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A discography for the bands Submarine and Jetboy DC.

Contents

Sessionographies are also included.

chemical tester

format: 7-inch single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 014

released: October 1992

details: mail-order editions on clear vinyl, plain black sleeve, rubber-stamped record label.

promo pressings on black vinyl with sticker, badge, postcard & promo sheet

tracks:

a.salty killer whales

b.chemical tester

dinosaurs

format: 12-inch single/cd single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 11t/topp 11 cd

released: January 25, 1993

details: "smile" not listed on sleeve; promo copies with gold contact sticker for "jo bartlett" at the "ultimate promotions office"

tracks:

a.

  1. dinosaurs

b.

  1. learning to live with ghosts
  2. smile

jodie foster

format: 7-inch single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 018

released: July 1993

details: fold-out poster sleeve, bloody red vinyl, mail order only, tugboat is a Galaxie 500 cover. tugboat features Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said on additional guitar and vocals.

tracks:

a.Jodie Foster (live Sussex University 11/2/93)

b.tugboat

lips and fingers

format: 7-inch single/CD single

record label: Ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 021/topp 021 cd

released: February 21, 1994

details: foldout poster sleeve, yellow vinyl, CD has "lips and fingers" (radio edit);

promo copy with sticker:

it's the sound of disturbed tranquility. catch this n. London trio:

  • 18/2 London powerhaus,
  • 19/2 Southampton joiners arms,
  • 21/2 derby wherehouse,
  • 32/2 Glasgow nice n sleazy,
  • 24/2 Bristol the mauretania
  • & "out there promotions release date 21 feb 1994"

    the CD (UK only) also has tugboat (same version as on "Jodie Foster" single).

  • a promo video for "lips & fingers" was filmed.
  • directed by: spencer ferszt

    released: January 12, 1994

    tracks:

    a:

    1. lips and fingers

    b:

    1. lynn marie
    2. consolation prize
    3. tugboat (CD single only bonus track:)

    jnr elvis

    format: 7-inch single

    record label: Ultimate recording company

    catalogue no.: topp 025

    released: 1994

    details: 'alaphabet st.' is not listed on record sleeve or label

    tracks:

    a.

    1. junior elvis

    b.

    1. when you wear my ring
    2. alphabet st.

    promo flexi

    format: 7" flexi disc

    record label: Ultimate Recording Company

    catalogue no.: topp fl-1

    released: ???

    details:flexi included free with some copies of "Crack-Uzis-'N-Safe Sex In The Streets Volume One".

    tracks:

    1. the werefrogs - nixie cocussion (topp 12)
    2. submarine - dinosaurs (topp 11)
    3. Sidi Bou Said -twilight eyes (topp14)

    submarine s/t

    format: cd | lp | cassette

    record label: ultimate recording company

    catalogue no.: topp CD 007 | topplp 007 | topp mc007

    released: March 21, 1994

    details: UK release only

    tracks:

    1. I can't be satisfied
    2. electric bathing
    3. jnr. elvis
    4. empty
    5. lips and fingers
    6. never be alright again
    7. fading
    8. jodie foster
    9. alright sunshine song

    she don't like the bee-gees

    format: cd CD-R (2 editions)

    record label: taky recordings

    catalogue no.:

  • taky 001 (she don't like the bee-gees)
  • released: 2006

    details: this is the legendary "lost" album submarine recorded in Chicago with Keith Cleversley, released in two editions, 100 in CD tin, 400 in gatefold cardboard sleeve. tracks:

    she don't like the bee-gees (taky001) track listing:

    1. devil gets things done
    2. nycg
    3. big barry white
    4. move into mars
    5. cool haired girl
    6. junk frequency
    7. look like shit
    8. slow Tuesday
    9. queen bee
    10. when i loved her *

    kiss me till your ears burn Off

    format: cd

    record label: fantastik!

    catalogue no.: fan-102-2

    released: 1994

    details: compilation of most early A side single tracks, excluding: 'smile' (topp 11t/topp 11 cd);'lips and fingers (radio edit)', 'lynn marie', 'consolation prize' (topp 021/topp 021 cd); 'when You wear my ring', 'alphabet St.' (topp 025) (us release only)

    tracks:

    1. chemical tester
    2. salty killer whales
    3. dinosaurs
    4. learning to live with ghosts
    5. smile
    6. jodie foster (live)
    7. tugboat
    8. pollen

    Volume Eight

    format: CD+booklet

    record label: volume

    catalogue no.: 8vcd8

    released: 1994

    details: excellent interview w/ band in the book...

    warsaw: un homenaje a Joy Division

    format: CD

    record label: el colectivo karma (now green ufo's)

    catalogue no.: Karma 011

    released: 1998

    details: tribute to Joy Division, performed by Spanish artists (and Submarine). Submarine play "transmission". this song was the only 'officially' released recording made with new drummer, Rob Havis

    tracks:

    1. Automatics "Atmosphere"
    2. Pribata Idaho "love will tear us apart"
    3. señor chinarro "passover"
    4. explosivos acme "the only mistake"
    5. submarine "transmission"
    6. sweetwater "the eternal"
    7. honey langstrumpf "dead souls"
    8. yellowfin "twenty four hours"
    9. los planetas "disorder"
    10. supernova "the drawback"
    11. el niño gusano "she's lost control"
    12. lord sickness "something must break"
    13. long spiral dreamin' "wilderness"
    14. mercromina "ceremony"
    15. the flow "no love lost"
    16. alias galor "failures"
    17. strange fruit "new dawn fades"

    Submarine's 1st Peel session

    format: BBC radio broadcast

    record label: n/a

    catalogue no.: n/a

    released:

  • first broadcast April 23, 1993
  • second broadcast September 25, 1993
  • details:tugboat recorded with Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said on backing vocals and additional guitar

    tracks:

    1. fading
    2. junior elvis
    3. tugboat

    Submarine's 2nd Peel session

    format: radio broadcast

    record label: n/a

    catalogue no.: n/a

    released: first broadcast March 12, 1994

    details: the "hate California song" previously unreleased

    tracks:

    1. the hate California song
    2. empty
    3. learning to live with ghosts

    Demos

    title: camp freddie

    format: CD-r

    record label: taky recordings

    catalogue no.: taky001a

    released: 2006

    details: released with the first 100 CD-tin copies of 'she don't like the bee-gees'

    tracks:

    1. freaked out & high
    2. space probe blues
    3. the hate California song
    4. junk frequency
    5. jazzzz odyssey
    6. screwin a boy
    7. slow Tuesday
    8. move into mars
    9. space probe blues
    10. goof off
    11. I wanna fuck yer so much
    12. devil gets things done
    13. movin into mars
    14. take it off
    15. cruisin on the thermals

    Live recordings

    title: the slow motion world of submarine

    format: cdr in cardboard gatefold billfold

    record label: taky recordings

    catalogue no.: taky sub01

    released: 4/10/2003

    details: 1st pressing, limited edition of five! only known recording of "jesus, I want you". the "hate California song" recorded in 12/03/94 peel session. recorded at: water rats, Kings Cross, London, UK, 8 June 1994. (only known recording of 'jesus, I want you')

    tracks:

    1. liquid intro
    2. empty
    3. jnr. elvis
    4. hate California songs
    5. lips and fingers
    6. fading
    7. jesus, i want you
    8. i can't be satisfied
    9. jodie foster

    Sussex University

    format: ?

    record label: n/a

    catalogue no.: n/a

    released: n/a

    details: "jodie foster" from topp 018 & fan-102-2 culled from this show recorded 11/2/93 sussex university

    tracks:

    1. empty
    2. dinosaurs
    3. jodie foster
    4. electric bathing
    5. jnr. elvis
    6. can't be satisfied

    1992

    singles recording

    studio: elephant, Wapping, London

    dates: August 29 to September 1; September 5 & September 6

    produced: Keith Cleversley

    tracks recorded:

    chemical tester

  • salty killer whales
  • dinosaurs
  • learning to live with ghosts
  • smile
  • released:

    October 1992

  • chemtester
  • salty killer whales
  • January 1993

  • dinosaurs
  • learning to live with ghosts
  • smile
  • 1993

    first session for John Peel show

    studio: BBC, Maida Vale, London

    date: March 23

    produced: ?

    tracks:

  • jr elvis
  • fading
  • tugboat – (Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said backup vocals and played guitar on Galaxie 500 cover of 'tugboat')
  • Self titled album (recording session)

    studio: elephant, Wapping, London

    dates: April 11 to May 5

    produced: Keith Cleversley

    tracks :

  • i can't be satisfied
  • electric bathing
  • jnr. elvis
  • empty
  • lips and fingers
  • never be alright again
  • fading
  • jodie foster
  • alright sunshine song
  • released: March 1994

    self-titled (topp CD 007 | topplp 007 |topp mc007)

    b side recording

    studio: Chiswick Reach, Chiswick, London, UK

    date: May 20

    produced: Anjali Dutt

    released: July 1993 – b side to jodie foster (live)– [also included on cd release of lips & fingers February 1994]

    tracks:

  • tugboat (Claire Lemmon sang backing vocals and played guitar)
  • track for volume magazine

    studio: battery, Willesden, London

    date: July 12

    produced: Anjali Dutt

    released: November 1993

    volume 8 & kiss me till your ears fall off

    track:

  • pollen
  • b side recording

    studio: elephant studio, Wapping, London

    date: November 12 & 13th

    produced: Teo Miller/Submarine

    released: February 1994 – b side to lips & fingers

    tracks:

    1. consolation prize
    2. lynn marie

    1994

    2nd session for John Peel show

    studio: BBC, Maida Vale, London

    date: March 1

    produced: Mike Robinson

    tracks:

    1. the hate California song
    2. learning to live with ghosts
    3. empty

    b side recording

    studio: elephant, Wapping, London/September sound, Twickenham

    date: April 1 & 2nd

    produced: Lincoln Fong/Matthew Kettle

    released: May 1994 – b side to jnr. elvis.

    tracks:

    1. when you wear my ring
    2. alphabet st.

    she's so fine

    format: CD

    record label: monkeyland records

    catalogue no.: nuts 001

    released: 1997

    details: still named "Jetboy" (no DC) at this point, "ssf karaoke" is a semi-vocal instrumental version of "she's so fine"

    tracks:

    She's so fine/ex-porn queen/ssf karaoke

    (working title) relax your hair

    format: n/a

    record label: unreleased

    catalogue no.: n/a

    released: ?

    details: this album has not yet been released!

    tracks:

    1. sweetest thing
    2. then you smile
    3. radio song
    4. ted (I think i'm going to be sad)
    5. nycg
    6. if you see her out tonight
    7. bug in a rug
    8. you make the sun shine
    9. cool haired girl

    best kept secrets (vol 1)

    format: 7"

    record label: dedicated

    catalogue no.: secret 001

    released: 1995/1996?

    details: four track seven inch compilation

    tracks:

    side a:

    1. jetboy: move it on up
    2. aurora: question & answer

    side b:

    1. hardbody: blow the man down
    2. toaster: biscuits

    dark side of the raccoon

    format: double 7" in gatefold cover

    record label: fierce panda

    catalogue no.: ning 44

    released: 1998 (Jetboy DC track recorded 1997)

    details:

    tracks:

    record one:

    1. high fidelity -"sick of it all"
    2. jam pandas -"shine"
    3. roo "your son's a write off"

    record two:

    1. spraydog - "sweet thing"
    2. firebunnies - "where's your memory?"
    3. Jetboy DC -"now i'm gone"

    title: ?

    format:

    record label:

    catalogue no.:

    released:

    details:

    tracks:

    1. move it on up
    2. John Lennon
    3. baby baby
    4. jetboy man
    5. (waking up to the) radio station

    References

    Submarine discography Wikipedia