Submarine discography

A discography for the bands Submarine and Jetboy DC.

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: 25 January 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: 21 February 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: 12 January 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: 21 March 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 23 April 1993
 * second broadcast 25 September 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 12 March 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: 29 August to 1 September; 5 September & 6 September

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: 23 March

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: 11 April to 5 May

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: 20 May

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: 12 July

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: 12 & 13 November

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: 1 March

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: 1 & 2 April

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