Fela Kuti discography
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This is a discography for Fela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.[1]
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1963/69 | Lagos Baby 1963–1969 (39 track 2-CD set covering Fela's "Jazz & Highlife" recordings from 1963/65 and his "Soul & Afrobeat" recordings from 1966/69) | Vampisoul |
| 1964/68 | Koola Lobitos 64–68 (six previously unreleased tracks on a 2001 CD that also includes The '69 Los Angeles Sessions) | Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1969 | The '69 Los Angeles Sessions (the 2001 CD also contains Koola Lobitos 64–68) | Wrasse Records / MCA Universal |
| 1971 | Fela's London Scene (FEHIN FEHINChop Teeth-Chop Teeth / Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) / Who're You / Buy Africa / Fight To Finish) | Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1971 | Why Black Man Dey Suffer (b/w Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality) | Wrasse/MCA Universal/Knitting Factory Records |
| 1971 | Live! (with Ginger Baker) Let's Start / Black Man's Cry / Ye Ye De Smell / Egde Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die) The 2001 CD release adds Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo (Live at the 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival as a bonus track. | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1972 | Stratavarious Ginger Baker (Fela and various band members are on the tracks Ariwo / Iiwa (It's Our Own) / Something Nice / Ju Ju only) | Polydor Records |
| 1972 | Na Poi (Part 1&2) (b/w You No Go Die...Unless) paired with Yellow Fever on the 1997 CD release | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1972 | Open & Close (b/w Swegbe And Pako / Gbagada Gbagada) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1972 | Shakara Lady / Shakara (Oloje) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1972 | Roforofo Fight: Music of Fela (Roforofo Fight / Go Slow) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1972 | Question Jam Answer: Music of Fela Vol. 2 (Question Jam Answer / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wahe Am / Shenshema / Ariya) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1973 | Afrodisiac Alu Jon Jonki / Jeun Ko Ku (Chop & Quench) / Eko ille / Je'Nmi Temi (Don't Gag Me) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1973 | Gentleman (Gentleman / FEFE NAA EFE / IGBE) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1974 | Alagbon Close (b/w I No Get Eye For Back) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1975 | Noise for Vendor Mouth | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1975 | Confusion (Confusion Part 1&2) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1975 | Everything Scatter / Who No Know Go Know | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1975 | He Miss Road (b/w Monday Morning in Lagos / It's No Possible) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1975 | Expensive Shit (b/w Water No Get Enemy) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Unnecessary Begging (b/w No Buredi (No Bread)) | EMI Nigeria/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Kalakuta Show (b/w Don't Make Garan Garan) paired with Ikoyi Blindness on the 2001 CD | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Upside Down (b/w Go Slow) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Ikoyi Blindness b/w Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money) paired with Kalakuta Show on the 2001 CD | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana (Monkey Banana b/w Sense Wiseness) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Excuse O (b/w Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Zombie (Zombie b/w Mister Follow Follow) The 2001 MCA Universal CD release adds 2 previously unreleased cuts, Observation Is No Crime & Mistake (Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival-1978) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1976 | Yellow Fever/Na Poi (1997 CD includes: Yellow Fever / Na Poi (1975 version) / Na Poi (Parts 1&2) / You No Go Die...Unless) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Opposite People (b/w Equalisation of Trouser And Pant) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Fear Not For Man (b/w Palm Wine Sound [Instrumental]) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Stalemate b/w Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Observation No Crime (also included on the Wrasse/MCA Universal CD issue of Zombie as Observation Is No Crime) | EMI Nigeria |
| 1977 | J.D.D. (Johnny Just Drop) Live!! at Kalakuta Republic | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | I Go Shout Plenty (b/w Frustration of My Lady) I Go Shout Plenty unreleased until 1986, Frustration of My Lady unreleased until 1983 under the shortened title Lady | |
| 1977 | No Agreement (b/w Dog Eat Dog [Instrumental]) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1977 | Sorrow Tears and Blood (b/w Colonial Mentality) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1978 | Shuffering and Shmiling | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1979 | Unknown Soldier (Part 1 & 2) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1979 | V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power) Part 1&2 – Live in Berlin | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1980 | Coffin for Head of State | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1980 | I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) Part 1&2 paired with Original Sufferhead on the 1997 CD | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1980 | Music of Many Colours (with Roy Ayers) (2000 Blacks Got To Be Free b/w Africa Centre of the World) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1980 | Authority Stealing (Parts 1&2) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1981 | Black President (Sorrow, Tears And Blood, Colonial Mentality, I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)) | Arista Records |
| 1981 | Original Suffer-Head (b/w Power Show) paired with I.T.T. on the 1997 CD | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1983 | Perambulator (b/w Frustration) recorded 1977 | Lagos International |
| 1983 | Lady (b/w Lady part 2) recorded 1977 under the title Frustration of My Lady | EMI |
| 1983 | Live in Amsterdam (M.O.P. (Movement of the People) Political Statement Number 1 / You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit / Custom Check Point) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1985 | Army Arrangement the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds Government Chicken Boy (previously unreleased original version) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1985 | Army Arrangement (Cross Examination / Government Chicken Boy / Army Arrangement) (Fela later disowned this version Produced by Bill Laswell who added session musicians to the original tracks) | YABA / Celluloid Records |
| 1986 | Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (b/w Look And Laugh) the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds Just Like That, a track that was left off of Beast of No Nation's CD release due to time constraints. | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1986 | I Go Shout Plenty (b/w Why Black Man Dey Suffer) A-side recorded 1977 | Decca Afrodisia Records |
| 1989 | Beasts of No Nation (b/w Just like That) (b/w O.D.O.O. on the 2001 CD release) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1989 | O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) (b/w Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)) (O.D.O.O. was included on the 2001 Beasts of No Nation CD release) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1992 | U.S. (Underground System) (b/w Pansa Pansa) (the 2001 CD release adds Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.) which was previously the B-Side of the O.D.O.O. album) | Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 1996 | Buy America | Movie Play Gold |
| 1998 | Perambulator / Original Sufferhead Japanese CD, also includes Frustration (instrumental) and Power Show | Victor |
| 1999 | The Best Best of Fela Kuti (re-issued in 2009 as The Best of the Black President) | Barclay/Wrasse/MCA Universal[2]/Wrasse Records (2002)[3]/Knitting Factory Records (2009) |
| 2004 | The Underground Spiritual Game | Quannum Projects |
| 2007 | Anthology 1 (2CD+DVD Set covering his Early Years and pre-1975 Africa 70 recordings. The DVD includes the 1984 documentary Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense) | Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 2009 | Anthology 2 (2CD+DVD Set of Africa 70 recordings from 1975 to 1980. The DVD includes the 1978 concert film Fela Live in Berlin) | Wrasse/MCA Universal |
| 2012 | Live in Detroit, 1986 | Knitting Factory Records, Strut Records |
References
- ^ "Seattle Weekly: Barack Obama and the Original First Black President". Retrieved 17 July 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Fela Kuti – The Best Best of Fela Kuti (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Fela Kuti – The Best of the Black President at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 16 February 2012.