Submarine discography
A discography for the bands Submarine and Jetboy DC.
Sessionographies are also included.
Singles
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.
- dinosaurs
b.
- learning to live with ghosts
- 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:
- lips and fingers
b:
- lynn marie
- consolation prize
- 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.
- junior elvis
b.
- when you wear my ring
- 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:
- the werefrogs - nixie cocussion (topp 12)
- submarine - dinosaurs (topp 11)
- Sidi Bou Said -twilight eyes (topp14)
Albums
submarine s/t
record label: ultimate recording company
catalogue no.: topp CD 007 | topplp 007 | topp mc007
released: March 21, 1994
details: UK release only
tracks:
- I can't be satisfied
- electric bathing
- jnr. elvis
- empty
- lips and fingers
- never be alright again
- fading
- jodie foster
- alright sunshine song
she don't like the bee-gees
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:
- devil gets things done
- nycg
- big barry white
- move into mars
- cool haired girl
- junk frequency
- look like shit
- slow Tuesday
- queen bee
- 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:
- chemical tester
- salty killer whales
- dinosaurs
- learning to live with ghosts
- smile
- jodie foster (live)
- tugboat
- pollen
Compilation appearances
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:
- Automatics "Atmosphere"
- Pribata Idaho "love will tear us apart"
- señor chinarro "passover"
- explosivos acme "the only mistake"
- submarine "transmission"
- sweetwater "the eternal"
- honey langstrumpf "dead souls"
- yellowfin "twenty four hours"
- los planetas "disorder"
- supernova "the drawback"
- el niño gusano "she's lost control"
- lord sickness "something must break"
- long spiral dreamin' "wilderness"
- mercromina "ceremony"
- the flow "no love lost"
- alias galor "failures"
- strange fruit "new dawn fades"
Radio sessions
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:
- fading
- junior elvis
- 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:
- the hate California song
- empty
- 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:
- freaked out & high
- space probe blues
- the hate California song
- junk frequency
- jazzzz odyssey
- screwin a boy
- slow Tuesday
- move into mars
- space probe blues
- goof off
- I wanna fuck yer so much
- devil gets things done
- movin into mars
- take it off
- 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:
- liquid intro
- empty
- jnr. elvis
- hate California songs
- lips and fingers
- fading
- jesus, i want you
- i can't be satisfied
- 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:
- empty
- dinosaurs
- jodie foster
- electric bathing
- jnr. elvis
- can't be satisfied
Sessionography
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:
- consolation prize
- lynn marie
1994
2nd session for John Peel show
studio: BBC, Maida Vale, London
date: March 1
produced: Mike Robinson
tracks:
- the hate California song
- learning to live with ghosts
- 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:
- when you wear my ring
- alphabet st.
*** Jetboy DC ***
Singles
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:
- sweetest thing
- then you smile
- radio song
- ted (I think i'm going to be sad)
- nycg
- if you see her out tonight
- bug in a rug
- you make the sun shine
- cool haired girl
Compilations
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:
- jetboy: move it on up
- aurora: question & answer
side b:
- hardbody: blow the man down
- 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:
- high fidelity -"sick of it all"
- jam pandas -"shine"
- roo "your son's a write off"
record two:
Demos
title: ?
format:
record label:
catalogue no.:
released:
details:
tracks:
- move it on up
- John Lennon
- baby baby
- jetboy man
- (waking up to the) radio station