The Raincoats
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The Raincoats are a British post-punk
band. Ana da Silva
(vocals, guitar
) and Gina Birch
(vocals, bass
) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art
, London, England.
on 9 November 1977. Kate Korus, from The Slits
and later The Mo-dettes
, joined briefly but was replaced by Jeremie Frank. Nick Turner left to form The Barracudas
and Richard Dudanski
(exThe 101'ers
and later Public Image Ltd.
) sat in on drums and film maker Patrick Keiller replaced Jeremie Frank on guitar.
Late in 1978, The Raincoats became an all female
post-punk
band, when joined by Palmolive
of The Slits
(drum
s), Vicky Aspinall
(violin
) and manager Shirley O'Loughlin
. The band went on their first UK tour with Swiss
female band Kleenex, in May 1979 after Rough Trade Records
released their first single
, "Fairytale in the Supermarket"/ "In Love"/ "Adventures Close to Home".
Palmolive left the band after their seminal first album The Raincoats
and Ingrid Weiss joined in 1980, when the band began recording their second album Odyshape
, and toured Europe and the east coast of the United States. Guest musicians on Odyshape included Robert Wyatt
, This Heat
's Charles Hayward
and Richard Dudanski
.
In New York, in December 1982, The Raincoats recorded a live album
at the arts space The Kitchen. The Kitchen Tapes
(live) was released on ROIR
in 1983.
The band recorded Moving in 1984 and began work on solo projects shortly after the release of this album. Gina Birch and Vicky Aspinall formed Dorothy and Ana da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects and formed Roseland with Charles Hayward.
In 1992 Kurt Cobain
of Nirvana
went into the Rough Trade Shop
in Talbot Road, London in search of a new copy of The Raincoats
and Jude Crighton sent him round the corner to see Ana da Silva at her cousin's antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvana’s Incesticide
album. In late 1993 Rough Trade and DGC Records
released the three albums with liner notes by Cobain and Kim Gordon
.
Shirley O'Loughlin persuaded Ana da Silva and Gina Birch to play a show at the Garage in London in March 1994 with Steve Shelley
of Sonic Youth
on drums and Anne Wood on violin
to celebrate the album releases. They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1
's John Peel
, which was released on Paul Smith's Blast First
and Steve Shelley’s record label
Smells Like Records
. Cobain invited them to play on the tour Nirvana planned for the UK in April, but he died a week before the tour began. da Silva and Birch had written some new material and released a new album Looking in the Shadows
on DGC Records and Rough Trade Records in 1996
, produced by Britpop
producer
Ed Buller
(who had previously worked with Suede
and Pulp
). Musicians included Anne Wood (violin, bass), Heather Dunn (drums) and Pete Shelley
(Buzzcocks
and solo artist).
Since 1996, The Raincoats have played some special events such as Robert Wyatt
's Meltdown
in 2001, at Chicks on Speed
's 99 Cents album release in Berlin in December 2003. da Silva and Birch recently recorded a cover version
of "Monk Chant" for a compilation album
of The Monks
songs called Silver Monk Time
, and performed the song live with the Monks in the Volksbuehne, Berlin in October 2006. They played at Ladyfest
Leeds
in April 2007 and the Nuits Sonores Festival in Lyon
on 18 May 2007 on the Girl Monster stage with Chicks on Speed. On 28 March 2009 The Raincoats-Fairytales-A Work in Progress, directed by Gina Birch and produced by The Raincoats was screened at the BFI in London and the band performed at Donaufestival on the Girl Monster stage with Girl Monster Orchestra on 25 April. The band performed at the Matt Groening
edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties
festival in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
On Nov. 21 2010 The Raincoats performed a concert as part of the PopRally series at MoMA
in New York City. The band have been chosen by Jeff Mangum
of Neutral Milk Hotel
to perform their debut album live at the All Tomorrow's Parties
festival that he will curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band. Ana da Silva
Ana da Silva
Ana da Silva is a founding member of The Raincoats. In approximately 1984 she provided backing vocals on The Go-Betweens' "Bachelor Kisses". In February 2005, she released a solo album The Lighthouse on Chicks on Speed Records. Stuart Moxham of the Young Marble Giants collaborated on one of the...
(vocals, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) and Gina Birch
Gina Birch
Gina Birch is an English musician and film-maker, probably best known as a founding member of The Raincoats.Born in Nottingham where she attended Nottingham High School for Girls, Birch formed The Hangovers and released an album, Slow Dirty Tears, in 1998. In 2002 and 2007 she performed live at...
(vocals, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art
Hornsey College of Art
Hornsey College of Art is a former college centred in Crouch End, London, England. Since 2008, the building has been a part of Coleridge Primary School, upon its expansion to four form entry...
, London, England.
Career
The line-up included Ross Crighton on guitar and Nick Turner on drums for the band’s first gigConcert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
on 9 November 1977. Kate Korus, from The Slits
The Slits
The Slits were a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up , who died of cancer in October 2010, and Palmolive , with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members, Kate Korus and...
and later The Mo-dettes
The Mo-dettes
The Mo-dettes were an all-female punk band, formed in 1979 by Kate Korris, an original member of The Slits and brief member of The Raincoats, and Jane Crockford, former member of The Bank of Dresden.-Biography:...
, joined briefly but was replaced by Jeremie Frank. Nick Turner left to form The Barracudas
The Barracudas
The Barracudas are an English based Anglo-Canadian band formed in the late 1970s.The band's original lineup consisted of: Jeremy Gluck , Robin Wills , Starkie Phillips and Adam Phillips....
and Richard Dudanski
Richard Dudanski
Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski, a/k/a Richard Nother, is an English drummer who was a member of a number of seminal British proto-punk, punk and post-punk bands, including The 101'ers, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., and Basement 5...
(exThe 101'ers
The 101ers
The 101ers were a pub rock band from the 1970s, notable as being the band that Joe Strummer left to join The Clash. Formed in London in May 1974, the 101ers made their performing debut on 7 September at the Telegraph pub in Brixton, under the name El Huaso and the 101 All Stars. The name would...
and later Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by vocalist John Lydon , guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, with frequent subsequent personnel changes. Lydon is the sole constant member of the band....
) sat in on drums and film maker Patrick Keiller replaced Jeremie Frank on guitar.
Late in 1978, The Raincoats became an all female
All-women band
An all-female band is a musical group composed of female musicians exclusively. A distinction is made here with a girl group, in which the members are solely vocalists, though this terminology is not universally followed.-1920s-1940s:In the Jazz Age and during the 1930s, "all-girl" bands such as...
post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band, when joined by Palmolive
Palmolive (musician)
Palmolive was the stage name for Spanish-born drummer Paloma McLardy, née Paloma Romero. Palmolive was a songwriter and the original drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats....
of The Slits
The Slits
The Slits were a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up , who died of cancer in October 2010, and Palmolive , with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members, Kate Korus and...
(drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s), Vicky Aspinall
Vicky Aspinall
Vicky Aspinall was the violinist in the English post punk band The Raincoats from 1978 to 1984, and a founder in 1992 of Fresh Records, a UK independent record label with 18 UK Top 40 hits and 23 Club chart #1s to date....
(violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
) and manager Shirley O'Loughlin
Shirley O'Loughlin
Shirley O'Loughlin, photographer, is a principal lecturer and course leader of BA Photography at the University of Westminster, London, UK. She has worked with The Raincoats since 1978...
. The band went on their first UK tour with Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
female band Kleenex, in May 1979 after Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
released their first single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, "Fairytale in the Supermarket"/ "In Love"/ "Adventures Close to Home".
Palmolive left the band after their seminal first album The Raincoats
The Raincoats (album)
The Raincoats, released in 1979 , was the debut album by The Raincoats. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by The Kinks and the album's seventh track "The Void", which was covered by Hole in 1994. The album was re-released by Rough Trade in 1994, with liner notes by...
and Ingrid Weiss joined in 1980, when the band began recording their second album Odyshape
Odyshape
Odyshape, released in 1981, was the second album by The Raincoats.-Track listing:All tracks composed by The Raincoats; except where indicated#"Shouting Out Loud" - 4:54...
, and toured Europe and the east coast of the United States. Guest musicians on Odyshape included Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
, This Heat
This Heat
This Heat were a British experimental music group formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen , Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams .This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart...
's Charles Hayward
Charles Hayward (musician)
Charles Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Radar Favourites, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with old schoolfriend and "Pooh and the Ostrich Feather" member Phil Manzanera in the...
and Richard Dudanski
Richard Dudanski
Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski, a/k/a Richard Nother, is an English drummer who was a member of a number of seminal British proto-punk, punk and post-punk bands, including The 101'ers, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., and Basement 5...
.
In New York, in December 1982, The Raincoats recorded a live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
at the arts space The Kitchen. The Kitchen Tapes
The Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats)
The Kitchen Tapes, released in 1983, was the only live album by The Raincoats. The album features a recording of a performance in New York City from December 1982...
(live) was released on ROIR
ROIR
ROIR , or Reach Out International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper.ROIR was founded the same year that the Sony Walkman launched, and initially, the label exclusively distributed its releases in cassette format...
in 1983.
The band recorded Moving in 1984 and began work on solo projects shortly after the release of this album. Gina Birch and Vicky Aspinall formed Dorothy and Ana da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects and formed Roseland with Charles Hayward.
In 1992 Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
of Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
went into the Rough Trade Shop
Rough Trade Shop
Rough Trade are two independent record shops based in London, UK.The first Rough Trade shop was opened in 1976 by Geoff Travis in the Portobello Road district of west London. In 1978 the shop spawned the famous Rough Trade Records, which was to go on to be home to bands from The Smiths to The...
in Talbot Road, London in search of a new copy of The Raincoats
The Raincoats (album)
The Raincoats, released in 1979 , was the debut album by The Raincoats. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by The Kinks and the album's seventh track "The Void", which was covered by Hole in 1994. The album was re-released by Rough Trade in 1994, with liner notes by...
and Jude Crighton sent him round the corner to see Ana da Silva at her cousin's antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvana’s Incesticide
Incesticide
-Personnel:All sessions:*Kurt Cobain – vocals, guitar*Krist Novoselic – bass guitarSeattle, WA: Reciprocal Recording Studios Nirvana's first studio demo tape...
album. In late 1993 Rough Trade and DGC Records
DGC Records
DGC Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and currently operates as an auxiliary label of Interscope Records.-Company history:...
released the three albums with liner notes by Cobain and Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
.
Shirley O'Loughlin persuaded Ana da Silva and Gina Birch to play a show at the Garage in London in March 1994 with Steve Shelley
Steve Shelley
Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...
of Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
on drums and Anne Wood on violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
to celebrate the album releases. They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
's John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
, which was released on Paul Smith's Blast First
Blast First
Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label, Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914...
and Steve Shelley’s record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
Smells Like Records
Smells Like Records
Smells Like Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey formed by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley in 1993. Groups that have recorded under the label include Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Fuck, and The Rondelles....
. Cobain invited them to play on the tour Nirvana planned for the UK in April, but he died a week before the tour began. da Silva and Birch had written some new material and released a new album Looking in the Shadows
Looking in the Shadows
Looking in the Shadows, released in 1996, was the fourth studio album by The Raincoats.-Track listing:#"Only Tonight" #"Don't Be Mean" #"Forgotten Words" #"Pretty" #"Truth is Hard"...
on DGC Records and Rough Trade Records in 1996
1996 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...
, produced by Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Ed Buller
Ed Buller
Ed Buller is a British record producer and former musician. He primarily works with Australian and British bands like Suede, Pulp, The Raincoats....
(who had previously worked with Suede
Suede (band)
Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
and Pulp
Pulp (band)
Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker , Russell Senior , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....
). Musicians included Anne Wood (violin, bass), Heather Dunn (drums) and Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks.-Biography:...
(Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial...
and solo artist).
Since 1996, The Raincoats have played some special events such as Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
's Meltdown
Meltdown (festival)
Meltdown is an annual, English festival, held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film. Meltdown is held in June at Southbank Centre, the arts complex covering and including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Hayward...
in 2001, at Chicks on Speed
Chicks on Speed
Chicks on Speed is a multi-national musical ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie met at the Academy of Fine Arts....
's 99 Cents album release in Berlin in December 2003. da Silva and Birch recently recorded a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of "Monk Chant" for a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
of The Monks
The Monks
Monks are a garage rock band, formed by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid to late 1960s. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made...
songs called Silver Monk Time
Silver monk time
Silver Monk Time is both a tribute record to the German-American beat band The Monks and the soundtrack to the award winning film Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback. The record was produced and compiled by the filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios. It was released in October 2006. The official...
, and performed the song live with the Monks in the Volksbuehne, Berlin in October 2006. They played at Ladyfest
Ladyfest
Ladyfest is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for female artists that features bands, musical groups, performance artists, authors, spoken word and visual artists, films, lectures, art exhibitions and workshops; it is organized by volunteers. The first ever Ladyfest...
Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
in April 2007 and the Nuits Sonores Festival in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
on 18 May 2007 on the Girl Monster stage with Chicks on Speed. On 28 March 2009 The Raincoats-Fairytales-A Work in Progress, directed by Gina Birch and produced by The Raincoats was screened at the BFI in London and the band performed at Donaufestival on the Girl Monster stage with Girl Monster Orchestra on 25 April. The band performed at the Matt Groening
Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama....
edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
festival in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
On Nov. 21 2010 The Raincoats performed a concert as part of the PopRally series at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York City. The band have been chosen by Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum is a musician best known for being the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist of the band Neutral Milk Hotel, as well as being one of the cofounders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Mangum, along with the other founding members of the Elephant 6, attended Ruston High School in the late...
of Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
to perform their debut album live at the All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
festival that he will curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.
Albums
- 1979 - The RaincoatsThe Raincoats (album)The Raincoats, released in 1979 , was the debut album by The Raincoats. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by The Kinks and the album's seventh track "The Void", which was covered by Hole in 1994. The album was re-released by Rough Trade in 1994, with liner notes by...
(#5) - 1981 - OdyshapeOdyshapeOdyshape, released in 1981, was the second album by The Raincoats.-Track listing:All tracks composed by The Raincoats; except where indicated#"Shouting Out Loud" - 4:54...
(#5) - 1983 - The Kitchen TapesThe Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats)The Kitchen Tapes, released in 1983, was the only live album by The Raincoats. The album features a recording of a performance in New York City from December 1982...
(live) - 1984 - Moving (#5)
- 1996 - Looking in the ShadowsLooking in the ShadowsLooking in the Shadows, released in 1996, was the fourth studio album by The Raincoats.-Track listing:#"Only Tonight" #"Don't Be Mean" #"Forgotten Words" #"Pretty" #"Truth is Hard"...
Singles
- 1979 - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" / "In Love" / "Adventures Close to Home"
- 1982 - "No One's Little Girl" / "Running Away" (#47)
- 1983 - "Animal Rhapsody" / "No One's Little Girl" / "Honey Mad Woman"
- 1996 – "Don’t Be Mean" / "Vicious" / "I Keep Walking"
Tracks on compilations
- 1980 - "In Love" on Wanna Buy A Bridge? - Rough TradeRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
- 1990 - "No One's Little Girl" on A Constant Source of Interruption - Rough TradeRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
- 1993 - "In Love" on Lipstick Traces - compiled by Greil MarcusGreil MarcusGreil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.-Life and career:Marcus was born in San Francisco...
author of In the Fascist Bathroom - Rough TradeRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove... - 1995 - "Off Duty Trip" on Razor and Tie Music - Razor and Tie
- 1995 - "In Love" on Upsalapalooza - WFMUWFMUWFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format...
- 1996 - "Pretty" on Buy Product 2 - Geffen RecordsGeffen RecordsGeffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...
- 1999 - "No One's Little Girl" on Postpunk Chronicles: Left of the Dial - Rhino Records
- 2001 - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" on Rough Trade Shops 25 years - Rough TradeRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
- 2003 - "Lola" on Rough Trade Shops Post Punk 01 - Rough TradeRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
- 2003 - "Animal Rhapsody" on Chicken Lips DJ Kicks - !K7Studio !K7Studio !K7 is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. The name is an abbreviation of the company's original Berlin address, Kaiserdamm 7 . !K7 has since opened branch offices in New York City, Hamburg, London, and Tokyo.It has four independent...
- 2004 - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" on Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s UndergroundLeft of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s UndergroundLeft of the Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Underground is a 4 disc compilation released in 2004. The Replacements' song Left of the Dial was not actually used.- Disc 1 :# R.E.M...
- 2006 - "Only Loved at Night" on Rip it Up - compiled by Simon ReynoldsSimon ReynoldsSimon Reynolds is an English music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock". Besides electronic dance music, Reynolds has written about a wide range of artists and musical genres, and has written books on post-punk and rock...
author of Rip it Up and Start Again - 2006 - "Monk Chant" on Silver Monk TimeSilver monk timeSilver Monk Time is both a tribute record to the German-American beat band The Monks and the soundtrack to the award winning film Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback. The record was produced and compiled by the filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios. It was released in October 2006. The official...
- 2006 - "Shouting Out Loud" on Girl Monster - Chicks on SpeedChicks on SpeedChicks on Speed is a multi-national musical ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie met at the Academy of Fine Arts....