Grandaddy discography
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| Grandaddy discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 5 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Compilation albums | 3 |
| Singles | 16 |
| Other albums | 4 |
Grandaddy is an American indie rock band from Modesto, California. They have released five studio albums, four self-released albums, four compilation albums, six EPs, sixteen singles and five split singles.
Studio albums
| Title | Release date | Label | UK[1] | US[2] | Notes |
| Under the Western Freeway | October 1997 | Will | 131 | Issued in the UK April 1998 | |
| The Sophtware Slump | May 2000 | V2 | 36 | ||
| Sumday | May 2003 | 22 | 84 | ||
| Just Like the Fambly Cat | May 2006 | 50 | 171 | #10 US Independent Albums | |
| Last Place | March 2017 | 30th Century Records | 18 | 150 |
Self-released albums and EPs
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
| Prepare to Bawl | 1992 | Hand-made cassette EP Tracks: "Gold", "I Love Nothing", "I'm Not Buying", "Aviatress", "Cows", "Bobs Fast" | |
| Recorded Live Amongst Friends and Fidget | 1994 | Cassette EP Tracks: "Kim You Bore Me to Death", "Worship Pneumonia", "Mike Don't Eat the Pie Crust", "Centre of the Universe", "Call Girl Call", "You Drove Your Car Into a Moving Train" | |
| Complex Party Come Along Theories | 1994 | Cassette-only release | |
| Live at the Art Factory | 1997 | Cassette-only Tracks: "Everything Beautiful Is Faraway", "Levitz", "Go Progress Chrome", "Street Bunny", "Summer Here Kids", "Wretched Songs" |
Unreleased albums
- Don't Sock the Tryer (1996)
Compilation albums
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
| The Broken Down Comforter Collection | 1999 | Big Cat | |
| The Windfall Varietal | 2000 | Not commercially released, sold by the band at live shows | |
| Concrete Dunes | 2002 | Lakeshore | |
| Granddaddy | September 2011 | V2 | 2CD box |
Contributions
| Album title | Release date | Label | Grandaddy tracks | Notes |
| Zum Audio Vol. 2 | 1998 | Zum | "Ghost of 1672" | |
| Dream with the Fishes soundtrack | 1997 | Will | "Why Would I Want To Die" | |
| Unscrubbed: Live from the Laundromat III | October 1999 | Toy Gun Murder | "Why Took Your Advice" (live) | |
| We Are Now Flying @ 20,000 Feet | 2000 | Cavalier / Sensory Products | "Wonder Why in LA" (live) | Free with Sadness in the Sky magazine |
| We Are Now Flying @ 33,000 Feet | 2000 | Cavalier / Sensory Products | "Collective Dreamwish of Upperclass Elegance" (live) | Free with Sadness in the Sky magazine |
| Little Echoes Presents Sleeping Off Stolen Dreams | 2000 | Little Echoes | "Rode My Bike to My Stepsister's Wedding" | Longer version than released elsewhere |
| It's a Cool Cool Christmas | 2000 | Jeepster | "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland" | |
| Trigger Happy TV Soundtrack to Series 2 | 2001 | Channel 4 Music | "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" | |
| Loose - New Sounds Of The Old West - volume 3 | November 2001 | Loose | "Best of All Possible Worlds" | Cover of the Kris Kristofferson song |
| Almost Famous: Undiscovered Modern Rock Hits | January 2002 | Lakeshore | "Laughing Stock" | Previously-unreleased version from Don't Sock the Tryer |
| I Am Sam soundtrack | 2002 | V2 | "Revolution" | |
| 28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album | 2002 | XL | "A.M. 180" | |
| Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson | October 2002 | Incidental Music | "Best of All Possible Worlds" | Cover of the Kris Kristofferson song |
| Wrong Turn (soundtrack) | July 1, 2003 | Lakeshore | "Why Would I Want to Die" | |
| X-Ray CD#07 | August 2003 | X-Ray | "Now It's On" (XFM Session version) | Free with X-Ray magazine |
| Below the Radio | 2004 | Ultra | "Nature Anthem" | Compiled by Jason Lytle |
| Live At The World Cafe Volume 18: I'll Take You There | September 2004 | WXPN | "Now It's On" (live at the World Cafe) | |
| Alive and Rare: KCRW | May 22, 2006 | V2 | "The Go in the Go for It" (Live on KCRW) | |
| Acoustic 07 | 2007 | V2 | "Rear View Mirror" | |
| Kats Karavan - The History of John Peel on the Radio | October 26, 2009 | Universal | "Hawaiian Island Wranglers" | From a session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show recorded 17/05/1998 |
EPs
| Title | Release date | Label | Notes |
| A Pretty Mess by This One Band | April 1996 | Will | |
| Happy Happy X-Mas from Jason | 1996 | ||
| Machines Are Not She | 1998 | Big Cat | Originally a mail order-only 12" release, available via an order form with early copies of Under the Western Freeway[3] Tracks: "Levitz"/"For the Dishwasher"/"Lava Kiss"/"Wretched Songs"/"Sikh IN A Baja VW Bug"/"Fentry" |
| Signal to Snow Ratio | September 1999 | V2 | |
| Through a Frosty Plate Glass E.P. | 2001 | ||
| Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla | September 27, 2005 | #157 UK Album Chart | |
| Things Anyway[4] | October 13, 2017 | 30th Century Records | Live and alternate versions of songs from Last Place Tracks: “The Boat is in the Barn” (Home Piano Demo), “This is the Part” (Live and Hungover at WFUV), “Way We Won't” (Live at KUTX), “Brush With The Wild” (Way Out West Demo) |
Singles
| A-side | Release date | Label | Formats & B-side(s) | UK Singles Chart[1] |
Notes |
| "Could This Be Love" | 1994 | Big Jesus | 7": "Kim, You Bore Me to Death" | ||
| "Taster" | 1995 | Get Go | 7": "Nebraska" | ||
| "Everything Beautiful Is Far Away" | February 1998 | Big Cat | 7": "For the Dishwasher" CD: "For the Dishwasher", "Glass Dusty" |
162 | |
| "Laughing Stock" | March 1998 | 7"/CD: "G.P.C.", "12-pak $5.99" | 124 | ||
| "Summer Here Kids" | May 1998 | 7"/CD: "Levitz", "My Small Love" | 83 | ||
| "A.M. 180" | October 1998 | 7": "Here" CD: "For the Dishwasher" |
88 | "Here" is a live cover of the Pavement song | |
| "The Crystal Lake" | May 2000 | V2 | 7": "Our Dying Brains" CD: "Our Dying Brains", "First Movement/Message Send: ID#5646766" |
80 | |
| "Hewlett's Daughter" | August 2000 | 7": "LFO" CD1: "XD-data-II", "Street Bunny" CD2: "Wonder Why in L.A.", "Hewlett's Daughter" (mix) CD3: "Wonder Why in L.A.", "Chartsengrafs" |
71 | ||
| "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." | November 2000 | 12"/CD: "Wives of Farmers" "N. Blender" |
94 | ||
| "The Crystal Lake" | January 2001 | 7": "Rode My Bike to My Stepsister's Wedding" CD1: "Moe Bandy Mountaineers", "She-deleter" CD2: "The Crystal Lake (Chilly Mix)", "What Can't Be Erased", "I Don't Want to Record Anymore" |
38 | ||
| "Now It's On" | 2003 | 7": "Trouble with a Capital T" CD1: "Trouble with a Capital T", "Hey Cowboy, The Phone's for You" CD2: "Getting Jipped", "Yeah Is What We Need" (video) DVD: "Now It's Upside Down" (video) |
23 | ||
| "El Caminos in the West" | 2003 | CD1: "Beautiful Ground (Live - XM Satellite Radio)", "My Little Skateboarding Problem" CD2: "Now It's On (Live – Colin Murray Radio Show/BBC)", "Derek Spears" DVD: "El Caminos in the West" (video), "Derek Spears" |
48 | ||
| "I'm on Standby" | 2004 | 7": "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake" CD: "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake", "The Town Where I'm Livin' Now", "Fare Thee Not Well Mutineer" (video) |
89 | ||
| "Nature Anthem" | 2004 | Ultra | 115 | ||
| "Elevate Myself" | 2006 | V2 | 7": "Winners" | 155 | |
| "Way We Won't" | 2016 | 30th Century Records | Digital: "Way We Won't", "Clear Your History" | ||
| "RIP Coyote Condo #5" | 2019 | Fistful of Wistful |
Promotional releases
| A-side/Title | Release date | Label | Formats & B-side(s) | Notes |
| "Our Dying Brains" | 2000 | V2 | CD: "Wives Of Farmers", "Moe Bandy Mountaineers" | |
| The Sophtware Slump Radio Sampler | 2000 | CD: "The Crystal Lake", "Hewlett's Daughter", "Miner At The Dial-A-View", "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" | ||
| "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland" | 2000 | 1-track CD; appears on It's a Cool Cool Christmas | ||
| Sumday - The Videos | 2003 | DVD: "El Caminos in the West", "Now It's On" | DVD video single | |
| Tour Sampler 2003 | 2003 | CD: "Now It's On", "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake", "The Crystal Lake" | Given away at live shows | |
| Sampler | 2003 | CD: "Yeah Is What We Had", "Miner at the Dial-a-View", "Summer Here Kids", "Levitz (Birdless)" | ||
| Sampler | 2003 | CD: "El Caminos In The West", "Now It's On", "I'm On Standy", "Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake" | ||
| "Pull the Curtains" (radio edit) | 2005 | Radio CD-R | ||
| "Elevate Myself (Diskotik Mix)" | 2006 | CD, credited to 'Scrum Down Rookies vs. Grandaddy' | ||
| "Just Like the Fambly Cat)" | 2006 | CD |
Split releases
| Grandaddy tracks | Release date | Label | Format(s) | Split with | Notes |
| "I'm in Love with No-One" | 1998 | Devil in the Woods | 7" | Morella's Forest/Dart/Shove | EP titled Alone in a Room 2 Included free with issue #17 of Devil in the Woods magazine |
| "Too Many Nights in a Road House" | 1999 | Devil in the Woods/Horse Brand Industry | Double 7" | EP titled Noise Pop 99 | |
| "MGM Grand" | 2000 | 62TV/Ines Boukov | 7" | John Wayne Shot Me | |
| "Fishing Boat Song" | 2000 | Devil in the Woods | 7" | Persil/Beachwood Sparks | Available with Devil in the Woods magazine |
| "Aisle Seat 37-D" | June 2003 | 7" | Verbena | Available with Devil in the Woods magazine | |
| "The Rugged and Splintered Entertainment Center" | December 2003 | Birdman/Good Records | 7" | The Polyphonic Spree |
References
- ^ a b "Grandaddy | Artist | Official Charts". Official Charts. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ "Grandaddy | Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ Strong, Martin C. (2003). The Great Indie Discography. Canongate. p. 773. ISBN 1-84195-335-0.
- ^ "30th Century Records - Grandaddy Release 'Things Anyway' EP". 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
External links
- Grandaddy discography discography at Discogs