Discography

DemosLP’sEP’sCompilations

Notes and rarities courtesy of Tim Joseph & Edgar Huber

Demos

No Cover Image Available

Demo Tape 1

1990
Tracks:
1. This Time, This Town, This Sea
2. Where You Stand
3. Pockets Of St. Malachi
(Recorded for Warner Brothers – not released as such, although 2 tracks appeared on local compilation tapes and finally on the “Ersatz Love”)

No Cover Image Available

Demo Tape 2

1990
Track Listing Unavailable
(A second demo for Warners)

LP’s

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Eat Yourself Whole

1992
Chrysalis
US Pressing Tracks:
1. Really Scrape The Sky
2. Where You Stand
3. When Lucy’s Down
4. Hard Times
5. Loveless/Defamed
6. Eat Yourself Whole
7. Freewheeling
8. Revelation
9. Two Headed, Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
10. Lady Shakespeare’s Bomb
11. High As A Kite
UK Pressing Tracks:
1. Revelation
2. Really Scrape The Sky
3. Two Headed, Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
4. Hard Times
5. Loveless/Defamed
6. Freewheeling
7. When Lucy’s Down
8. Wave
9. Lady Shakespeare’s Bomb
10. Everything In Life
11. High As A Kite
(“Freewheeling was omitted from the vinyl version.)
(Around the time the band wrote “Loveless” and “Everything In Life” – the last tracks for the album – they also demoed a song called “Deadhead Mr G”.)

Sleepwalking
1993
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Playground BrutalityTAB
2. Armchair Anarchist
3. Queen Jane
4. Sad To See You Go
5. Help Yourself
6. Tomorrow’s World
7. Ten Years Asleep
8. Honesty Kills
9. Sequinned Thug
10. Sleepwalking In The Five O’Clock Shadow
11. Stay Free
12. Pyromaniacs Anonymous
To Hell With Humdrum
1993
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Saturday’s Not What It Used To Be
2. Never Too High To Fall
3. Lies Before Kisses
4. Loose Lips Sink Ships
5. Ten Years Asleep (BBC1 session)
6. Honesty Kills (BBC1 session)
7. Sleepwalking In The 5 O’Clock Shadow (BBC1 session)
8. Queen Jane (BBC1 session)
In
The Best Possible Taste
1995
Chrysalis
1.In The Best Possible Taste (Part 2)
2.You And I Will Never See Things Eye To Eye
3.Hey, Birdman
4.Frustrated Gangster
5.Story Of My Life
6.Sometimes I Think She Takes Me Along Just For The Ride
7.One False Move
8.Side By Side
9.A Fool Like You
10.End Of The Line In The Best Possible Taste (Part 1)
‘Bloodshot
and Fancy Free’ The Best and Rest of…
1997
Chrysalis
1. Ten Years Asleep
2. Armchair Anarchist
3. Really Scrape the Sky
4. You and I Will Never See Eye to Eye
5. Hard Times
6. Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
7. Freewheeling
8. Everything’s Changed Since You’ve Been To London
9. Queen Jane
10. When Lucy’s Down
11. In the Best Possible Taste (pt 1)
12. High as a Kite
13. Frustrated Gangster
14. In the Best Possible Taste (pt 2)
15. Honesty Kills
16. Don’t Come Over
Piss
Up A Rope
1999
Get In On The Act
Read The Liner Notes
1. Queen Jane
2. When Lucy’s Down
3. Honesty Kills
4. Really Scrape The Sky
5. Ten Years Alseep
6. In The Best Possible Taste
7. A Fool Like You
8. Playground BrutalityTAB
9. Every Teenage Suicide
10. Little Miss Kingmaker
11. Wonderful Garden
12. Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
13. This Time, This Town, This Sea
14. Everything’s Changed Since You’ve Been To London
15. High As A Kite
Coming Up For Air
2000
Get In On The Act
Read The Liner Notes
1. Coming Up For Air
2. Dissatisfaction Guaranteed
3. Second Man
4. Hey Birdman
5. She Always Just Takes Me Along For The Ride
6. In The Best Possible Taste (pt. 1)
7. Frustrated Gangster
8. A Fool Like You
9. Side By Side
10. Friends In Low Places
11. End Of The Line
12. One Bitch of A Son
13. God’s Oversight
Ersatz Love
2000
Get In On The Act
Read The Liner Notes
1. What Can You Do For Me Now?
2. Easy Life
3. If You Were Mine
4. I’m A Ne’er-do-well
5. Amateur’s Lullaby
6. Midnight Blue
7. If It’s Alright With Mother
8. Story of My Life
9. Bombsight Baby
10. WW1
11. This Time, This Town, This Sea
12. Pocket’s of St. Malachi
13. Where You Stand
14. Ersatz Love
15. Always Play The Comedian
No Cover Image Available Missing In Action
2000
Get In On The Act
1. Hard Times
2. This Time, This Place, This Sea
3. Kissing Under Anaesthetic
4. Wave
5. Revelation
6. Sleepwalking
7. Sad To See You Go
8. Everything In Life
9. Celebrated Working Man
10. Highways Gate
11. King For A Day
12. Black and Bluer

EPs/ Singles

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No Cover Image Available The Celebrated
Working Man
Promo 7“
1991
Sacred Heart Records
Tracks:
1. The Celebrated Working Man
2. Freewheeling
The Celebrated Working Man
1991 (12“)
1992 (CD)
Sacred Heart Records
Tracks:
1. The Celebrated Working Man
2. Little Miss Kingmaker
3. Freewheeling
4. The Pockets Of St. Malachi
No Cover Image Available Waterproof E.P.
Promo 7“
1991
Scorch
Tracks:
1.When Lucy’s Down
2.High As A Kite
Waterproof
E.P.
1991
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1.When Lucy’s Down
2.High As A Kite
3.Where You Stand
4.Join The Human Race
Kingmaker
1991
Tracks:
1. Little Miss Kingmaker
2. When Lucy’s Down
3. This Time, This Town, This Sea
(This was a fan club cassette, available by mail order only)
No Cover Image Available Two Headed
EP
Promo 7“
1991
Scorch
Tracks:
1.Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
2.This Time, This Town, This Sea
Two Headed EP
1991
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1.Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger
2.This Time, This Town, This Sea
3.Wonderful Garden
4.Pockets of St. Malachi (live)
Idiots At The Wheel E.P.
CD/12“
1992
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Really Scrape The Sky
2. Revelation (Bombay Mix)
3. Every Teenage Suicide
4. Strip Away

Idiots At The Wheel E.P.
7“
1992
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Really Scrape The Sky
2. Every Teenage Suicide
3. Strip Away

The Killjoy Was Here E.P.
CD/12“/7”
1992
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Eat Yourself Whole
2. Pyjama Girl
3. Highway’s Gate

The Killjoy Was Here E.P.
Cassette
1992
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Eat Yourself Whole
2. Pyjama Girl

Armchair Anarchist
1992
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Armchair Anarchist
2. Everything’s Changed Since You’ve Been To London
3. Kissing Under Anaesthetic
No Cover Image Available Stained
And Sinking Fast
1992
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Stained And Sinking Fast
(This was a one-sided 7“ flexi, available for free, only by mail order or at gigs on the October-November 1992 UK tour)
No Cover Image Available Sad To See You Go
1992
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Sad To See You Go
(This was a one-sided 7“ flexi, available for free, only by mail order or at gigs on the October-November 1992 UK tour)
10 Years Asleep …
Cassette
1993

Scorch
Tracks:
1. 10 Years Asleep
2. Broadmoor Hotel
3. Don’t Come Over
4. I’m In Love

10 Years Asleep …
CD 1
1993
Scorch
Tracks:
1. 10 Years Asleep
2. Genuine Liar
3. Lady Madonna
4. When Lucy’s Down (Live)

10 Years Asleep …
CD 2
1993
Scorch
Tracks:
1. 10 Years Asleep
2. Shiver
3. High As A Kite (live)
4. Hard Times (live)
Queen Jane
Vinyl 7“
1993
Scorch
1. Queen Jane
2. Sick and Angry Children

Queen Jane
Vinyl 12“
1993
Scorch
1. Queen Jane
2. Sick and Angry Children
3. Flesh Phobia
4. Sequinned Thug (92 version)

Queen Jane
CD 1
1993
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Queen Jane
2. Your Place
3. Electric Sue

Queen
Jane
CD 2
1993
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Queen Jane
2. No Way Out
3. Sequinned Thug (’92 Version)
Staurday’s Not What It Used To Be
Vinyl 10“
1993
Scorch
1. Saturday’s Not What It Used To Be
2. Everything’s Changed (Since You’ve Been To London) (live)
3. Eat Yourself Whole (live)
4. Every Teenage Suicide (live)

Staurday’s Not What It Used To Be
CD
1993
Scorch
Tracks:
1. Saturday’s Not What It Used To Be
2. Armchair Anarchist (live)
3. Highway’s Gate (live)
4. Freewheeling (live)

You and I Will Never See Things Eye to Eye
Cassette
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. You and I Will Never See Things Eye to Eye
2. Bitch of a Son
3. You of All People

You and I Will Never See Things Eye to Eye CD 1
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. You And I Will Never See Things Eye To Eye
2. When Lucy’s Down
3. Queen Jane
4. Saturday’s Not What It Used To Be

You and I Will Never See Things Eye to Eye
CD 2
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. You and I Will Never See Things Eye to Eye
2. Friends In Low Places
3. S*T*A*R
4. Warm Heart, Cold Feet
In The Best Possible Taste (pt. 2)
Promo CD
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. In The Best Possible Taste (pt. 2)
In The Best Possible Taste (pt 2) CD 1
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. In The Best Possible Taste (Part 2)
2. Two Headed Yellow Bellied Holedigger
3. Sad To See You Go
4. Never Too High To Fall
In The Best Possible Taste (pt 2) CD 2
1995
Scorch
Tracks:
1. In The Best Possible Taste (pt. 2)
2. Backroom Boys
3. Another Bad Dose Of Home Truths
4. Dissatisfaction Guaranteed

Compilations

No Cover Image Available Hull – North Of Manchester
1990
Tracks:
1. This Time, This Town, This Sea
(This was a local compilation, issued to raise money for the Anti Poll Tax League – there were around 300 copies in all. The track is from the demo.)
Lime Lizard
Cassette
1991
Chrysalis
Tracks:
1. Wonderful Garden
No Cover Image Available Now That’s What We Call Hull
1992
Tracks:
1. Pockets Of St. Malachi
(This was another local compilation, issued to raise money for the Disability
Rights Advisory Service – there were around 300 copies in all. The track
is from the first demo.)
No Cover Image Available All Hull Let Loose
1992
HCC/Where?
Tracks:
1. Where You Stand
(Local compilation LP released by Hull City Council and Where? Magazine to promote Hull’s 1992 Festival – 1000 copies only)
Ruby Tracks
1992
NME
Tracks:
1. Lady Madonna
(This was a double CD organised by the weekly paper NME to raise money for the Spastics Society. Every band had to pick a former number one single to record, so Kingmaker chose this Beatles track. The album was initially on sale by mail order through the paper only., but later went on general release. The track later appeared on the “Ten Years Asleep” CD.)
VIVA! EIGHT
NME
1993
Tracks:
1. Really Scrape The Sky
(This was a live double CD organised by the weekly music paper New Musical Express, tracks taken from a series of concerts they had organised the previous September. Profits went to the Spastics Society.)
No Cover Image Available Gimme Shelter
1993
Food
Tracks:
1. Gimme Shelter
(This was part of a series of 4 EPs, with different artists all recording “Gimme Shelter“ for a homeless charity. There was an ”alternative“ one (CD), a rock one (CD), a dance one (12“) and a pop one (cassette). Each act was supposed to work as a collaboration with someone else, but Kingmaker refused when they found out they were supposed to be working with Deacon Blue! The other acts with Kingmaker on the “alternative” EP were New Model Army & Tom Jones, Cud & Sandie Shaw, plus an
interview with various people.)
Great Xpectations
1993
X Rated
Tracks:
1. Armchair Anarchist
2. Queen Jane
(This was a live compilation recorded at a concert to raise funds for London’s alternative indie radio station, XFM.)
No Cover Image Available Beat Out Of Hull
1998
HCC
Tracks:
1. Ten Years Asleep
(This was the belated follow-up to All Hull Let Loose, and was released by Hull City Council as a part of the Hull 700th anniversary celebrations – 100 copies only.)