place - Think Back On Me
All Over The Place - Shadow Of Distraction
The Bachelor Pad - The Music Is Freaking Them Out
The Bachelor Pad - Garbagehead
Close Lobsters - Sewer Pipe Dream
The Driscolls - PC Roberts
Feverfew - Casey Jones
The Mayfields - Rain-Bird
The Mayfields - I Don't Dream
Mega City 4 - Pride & Prejudice
Mousefolk - Tonight
Mousefolk - Joyce McKinney's Boyfriend
The Popguns - Leave It Alone
The Senseless Things - Remember Me
The Senseless Things - Kiss & Cuddle
Thrilled Skinny - Neon Sea
The Vinegar Blossom - Virginia Court
The Great Fire of London ©1987 Restless Records 7
72265-1
Side One:
Diving for Pearls - 1000 Mexicans
Ups - Blue Aeroplanes
Fontana Eyes - Colenso Parade
Little Girl - Pulp
Always There - The Rose of Avalanche
Bluebell - The Perfect Disaster
D.D.I.R.N. - The Close Lobsters
Side Two:
Let's Make Some Plans - The Close Lobsters
The Innocents - The Parachute Men
Good Weather - Gerard Langley and Ian Kearey
Gunning theWorks '87 - Blue Aeroplanes
Open Up the Rivers - The Royal Assassins
L.A. Rain - The Rose of Avalanche
Edge
Of Rock '90 RELEASED: 04/10/1990
Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Camper
Van Beethoven
I Just Wanted To See You So Bad - Lucinda
Williams
Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
Roadside Flowers - Winter Hours
Lovely Little Swan - Close Lobsters
Future 40's - Syd Straw
Can I Have A Smoke, Dude? - Mary's Danish
Light - The Meat Puppets
Luka - The Lemon Heads
In Vivo - Wire
The
Best of Radio 1 Evening Show Sessions
1. The Man They Love to Hate - Strangers
2. Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) - Icicle Works
3. Pariah - Danielle Dax
4. If I Only Had Time - Godfathers
5. Pure Heart - Leather Nun
6. Dancing on the Pier - The Men They Couldn't Hang
7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft! - D Gedge
8. Is This the Life - Cardiacs
9. Coats - The Blue Aeroplanes
10. Django - Flowerpot Men
11. Never Seen Before - The Close Lobsters
12. Baby Turpentine - Crazyhead
13. Don't Be Human Eric-Let's Be Frank - Gaye Bykers on
Acid
14. No Green Blues - Voice of the Beehive
I Wouldn't
Piss On It If It Was On Fire
Fire Records
1998
1. Hey Now! - Perfect Disaster
2. Walkin' With Jesus - Spacemen 3
3. Ups - The Blue Aeroplanes
4. Let's Make Some Plans - The Close Lobsters
5. L.A. Rain - Rose of Avalanche
6. This Is Motortown - Very Things
7. Gates of Freedom - Walkingseeds
8. Mr. Gas - Parachute Men
9. Big Kahuna - Harbourkings
10. Rage and Storm - Chuck Prophet
11. You Could Be Mine - Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes
12. My Legendary Girlfriend - Pulp
13. My Very First Nervous Breakdown - Television Personalities
14. I Won't Try - Midway Still
15. I Want the Moon - Leatherface
16. This Town - Gumball
17. Notown - Anastasia Screamed
Disc 2:
1. Truck Train Tractor - Pastels
2. God Knows It's True - Teenage Fanclub
3. Breakfast - Eugenius
4. Pattern 26 - Manifesto
5. Where I Find My Heaven - Gigolo Aunts
6. So Glad - Thrum
7. To One in Paradise - HP Zinker, Evan Dando
8. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
9. Butterfly Girl - Nightblooms
10. Moon, Don't Come Up Tonight - Telstar Ponies
11. Raymond, Did You See the Red Queen? - Moles
12. Nowhere Nuthin' Fuck Up - Built to Spill
13. Can't Believe It's True - The Halo Benders
14. Everything Is (Mangum) - Neutral Milk Hotel
15. Babe Come Down - Sammy
16. Something Scratching - Texas Cottonmouth
17. Us Teens Are Spoiled Bums - Half Japanese
18. Penis Size and Cars - Supermodel
19. Android Dreams - Mega City 4
20. Fire Maple Song - Everclear
It's On
Fire
Fire Records
1997
1. Blow (Killing Some Dead Time) - Libido
2. Strange News (Killing Some Dead Time) - Libido
3. Modern Man (Frustration No. 10) - Novocaine NP9
4. Million Miles (Frustration No. 10) - Novocaine NP9
5. Star Attraction (Dead Famous) - Chuck UK
6. Just for a Laugh (Dead Famous) - Chuck UK
7. Last Outpost (Voices from the New Music) - Telstar Ponies
8. Voices from the New Music (Voices from the New Music)
- Telstar Ponies
9. Carpetburn [Salamanda] - Salamanda
10. 2 Wheels Clever [Salamanda] - Salamanda
11. Isolation Radio - Thompson
12. Cop - Thompson
13. Say It Ain't So [Brother Aldo] - Chuck Prophet
14. Get 'Round Town (Up for a Bit With the Pastels) - Pastels
15. David Hockney's Diary [They Could Have Been Bigger
Than the Beatles] - Television Personalities
16. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) [From Masters of the Universe]
- Pulp
17. Lovely Little Swan [from Headache Rhetoric/Foxheads
Stalk This Land ]- The Close Lobsters
18. Ups (Tolerance) - The Blue Aeroplanes
C86
1986
1. Velocity Girl - Primal Scream
2. Happy Head - The Mighty Lemon Drops
3. Pleasantly Surprised - The Soup Dragons
4. Feeling So Strange Again - The Wolfhounds
5. Therese - The Bodines
6. Law - Mighty Mighty
7. Run to the Temple - Bog-Shed
8. Buffalo - Stump
9. Sharpened Sticks - A Witness
10. Breaking Lines - The Pastels
11. From Now on, This Will Be Your God - Age of Chance
12. It's Up to You - Shop Assistants
13. Firestation Towers - The Close Lobsters
14. Sport Most Royal - Miaow
15. I Hate Nerys Hughes (From the Heart) - Half Man Half
Biscuit
16. Transparent - The Servants
17. Big Jim (There's No Pubs in Heaven) - The Mackenzies
18. New Way (Quick Wash and Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
- bIG fLAME
19. Console Me - We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use
It
20. Celestial City - McCarthy
21. Bullfighters' Bones - The Shrubs
22. This Boy Can Wait (A Bit Longer) - The Wedding Present
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Thanks to Spanish Fleay for updating
this discography!
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ONE
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