0015 Pale Saints - Half-Life

cd5 BAD0015CD (1990): Half-Life Remembered, Babymaker [PS2CD], Two Sick Sisters, A Revelation

12ep BAD0015 (1990): BAD0015CD, The Colour Of The Sky

«The Colour Of The Sky» is hidden after the last track on side two. The needle hangs and you have to pick it up and put it down on the track yourself. It's mostly a spoken word thing and it wasn't named or mentioned anywhere on the sleeve, but was given this name on the Japanese CD «Mrs. Dolphin». Enter Meriel Barham. Produced by Chris Allison. Engineered by Paul Corkett. Sleeve by v23, Dominic Davies, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou. The run-out grooves read «Babies in the laughter» «Into the fog» (BAD0015). «Half-Life Remembered» remixed by John Fryer. «A Revelation» remixed by John Fryer.


NONTAR Paula Frazer - The Hand

7 NONTAR (1995): The Hand [Re CAD5010], Is She Lonesome Now, Two Wrongs Won't Make Things Right [Re CAD5010]

Released on Sunday Driver.


NONME4 Modern English - Hands Across the Sea

7 NONME4 (7") (1984): Hands Across the Sea [CAD402], Reflection [BAD401]

7 NONME4 (7") (1984): Hands Across the Sea [CAD402], Ringing in the Change [AD401]

7 NONME4 (7") (1984): Hands Across the Sea [CAD402], Ringing in the Change [AD401]

7 NONME4 (7") (1984): Hands Across the Sea [CAD402], Hands Across the Sea [CAD402]

Released by Vertigo in Canada (SOV 2336); Virgin in France (SA 106.246) -- the b-side plays «Chapter 12»; Sire in the US (7-29339 [BAA 2288S/BAA 2306S]); promo by Sire in the US (7-29339 [BAA 2288S/BAA 2288S]).


3005 Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego

7 AD3005 (1993)

12ep cd5 cassingle BAD3005, BAD3005CD, ADC3005 (1993): Hang On To Your Ego (3:23) [CAD3004], The Ballad Of Johnny Horton (4:22), Surf Epic (10:12)

blank 3005 (postcard) (1993)

Featuring Joey Santiago (Pixies), Eric Drew Feldman (Pere Ubu) and Bob Giusti.


NONFB2 Frank Black - Hang on to Your Ego

cd5 NONFB2 (1993)

Released by Virgin in France with 2 & 3 & 2 tracks (91865 2 & 91867 2 & SA 3299 (promo)).


NONFB8 Frank Black - Hang on to Your Ego

cd5 NONFB8 (1993)

Three track promo released by Elektra in the US (PRCD 8782-2).


4005 Lisa Germano - Happiness

lp cas cd CAD4005, CADC4005, CAD4005CD (1994): Bad Attitude, Destroy the Flower, Puppet, Everyone's Victim, Energy, Cowboy, Happiness, The Earth, Around the World, Sycophant, Miamo-Tutti, The Dresses Song, The Darkest Night of All

A slightly different version of this album was released by Warner in 1993. This version lacks one track from that release, have had two tracks remixed, and has a different track sequence. Produced by Malcolm Burn. Featuring Ronald Jones, Daryl Johnson, Bill Dillon, Malcolm Burn, Jay Joyce, Michael Radovsey, Kenny Aronoff, Toby Myers and John Keane. Recorded at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Bloodsucker Studios and Champagne Studios, Nashville. Engineered by Malcolm Burn, Mark Howard, Wayne Lorenz, John Keane, Trina Shoemaker, Giles Reaves and Mike Griffith. Mixed by Malcolm Burn, Trina SHoemaker, Jay Joyce, Mike Griffith, Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer. Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver, Adrian Philpott, John Weber and Malcolm Burn. «Destroy the Flower» produced by Jay Joyce. «Destroy the Flower» remixed by Ivo (This Mortal Coil). «Sycophant» coproduced by Joy Joyce. «Sycophant» remixed by Ivo (This Mortal Coil).


4007 Frank Black - Headache

7 AD4007 (1994): Headache [DAD4009], Headache (n.y.c. version) [R DAD4009]

12ep 10 cd5 BAD4007, BADD4007, BAD4007CD (1994): Headache [DAD4009], Men in Black, At the End of the World, Oddball

cd5 BADD4007CD (1994): Headache [DAD4009], Hate Me, This is Where I Belong, Amnesia

Produced by John Tiven. Engineered by Jimmy Douglass and Joe Johnson. Recorded at Studio 900, New York City. Featuring Eric Drew Feldman (Pere Ubu), Nick Vincent, Lyle Workman, John Tiven and Sally Tiven. Sleeve by v23 and Michael Halsband. «Headache» coproduced by Eric Drew Feldman (Pere Ubu). «Headache» engineered by Efren Herrera, Bill Cooper, David Bianco, Frank Gryner, Matt Westfield and John Jackson. «Headache» recorded at The Clubhouse, Burbank, California, American, Calabasas, California and Can-Am, Los Angeles, California. «Headache» mixed by David Bianco. «This is Where I Belong» written by Ray Davies.


NONFB10 Frank Black - Headache

cd5 NONFB10 (1994)

Two track release by Virgin in France (92473 2). Also one track promo released by Elektra in the US (PRCD 8962-2).


NONPIX3 Pixies - Head On

cd5 NONPIX3 (1991): Head On [CAD1014], U-Mass [CAD1014], Planet of Sound [L CAD1014], Tame [L CAD905], Debaser [L CAD905]

Released in Canada. The first two live songs are the same as those on the European «Alec Eiffel» single.


313 Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels

lp CAD313 (1983): When Mama Was Moth, Five Ten Fiftyfold, Sugar Hiccup, In Our Angelhood, Glass Candle Grenades, In The Gold Dust Rush, The Tinderbox (Of A Heart), Multifoiled, My Love Parmour, Musette And Drums

cas cd CADC313, CAD313CD (1983): CAD313, BAD314CD

Exit Will Heggie. Will Heggie later appeared in Lowlife on Nightshift Records. Featuring Ally. Coproduced by John Fryer. Sleeve by 23 Envelope. The sleeves of CAD313 and CAD313CD are quite different.


4012 The Breeders - Head to Toe

10 BADD4012 (Jul 11 1994): Head to Toe, Shocker in Gloomtown, Freed Pig, Saints [45789 (cd)]

Limited 10" single. «Saints» is not listed on the sleeve. All tracks recorded March 4 '94 at Dreamland, Kingston with J. Mascis except «Head to Toe», recorded March 21 '94 at Cro Magnon, Dayton. Engineered by John Agneus and John Shough. Write to Breeders Digest, P. O. Box 5090, Hoboken NJ 07030. Sleeve by Josephine Wiggs (The Perfect Disaster) and Maria Piñeres. Also released by Elektra in the US on 7"/10" opaque mint green vinyl and clear dark green vinyl (64533-7). «Head to Toe» written by Josephine Wiggs (The Perfect Disaster) and D. Senechal. «Head to Toe» arranged by K. Schenerbach. «Shocker in Gloomtown» written by R. Pollard (Guided by Voices). «Freed Pig» written by Lou Barlow (Sebadoh). «Freed Pig» originally appeared on «Sebadoh III»


0012 Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

lp cas cd CAD0012, CADC0012, CAD0012CD (1990): Cherry-Coloured Funk, Pitch The Baby, Iceblink Luck, Fifty-Fifty Clown, Heaven Or Las Vegas, I Wear Your Ring, Fotzepolitic, Wolf In The Breast, Road River And Rail, Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires

Sleeve by Paul West and Andy Rumball. Released in the US on LP (c1-93669), CD (c2-93669), advance cassette and cassette (c4-93669). This is the last release from Cocteau Twins on 4AD. They have now signed to Polygram Records outside America, and to Capitol in the US.


NONCT2 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

cd5 NONCT2 (1990): Heaven or Las Vegas [CAD0012]

Promo released in Canada by Vertigo (CDP 432).


NONCT11 Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

12ep cd5 NONCT11 (12"), NONCT11 (cdsingle) (1990): Heaven Or Las Vegas (edit) [R CAD0012], Dials [CT1CD], Heaven Or Las Vegas [CAD0012]

Promotional CD single. Released in the US by Capitol on 12" with plain white sleeve with blue sticker (SPRO-7941/79427), cd with no insert and red sticker (DPRO-79291), cd with insert and green cd (DPRO-79291A) and 12" with picture sleeve. Sleeve by Paul West and Andy Rumball.


NONBP2 The Birthday Party - Hee Haw

12ep NONBP2 (1980): A Catholic Skin, The Red Clock, Faint Heart, Death By Drowning, The Hair Shirt

This EP was released by Missing Link. It was originally called «The Boys Next Door».


307 The Birthday Party - Hee Haw

cd CAD307CD (1989): AD12, AD114, NONBP2 (ep), Hats On Wrong, Guilt Parade, Riddle House

This is the last Birtday Party release on 4AD. They left to sign to Mute Records and released «Mutiny» before breaking up. Most, if not all of them, stayed on at Mute in various permutations as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, These Immortal Souls and Crime And The City Solution.


PIXTWO Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

12 PIXTWO (1989): Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) [R CAD905], Into The White

This is a 12", one-sided promotional single. 800 copies were released.


909 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

7 AD909 (1989): Here Comes Your Man [CAD905], Into The White [PIXTWO]

12ep cd5 BAD909, BAD909CD (1989): AD909, Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) [PIXTWO], Bailey's Walk

Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver and Simon Larbalestier. «Into The White» engineered by Paul Kolderie. «Into The White» recorded at Fort Apache, Cambridge, MA. «Wave Of Mutilation» engineered by Jon Turner. «Wave Of Mutilation» recorded at Palladium Studios, Edinburgh. «Bailey's Walk» engineered by Claude Fixler. «Bailey's Walk» recorded at Eden Studios.


NONLTM1 Various - Heures Sans Soleil

lp NONLTM1 (1985) (excerpt): The Happy Family: March in Turin (demo) [NONTHF1]

Released by Les Temps Modernes (LTM V:XI).


NONSH1 Spoonfed Hybrid - Hibernation Shock

cd5 NONSH1 (1996): Token She-Van, The Sun Always Changes My Mind, Make a Fist, The Violence of Violins, Scary Verlaine

Released by Farrágo Records -- http://www.neosoft.com/~hk/home.htm.


4002 Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers

lp cas cd cd CAD4002, CADC4002, CAD4002CD, CADD4002CD (Jan 24 1994): Your Ghost, Beestung, Teeth, Sundrops, Sparky, Houdini Blues, A Loon, Velvet Days, Close Your Eyes, Me and My Charms, Tuesday Night, The Letter, Lurch, Cuckoo, Hips and Makers

blank 4002 (flyer) (1994)

CADD 4002 CD is a limited edition digipak with 6 illustrated lyrics cards included. Coproduced by Lenny Kaye. Engineered by Phill Brown and Steve Rizzo. Recorded at Stable Sound, Portsmouth. Featuring Jane Scarpantoni. Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver, Paul McMenamin, Shinro Ohtake and Andrew Catlin. «Your Ghost» featuring Michael Stipe (REM). «The Letter» coproduced by Steve Rizzo.


2016 The Birthday Party - Hits

lp cas cd DAD2016, DADC2016, DAD2016CD (Sep 28 1992): The Friend Catcher [AD12], Happy Birthday [AD114], Mr. Clarinet [AD114], Nick the Stripper [CAD104], Zoo Music Girl [CAD104], King Ink [CAD104], Release the Bats [AD111], Blast Off [AD111], She's Hit [CAD207], 6" Gold Blade [CAD207], Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) [CAD207], Dead Joe [CAD207], Junkyard [CAD207], Big-Jesus-Trash-Can [CAD207], Wild World [BAD301], Sonny's Burning [BAD301], Deep in the Woods [BAD301], Swampland [NONBP1], Jennifer's Veil [NONBP1], Mutiny in Heaven [NONBP1]

The US version will have one track less because Brit CD manufacturers will guarantee the disc for 78min of play time, and WB will only guarantee 74.


NONCOL8 Various - Hi-Voltage

lp cas NONCOL8 (lp), NONCOL8 (cas) (1983) (excerpt): Colourbox: Breakdown [AD215]

Released by the NME (PRO 4 & NME 028).


NONHMV1 Various - HMV Video Sampler

video NONHMV1 (1993): Frank Black: Los Angeles [CAD3004], Pale Saints: Blue Flower [BAD2008], Lush: Nothing Natural [LUSH1CD], His Name Is Alive: Are We Still Married? [CAD1013], Pixies: Head On [CAD1014], Michael Brook: Breakdown [CAD2007], This Mortal Coil: Late Night [DAD1005], The Breeders: Safari [BAD2003], Frank Black: Hang On To Your Ego [CAD3004], The Wolfgang Press: A Girl Like You [NONTWP1], Lush: For Love [CAD2002], Pixies: Here Comes Your Man [CAD905]

Free video sampler given away in large quantaties by HMV in Toronto.


5017 Kristin Hersh - The Holy Single

cd TAD5017CD (December 4 1995): Jesus Christ, Amazing Grace, Sinkhole, Can The Circle Be Unbroken

Limited release. Also released by Rykodisc in the US. Engineered by Steve Rizzo. Sleeve by David Narcizo (Throwing Muses) and Mary Ann Southard. The words "glue this" can be read through the center hole of the CD case on the US release. If you should feel the urge to pry the case apart to read the entire message -- you shouldn't. That important message reads: «Plastic Tray Glues Here. No Ink On This Panel.» Whee! «Jesus Christ» written by Alex Chilton (Big Star). «Amazing Grace» written by Traditional. «Amazing Grace» arranged by Kristin Hersh. «Sinkhole» written by W. J. Hersh. «Can The Circle Be Unbroken» written by Traditional. «Can The Circle Be Unbroken» arranged by A. P. Carter.


1013 His Name Is Alive - Home Is In Your Head

lp cas cd CAD1013, CADC1013, CAD1013CD (1991): Are You Coming Down This Weekend?, Her Eyes Were Huge Things, The Charmer, Hope Called In Sick, My Feathers Needed Cleaning, The Well, There's Something Between Us And He's Changing My Words, The Phoenix, A Pool Of Ice, Are We Still Married?, Put Your Finger In Your Eye, Home Is In Your Head, Why People Disappear, Her Eyes Are Huge, Save the Birds, Chances Are We Are Mad, Mescalina, Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking, Very Bad A Bitter Hand, Beautiful And Pointless, Tempe, Spirit And Body, Love's A Fish Eye, Dreams Are Of The Body, The Other Body

Tracks 4-6 are collectively called «Song Of Schizophrenia». Featuring Melissa Elliott, Jymn Auge, Damian Lang and Denise James. Mixed by Ivo (This Mortal Coil) and John Fryer. Mastered by Gus Shaw. Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver and Dominic Davies. The original mixes of this album is available on cassette from Warren. Exit Angie Carozzo. The last track isn't listed on the sleeve, and the tape ran out when they were recording it, so it really *is* supposed to sound like that.


NONHNIA4 His Name Is Alive - Home Is In Your Head

cd NONHNIA4 (1992): CAD1013CD, BAD2005CD

Released in the US by Rykodisc.


DCD 1 Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim

cd5 DCD1 (1993): The Host of Seraphim [CAD808], Yulunga [CADC3013]

Promotional cd single released in conjunction with the film «Baraka». Digipak.


NONPS1 Various - An Hour of Eloquent Sounds

cas NONPS1 (1982) (excerpt): Cocteau Twins: Perhaps Some Other Aeon (demo version) [R CADC211], The Birthday Party: The Hairshirt (demo) [R NONBP2]

Released as Pleasantly Surprised 001.


802 Throwing Muses - House Tornado

lp cas CAD802, CADC802 (1988): Colder, Mexican Women, The River, Juno, Marriage Tree, Run Letter, Saving Grace, Drive, Downtown, Giant, Walking In The Dark

cd CAD802CD (1988): CADC802, Garoux Des Larmes [MAD706], Pools In Eyes [MAD706], Soap And Water [MAD706], And A She-Wolf After The War [MAD706], You Cage [MAD706]

In short, CAD802CD features side one of MAD706. It doesn't have side two, which consisted of a re-recording of «Soul Soldier» and various noises. Featuring Rich Gilbert. Produced by Gary Smith. Engineered by Paul Kolderie. Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver and Shinro Ohtake.


HNIA 1 His Name Is Alive - How Ghosts Affect Relationships

7 HNIA1 (1990): How Ghosts Affect Relationships [CAD0008], If July [CAD0008]

Free single.


901 Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa

lp cas CAD901, CADC901 (1989): Devil's Roof, Bea, Dizzy, No Parachutes, Dragonhead, Say Goodbye, Fall Down, I'm Alive, Angel, Mania, The Burrow, Take

cd CAD901CD (1989): CADC901, Santa Claus

Two versions of the lp was released: One in brown and one in gray. Featuring Bernie Warrell, Russ Gershon, Tom Halter, Russell Jewell and Guy Yarden. Produced by Gary Smith. Engineered by Steve Haigler. Sleeve by v23, Richard Donelly and Obigail Simon. Write to Michell Alorim, P.O. Box 1909, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA.


109 Dif Juz - Huremics

12ep BAD109 (1981): Hu [CAD505CD], Re [CAD505CD], Mi, Cs

Dif Juz are Gary Bromley, Alan Curtis, David Curtis and Richard Thomas. Recorded at Spaceward. Sleeve by Dif Juz.


4008 Lush - Hypocrite

7 AD4008 (May 30 1994): Hypocrite (2:58) [CAD4011], Cat's Chorus (3:23)

12ep cd5 BADD4008, BAD4008CD (May 30 1994): AD4008, Love at First Sight (2:58), Undertow (Spooky Remix) (9:13) [R CAD4011]

Tracks 1, 2 and 4 by Berenyi. Coproduced by Mike Hedges. Mixed by Alan Moulder. Sleeve by Vaughan Oliver, Chris Bigg, Richard Caldicott and Melodie McDaniel. The run-out grooves read AD «a funny thing happened to the way to the perineum» «when the boot goes in». The run-out grooves read BAD «I've seen a table wine» «a Norweigan pine». «Love at First Sight» written by S. Moxham (Young Marble Giants). «Undertow» remixed by Spooky.


LUSH 2 Lush - Hypocrite

12 LUSH2 (1994): Hypocrite [CAD4011], Undertow (Spooky Remix) [BADD4008]

Promo release.


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