by Martin Roach
DAMON ALBARN DISCOGRAPHY
A complete and comprehensive discography of every track that Damon Albarn has contributed to during the course of his various band, solo and collaborative projects is a sizeable job in itself. This discography is intended to give the key highlights and some indication of the copious volume – and eclectic style – of Damon’s recorded output.
BLUR - SINGLES
She’s So High (Food/EMI) 1990
There’s No Other Way (Food/EMI) 1991
Bang (Food/EMI) 1991
Popscene (Food/EMI) 1992
For Tomorrow (Food/EMI) 1993
Chemical World (Food/EMI) 1993
Sunday Sunday (Food/EMI) 1993
Girls and Boys (Food/EMI) 1994
To The End (Food/EMI) 1994
Parklife (Food/EMI) 1994
End Of A Century (Food/EMI) 1994
Country House (Food/EMI) 1995
The Universal (Food/EMI) 1995
Stereotypes (Food/EMI) 1996
Charmless (Food/EMI) 1996
Beetlebum (Food/EMI) 1997
Song 2 (Food/EMI) 1997
On Your Own (Food/EMI) 1997
M.O.R. (Food/EMI) 1997
Tender (Food/EMI) 1999
Coffee & TV (Food/EMI) 1999
No Distance Left To Run (Food/EMI) 1999
Music Is My Radar (Food/EMI) 2000
Out Of Time (Parlophone/EMI) 2003
Crazy Beat (Parlophone/EMI) 2003
Good Song (Parlophone/EMI) 2003
Fool’s Day (Parlophone/EMI) 2010
Under the Westway (Parlophone) 2012
The Puritan (Parlophone) 2012
Go Out (Parlophone) 2015
There Are Too Many of Us (Parlophone) 2015
Lonesome Street (Parlophone) 2015
I Broadcast (Parlophone) 2015
My Terracotta Heart (Parlophone) 2015
Ong Ong (Parlophone) 2015
Y’all Doomed (Parlophone) 2015
BLUR - ALBUMS
Leisure 1991
She’s So High/Bang/Slow Down/Repetition/Bad Day/Sing/There’s No Other Way/Fool/Come Together/High Cool/Birthday/Wear Me Down
Modern Life Is Rubbish 1993
For Tomorrow/Advert/Colin Zeal/Pressure On Julian/Starshaped/Blue Jeans/Chemical World/Intermission/Sunday Sunday/Oily Water/Miss America/Villa Rosie/Coping/Turn It Up/Resigned Commercial Break
Parklife 1994
Girls & Boys/Tracy Jacks/End Of A Century/Parklife/Bank Holiday/Badhead/The Debt Collector/Far Out/To The End/London Loves/Trouble In The Message Centre/Clover Over Dover/Magic America/Jubilee/This Is A Low/Lot 105
The Great Escape 1995
Stereotypes/Country House/Best Days/Charmless Man/Fade Away/Top Man/The Universal/Mr Robinson’s Quango/He Thought Of Cars/It Could Be You/Ernold Same/Globe Alone/Dan Abnormal/Entertain Me/Yuko & Hiro
Blur 1997
Beetlebum/Song 2/Country Sad Ballad Man/M.O.R./On Your Own/Theme From Retro/You’re So Great/Death Of A Party/Chinese Bombs/I’m Just A Killer For Your Love/Look Inside America/Strange News From Another Star/Movin’ On/Essex Dogs
Bustin’ + Dronin’ 1998
CD1 -Movin’ On/Death Of A Party/On Your Own/Beetlebum/Essex Dogs/Death Of A Party/Theme From Retro/Death Of A Party/On Your Own/CD 2 (Live) Popscene/Song 2/On Your Own/Chinese Bombs/Movin’ On/M.O.R.
13 1999
Tender/Bugman/Coffee & TV/SwampSong/1992/B.L.U.R.E.M.I./Battle/Mellow Song/Trailerpark/Caramel/Trimm Trabb/No Distance Left To Run/Optigan 1
Blur: The Best Of … 2000
Beetlebum/Song 2/There’s No Other Way/The Universal/Coffee & TV/Parklife/End Of A Century/No Distance Left To Run/Tender/Girls & Boys/Charmless Man/She’s So High/Country House/To The End/On Your Own/This Is A Low/For Tomorrow/Music Is My Radar
Think Tank 2003
Ambulance/Out Of Time/Crazy Beat/Good Song/On The Way To The Club/Brothers And Sisters/Caravan/We’ve Got A File On You/Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club/Sweet Song/Jets/Gene By Gene/Battery In Your Leg
Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide to Blur 2009
Beetlebum/Girls & Boys/For Tomorrow/Coffee & TV/Out of Time/Blue Jeans/Song 2/Bugman/He Thought of Cars/Death of a Party/The Universal/Sing/This Is a Low/Tender/She’s So High/Chemical World/Good Song/Parklife/Advert/Popscene/Stereotypes/Trimm Trabb/Badhead/Strange News from Another Star/Battery in Your Leg
The Magic Whip 2015
Lonesome Street/New World Towers/Go Out/Ice Cream Man/Thought I Was a Spaceman/I Broadcast/My Terracotta Heart/There Are Too Many of Us/Ghost Ship/Pyongyang/Ong Ong/Mirrorball
GORILLAZ – SINGLES
Clint Eastwood (Parlophone/EMI) 2001
19-2000 (Parlophone/EMI) 2001
Rock Da House (Parlophone/EMI) 2001
Tomorrow Comes Today (Parlophone/EMI) 2002
Feel Good Inc (Parlophone/EMI) 2005
Dare (Parlophone/EMI) 2005
Dirty Harry (Parlophone/EMI) 2005
Kids With Guns (Parlophone/EMI) 2006
Stylo (Parlophone) 2010
Superfast Jellyfish (Parlophone) 2010
On Melancholy Hill (Parlophone) 2010
Rhinestone Eyes (Parlophone) 2010
Doncamatic (Parlophone) 2010
Phoner to Arizona (Parlophone) 2011
Revolving Doors (Parlophone) 2011
Amarillo (Parlophone) 2011
DoYaThing (Converse) 2012
GORILLAZ – ALBUMS
Gorillaz 2001
Re-Hash/5/4 /Tomorrow Comes Today/New Genious (Brother)/Clint Eastwood/Man Research (Clapper)/Punk/Sound Check (Gravity)/Double Bass/Rock The House/19-2000/Latin Simone (Que Pasa Contigo)/Starshine/Slow Country/M1 A1
Democrazy 2003
Disc One: I Need a Gun/Reedz/Half a Song/Five Star Life/A Rappy Song/Back to Mali/I MissYou/Hymn to Moon Disc Two: Dezert/Sub Species of an American Day/American Welfare Poem/Saz Theory Book/Gotta’ Get Down With the Passing of Time/End of Democrazy
Demon Days 2005
Intro/Last Living Souls/Kids With Guns/O Green World/Dirty Harry/Feel Good Inc/El Mañana/Every Planet We Reach Is Dead/November Has Come/All Alone/White Light/DARE/Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey’s Head/Don’t Get Lost In Heaven/Demon Days
D-Sides 2007
68 State/People/Hongkongaton/We Are Happy Landfill/Hong Kong/Highway (Under Construction)/Rockit/Bill Murray/The Swagga/Murdoc Is God/Spitting Out the Demons/Don’t Get Lost In Heaven/Stop the Dams/DARE (DFA remix)/Feel Good Inc. (Stanton Warriors remix)/Kids with Guns (Jamie T’s Turns to Monsters mix)/DARE (Soulwax remix)/Kids with Guns (Hot Chip remix)/El Mañana (Metronomy remix)/DARE (Junior Sanchez remix)/Dirty Harry/Kids with Guns
The Singles Collection 2001–2011 2011
Tomorrow Comes Today/Clint Eastwood/19-2000/Rock the House/Feel Good Inc/DARE/Dirty Harry/Kids with Guns/El Mañana/Superfast Jellyfish/On Melancholy Hill/Doncamatic/Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie remix)/19-2000 (Soulchild remix)
Plastic Beach 2010
Orchestral Intro/Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach/White Flag/Rhinestone Eyes/Stylo/Superfast Jellyfish/Empire Ants/Glitter Freeze/Some Kind of Nature/On Melancholy Hill/Broken/Sweepstakes/Plastic Beach/To Binge/Cloud of Unknowing/Pirate Jet
The Fall 2011
Phoner to Arizona/Revolving Doors/HillBilly Man/Detroit/Shy-Town/Little Pink Plastic Bags/The Joplin Spider/The Parish of Space Dust/The Snake in Dallas/Amarillo/The Speak It Mountains/Aspen Forest/Bobby in Phoenix/California and the Slipping of the Sun/Seattle Yodel
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN SINGLES
Herculean (Parlophone/EMI /Honest Jon’s) 2006 (deleted) Kingdom Of Doom (Parlophone/EMI /Honest Jon’s) 2007 Green Fields (Parlophone/EMI /Honest Jon’s) 2007
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN ALBUMS
The Good, The Bad & The Queen 2007
History Song/80’s Life/Northern Whale/Kingdom Of Doom/Herculean/Behind The Sun/The Bunting Song/Nature Springs/A Soldier’s Tale/Three Changes/Green Fields/The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Everyday Robots (Parlophone/Warner Bros/XL) 2014
Lonely Press Play (Parlophone/Warner Bros/XL) 2014
Hollow Ponds (Parlophone/Warner Bros/XL) 2014
Heavy Seas of Love (Parlophone/Warner Bros/XL) 2014
Mr. Tembo (Parlophone/Warner Bros/XL) 2014
SOLO ALBUMS
Everyday Robots 2014
Everyday Robots/Hostiles/Lonely Press Play/Tembo/Parakeet/The Selfish Giant/You and Me/Hollow Ponds/Seven High/Photographs (You Are Taking Now)/The History of a Cheating Heart/Heavy Seas of Love
Live at the De De De Der 2014
Spitting Out the Demons/Lonely Press Play/Everyday Robots/Tomorrow Comes Today/Slow Country/Kids with Guns/Three Changes/Bamako City/Sunset Coming On/Hostiles/Photographs (You Are Taking Now/Kingdom of Doom/You and Me/Hollow Ponds/El Mañana/Don’t Get Lost in Heaven/Out of Time/All Your Life/End of a Century/The Man Who Left Himself/Tender/Mr. Tembo/Clint Eastwood/Feel Good Inc./Heavy Seas of Love
SOUNDTRACKS
Ravenous (EMI Soundtracks) 1999
Ordinary Decent Criminal (Icon/Atlantic Records) 2000
101 Reykjavik (EMI Soundtracks) 2001
Journey to the West (XL) 2008
Dr Dee (Parlophone) 2012
‘WORLD MUSIC’
Mali Music (Honest Jon’s/Parlophone/EMI Records) 2002
Democrazy (Honest Jon’s) 2003
Kinshasa One Two (Warp/Oxfam) 2011
Maison Des Jeunes (Honest Jon’s/EMI/Transgressive Records) 2013
KEY ALBUM COLLABORATIONS
Elastica (Elastica) 1995
Trainspotting 1996
Random 1997
Laugh (Terry Hall) 1997
20th Century Blues (With Michael Nyman) 1998
The Menace (Elastica) 2000
Deltron 3030 2000
This Is Where I Belong – The Songs of Ray Davies 2002
Home Cooking (Tony Allen) 2002
100th Window (Massive Attack) 2002
The Hour Of Two Lights (Terry Hall/Mushtaq) 2003
Before The Poison (Marianne Faithfull) 2004
London Town (Kano) 2007
Black Ghosts 2008
Heligoland (Massive Attack) 2010
Method to the Maadness (Kano) 2010
I’m New Here (Gil Scott-Heron) 2010
Key to the Kuffs (JJ Doom) 2012
Rocket Juice & the Moon (Tony Allen/Flea) 2012
Event 2 (Deltron 3030) 2013
Film of Life (Tony Allen) 2014
REFERENCES
The following magazines were very helpful: Puncture, Guitar Player, Option and Hot Press. Exceptional articles on Blur which provided us with an essential insight include ‘The Secret Life’ in Q (1/95), The Stud Brother’s Melody Maker piece entitled ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (25/9/93) and Stuart Maconie and David Cavanagh’s ‘The Compleat Blur’ in Select (7/95 and 8/95). Also Esquire Q and music365.com. As well as chronicling Blur, Q has been there to tell the tales of those around the band – key interviews by John Harris (Justine Frischmann) Phil Sutcliffe (Graham Coxon) and the enquiring natures of the magazine’s readers (Cash For Questions) were all of great help and interest. Esquire also ran several lengthy and excellent pieces. Publications as diverse as Mojo, Select, The Face, National Geographic, Manchester Evening News and Grazia also played their parts along with websites such as MusicOHM.com, music365.com, The Bulb and SoundtrackNet as well as the tireless work done by fansites detailing the work of all Albarn’s interests and projects. Time Out’s piece on The Good, The Bad & The Queen by Eddy Lawrence was a key early scene setter as was Andrew Smith’s article on Monkey in the Sunday Times.
Damon at a Residential Orchestra course, Wicken House, Essex, 1982.
Damon helping with make-up for Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Photographs courtesy of Nigel Hildreth
Damon as ‘Bobby The Boyfriend’.
More performances during his earlier years when drama was his first obsession.
Photographs courtesy of Nigel Hildreth
The founding four outside the Dublin Castle in Camden, May, 1995.
Photo courtesy of Retna
Blur sans Coxon, backstage at Brixton Academy, 2003.
Photo courtesy of Sarahphotogirl/Retna
During anti-Iraq War protests in London, November, 2003.
Photo courtesy of John Horsley/Retna
Backstage with De La Soul during Demon Days, the Apollo Theatre, April, 2006.
Photo courtesy of Rahav Segev/Retna
Backstage with Jaimie Hewlett at the ‘Designer of the Year’ Awards, 2006.
Photo courtesy of Pete Mariner/Retna
Artwork for the launch of Monkey and Manchester International Festival, 2007.
Photo courtesy of Fiera Fyles/Retna
The Good, The Bad & The Queen, live at The Tower of London, July, 2007.
Photograph courtesy of Pete Mariner/Retna
The Gorillaz live on stage, forever shrouded in mystery.
Photograph courtesy of Retna
Damon Albarn, music hall, piano, full circle, March 2007.
Photo courtesy of Karin Albinsson
‘The defining moment of the band’s reunion would be provided during their Glastonbury headlining set’ – performing at the festival in June 2009.
‘Promoting the music of … veterans such as Bobby Womack’ – as Gorillaz with Womack at the O2 Arena, London, in November 2010.
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