Geffen Records discography

This is the discography of Geffen Records and its sister label DGC Records.

1980

 * Donna Summer - The Wanderer
 * John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy

1981

 * Elton John - The Fox
 * Quarterflash - Quarterflash
 * Yoko Ono - Season of Glass
 * Donna Summer - I'm a Rainbow (This album was recorded for Geffen Records in 1981, but shelved and not released until 1996 on Mercury/Casablanca Records/Republic Records)

1982

 * Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton
 * Original Cast - Dreamgirls
 * Asia - Asia
 * John Hiatt - All of a Sudden
 * Greg Copeland - Revenge Will Come
 * Peter Gabriel - Security
 * Elton John - Jump Up!
 * Adrian Gurvitz - Classic
 * Preview - Preview
 * Original Cast - Cats (Original London Cast)
 * Neil Young - Trans
 * Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast
 * Original Cast - The Little Shop of Horrors
 * Sammy Hagar - Three Lock Box
 * Ric Ocasek - Beatitude
 * John Lennon - The John Lennon Collection
 * Donna Summer - Donna Summer

1983

 * Original Cast - Cats (Selections From The Original Broadway Cast)
 * Original Cast - Cats (Original Broadway Cast)
 * Mac McAnally - Nothing but the Truth
 * Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (reissue)
 * Berlin - Pleasure Victim
 * Planet P Project - Planet P Project
 * Oxo - Oxo
 * The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
 * Madness - Madness
 * Wang Chung - Points on the Curve
 * Debra Hurd - Debra Hurd
 * Elton John - Too Low for Zero
 * Joan Rivers - What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most?
 * Asia - Alpha
 * Jr. Tucker - Jr. Tucker
 * Quarterflash - Take Another Picture
 * Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel Plays Live
 * Neil Young - Everybody's Rockin'
 * Jennifer Holliday - Feel My Soul
 * Monte Video - Monte Video
 * Was (Not Was) - Born to Laugh at Tornadoes
 * John Hiatt - Riding with the King
 * Irene Cara - What a Feelin'
 * Preview - Preview

1984

 * Whitesnake - Slide It In
 * Madness - Keep Moving
 * Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve - Through the Fire
 * Berlin - Love Life
 * Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
 * XTC - Mummer
 * Australian Crawl - Semantics
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hyæna
 * Elton John - Breaking Hearts
 * XTC - White Music (reissue)
 * XTC - Go 2 (reissue)
 * XTC - Drums and Wires (reissue)
 * XTC - Black Sea (reissue)
 * XTC - English Settlement (reissue)
 * XTC - Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-1982 (reissue)
 * The Sylvers - Bizarre
 * Donna Summer - Cats Without Claws
 * Black 'N Blue - Black 'N Blue
 * Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen
 * Sammy Hagar - VOA
 * Original Soundtrack - Gremlins EP
 * A Drop in the Gray - Certain Sculptures
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles (reissue)
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne (reissue)
 * Tom Robinson - Hope and Glory
 * XTC - The Big Express

1985

 * John Hiatt - Warming Up to the Ice Age
 * Shooting Star - Silent Scream
 * Vitamin Z - Rites of Passage
 * Van Zant - Van Zant
 * Lone Justice - Lone Justice
 * The Style Council - Internationalists
 * Original Soundtrack - The Cotton Club
 * Original Soundtrack - Vision Quest
 * Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
 * Original Broadway Recording - Whoopi Goldberg
 * Adam Bomb - Fatal Attraction
 * Illusion - Illusion
 * Neil Young - Old Ways
 * Peter Gabriel - Music from the Film "Birdy"
 * Mummy Calls - Mummy Calls
 * Asia - Astra
 * Jennifer Holliday - Say You Love Me (album)
 * Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog (album)
 * Black N' Blue - Without Love
 * Gary Myrick - Stand for Love
 * Elton John - Ice on Fire
 * Quarterflash - Back into Blue
 * Madness - Mad Not Mad
 * Original Soundtrack - Silverado
 * Wang Chung - To Live and Die in L.A. (Soundtrack)
 * Kitarō - Astral Voyage (reissue)
 * Kitarō - Full Moon Story (reissue)
 * Kitarō - Millennia (reissue)
 * Kitarō - India (reissue)
 * Kitarō - Silver Cloud (reissue)
 * Kitarō - Asia (reissue)

1986

 * Peter Gabriel - So
 * Jimmy Barnes - Jimmy Barnes
 * Tommy Keene - Songs from the Film
 * Aerosmith - Done with Mirrors
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
 * Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Easy Pieces
 * Kitarō - Toward the West
 * Ish - On this Corner
 * Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
 * Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays
 * Ric Ocasek - This Side of Paradise
 * Models - Out of Mind, Out of Sight
 * Esquire - Esquire
 * The Style Council - Home and Abroad
 * Bill Cosby - Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand
 * Peter Case - Peter Case
 * Neil Young - Landing on Water
 * Dazz Band - Wild & Free
 * Black N' Blue - Nasty Nasty
 * Kitarō - Tenku
 * Elton John - Leather Jackets
 * Wang Chung - Mosaic
 * It Bites - The Big Lad in the Windmill
 * XTC - Skylarking
 * Gene Loves Jezebel - Discover
 * Chameleons UK - Strange Times
 * Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
 * Berlin - Count Three & Pray
 * Lone Justice - Shelter
 * Debbie Harry - Rockbird
 * Ray Parker Jr. - After Dark
 * Original Soundtrack - Little Shop of Horrors
 * Sammy Hagar - Looking Back
 * Tommy Keene - Run Now
 * Jesse's Gang - Center of Attraction
 * Slayer - Reign in Blood

1987

 * Tom Scott - The Lonesome Sound
 * Victoria Williams - Happy Come Home
 * Vaneese Thomas - Vaneese Thomas
 * Y&T - Contagious
 * Ezo - EZO
 * Sammy Hagar - I Never Said Goodbye
 * Little America - Little America
 * Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
 * Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart
 * John Wetton & Phil Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
 * Whitesnake - Whitesnake
 * Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
 * Fuzzbox - We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
 * Jennifer Holliday - Get Close to My Love
 * Original Cast - Les Misérables
 * John White - Night People
 * Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. III: 1979-1987
 * Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Life
 * Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
 * Geoffrey Downes & the New Dance Orchestra - The Light Program
 * Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
 * Original Soundtrack - Innerspace
 * Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
 * Kitarō - The Light of the Spirit
 * Cher - Cher
 * Gene Loves Jezebel - Promise
 * Whitesnake - Come an' Get It (reissue)
 * Whitesnake - Live...In the Heart of the City (reissue)
 * Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
 * Gene Loves Jezebel - The House of the Dolls
 * Donna Summer- All Systems Go

1988

 * Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
 * Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners (reissue)
 * Whitesnake - Snakebite (reissue)
 * Whitesnake - Trouble (reissue)
 * Whitesnake - Lovehunter (reissue)
 * Various Artists - Scream: The Compilation
 * Danny Wilde - Any Man's Hunger
 * Black 'N Blue - In Heat
 * 3 - To the Power of Three
 * The Sun & The Moon - Sun & The Moon
 * Original Cast - Follies
 * Virginia Astley - Hope in a Darkened Heart
 * Vitamin Z - Sharp Stone Rain
 * Berlin - The Best of Berlin, 1979-1988
 * Jimmy Page - Outrider
 * It Bites - Once Around the World
 * John Kilzer - Memory in the Making
 * Mac McAnally - Finish Lines
 * Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
 * Rock City Angels - Young Man's Blues
 * Steve Forbert - Streets of This Town
 * Kylie Minogue - Kylie
 * Guns N' Roses - G N' R Lies
 * The 7A3 - Coolin' in Cali
 * The Toll - The Price of Progression
 * Original Soundtrack - Beetlejuice
 * Slayer - South of Heaven
 * Lyle Mays - Street Dreams
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
 * Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ
 * Kitarō - Ten Years
 * Danzig - Danzig
 * 7A3 - Coolin' in Cali
 * Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (clean)

1989

 * Masters of Reality - Masters of Reality
 * Blue Murder - Blue Murder
 * Nitzer Ebb - Belief
 * Andrew Dice Clay - Dice
 * Wolfsbane - Live Fast, Die Fast
 * Stan Ridgway - Mosquitos
 * Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
 * XTC - Oranges and Lemons
 * Christopher Williams - Adventures in Paradise
 * Tommy Keene - Based on Happy Times
 * Wang Chung - The Warmer Side of Cool
 * Nikki - Nikki
 * Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
 * Junkyard - Junkyard
 * Michael Thompson Band - Michael Thompson Band
 * Little America - Fairgrounds
 * David Peaston - Introducing David Peaston
 * Maria McKee - Maria McKee
 * EZO - Fire Fire
 * Fuzzbox - Big Bang!
 * Chris Rea - The Best of Chris Rea: New Light Through Old Windows
 * Enya - Watermark
 * Various Artists - Greenpeace: Rainbow Warriors
 * Peter Case - The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar
 * Cher - Heart of Stone
 * Pat Metheny Group - Letter from Home
 * Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys
 * John Hiatt - Y'all Caught? The Ones That Got Away 1979-1985
 * Tommy Bolin - The Ultimate: The Best of Tommy Bolin
 * Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
 * Was (Not Was) - Born to Laugh at Tornadoes
 * Aerosmith - Pump

1990

 * Conway Twitty - Crazy in Love (Music Video Only)
 * The Simpsons Sing the Blues
 * Kitarō - Kojiki
 * Lori Carson - Shelter
 * Olivia Newton-John - Warm and Tender
 * Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss of Life
 * It Bites - Eat Me in St. Louis (US)
 * Hanoi Rocks - Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks
 * Hanoi Rocks - Oriental Beat
 * Hanoi Rocks - Self Destruction Blues
 * Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City
 * Hanoi Rocks - All Those Wasted Years: Live at the Marquee
 * Trouble - Trouble
 * Salty Dog - Every Dog Has Its Day
 * Original Cast - Miss Saigon
 * Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself
 * Shadowland - Shadowland
 * The Creatures - Boomerang
 * Chris Rea - The Road to Hell
 * The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
 * Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
 * Don Dokken - Up From The Ashes
 * Thunder - Backstreet Symphony
 * Lock Up - Something Bitchin' This Way Comes
 * Death Angel - Act III
 * Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge
 * Gutterboy - Gutterboy
 * Y&T - Ten
 * Nitzer Ebb - Showtime
 * Warrior Soul - Last Decade Dead Century
 * Shadowland - Beauty of Escaping
 * Andrew Dice Clay - The Day the Laughter Died
 * Little Caesar - Little Caesar
 * Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam
 * Nelson - After the Rain
 * John Doe - Meet John Doe
 * Willi Jones - Willi Jones
 * Silk Tymes Leather - It Ain't Where Ya From...It's Where Ya At
 * Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes - Question and Answer
 * Original Soundtrack - Days of Thunder
 * Brothers Figaro - Gypsy Beat
 * Notorious - Notorious
 * Sonic Youth - Goo
 * Asia - Then & Now

1991

 * Cher - Love Hurts
 * Apollo Smile - Apollo Smile
 * Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home
 * Robbie Robertson - Storyville
 * Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Ghost of a Dog
 * The Posies - Dear 23
 * Northside - Chicken Rhythms
 * Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
 * The Simpsons - The Simpsons Sing the Blues
 * Original Soundtrack - Mermaids
 * I, Napoleon - I, Napoleon
 * The Throbs - The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds
 * Tyketto - Don't Come Easy
 * Junkyard - Sixes, Sevens & Nines
 * Copyright - ©
 * John Kilzer - Busman's Holiday
 * Kitarō - Live in America
 * Bill Cosby - Oh, Baby!
 * Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys
 * Tesla - Psychotic Supper
 * Warrior Soul - Drugs, God and the New Republic
 * Michael W. Smith - Go West Young Man
 * Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
 * Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
 * Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
 * Nirvana - Nevermind
 * Neil Young - Lucky Thirteen
 * Yasmin - Yasmin

1992

 * Arc Angels - Arc Angels
 * Peter Gabriel - Us
 * Nirvana - Incesticide
 * Thunder - Laughing on Judgement Day
 * Little Caesar - Influence
 * Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds
 * Warrior Soul - Salutations from the Ghetto Nation
 * Jackyl - Jackyl
 * Roxy Blue - Want Some?
 * Cher - Greatest Hits: 1965–1992 (non-US release)

1993

 * Blue Murder - Nothin' But Trouble
 * Coverdale/Page - Coverdale•Page
 * Galactic Cowboys - Space In Your Face
 * Counting Crows - August and Everything After
 * St. Johnny - Speed Is Dreaming
 * Nirvana - In Utero
 * Eleanor McEvoy - Eleanor McEvoy (album)
 * Guns N' Roses - "The Spaghetti Incident?"
 * Duff McKagan - Believe in Me
 * Pariah - To Mock a Killingbird
 * Warrior Soul - Chill Pill
 * Phantom Blue - Built to Perform
 * Aerosmith - Get a Grip
 * Noa - Noa
 * Various Artists - The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience

1994

 * Weezer - Weezer
 * Aerosmith - Big Ones
 * Pride & Glory - Pride & Glory
 * Tesla - Bust a Nut
 * Whitesnake - Whitesnake's Greatest Hits
 * Jackyl - Push Comes to Shove
 * Sammy Hagar - Unboxed
 * Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
 * Slash's Snakepit - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
 * Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
 * Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
 * Hole - Live Through This

1995

 * Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Tails
 * Don Henley - Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits
 * Tesla - Times Makin' Changes - The Best of Tesla
 * GZA - Liquid Swords

1996

 * Beck - Odelay
 * Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
 * Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
 * Manowar - Louder Than Hell
 * Weezer - Pinkerton

1997

 * 10,000 Maniacs - Love Among the Ruins
 * Wang Chung - Everybody Wang Chung Tonight: Wang Chung's Greatest Hits
 * Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
 * Lisa Loeb - Firecracker
 * Southern Culture on the Skids - Plastic Seat Sweat
 * Quarterflash - Harden My Heart: The Best of Quarterflash
 * 60ft. Dolls - The Big 3
 * Snot - Get Some
 * Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

1998

 * Beck - Mutations
 * Aerosmith - A Little South of Sanity
 * Counting Crows - Across a Wire: Live in New York City
 * Izzy Stradlin - 117"
 * Killah Priest - Heavy Mental
 * Jackyl - Choice Cuts
 * Whiskeytown - Faithless Street (reissue)
 * Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com
 * Pure Sugar - Pure Sugar
 * Hole - Celebrity Skin
 * Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
 * Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet Is Missing

1999

 * Counting Crows - This Desert Life
 * Izzy Stradlin - Ride On

2000

 * Lifehouse - No Name Face
 * Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93
 * Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage

2001

 * Weezer - Weezer

2002

 * Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
 * Weezer - Maladroit
 * Trust Company - The Lonely Position of Neutral
 * Counting Crows - Hard Candy
 * Peter Gabriel - Up
 * Beck - Sea Change
 * Cinder - Soul Creation [Single]
 * Nirvana - Nirvana
 * The Bathroom Wall - Jimmy Fallon

2003

 * Blink-182 - Blink-182
 * Lo-Pro - Lo-Pro

2004

 * The Cure - The Cure (I AM/Geffen)
 * Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
 * Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
 * Papa Roach - Getting Away with Murder

2005

 * Lifehouse - Lifehouse
 * The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
 * Weezer - Make Believe
 * Common - Be (GOOD/Geffen)
 * Shaggy - Clothes Drop
 * Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me
 * Blink-182 - Greatest Hits
 * Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough

2006

 * Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper (Suretone/Geffen)
 * Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness
 * Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions
 * The Game - Doctor's Advocate
 * Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
 * Nelly Furtado - Loose (Mosley/Geffen)

2007

 * Lifehouse - Who We Are
 * Common - Finding Forever (GOOD/Geffen)
 * Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (Suretone/Geffen)
 * Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains (Geffen)
 * Keyshia Cole - Just Like You (Interscope/Geffen/Confidential)

2008

 * The Cure - 4:13 Dream (I AM/Geffen)
 * Kardinal Offishall - Not 4 Sale (KonLive/Black Jays/Geffen)
 * Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin' (Doggystyle/Geffen)
 * Solange Knowles - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (Music World/Geffen)
 * The Game - LAX (Black Wall Street/Geffen)
 * Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (Geffen)
 * Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World (Geffen)
 * Common - Universal Mind Control (GOOD/Geffen)
 * Tesla - Forever More (Geffen)
 * Keyshia Cole - A Different Me (Geffen)
 * Shirley Bassey - The Performance (Geffen)

2009

 * Orianthi - Believe (Geffen)
 * Weezer - Raditude (DGC/Interscope/Geffen)

2010

 * Keyshia Cole - Calling All Hearts (Geffen)
 * Lifehouse - Smoke & Mirrors (Geffen)
 * The Like - Release Me (Geffen)

2011

 * Greyson Chance - Hold On 'til the Night (eleveneleven/Maverick/Geffen/Streamline)
 * The Game - The R.E.D. Album (Black Wall Street/DGC)
 * Robin Thicke - Love After War (Star Trak/Geffen)

2012

 * Keyshia Cole - Woman to Woman (Geffen/Interscope)
 * Lifehouse - Almería (Geffen)
 * The Game - Jesus Piece (Black Wall Street/DGC)

2018

 * Yungblud - 21st Century Liability (Locomotion/Geffen/Interscope)
 * Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 1 (Hajanga/Geffen/Decca)

2019

 * DJ Snake - Carte Blanche (Geffen)
 * Gryffin - Gravity (Darkroom/Geffen)
 * Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 2 (Hajanga/Geffen/Decca)

2020

 * Lil Durk - Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Only the Family/Alamo/Geffen)
 * Smokepurpp - Florida Jit (Alamo/Geffen)
 * Hotboii - Double O Baby (Geffen/Interscope/Rebel/Hitmaker/22)
 * Lil Durk - The Voice (Only the Family/Alamo/Geffen)

2021

 * Smokepurpp - PSYCHO (Legally Insane) EP (Alamo/Geffen)
 * Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (Geffen)
 * SpotemGottem - Most Wanted (Rebel/Geffen)
 * Lil Huddy - Teenage Heartbreak (Immersive/Sandlot/Geffen)
 * Hotboii - Life Of A Hotboii (Rebel/Hitmaker/22/Geffen)
 * Ann Marie - Hate Love (Geffen)
 * SpotemGottem - Back From The Dead (Rebel/Geffen)

2022

 * Yeat - 2 Alive (Geffen/Field Trip/Twizzy Rich)

2023

 * Olivia Rodrigo - Guts (Geffen)

Unreleased albums

 * Large Professor - The LP
 * Shirley Bassey - The Performance (Geffen)